Court proceedings regarding the succession of the chapel of Vasco Martins Gavião, founded in 1453.

Court sentence judging Maria de Sottomayor Perdigão, plaintiff with her husband, Baltasar Homem da Costa, as the rightful successor of the chapel of Vasco Martins Gavião, because she is the eldest daughter of the last administrator, Pascoal Perdigão, who did not have any son, and from the institutor's bloodline. Contrary to what the defendant, Padre Frei Francisco Soares, prior da igreja de Benavente, who had a right to inherit the chapel if the institutor's line was extinguished, claimed, the intitutor did not exclude women from the chapel's administration and did not establish an exclusive male succession (agnation), allowing for female succession. It condemns the defendant to relinquish the chapel's administration, with its income, since the undue occupation until its return to the plaintiffs.

Documents produced by the entail.