Santa Maria de Ripoll
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The Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll is a Benedictine monastery, built in the Romanesque style, located in the town of Ripoll in Catalonia, Spain. The sculptural church portico is a reknown work of romanesque art.
It was founded by the count Wilfred the Hairy (called Guifré el Pilós in Catalan) in 879, who used it as a centre to repopulate the region after conquering it. The monastery became the family mausoleum for the Catalan counts, and well as a great center of learning, with a large library.[1]
The library and much of the monastery's vast archives were destroyed by fire in 1835.
[edit] Burials
- Wilfred the Hairy
- Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona
- Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
- Bernat Tallaferro, Count of Besalú
- Radulf, son of Wilfred the Hairy and abbot of Ripoll
Also buried at the abbey, but in a now unknown place:
[edit] Notes
- ^ Southern 121
[edit] References
- Southern, Richard. The Making of the Middle Ages.
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