The true origin of the Hospital is unclear. It could have been born on a private shelter that was empowered by the monarch, either in the time of Sancho Ramírez around 1078, or perhaps later, in the time of his son Pedro I. Later, it received donations from the Count of Bearn, Gastón IV the Crusader, and Alfonso I el Batallador.
The community of friars of Somport soon extended their area of action to other points of the Camino de Santiago through Aragon, France, Navarra and Castile, creating several encomiendas and living their moment of splendor between the 12th and 13th centuries.
But in 1569
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The true origin of the Hospital is unclear. It could have been born on a private shelter that was empowered by the monarch, either in the time of Sancho Ramírez around 1078, or perhaps later, in the time of his son Pedro I. Later, it received donations from the Count of Bearn, Gastón IV the Crusader, and Alfonso I el Batallador.
The community of friars of Somport soon extended their area of action to other points of the Camino de Santiago through Aragon, France, Navarra and Castile, creating several encomiendas and living their moment of splendor between the 12th and 13th centuries.
But in 1569 Juan de Gurrea, governor of Aragon, asked the religious of Santa Christina te leave their premises and settle in the encomienda of Jaca. In 1593, the Somport community of monks was dissolved. The abandonment and various subsequent wars reduced the old Hospital and Monastery to ruins.
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