Alias:
jcham
- Pantler, officer keeping supplies of cereals and various other provisions for the use of the court (from the French "huche", wood chest for cereal). [João2, ch.97]
- Royal Dispenser.
- The duties of this person are difficult to ascertain with full certainty. For further information see Rita Costa Gomes, The Making of a Court Society: Kings and Nobles in Late Medieval Portugal (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2003), pp. 36-37.
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Chronicle entries in which Uchão appears:
Citation:
Crónica de D. João I, part 2, ch. 97