March
01
/ 2024
As part of the restoration works of the Gothic cloister of the Royal Monastery of Santes Creus currently underway in Catalonia, archaeologists have uncovered the ‘totally unexpected’ intact remains of 8 skeletal bodies! The ‘exceptional discovery’ has been dated to the 13th and 14th centuries, with the intact sarcophagi corresponding to members of medieval Catalan nobility. Based on existing documentation, the team deduce that the tombs had already been looted and raided. Bloodline in the Age of Spanish Feudalism: The Royal Families of Catalonia The royals were buried in Santes Creus following King James II (also known as James the Just or James of Aragon) and his second wife Blanca d’Anjou, to turn the monastery into ‘a pantheon of Catalan
