THE LIBRARY OF IBERIAN RESOURCES ONLINE
CHARITY AND WELFARE:
HOSPITALS AND THE POOR IN MEDIEVAL CATALONIA
JAMES WILLIAM BRODMAN
Appendix
Selected Hospitals, Shelters, and Relief Agencies in Catalonia, Majorca, and Valencia
Eleventh Century
[145]| First Citation |
Locality |
Type/Clientele |
Name/Founder |
| 995-1011 |
Barcelona |
Cathedral shelter |
Hospital de la Seu/ En Guitard |
| 1048 |
Urgell |
Cathedral alms |
Pia Almoina |
| 1054-63 |
Vic |
Cathedral shelter |
Sant Jaume dels Malalts |
| 1059 |
Urgell |
Cathedral shelter |
Old Hospital/Poor Clerics |
| 1095 |
Girona |
Cathedral shelter |
Sant Pere/Old Hospital |
Twelfth Century
| First Citation |
Locality | Type/Clientele |
Name/Founder |
| 1141 |
Vilafranca del Penedès |
Poor shelter |
Hospital de Sant Valentí |
| 1149-68 |
Lleida |
Cathedral alms |
Pia Almoina |
| 1156 |
Lleida |
Shelter for poor |
En Nicolau |
| 1161 |
Barcelona |
Cathedral alms |
Pia Almoina |
| 1166 |
Barcelona |
Shelter |
En Marcús |
| 1170 |
Lleida |
Shelter for poor |
Pere Moliner |
| 1171 |
Tarragona |
Cathedral shelter |
Hospital of the Poor |
| 1172 |
Tortosa |
Cathedral shelter |
Santa Maria |
| 1174 |
Lleida |
Capitular shelter for clergy |
unknown |
| 1180 |
Lleida |
Clerical shelter |
Casa de la Caritat |
| 1185 |
Lleida |
Leper Shelter |
Sant Llàtzer |
| 1185 |
Lleida |
Shelter |
Hospitallers of Saint John |
| late 12th c. |
Barcelona |
Leper shelter |
Sant Llàtzer |
| late 12th c. |
Cervera |
Leper shelter |
Santa Magdalena |
Thirteenth Century
[146]| First Citation |
Locality |
Type/Clientele |
Name/Founder |
| 1200s |
Barcelona |
Jewish hospice |
Samuel ben rabí Isaac Ha-Sardí |
| Ca. 1200 |
Cervera |
Victims of ergotism |
Antonines |
| 1211 |
Girona |
Confraternal/town shelter |
New Hospital |
| 1212 |
Barcelona |
Confraternal/capitular shelter |
Santa Eulàlia |
| 1214 |
Lleida |
Women and Children |
Order of the Holy Spirit |
| 1216 |
Lleida |
Shelter for poor and captives |
Trinitarians |
| 1217 |
Vic |
Poor shelter |
En Cloquer |
| 1228 |
Girona |
Capitular relief |
Almoina del Pa |
| 1229 |
Barcelona |
Capitular hospital |
En Colom |
| 1230 |
Majorca |
Sick poor |
Sant Andreu |
| 1235 |
Cervera |
Poor shelter |
Joan de l'Hospital |
| 1238 |
Valencia |
Royal hospital |
Sant Vicent (Sant Victorian/Merced) |
| 1240 |
Valencia |
Poor shelter |
Roncesvalles |
| 1242 |
Valencia |
Sick poor |
Sant Guillem (Trinitarians) |
| 1247 |
Urgell |
Municipal hospital |
New Hospital |
| 1248 |
Majorca |
Canonical shelter |
Sant Antoni Abad |
| 1248 |
Majorca |
unknown |
Santa Magdalena |
| 1248 |
Xàtiva |
Poor Shelter |
Friars of the Sack |
| Ca. 1250 |
Reus |
Town Hospital |
Sant Joan |
| 1251 |
Valencia |
Leper shelter |
Sant Llàtzer |
| 1256 |
Barcelona |
Capitular hospital |
Sant Macià (Pere Desvilar) |
