Leonor de Alvim
Leonor de Alvim (c. 1356 – 1388) was a Portuguese noblewoman. She belonged to a family from Entre-Douro-e-Minho and was the offspring of João Pires de Alvim and his wife Branca Pires Coelho. She became the heir to her father due to the lack of male children.
She was born in Reborda, Portugal and married off to Constable Nuno Álvares Pereira. They moved to Pedraça and lived in the manor known as "Casa da Torre". When, in 1387, D. John I of Portugal called for all courts to report to Braga, Nuno Álvares Pereira was still there as a proxy for the noblemen of the Kingdom. It was during that stay D. Nuno that he received information that Leonor was ill. When he arrived in Porto she was already pronounced dead. She was buried in the Dominican nuns' Convento de Corpus Christi in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia.
Marriages and offspring
She married Vasco Gonçalves Barroso in her first nuptial. She was widowed without any offspring. She later married Nuno Álvares Pereira on August 15, 1376,[1] of whom she had three children;
- Beatriz Pereira de Alvim, the only of the three children to survive till adulthood. She married Afonso I[2] and had 2 illegitimate children with King D. João I and Inês Pires.[3]
References
- Sotto Mayor Pizarro. Portugal. 1997. pp. 278 and 308.
- Carvalho Correia. 2008. p. 400.
- Carvalho Correia. 2008. p. 403.