pronoun

Adiantado-mor

  1. Chief Provincial Governor. (CW) [Pedro, ch. 30: 59; ch. 32: 12]
  2. Chief Justice within a specific territory. 
  3. The most important magistrate within a frontier province. (CW)
  4. The same as meirinho-mor. (CW)

Besteiro da maça RCG->AH

  1. Mace-carrying soldier.
  2. Bodyguard (as a mace was considered a short-range protection weapon).
  3. 'Besteiro' was a soldier serving with a crossbow (bèsta). There were many different types of 'besteiros' in Portugal, from 'besteiro da câmara' to 'besteiro da garrucha', 'besteiro do mar', etc. See Joaquim de Santa Rosa Viterbo, Elucidário das Palavras, Termos e Frases que em Portugal Antigamente se Usaram (Lisbon: 1865), vol. 1, pp. 132-133.
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