Martim Afonso Chichorro (1250–1313) was a Portuguese nobleman, who served in the Court of

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 ...

(his half brother).

Biography

Born in

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 ...

, Martim was the illegitimate son of

Afonso III of Portugal 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

Madragana Madragana Ben Aloandro, later Maior or Mór Afonso (born c. 1230, Faro, Algarve, Portugal), was a woman from the Algarve known as a mistress to king Afonso III of Portugal, in the 13th century, when he ended the Reconquista in Portugal by taking ...

. He was married to Inês Lourenço de Valadares (or de Sousa), daughter of

Lourenço Soares de Valadares {{Infobox noble, type , name = Lourenço Soares de Valadares , title = Lord , image = , caption = , alt = , CoA = , more = , succession = , ...

. Martim Afonso Chichorro held various political positions in the Kingdom of Portugal, including as Governor of the city of Chaves.

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