Founded by Anna di Morozzo, Agnese Pulisello and Giordana Brugaporcello.
The first prioress was named Anna.
In a bull of Oct. 31, 1243, Innocent IV placed the house under the spiritual protection of Staffarda.
Mondovi, in 1478 (Cottineau give the date for the transfer as 1594, at the behest of Bishop Antonio).
The abbey of Staffarda, after 1243.
Members were daughters of the nobility from southern Piedmont.
Substantial properties in Morozzo, and around the monastery.
[1] March 25, 1180: cloister and cemetary were consecrated by the bishop of Asti, Guglielmo.
[2] 1186: taken under imperial protection of Barbarossa (repeated by Frederick II in 1238).
Il cartario della certosa di casotto, p. VII
Le storie dell'antica citta del Monteregale ora Mondovi in Piemonte, vol. I (1894), pp. 176, 217-18
Répertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés, p. 2306
For more information on this house, see record#S. Maria della Carita for S. Maria della Carita in Mondovi.