Archivo del antiguo convento franciscano de la ciudad de Valladolid, de la extinta Provincia Franciscana observante de La Concepción (1245 – 1835)

Abstract

This article presents to the public the archive of the important Franciscan convent located in the city of Valladolid, next to the Plaza Mayor, which was the provincial curia of the now defunct observant Franciscan province of La Concepción. This convent is an expression of the reformed Franciscan life in a purely urban environment such as a big city. The work begins with some materials of provincial concern since they were distributed to all the convents of the province and later passed to the archives of the convents of San Bernardino de Herrera de Pisuerga (province of Palencia) and San Francisco de Cuéllar (province of Segovia). Finally, the convent of Valladolid is addressed with the following epigraphs: general instruments, privileges of the Holy See, royal privileges, heritage and administration, the various lawsuits that the convent sustained with various religious and civil personalities, nuns, and finishes with a miscellaneous set of materials that were in the said archive, but that have little or nothing to do with the life of the convent. The archive confirms the variety in the development of the observant reform in Spain since it does not adhere to a single model (small convents with a hermit character, of great austerity, far from urban centers and great preaching) but rather to those developed in purely urban contexts. Collection no. 5, dedicated to the foundations of masses, will be published in a later issue of this journal due to its length.