The Kolozsvár Abbey was the first Benedictine monastery in
Transylvania, but medieval documents contain contradictory information about its foundation. According to a
royal charter issued in 1341,
Ladislaus I of Hungary established it. However, a late 14th-century forged version of a 1263 charter stated that
Béla I of Hungary had set up the abbey, while an excerpt made around 1430 from the same charter named
Stephen I of Hungary as its founder. The two latters document also recorded that
Ladislaus I of Hungary had made a large grant to the monastery. Historian
György Györffy says, both Stephen I and Béla I were most probably copied from the list of the benefactors of the
bishopric of Eger in a 1261 charter, although the reference to Béla I may have preserved a genuine tradition. Historians István Bóna, Elek Benkő and István Keul agree that the monastery was established by Ladislaus I before 1095. == History ==