La presencia de los Agustinos Descalzos en Campillo de Altobuey (Cuenca) 1680-1835

Abstract

Throughout this article I intend to offer new contributions to the study of this religious House in the Manchuela Conquense reader. This convent known with the name of our Lady of the Ridge, from its founding in 1680 until its demise in the time of the confiscation of Mendizábal, endowed this population of a strong religious presence, Hospice and a notable Guild. The monastery enjoyed generous benefits (foundations, grants...) which were the source of a considerable heritage which not infrequently the friars had to defend. With the arrival of the french soldiers and political alternation in the first half of the 19th century Spanish, little by little the convent of our Lady of the Ridge was waning until their total abandonment.