La tutela nobiliaria sobre los monasterios benedictinos castellanos en la baja Edad Media: relaciones entre los Velasco y el monasterio de San Salvador de Oña

Abstract

The author analyses the relationship established during the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth centuries between one of the most powerful noble families in Castile, the Velasco family, and one of the Benedictine monasteries that exercised a most prominent role as lord of vassals in this kingdom, the monastery of San Salvador de Oña. He proves that during this period the members of the Velasco family acted most of the time as «encomenderos» (protectors) of the monastery, and he gives account of some of the actions they undertook to fulfil this task. He also pays attention to the conflicts that arised between both of them, and finally he gives account of the intervention of members of the Velasco family in the regulation of internal matters of the monastic community.