Kolozsmonostor Abbey
Monastery information
Other namesAbbey of Cluj-Mănăștur
OrderBenedictine
Established1080s-1090s
DioceseTransylvania
People
Founder(s)Ladislaus I of Hungary
Site
LocationMănăștur, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Coordinates46°45′41″N 23°33′29″E / 46.76129°N 23.55794°E / 46.76129; 23.55794

The Kolozsmonostor Abbey was a Benedictine Christian monastery at Kolozsmonostor in Transylvania in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary (now Mănăștur in Cluj-Napoca in Romania). According to modern scholars' consensus, the monastery was established by Ladislaus I of Hungary before 1095.

Establishment

The Kolozsvár Abbey was the first Benedictine monastery in Transylvania,[1] but medieval documents contain contradictory information about its foundation.[2] According to a royal charter issued in 1341, Ladislaus I of Hungary established it.[2] However, a late 14th-century forged version of a 1263 charter stated that Béla I of Hungary had set up the abbey, while an excerpt made around 1430 from the same charter named Stephen I of Hungary as its founder.[2] The two latters document also recorded that Ladislaus I of Hungary had made a large grant to the monastery.[2] Historian György Györffy says, both Stephen I and Béla I were most probably copied from the list of the benefactors of the bishopric of Eger in a 1261 charter, although the reference to Béla I may have preserved a genuine tradition.[2] Historians István Bóna, Elek Benkő and István Keul agree that the monastery was established by Ladislaus I before 1095.[3][4][5]

History

The monastery was dedicated to the Virgin Mary.[1]

The abbey developed into an important place of authentication.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ a b Bóna 1994, p. 165.
  2. ^ a b c d e Györffy 1987, p. 354.
  3. ^ Bóna 1994, p. 163.
  4. ^ Benkő 1994, p. 364.
  5. ^ a b Keul 2009, p. 27.
  6. ^ Niessen 2016, p. 91.

Sources

  • Benkő, Elek (1994). "Kolozsmonostor". In Kristó, Gyula; Engel, Pál; Makk, Ferenc (eds.). Korai magyar történeti lexikon (9–14. század) [Encyclopedia of the Early Hungarian History (9th–14th centuries)] (in Hungarian). Akadémiai Kiadó. pp. 363–3644. ISBN 963-05-6722-9.
  • Bóna, István (1994). "The Hungarian–Slav Period (895–1172)". In Köpeczi, Béla; Barta, Gábor; Bóna, István; Makkai, László; Szász, Zoltán; Borus, Judit (eds.). History of Transylvania. Akadémiai Kiadó. pp. 109–177. ISBN 963-05-6703-2.
  • Györffy, György (1987). Az Árpád-kori Magyarország történeti földrajza, III: Heves, Hont, Hunyad, Keve, Kolozs, Komárom, Krassó, Kraszna, Küküllő megye és Kunság [Historical Geography of Hungary of the Árpáds, Volume I: The Counties of Heves, Hont, Hunyad, Keve, Kolozs, Komárom, Krassó, Kraszna, Küküllő, and the Kunság] (in Hungarian). Akadémiai Kiadó. ISBN 963-05-3613-7.
  • Keul, István (2009). Early Modern Religious Communities in East-Central Europe: Ethnic Diversity, Denominational Plurality, and Corporative Politics in the Principality of Transylvania (1526-1691). Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-17652-2.
  • Kiss, Gergely (2013). Királyi egyházak a középkori Magyarországon [Royal Churches in Medieval Hungary] (in Hungarian). Pécsi Történettudományért Kulturális Egyesület. ISBN 978-963-642-442-8.
  • Niessen, James P. (2016). "Catholic monasticism, orders, and societies in Hungary: centuries of expansion, disaster, and revival". In Angeli Murzaku, Ines (ed.). Monasticism in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics. Routledge. pp. 86–109. ISBN 978-0-415-81959-6.
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