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Ucharia

  1. Court pantry.
  2. For further details on issues related to the provision, storage and rationing of cereals and other foodstuffs, 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.

Carta de rogo

  1. Letter of request.

  2. These were letters in which the king asked of single women or widows who were under the authority of their male relatives to consider marriage with men of the king's choice and patronage. (RCG)

Torva

  1. Objection.
  2. Dar torva: to stand against (something); to oppose; to object (against something). [Pedro, ch. 38: 73-74]

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