Ferdinand of Portugal ( pt, Fernando), later of Eça or Eza ( – Eza?), was the son of

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Infant João, Duke of Valencia de Campos. João, was a son of king

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with powerful and literary famous for several centuries in several European languages, Galician lady Inés de Castro, "the Queen who ruled after her death". His father, Infante John, Duke of Valencia de Campos, (Coimbra 1349-Salamanca 1397), buried there, had been legitimized as Infant of Portugal, and became Duque de Valencia de Campos in Castile through his marriage to one of the bastards of bastard king

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. Fernando's father John, had married in 1376, (1st marriage), Castilian lady Maria Téllez de Menezes, assassinated shortly after in 1378 by her husband, who had been alerted of her apparent unfaithfulness. Then, he married again in Valencia de Campos in 1378 Constanza de Castilla, Lady of Valencia de Campos, illegitimate daughter of bastard King Enrique II of Castile, who was therefore the step mother of orphaned Fernando of Portugal, thus becoming consort duke of Valencia de Campos.

Life

He was the 1st Lord of Eza in Galicia, from where he took his surname, corrupted in

into Eça, and which was given to him by Fadrique de Castilla, 1st Duke of

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who died in prison.

Marriages and issue

It is said Fernando was married or perhaps lived with many wives, all of them alive. Other sources say he married six times, having three or four of them alive at once, but only the name of the sixth wife is known. Apparently, this sixth one, was Isabel Dávalos, daughter of Pedro López Dávalos,

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, and granddaughter of

Ruy López Dávalos Ruy López Dávalos (Úbeda, Jaén Province, Spain, 1357 - in exile, Valencia, Spain, 1428), Count of Ribadeo since it was sold by the first count, the Frenchman Pierre de Villaines, who received it from Henry II of Castile on 20 December 1369, A ...

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. By her he had: * Duarte de Eça (born c. 1415), a

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, who had a son by his

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, issue apparently extinct in male line. * Pedro de Eça, 1st Alcaide-Mór of Moura, 2nd Lord of Aldeia Galega da Merceana (c. 1430-1492), who married Leonor Casca de Camões (born c. 1420), Heiress of Moura, and had issue, apparently extinct in male line, and also had issue (including Dona Filipa de Eça,

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) by unknown women, also apparently extinct in male line. * Branca de Eça (born c. 1420), married firstly to Vasco Fernandes de Lucena (born c. 1420), by whom she had a daughter who became Abbess of the Monastery of Celas, in

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, and married secondly to João Rodrigues de Azevedo, ?th Lord of a Fonte de Louro (born c. 1410), and had issue * Inês de Eça (born c. 1450), married as his first wife to (Dom) Garcia de Sousa Chichorro (born c. 1450), and had one son * Catarina de Eça (born c. 1440, died aft. 1515), Perpetual

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of the

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, who had issue by Pedro Gomes de Abreu, 5th Lord of Regalados (born c. 1440). With Leonor de Teive, daughter of João de Teive and Brites de Horta, he had: * Fernando de Eça, 1st Alcaide-Mór of

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, in the service of the

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(c. 1410 – Barcelos,

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, 15 August 1501 or bef. 1513), married to Joana de Saldanha (born c. 1410), and had issue, also had a son by an unknown wife, issue apparently extinct in male line. * Garcia de Eça, 1st Alcaide-Mór of Muge (born c. 1410), married firstly to Joana de Albergaria (born c. 1410), and had issue, apparently extinct in male line, and married secondly as her first husband to Dona Catarina Coutinho (born c. 1440), without issue * Leonor da Guerra or de Eça (born c. 1410), married to Galiote Leitão, ?th Lord of Torre de Ota (born c. 1410),

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of the Royal Household, and had issue ''By another'' he had: * João de Eça, 1st Alcaide-Mór of Moreira, 1st Lord of Aldeia Galega da Merceana (born c. 1420), married to Mécia de Antas (born c. 1420), and had one daughter ''By another'': * Diogo of Eça (born c. 1410), married to Joana da Silva (born c. 1410), without issue * Brites or Beatriz de Eça (born c. 1415), Abbess of the Monastery of Celas, in

, who had issue by João Gomes de Abreu,

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(c. 1410 – 16 February 1482) * Maria of Portugal, a

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at Saint

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* Inês of Portugal (born c. 1415), married to Gonzalo Fernández de Hijar, 1st Lord of el Valle del Jalón (c. 1410–1450), and had issue * Isabel of Portugal (born c. 1415), married to Juan de Sotomayor (born c. 1410), and had one daughter ''By others'': * João de Eça (died at the Palanque de

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of Cardiga. * Diogo de Eça, died young * Antão de Eça, a

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* Beatriz of Portugal * Catarina de Eça * João de Eça (born c. 1420, died aft. 1475), married to Leonor de Xira (born c. 1420), had a son who died unmarried and without issue, had issue by unknown women, now extinct in male line. All from different women, ''it is said that'' he had 42 children, between sons and daughters.

End of life

In the end of his life he repented and started wearing a rope of the

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of Saint

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, with which he was buried and which appears in the

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of his family in purple with the look of a carbuncule.

References

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