Livro De Linhagens Do Deão
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The ''Livro de Linhagens do Deão'' ('Lineage Book of the Dean') is a Portuguese genealogy compiled between 1337 and 1343 for an anonymous
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. It is a defence of the rights of the
Portuguese nobility Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...
against royal authority, written in the aftermath of the Portuguese civil war of 1319–1324. It was an important source for the later '' Livro de Linhagens do Conde Dom Pedro''.. The text as it is preserved is only a summary of a longer text written in 1343. (esp. 275–277). The epitomizer may have been Martin Anes. The summary is preserved only in a late copy in a 17th-century manuscript in Lisbon, , 47-Xlll-10, at folios 1–29. Like the earlier '' Livro Velho de Linhagens'', the ''Livro do Deão'' is a direct response to centralizing royal policy, in its case that of
Afonso IV Afonso IVEnglish: ''Alphonzo'' or ''Alphonse'', or ''Affonso'' (Archaic Portuguese), ''Alfonso'' or ''Alphonso'' ( Portuguese-Galician) or ''Alphonsus'' (Latin). (; 8 February 129128 May 1357), called the Brave (), was King of Portugal from 1325 ...
. The nobility is portrayed as defenders of the country against foreign interference and as leaders of the ''
Reconquista The ''Reconquista'' (Spanish language, Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese for ) or the fall of al-Andalus was a series of military and cultural campaigns that European Christian Reconquista#Northern Christian realms, kingdoms waged ag ...
''. The 11th-century nobleman , for example, is described as having prevented Iberia from becoming a French
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(''tirou Espanha do feudo da França'').


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{{reflist 1343 works Medieval genealogies and succession lists