At the end of the 16th century, Philip II of Spain provided the monastery with 50,000 ducats to pay for expansion and repair work to prevent the community from moving to Valladolid. In 1592, the monarch and his children visited the monastery. In 1627, the move of the majority of the Premonstratensians reduced the community to that of a priory. A fire in 1715 and a devastating flood in 1739 marked the preliminaries of its 1841 desamortización, the process of confiscation of assets which affected most of the ancient monasteries in Spain.Escapa, Ernesto. Los monjes del Canal.
