Ribadumia is a municipality in Galicia, Spain in the province of

Pontevedra Pontevedra (, ) is a city in the autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, in northwestern Spain. It is the capital of both the ''Pontevedra (comarca), Comarca'' and Province of Pontevedra, and the capital of the Rías Baixas. It is als ...

. In 1151, in the ''parroquia'' of Barrantes now in Ribadumia, a group tried to found a monastery with the help of the local magnate

Gómez Núñez Gómez Núñez (or Gomes Nunes in Portuguese; ''floruit'' 1071–1141) was a Kingdom of Galicia, Galician and Second County of Portugal, Portuguese political and military leader in the Kingdom of León. His power lay in the valley of the Minho (ri ...

, but their efforts came to nothing.Simon Barton (1997), ''The Aristocracy in Twelfth-century León and Castile'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 136.

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