Nuno Gonçalves de Faria

  1. Governor of the castle of Faria.
  2. Ran to assist de defenders of the city of Barcelos, when Juan Rodríguez de Bema invaded Portugal through Galicia during the second Guerra Fernandina (1372-1373). In the event, he was defeated and captured. [Fernando, ch. 78]
  3. He was killed by his captors in front of the castle of Faria. Nuno Gonçalves had asked to be brought to the castle of Faria, pretensely to ask his son, to whom he had entrusted the castle, to surrender it to the Castilians. Once there, he instructed his son never to surrender even if he saw him, his own father, under threat of being tortured before his eyes. Death was his punishment in retataliation for his defiance. [Fernando, ch. 79]
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