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Wrapped in various legends, the founding of the Monastery of Lorvão has been retreated until the century. VI, when the suevo-visigothic parish of "Lurbine" was first identified, and its founder was Abbot Lucencio, who is known to have attended the Council of Braga in 561.

Although a marble stone with Visigothic ornament remains, the first written documents appear only after the first Reconquest of Coimbra in 878, the date from which the first written documents came to bear witness to the existence of a community that played an important role in fostering agrarian and restocking of the region. The Cluny monks, who founded the Lorvao Monastery, dedicated it to the martyrs Saint Mamede and Saint Pelagius.

In the century X, its importance was already considerable and the Monastery reached great prosperity thanks to donations of faithful and rich men, namely, during the government of Abbot Primo, who sent from Cordova specialized artists to do works in the region. The Muslim onslaught of 987 put an end to this surge of progress, but after 1064, the laurban community regained its prestige and splendor, and around the monastery grew a population attracted to the work offered by the monks on its vast estates.

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