The origin of the Teplice monastery is closely connected with the beginnings of the town and its earliest spa tradition. The founder was Judith of Thuringia, the wife of the Czech duke and later king Vladislav II, and the second Queen of Bohemia. She ordered the construction of a Benedictine convent near the warm spring, today’s Pravřídlo.
At that time, an older settlement already existed at the site, along with a predecessor of the present-day Church of St. John the Baptist, demonstrating the importance of this location long before the town of Teplice itself was established.
Queen Judith is also believed to have been buried in Teplice. Although written sources are not entirely conclusive, an anthropological examination of a skull found in a tomb in 2002 identified it with a high degree of probability as belonging to Queen Judith.
