instructed DuartedeArmas, the Royal House squire, to inspect the fortifications along the border with the kingdom of Castile DuartedeArmas, accompanied
detail. The chronicle relates that King Manuel I sent the draftsman Duarte deArmas to make a sketch of the statue, which has not survived to the present day
embellished with tiles and featuring Islamic style water pools. John I's son, Duarte I, was very fond of the palace and stayed long periods here. He left a written