Lourenço Fernandes da Cunha

• Son of Fernão Pais da Cunha ( 1103 - c. 1180 ), 2nd Lord of Honor of Cunha and 2nd Lord Consort of Tábua and his wife Mor Uzbertiz.
• Lourenço Fernandes da Cunha (c. 1145 - October 1225 -October 1228 ) was a noble and medieval knight of the Kingdom of Portugal .
• D. LOURENÇO FERNANDES DA CUNHA son of D. Fernão Paes da Cunha N 3 was very valid from King D. Afonso II passed to Castella at the time of King D. Fernando had laid siege to the city of Seville, and in this company he served with value. Married to D. Maria or Sancha Lourenço Macieira daughter of Lourenço Gomes Macieira Patron of the Monastery of Souto in Conde fl 309 N 2 and ttº de Macieiras

Married

• Married: the first on October 24, 1198, with Sancha Lourenço de Macieira, documented in the Inquiries of 1258 and 1288, daughter of Lourenço Gomes de Macieira, of whom he had:
• Married: (2) Maria Martins do Vinhal,

Children with Sancha Lourenço de Macieira

• Gomes Lourenço da Cunha, married twice, the first to Teresa Gil da Arões and the second to Maria Martins do Vinhal;
• Egas Lourenço da Cunha;
• João Lourenço da Cunha, founder and 1st lord of Morgado de Tábua ;
• Maria Lourenço da Cunha, married Rodrigo da Nóbrega ;
• Vasco Lourenço da Cunha ( 1210 -?), 2nd lord of the morgado of Tábua, married to Teresa Pires de Portel;
• Mor Lourenço da Cunha, married Estêvão Lavandeira ;
• Martim Lourenço da Cunha (? -?), Married (c. 1210 -?) To Sancha Garcia de Penha, daughter of Garcia Fernandes de Penha ( 1180 -?) And Teresa Pires de Baião (1190 -?);
• Urraca Lourenço da Cunha (founder of a bond in 1269 who, in the 16th century, had Vicente de Novais da Cunha as administrator, [ 4 ] Fidalgo da Casa Real, married, with generation, to D. Brites da Silva, of the house of the lords of Angeja [ 5 ] ), he married Martim Martins Dade , who was chief mayor of Castelo de Santarém ;
• Sancha Lourenço da Cunha, was a nun at the Vairão Monastery ;
• Navy Lourenço da Cunha;
• Domingos Lourenço da Cunha,

Children with Maria Martins do Vinhal (c. 1190 -?), From whom she had no descendants.

• Vicente Lourenço da Cunha;
• Maria Lourenço da Cunha.

Lourenço Fernandes da Cunha, by Wikipedia

According to some historians [ who? ] was born in the family manor , in the old parish of São Miguel da Cunha , Braga municipality , and raised in Pedro Silvestre's house , in the parish of São Tomé de Moimenta .

In June 1171 , with his parents already deceased, his sister Elvira Fernandes, with the granting of his uncles and cousins ​​from Coimbra , proceeded to sell him, for the amount of 40 Morabitinos , of the manor he owned in the parish of Cunha, where Lourenço was building a farm with the respective manor tower . This fact shows that he was older and a wealthy owner.

He was a knight of the Honor of Varzim ( Honor of Veracim ), a feudal system that flourished in Europe in the 11th and 12th century, with inheritances kept together and administered together, with caput in the center of Póvoa de Varzim ( Villa Veracin ), where he had the your palace and your children. Paternal grandson of Paio Guterres da Cunha , whom Count D. Henrique recognized as Senhor de Varzim, [ 1 ] gained several dominions over the kingdom, the power of this knight and because he believed that his family conspired against the king, led D. Sancho to destroy the Cunha tower , several agricultural properties in Cunha and Varzim, and captured the Port of Varzim, the latter will remain an issue between the honor of Varzim and the Portuguese réis until the reign of D. Dinis . [ 2 ]

He was Cavaleiro Fidalgo and the 3rd Lord of Honor of Cunha and the 3rd Lord of Board of interest and homestead. The important medieval document called Notícias de Torto , written between 1211 and 1216 , which is the oldest known datable private document written in Portuguese, presents us with an important narrative of the injuries that the nobleman Lourenço Fernandes da Cunha suffered at the hands of other lords.

