HISTORICAL REVIEWS OF THE ORIGIN OF "THE MANYOSA HOUSE“
The first historical records is a documentary reference that ensures the existence of a small monastery composed of seven monks who wore in him an eremitic life toward the year 866.
The legend speaks of the construction of a church in the place in which the pastors were always turned on a light.
It was possibly the pre-Romanesque church whose foundations were found attached to the edge of the rock.
This primitive construction, of Visigothic origin, was downed in the 10th century due to Saracen raids from
Abu Aamir Muhammad bin Abdullah ibn Abi Aamir, al-Hajib al-Mansur. Better known as Almanzor.
A notarial document of the 11th century, cites the existence of a chapel halfway between Granaria castro and castro Terciolo, the current Castle of Granera and Castellterçol, at the same time that refers to the fact of being online the chapels of Sant Llogari, this and that of Sant Julià d ´Uxiols.
Another parchment of the episcopal de Vic file consists that such a Guillem de Mediona, frock coat, left, in his testament, the Church Canon of Vic Castle of Aguilar with their allods, and parishes of Sant Andréu and Sant Fruitós and the castle of Caldes de Montbui, so that his son was admitted as a clergyman, and also leave the freehold of Subiradells and the 'Mannan' and the castle of Clariana with the allods of Ia Serra and Vilanova.
At the beginning of the 12th century the ecclesiastical sovereignty was disputed by the mitre of Vic and the Abbey of L´estany, but surely taking advantage of this situation, the Ramón Count Berenguer III established there a parcel you temper, of the first who settled in the country as it seems to confirm that the document from the archive of the Crown of Aragon, in which his son Ramón Berenguer IV expands donations on your part to the Templars; the document, translated from the Latin, reads as follows;
"I Ramón Berenguer, count of Barcelona and Prince of Aragon, I give to the master of the Temple Pontius Hugo of Tenes and if entrusted places and farmhouses of Salvatges, Coll d´Ases, Puigdomenech, the Agulló, sierra de Sant Joan and the Umbria of Vilanova, expanding what my dear father gave for the Foundation, and committing the Temple to establish a watchtower at the top of the place called Roc Castellar and rebuild and fortify the Palace which" gave my father. Given in Barcelona in the Ides of March 1135, year of the Lord"
Since this document can deduce the importance of
Bailiwick strategic temper in the watershed comarcal del Bages, the valleys and Osona, establishing a hub Templar from Puigreig, Palau d ´Aliga, Palau del Vallès and Barcelona. Possibly it was here where he professed in the order of the Templar Roger de Flor, who after defending Acre, was boss of the almogavars of the East.
Toward 1370, King Pedro III, called the ceremonious, gave the privileges of the confraternity of Ballesters Caçadors of the Ploma, which was established in the former Casal Templar. During the reign of Juan I, the "all courtesy amador"also called the Hunter, the Congregation and the same goods of the same. "
The same order took a languid life in the Palace until the end of the 18th century, which extends the old Gothic Palace on the East side. In the war of independence, it was looted and burned down by Napoleon's troops, turning it into a country house, already known to the reason for the Manyosa.
During the last century produced new modifications in the structure of the House, demolishing the walls, the crenulations’ and machicolations and deteriorating the noble parts of the beautiful ' Palace, largely as a result of being fortified there a Carlist band; the old Romanesque chapel was completely destroyed.
After a hundred years, in 1980, the owner of the House linked to the Manyosa from generations ago, the Mr Josep Mª Roger i Amat, has undertaken the task of completely rebuilding the ancient monuments and has begun by the Chapel, which has been directed and decorated in fresco by the artist Carles Arola, which has resulted in his murals, the historical and legendary past of the region; under the gaze of Christ Pantocrator, of Romanesque figure, develops a medieval world, on the one hand, the Templars as historical order and legendarily linked here, and, secondly, the tradition says that here the Holy Grail hid for a few years, until he was transferred to San Juan de la Peña, by which we see the figure of Percival accompanied by legends of the Knights of the Holy Grail.
From the month of July of the year 2005 the farmhouse named Manyosa, change of owners, managed by the Cultural Association La Manyosa, this in turn continues work of restoration and repair in the interior and exterior of the House, up to the current state.
