João Domingues, Bishop of Porto

  1. Bishop of Porto (1373-1389).
  2. A relative of D. Pedro Afonso, Bishop of Porto (1346).
  3. Started his career as a clergyman in Astorga, later becoming successively Cannon and  Dean of Porto (1348-1364), then Bishop of Silves (1365-1373), before being appointed Bishop of Porto in King Fernando of Portugal's reign. 
  4. Faithful supporter of King João I during the 1383-1385 dynastic crisis. Contributed toward the fitting, supplies and wages of soldiers sailing from Porto to assist Lisbon during the 1384 siege.
  5. Host of Philippa of Lancaster when she arrived in Porto in preparation for her wedding to King João I of Portugal.
  6. Bibl: Monumenta Portugaliae Vaticana (MPV), I, p. 85 and 500, III/1, p. 601, note 456; Maria João Oliveira e Silva, 'A Escrita na Catedral: A Chancelaria Episcopal do Porto na Idade Média,' Ph.D. thesis (University of Porto, Porto, 2010), p. 83 and 317 [https://hdl.handle.net/10216/50390 consulted on 15-01-2021], published as A Escrita na Catedral: A Chancelaria Episcopal do Porto na Idade Média (Lisbon: Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, 2014); Henrique Florez, España Sagrada: theatro geographico historico de la Iglesia de España (Madrid: Oficina de La Viuda e hijo de Marín, 1797), pp. 144-147; Rodrigo da Cunha and António Cerqueira Pinto, Catálogo dos Bispos do Porto (Porto: Oficina Prototypa Episcopal, 1742), pp. 135-143.

NB: Content and bibliography by courtesy of Professor Mário Farelo, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade Nova de Lisboa; member of Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM). 

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Crónica de D. João I, part 2, ch. 94
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