Military

Ordem de Avis

  1. Order of Avis.
  2. Military order with its origins in a group of Calatrava knights to whom King Afonso Henriques (c.1109-1185) of Portugal gave estates in Évora in 1175-1176.
  3. In 1211, they settle in Avis on estates granted by King Afonso II of Portugal. From then on they seem to have gained their own autonomy as the Order of Avis.
  4. King Pedro of Portugal appoints  his illegitimate son João as master of the order in 1364. This is the future João I of Portugal.

Tercena

  1. Arsenal; dockyard;  military store for land or naval service. (JP)
  2. Dockyard, place where ships are built or repaired. (JP) [Pedro, ch. 22: 48] 
  3. Arsenal vaults (in cases where prison is meant).

Guerra guerreada

  1. War of attrition.
  2. Skirmishing (in some contexts). (JP)
  3. Prolonged war (CW) through small actions such as assaults to castles or to soldiers on their way, robberies (normally cattle), combats betweens small unities (sudden or programmed by one of the parts involved). In strategy, it could be compared to modern “guerrilla war”.

Ginete

  1. Jennet; small horse.
  2. Man on a jennet.  (SC)
  3. Light horseman; knight armed with lance and adargue (small shield).

Contia

  1. Contia, allowance.
  2. Levy (as when King Fernando collected from non-fighting subjects the sum necessary to fully arm those that were registered in the list of fighters, the contiados). [Fernando, ch.87: 29]
  3. Fief. [Fernando, ch.87: 42]
  4. Life service allowance or income given by the king to noblemen and their eldest sons from birth, in exchange for their permanent availability with a certain number of men, arms and horses.

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