Mãnãstirea Igriș

Igris Cistercian Abbey (Egresi Apátság), Sânpetru Mare, Timis, Romania, was founded in 1179, by Agnés de Châtillon, the first wife of King Béla III, King of Hungary, both of whom were buried here, as were their son, Andras II, King of Hungary and his wife, Yolande de Courtenay. It had the first library in Romania.The monastery was destroyed during the Tatar invasion in 1241, as described by a monk of the monastery, Rogerius: "De destructione Nove-uille et monasterii de Egres. Uersus Orodinum et Chandinum procedere inceperunt, in medio eorum, Noua-uilli dimissa, nomen cuius Pereg fuerat, in qua homines septuaginta uillarum fuerant congregati, et dimisso monasterio Egres Cisterciensis ordinis, in quod tanquam munitum castrum se milites et multe domine receperant. Nec Tartari loca illa aggredi uoluerunt, quousque circumcirca esset terra totaliter desolata. (...) Tartari uero retro post omnes stantes,