{{Infobox noble, type , name = João Afonso Telo , image = Afonso Telo de Menezes, Conde de Ourém - História de Portugal, popular e ilustrada.png , title = 4th count of Barcelos, 1st count of Ourém and 1st count of Viana do Alentejo , birth_date = 14th century , birth_place =

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Count of Ourém Count of Ourém (in Portuguese ''Conde de Ourém'') is a Portuguese title granted in 1370 by King Fernando I of Portugal, to ''Dom'' João Afonso Telo, uncle of Queen Leonor Teles. Later he also became the fourth Count of Barcelos. The title s ...

, 1st

Count of Viana do Alentejo {{about, , the Counts of Viana (modern), Count of Viana, the Counts of Viana (da Foz do Lima), Count of Viana (da Foz do Lima) Count of Viana (do Alentejo) was a Portuguese title of nobility granted to D. João Afonso Telo, 4th Count of Barc ...

,{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=120 and 4th

Count of Barcelos Count of Barcelos (in Portuguese ''Conde de Barcelos'') is a title of nobility, the first to be granted in Portugal. It was created in 1298 by king Denis I and initially it was a non hereditary title, although most of the holders belonged to the ...

Life

Santarém - Igreja de Santa Maria da Graça - Interior

João Afonso Telo was the second son of Afonso Martins Telo "Raposo"{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=117 and Berengária Lourenço de Valadares,{{Sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1987, p=240 daughter of Lourenço Soares de Valadares — advisor to kings

Afonso III Afonso III (; rare English alternatives: ''Alphonzo'' or ''Alphonse''), or ''Affonso'' (Archaic Portuguese), ''Alfonso'' or ''Alphonso'' (Portuguese-Galician) or ''Alphonsus'' (Latin), the Boulonnais ( Port. ''o Bolonhês''), King of Portugal ( ...

and

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 ...

— and his second wife Sancha Nunes de Chacim.{{Sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1997, loc=Vol. I, pp. 793–796 Berengária was also the sister of Aldonça Lourenço de Valadares, the mother of Inés de Castro.{{Sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1987, p=235 João Afonso Telo was a trusted advisor of King Pedro I and his son King

Fernando I of Portugal Ferdinand I ( pt, Fernando; 31 October 1345 – 22 October 1383), sometimes called the Handsome () or occasionally the Inconstant (), was the King of Portugal from 1367 until his death in 1383. His death led to the 1383–85 crisis, also k ...

, married to his niece,

Leonor Teles Leonor Teles (or Teles de Meneses; ) was queen consort of Portugal by marriage to King Ferdinand I, and one of the protagonists, along with her brothers and her daughter Beatrice, of the events that led to the succession crisis of 1383–1385 ...

.{{Sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1987, pp=30 and 235 He was also the '' alferes-mor'' of King Pedro who on 10 October 1357 made him Count of Barcelos{{Sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1987, p=240 and appears with the title of Count of Ourém in December 1371 after King Fernando I had given him the town of

Ourém Ourém (), formerly known as Vila Nova de Ourém, is a municipality in the district of Santarém in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 45,932, in an area of 416.68 km2. The municipality of Ourém contains two cities: Ourém (about 12,000 r ...

in January of the previous year but without the title of count at that time.{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, pp=117–118 He died during the Christmas holidays in 1381 and was buried at the Graça Church in Santarém,{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=118 which he and his wife, who was still alive in 1404 and was subsequently buried next to her husband, had founded.{{Sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1987, p=240

Marriage and issue

He was married to Guiomar Lopes Pacheco,{{Sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1987, p=240 daughter of

Lopo Fernandes Pacheco Lopo Fernandes Pacheco (died 22 December 1349), was the first of his lineage to accede to the highest ranks of the nobility, that of a ''rico-homem'', in the Kingdom of Portugal. He lived during the reign of King Afonso IV of Portugal of whom he ...

and Maria Rodríguez de Villalobos.{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=118 They were the parents of: * Afonso Telo de Meneses,{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=119 5th Count of Barcelos, by charter dated 20 March 1372,{{Sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1987, p=240{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=120 but since he died before his father and without having any issue,{{Sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1987, p=240 the title again reverted to his father.{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=121 * João Afonso Telo{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=119 (died in 1384){{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=119 Count of Viana do Alentejo in March 1373, while his father was still alive.{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=121 He did not inherit the titles of Count of Barcelos or Ourem since the former title was given to João Afonso Telo and the latter one to Juan Fernández Andeiro.{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=121 He was killed by his vassals in 1384 because he had supported the cause of the King

John I of Castile John I ( es, Juan I; 24 August 1358 – 9 October 1390) was King of Castile and León from 1379 until 1390. He was the son of Henry II and of his wife Juana Manuel of Castile. Biography His first marriage, to Eleanor of Aragon on 18 June 1375, ...

,{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=121 pretender to the throne of

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

during the political crisis of 1383–1385. He and his wife, Maior de Portocarrero,{{Sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1987, p=241 daughter of João Rodrigues de Portocarreiro,{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=121 were the parents of Pedro de Menezes, 1st Count of Vila Real and the 2nd

.{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, pp=121–122 * Leonor de Meneses,{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=120 married to Pedro de Castro, Lord of Cadaval and son of

Álvaro Pires de Castro Álvaro Pires de Castro (c. 1310 – 11 June 1384 in Lisbon) was a powerful Galician-Portuguese nobleman, stem of the Portuguese branch of the House of Castro. He was the first Count of Viana (da Foz do Lima), the first Count of Arraiolos and ...

.{{sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1987, pp=30 and 235

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