El monestir de Sant Pere de Rodes en els protocols notariais de Castellò d'Empúries de 1279

Abstract

Sant Pere de Rodes has been one of the most ancient monasteries of Catalonia but no written information is available about it until the end of the ninth century. Its monumental ruins show that it used to be an important abbey, but the scattering or loss of its archives and the very few original documents which have been kept do not allow us to learn about the details of its history. In order to remedy such a deficiency the purpose of this article is to start a new line of investigation by exhausting the notarial protocols of Castelló d'Empúries, where the monks of Rodes used to visit frequendy the notarial offices in order to have their writings drawn up. Information about our first findings is included in the appendix consisting of ten documents which are inserted in the first two registers of Castelló, dated 1279.