| 1262 |
Olesa de Bonesvalls |
Mendicant shelter |
unknown |
| 1265 |
Xàtiva |
Poor shelter |
Pere Soler |
| 1266 |
Montblanc |
Poor shelter |
Santa Magdalena |
| 1266 |
Montblanc |
Mendicant shelter |
Franciscans |
| 1270 |
Tortosa |
Town hospital |
La Grassa |
| 1271 |
Lleida |
Victims of ergotism |
Antonines |
| 1275 |
Vic |
Poor, sick, lepers |
Santa Trinitat (Ramon de Malla) |
| 1284 |
Urgell |
Leper shelter |
Santa Maria Magdalena |
| 1290 |
Castelló de la Plana |
Shelter for the sick |
Town Hospital |
| 1277 |
Barcelona |
Jewish almoina |
Abraham of Alexandria |
Fourteenth Century
| First Citation |
Locality |
Type/Clientele |
Name/Founder |
| 1300s |
Vilafranca del Penedès |
Poor shelter |
Trinitarians |
| 1300s |
Barcelona |
Parochial alms funds |
Bacís, Plats |
| 1300s |
Vic |
Municipal alms |
Almoina |
| Ca. 1300 |
Xàtiva |
Poor shelter |
Bernat de Bellvís |
| 1300 |
Manresa |
Municipal shelter |
Pere Salvatge |
| 1301 |
Valencia |
Franciscan hospital |
La Reyna |
| 1308 |
Barcelona |
Municipal shelter |
Pere Desvilar |
| 1310 |
Tarragona (Cambrils) |
Royal hospital |
L'Enfant |
| 1311 |
Valencia |
Municipal hospital |
En Clapers |
| 1328 |
Cervera |
Poor travelers |
Onze Mil Verges |
| 1333-40 |
Valencia |
Victims of ergotism |
Antonines |
| 1334 |
Valencia |
Municipal shelter |
Beguins |
| 1338 |
Valencia |
Orphans and foundlings |
Pare dels òrfens |
| 1338 |
Vic |
Pilgrims, sick, foundlings |
Santa Creu (Ramon de Terrades) |
| 1339 | Montblanc |
Shelter for the poor | |
| 1345 |
Majorca |
Poor shelter |
Santa Catarina dels Pobres |
| 1345 |
Valencia |
Prostitute shelter |
Casa de las Arrepentidas |
| 1356 |
Valencia |
Diocesan shelter |
Poor Priests |
| 1362 |
Tarragona |
Municipal hospital |
New Hospital |
| 1365 |
Barcelona |
Municipal prostitute shelter |
Les Egipciaques |
| 1370 |
Barcelona |
Orphans and foundlings |
Guillem de Pou |
| 1377 |
Majorca |
Poor Jews |
Moisés Cabrit |
| 1377 |
Valencia |
Castilian refugees |
Confraternity of Sant Jaume |
| 1390s |
Valencia |
Hospital for the sick |
Francesc Conill |
| 1390s |
Valencia |
Fishermen Shelter |
Pere Bou |
Fifteenth Century
| First Citation |
Locality |
Type/Clientele |
Name/Founder |
| 1401 |
Barcelona |
General hospital |
Santa Creu |
| 1409 |
Valencia |
Municipal Insane Asylum/ Children's Shelter |
Ignoscents, Folls e Orats |
| 1411 |
Solsona |
Private shelter |
Llobera |
| 1440 |
Majorca |
Leper shelter |
Massells |
| pre1445 |
Urgell |
General hospital |
Hospital of the City |
| 1453 |
Lleida |
General hospital |
Santa Maria |
| 1456-8 |
Majorca |
General hospital |
Hospital general |
| 1464 |
Tarragona |
General hospital |
Santa Tecla |
| 1475 |
Majorca |
Clerical shelter |
Poor Priests (Antoni Lana) |
| 1495 |
Valencia |
General Hospital |
Hospital general |