João Lourenço Da Cunha

João Lourenço da Cunha (died {{circa, 1385) was a Portuguese nobleman, 2nd Lord of Pombeiro.{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=189{{Sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1987, p=252

Life

João was born in Portugal, son of Martim Lourenço da Cunha and Maria (or Margarida) Gonçalves de Briteiros,{{Sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1987, p=36 maternal granddaughter of Martim Afonso Chichorro,{{Sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1987, p=34 whose first husband was Martim Afonso de Sousa, having by him a daughter, Beatriz de Sousa,{{Sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1987, pp=32–35 wife of Enrique Manuel de Villena,{{Sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1987, pp=32–35 whom Leonor Teles would call her sister-in-law.{{Sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1987, p=34

In 1365, he married Leonor Teles{{Sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1987, p= 259 to whom he was still married when she met King Ferdinand I of Portugal and abandoned her husband to marry the Portuguese king. Two children were born of this marriage; a daughter who died in infancy, and a son Álvaro da Cunha,{{sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1987, p=205 heir to the lordship of his father.{{sfn, Olivera Serrano, 2005, p=55

In 1379, King Ferdinand confiscated João Lourenço's properties and gave them to Fernão Afonso de Albuquerque.{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=189 He left his country and returned to Portugal at the end of 1383 after the king's death.{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=189

According to the legends and traditions of Valladolid collected by Juan Agapito y Revilla, a 19th{{snd20th century architect and local chronicler, João Lourenço da Cunha fled from the Portuguese court and found refuge in Valladolid where he lived the rest of his life and where he walked around the city wearing a hat with a string to which were attached silver horns manifesting his condition as a cuckold.{{Sfn, Agapito y Revilla, 1915, p=223 This is in contradiction with Portuguese sources according to which, after the death of King Ferdinand, he returned to Portugal at the end of 1383 where he received several donations from the master of Aviz who, at João Lourenço's behest, on 17 April 1385, issued a letter confirming that Álvaro, up to then considered a bastard son of Lope Dias de Sousa, was actually his son whose real name was Álvaro da Cunha.{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=189 In his last will, João Lourenço da Cunha left his properties and title to his son Álvaro da Cunha, the son whom "he had never dared to mention during the lifetime of King Ferdinand".{{sfn, Rodrigues Oliveira, 2010, p=308

João Lourenço da Cunha died in Portugal in 1385 or shortly afterwards, according to Portuguese sources.{{Sfn, Sotto Mayor Pizarro, 1987, p=252{{Sfn, Braamcamp Freire, 1921, p=189

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Bibliography

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14th-century births
1400s deaths
14th-century Portuguese nobility
Portuguese Roman Catholics