Patron of the churches of Tábua and São Miguel da Cunha and of the monasteries of São Simão da Junqueira, São Salvador do Souto and Santo Estêvão de Vilela, etc. He was the master of many goods spread across Minho, Douro and Beira Alta. Documented since 1171 and died between 1225 and 1228. It is documented with his wife in 1202.

Attack on Seville

In 1176 Lourenço Fernandes, he was one of the Knights who accompanied the infant D. Sancho I in the attack on the city of Seville , held by the Moors. Lourenço proceeded to sack the neighborhood of Triana in this city , having returned to Portugal and its domains with the spoils.

Domains

With his marriage to Sancha Lourenço de Macieira, Lourenço receives important assets; made numerous purchases, of which there are still 24 deeds, received donations from individuals and royal donations and even moreover proceeded to abusive territorial occupations, all these factors led Lourenço to accumulate a vast territorial fortune , distributed by the municipalities of Barcelos , Braga and Póvoa de Varzim , Guimarães , Santo Tirso , Coimbra , Tábua , Águeda and Vouga terms and other lands. Although more concentrated in the municipality of Barcelos, Braga and Povoa de Varzim.

It was who in 1099 proceeded to the settlement of Aver-o-Mar , parish of Póvoa de Varzim . The Royal Inquiries of 1258 report that Aver-o-Mar is " the land is the honor of Knights ". It was the inhabitants or the knights who proceeded to build, around the 15th century , a chapel dedicated to Nossa Senhora das Neves who is currently the patron saint of the parish.

He maintained good relations with King D. Afonso II of Portugal , who came to donate goods in the parish of Souto , municipality of Guimarães .

This Gomes Lourenço appears in the Inquiries of the year 1258 and the year 1290 with properties in São Paio de Figueiredo , municipality of Guimarães, in São Cristóvão de Rio Mau and São Miguel de Argivai , municipality of Póvoa de Varzim . [ 3 ]

Attacks by D. Sancho I

In the document « Mentio de malefactoria » he complains that the king of D. Sancho I of Portugal sent him to “ erect 70 couples with a hundred men of maladia and set fire to the farm and couples ” that he had in the parish of Cunha. This document leads to the conclusion that he was a rich knight, who, at the same time, “ took 40 shields, iron helmets and many other weapons… iron chapels and fine weapon ”.

This persecution on the part of the king exposed in the « Mentio de malefactoria », took place at the end of the reign of D. Sancho I, and after the month of April 1210 . The Cunha tower was destroyed. The king ordered the destruction of several of his properties in Varzim, including 10 of Varzim's 17 couples. The king took the land, destroyed the properties and expelled the settlers. [ 2 ]

Taking advantage of these events, Lourenço Fernandes da Cunha and family were subjected to a series of robberies, violence by several nobles, but mainly by the sons of D. Gonçalo Ramires , who had an old honor in the parish of Cunha, and that he was his countryman and relative.

Despite these events, Lourenço managed to conserve and recover part of his fortune, which ended up leaving his wife and children.

Death

Although death documents are not known, historians deduce that he must have died between October 1225 and October 1228 , since in October 1225 he appears to make a purchase together with his wife, while on the second date, October 1228, it is only the wife who appears to make a purchase, and Lourenço does not return to intervene in any other known document.

All the children of Lourenço Fernandes were noble of fortune and with influence, although, of course, there were some who stood out as was the case informed by the Nobiliário do Conde D. Pedro; " D. Gomez Louremço was very honored and of great honor and godfather delrey Dom Dinis of Portugal " and " Egas Loureraço was the best and most honorable of his sisters ".

Links

• Lourenço Fernandes da Cunha
• http://roglo.eu/roglo?lang=pt;i=4043708

Sources

• NFP - TT Cunhas §1 N4
• (NFP, Gayo, CUNHAS § 1 N 4).