Leonor de Alvim (1388) was a

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. She belonged to a family from Entre-Douro-e-Minho and was the daughter of João Pires de Alvim and his wife Branca Pires Coelho. She became the heir to her father due to the lack of male children. She was born in Reborda,

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and married off to Constable

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. They moved to Pedraça and lived in the manor known as "Casa da Torre". When, in 1387, D. John I of Portugal called for all courts to report to

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, Nuno Álvares Pereira was still there as a proxy for the noblemen of the

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. It was during that stay D. Nuno that he received information that Leonor was ill. When he arrived in

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she was already pronounced dead. She was buried in the Dominican nuns' Convento de Corpus Christi in the municipality of

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Marriages and offspring

She married Vasco Gonçalves Barroso in her first

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. She was widowed without any offspring. She later married Nuno Álvares Pereira on August 15, 1376, having three children; *

Beatriz Pereira de Alvim Beatriz Pereira de Alvim (1380–1414) was a Portuguese noblewoman, the only child of Nuno Álvares Pereira and his wife Leonor de Alvim. On 8 November 1401, she married Afonso, Count of Barcelos, illegitimate son of king John I of Portugal. Sh ...

, the only of the three children to survive till adulthood. She married

Afonso I Afonso I of PortugalOr also ''Affonso'' (Archaic Portuguese-Galician) or ''Alphonso'' (Portuguese-Galician languages, Portuguese-Galician) or ''Alphonsus'' (Latin version), sometimes rendered in English as ''Alphonzo'' or ''Alphonse'', dependi ...

, illegitimate son of King D. João I and Inês Pires, having three children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Leonor de Alvim 1350s births 1388 deaths Year of birth uncertain Portuguese nobility 14th-century Portuguese women