Chapter 124 - How the galleys went to raid the coast of Galicia, and what happened to them during their voyage
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 December 2023
Summary
In Oporto was to be found Don Pedro, the Count of Trastámara, who had escaped from Coimbra when the King of Castile went there to take the city, as we related earlier, along with two of his brothers. One of them was Alfonso Enríquez, the chief huntsman of the King of Castile; the other was Alfonso Enríquez, the Younger, who was the son of a Jewish woman. He had already gone to Lisbon to tell the Master that they were ready for his service, and he remained there with him. All three were sons of the Master of Santiago, Don Fadrique, who was the son of King Alfonso and Leonor Núñez de Guzmán; this Don Fadrique was later killed by King Pedro of Castile, as we have told in its due place, if you recall.
In the meantime the people of the city, at liberty and free of other worries, not with small but rather with large expenditures, were hastily arranging any things that were suitable for such an important business and service to the Master, without whom they did not believe the kingdom could be defended. With each of them working to achieve all that their goodwill wished to accomplish, they agreed among themselves that since the galleys were already armed, and men were gathering to board the naos, they could go and raid the coast of Galicia.
Once their departure was arranged, the fleet was given supplies for several days. The masters of the Lisbon galleys were those who had come [to Oporto] with them, except in the case of the Royal Galley, in which Gonçalo Rodrigues de Sousa had come, for it was captained by Count Pedro, whom they all obeyed. In the galley named Santa Ana went Gonçalo Vasques de Melo and his brother Vasco Martins, who later died in the battle [of Aljubarrota]; in the Bem Aventurada, Afonso Furtado; in the Santa Clara, Estêvão Vasques Filipe; in the São João, Lourenço Mendes de Carvalho, knight-commander; in another, the São Jorge, Master Manuel, the son of Lançarote Pessanha, the High Admiral who was killed in Beja; in the Santa Vitória, João Rodrigues Guarda; in the Santa Maria de Cacela, Antão Vasques; and also Gil Esteves Fariseu, Aires Peres de Camões and others in galleys, both from Oporto and from Lisbon, which we do not care to name further.
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- The Chronicles of Fernão LopesVolume 3. The Chronicle of King João I of Portugal, Part I, pp. 236 - 238Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2023