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Uchão

  1. 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]
  2. Royal Dispenser.
  3. 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.

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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