João Afonso Telo, 4th Count Of Barcelos

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, name = João Afonso Telo
, image = Afonso Telo de Menezes, Conde de Ourém - História de Portugal, popular e ilustrada.png
, title = 1st count of Ourém
4th count of Barcelos
, birth_date = 14th century
, birth_place = Kingdom of Portugal
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, death_date = 1381
, death_place = Kingdom of Portugal
, burial_date =
, burial_place = Graça Church
, religion = Roman Catholic
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João Afonso Telo de Menezes (died 1381){{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=118 was a Portuguese nobleman, 1st Count of Ourém and 4th Count of Barcelos.{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, pp=117-121

Life

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 and Denis of Portugal — 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, married to his niece, Leonor Teles.{{Sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1987, pp=30 and 235 He was also the '' alferes-mor'' of King Pedro I 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 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 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 1st 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 Ourém 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,{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=121 pretender to the throne of Portugal 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 Portocarrero,{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=121 were the parents of Pedro de Menezes, 1st Count of Vila Real and the 2nd Count of Viana do Alentejo.{{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.{{sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1987, pp=30 and 235

References

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Bibliography

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1300s births
1381 deaths
12th-century Portuguese people
13th-century Portuguese nobility
Portuguese Roman Catholics