Praça dos Escanos

  1. Square near Lisbon cathedral, whose name could be literally translated as Square of the Benches. CDP, ch. 1: 64.
  2. Place connected to "Lourenço Martins da Praça, one of the upright citizens of that city [Lisbon] and who lived close to the cathedral in the Praça dos Escanos, the Square of the Benches". CDP, ch. 1: 62-64. Lourenço Martins da Praça was responsible for the upbringing of the future King João I during his childhood.
Notes: 
CDP, ch.1: 64.

Chronicle entries in which Praça dos Escanos appears:

Citation: 
Crónica de D. Pedro, ch. 1: 64
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