Gonçalo (Gonçalves) Pereira (c.1280–1348) was a Portuguese prelate of the

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who served as the

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from 1326 until 1349. Pereira was a son of Gonçalo Pires Pereira, who held the titles of count of the Kingdom of Portugal and knight commander of the

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. After being raised at the court of King

Denis of Portugal Denis (, ; 9 October 1261 – 7 January 1325 in Santarém), called the Farmer King (''Rei Lavrador'') and the Poet King (''Rei Poeta''), was King of Portugal. The eldest son of Afonso III of Portugal by his second wife, Beatrice of Castile, and ...

, he studied law at the

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, where he met Teresa Peres Vilarinho (1285-?). Their son,

Álvaro Gonçalves Pereira {{Infobox noble, type , name = , title = Álvaro Gonçalves Pereira , image = File:Túmulo de D. Álvaro Gonçalves Pereira.JPG , caption = Tomb of D. Álvaro Gonçalves Pereira , alt ...

(c. 1310 - c. 1379), was the father of

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Nuno Álvares Pereira D. Nuno Álvares Pereira, O. Carm. (; 24 June 1360 – 1 November 1431) was a Portuguese general of great success who had a decisive role in the 1383-1385 Crisis that assured Portugal's independence from Castile. He later became a mystic ...

, an ancestor of the

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. After completing his studies, he returned to

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, where he became a

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of the Cathedral Chapter of the

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and, later,

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of the Chapter of the

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. In 1320, King Denis sent him and Admiral Manuel Pessanha as envoys to the papal court at Avignon to obtain, among other things, financial aid for the war against the Moors. In the following year he was elected

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but was never consecrated bishop of that see. On 21 August 1322,

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appointed him

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. The decrees of the diocesan synod that he held in 1324 were seen as imposing excessive financial burdens and were revoked by his successor. In 1326, Pope John XXII appointed him archbishop of Braga,Rodrigo da Cunha
Historia ecclesiastica dos arcebispos de Braga
parte II, cap. XLII y XLIII
Historia ecclesiastica da Igreja de Lisboa
part II, chap. LXXXVI. a post that he held until his death on 22 December 1348. He helped Queen

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settle the quarrels between her husband King Denis and their son, the future

Afonso IV Afonso IVEnglish: ''Alphonzo'' or ''Alphonse'', or ''Affonso'' (Archaic Portuguese), ''Alfonso'' or ''Alphonso'' (Portuguese-Galician) or ''Alphonsus'' (Latin). (; 8 February 129128 May 1357), called the Brave ( pt, o Bravo, links=no), was King ...

. In 1338 he was King Afonso's ambassador to the

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, arranging peace between the two kingdoms. He participated in the famous

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on 30 October 1340, when the joint forces of both kingdoms destroyed those of Sultan

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and

Yusuf I Abu al-Hajjaj Yusuf ibn Ismail ( ar, أبو الحجاج يوسف بن إسماعيل; 29 June 131819 October 1354), known by the regnal name al-Muayyad billah (, "He who is aided by God"), was the seventh Nasrid ruler of the Emirate of Gran ...

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