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The monastery was originally founded in 1166 by the Counts of L'Urgell. The monastery became the most important Premonstratensian community in Catalonia. Always under the protection of the Earls of Urgell, he held important holdings that stretched across the region. The activity in the monastery ended with its confiscation in 1835. It passed into private hands. One of its owners sold the surviving sarcophagi of Counts Ermengol VII and his wife Dolça, Ermengol X, and the Vicomte Àlvar de Cabrera, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ("The Cloisters") in New York. However, the cloister of the original 12th-century monastery has been preserved.