{{Infobox noble, type , name = João Mendes de Briteiros , title = Rico-Homen , image = , caption = , alt = , CoA = , more = , succession = , reign = , reign-type = , predecessor = , successor = , suc-type = , spouse = , spouse-type = , issue = , issue-link = , issue-pipe = , full name = , styles = , titles = , noble family = , house-type = , father = , mother = , birth_date = 13th-century , birth_place =

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Denis of Portugal Denis (, ; 9 October 1261 – 7 January 1325), called the Farmer King (''Rei Lavrador'') and the Poet King (''Rei Poeta''), was King of Portugal from 1279 until his death in 1325. Dinis was the eldest son of Afonso III of Portugal by his second ...

Biography

João was born in the

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, son of Mem Rodrigues de Briteiros and Maria Anes da Veiga, a noble lady descendant of Forjaz Vermuis, belonging to the Lords of Trastámara and

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. He was married to

Urraca Afonso Urraca Afonso ( – 1290?) was a Portuguese noble lady, illegitimate daughter of Afonso III of Portugal and Madragana Ben Aloandro. And half sister of Denis of Portugal Denis (, ; 9 October 1261 – 7 January 1325), called the Farmer King ('' ...

, daughter of

Afonso III of Portugal Afonso IIIrare English alternatives: ''Alphonzo'' or ''Alphonse'', or ''Affonso'' (Archaic Portuguese), ''Alfonso'' or ''Alphonso'' (Portuguese-Galician languages, Portuguese-Galician) or ''Alphonsus'' (Latin). (; 5 May 121016 February 1279), ca ...

and his mistress

Madragana Madragana Bat 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 ...

.{{cite book, title=Crónicas de d. Sancho II e d. Afonso III, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2PwbAAAAMAAJ&q=Jo%C3%A3o+Mendes+de+Briteiros+urraca+afonso , year= 1946, publisher=António Brandão, Artur de Magalhãis Basto

References

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