Pedro Martins, Lord of the Tower of Vasconcelos, was a

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12th century

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, son of

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(legendary figure of the

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in 1147) and Teresa Afonso. He was the Lord of the Tower of Vasconcelos, located in the parish of Santa Maria de Ferreiros (municipality of

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), in the north of Portugal, in the modern

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. The said tower, seat of the preeminent family of the

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, had previously belonged to the

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. Pedro Martins married Teresa Soares da Silva, and had a son and a daughter: *João Peres de Vasconcelos, “O Tenreiro”, the first to use the

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Vasconcelos and the one to give it continuity; married to Maria Soares Coelho. *Sancha Peres de Vasconcelos, married first to Mendo Afonso, and secondly to João Gomes Barreto.Eugénio de Castro (1933), ''Os Meus Vasconcelos'', Coimbra, Coimbra Editora, p.8.

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