La Capilla de los Arzobispos, el Tesoro y la Torre de don Gómez Manrique en la Catedral de Santiago de Compostela

Abstract

In 1250, Archbishop Juan Arias (1238-1266) instituted a chapel in the cathedral cloister; consecrated to the memory of the Archiepiscopum et canonicorum et aliorum fidelium defunctorum. This space, identified with the cathedral chapter room, was the burial place of the Archbishops of the Apostolic See, just as the documented evidences of funeral worship prove. In a second story over the chapel was the Cathedral Treasury, real place of the chapter meetings. During the 14th century, the problems between the Compostela's Religious authority and the Town Council brought about the construction of a fortified building in the Cloister, it was destined to install the new Cathedral Treasury and the chapter library as well as a new place for the chapter meetings, of which architectural remains are preserved under the 16th Century cathedral cloister bays.