Abstract
The key points to the historical evolution of Pena Godon are identical to those that mark the history of monasteries and of various religious and military authorities that settled in the area. They also reflect the relationship of these orders with the nobility, the role played as joint landholders in a system of agrarian exploitation and the impact of all this on the peasants’ way of life. These points also help explain the evolution of the landscape in this part of the French Way where the settlement was located, the history of its hospitals and the people and the institutions that founded and managed them.
Highlights
The key points to the historical evolution of Pena Godón are identical to those that mark the history of monasteries and of various religious and military authorities that settled in the area
They reflect the relationship of these orders with the nobility, the role played as joint landholders in a system of agrarian exploitation and the impact of all this on the peasants’ way of life
These points help explain the evolution of the landscape in this part of the French Way where the settlement was located, the history of its hospitals and the people and the institutions that founded and managed them
Summary
La colección diplomática del monasterio de Santa María de Ferreira de Pallares (Guntín, Lugo) constata la existencia en pleno medioevo de un casal y un hospital llamados de Pena Godón que estaban dentro del coto de dicho monasterio en la heredad de Vilar de Couso, estratégicamente enclavados sobre la margen del Camino Francés (Fig. 1). En realidad es muy poco lo que conocemos de los hospitales del tramo galaico del Camino Francés, que se documentan en los siglos del pleno medioevo y que se caracterizaban por estar enclavados en entidades menores de población inmersos en un ambiente plenamente rural. La casuística suma poco más de media docena ejemplos en los que la información se reduce –salvo algunas excepciones– a simples menciones que permiten como mucho constatar su existencia en esa época
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