Titles & Offices

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.

Mestre de Alcántara

  1. Master of Alcántara.
  2. A Master of Alcántara was killed in the Battle of Atoleiros (1384), to the consternation of Juan I of Castile and his faction who wish to avenge his death, as stated by Fernão Lopes in chapters 145 and 146 of the Chronicle of King João I of Portugal, Part I. Lopes does not mention any names, but the dead Master is probably Diego Gómez Barroso (1383-1384) and his replacement is Gonzalo Núñez de Gusmán (1384-1385).
  3. See: Ordem de Alcántara and check the names of the various Grand-Masters.

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