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João Afonso Telo de Menezes (died 1381)[1] was a Portuguese nobleman, 1st Count of Ourém and 4th Count of Barcelos.[2]
João Afonso Telo | |
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1st count of Ourém 4th count of Barcelos | |
Born | 14th century Kingdom of Portugal |
Died | 1381 Kingdom of Portugal |
Buried | Graça Church |
João Afonso Telo was the second son of Afonso Martins Telo "Raposo"[3] and Berengária Lourenço de Valadares,[4] daughter of Lourenço Soares de Valadares — advisor to kings Afonso III and Denis of Portugal — and his second wife Sancha Nunes de Chacim.[5] Berengária was also the sister of Aldonça Lourenço de Valadares, the mother of Inés de Castro.[6]
João Afonso Telo was a trusted advisor of King Pedro I and his son King Fernando I of Portugal, married to his niece, Leonor Teles.[7] He was also the alferes-mor of King Pedro I who on 10 October 1357 made him Count of Barcelos[4] and appears with the title of Count of Ourém in December 1371 after King Fernando I had given him the town of Ourém in January of the previous year but without the title of count at that time.[8]
He died during the Christmas holidays in 1381 and was buried at the Graça Church in Santarém,[1] which he and his wife, who was still alive in 1404 and was subsequently buried next to her husband, had founded.[4]
He was married to Guiomar Lopes Pacheco,[4] daughter of Lopo Fernandes Pacheco and Maria Rodríguez de Villalobos.[1] They were the parents of:
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