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Maria da Silva, Nuno Álvares Pereira, Margarida da Silva, Antónia Pereira, Leonor da Silva entail archive
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Consent deed

Consent deed by which Maria dos Anjos, formerly known as D. Margarida da Silva, nun in Santa Clara de Santarém, consents that her brother, Nuno Álvares Pereira, should transmit the entail made with their mother's properties to their elder brother, António Pereira, following the rules established in the foundation deed. They also agree to employ the first two years of the entail's rents in obligations for their mother's soul.
The document refers the letters of attorney from Maria da Silva and Nuno Álvares Pereira, dated 1537-12-11.

Silva, Margarida da (flor.1535-1538)

Contract and bond deed

Contract and bond deed by which Maria dos Anjos, formerly known as D. Margarida da Silva, nun in Santa Clara de Santarém, with the agreement of the convent, relinquishes the properties she ought to inherit from her mother, D. Maria da Silva, for the foundation of an entail, in exchange of an annual fee and a monetary compensation. She and her brother, Nuno Álvares Pereira, establish the clauses of succession of the entail, which shall be inherited by their brother, António Pereira, and his successors.

Pereira, Nuno Álvares (flor.1535-1538)

Contract and bond deed

Contract and bond deed by which D. Antónia Pereira and D. Leonor da Silva, nuns in the monastery of Lorvão, relinquish the properties they ought to inherit from their mother, D. Maria da Silva, for the foundation of an entail, in exchange of an annual fee and a monetary compensation. They establish the clauses of succession of this entail with their brother, Nuno Álvares Pereira, represented by Gonçalo Vieira, who accepts the conditions. The monastery acknowledges that the promised sums were duly paid.

Pereira, Antónia (flor.1537)

Entail foundation deed

Entail foundation deed by which D. Maria da Silva confirms the institution of an entail with the totality of her estate in Portugal, and confirms the contracts made between her son, Nuno Álvares Pereira, and her daughters, D. Margarida da Silva, known as Maria dos Anjos, D. Antónia and D. Leonarda, nuns in Santa Clara of Santarém and in the monastery of Lorvão, in which they gave up their legitimes to the entail, and established its clauses of succession, receiving a rent in compensation.
She donates this entail to her son, António Pereira, and to his successors who inherit the entail of the farmstead of Vizela, founded by D. Gonçalo Pereira. The administrator of the entail will also administer her chapel of São Pedro Mártir in the monastery of São Domingos of Guimarães, and support a merceeira who shall pray for their souls in that chapel. Nuno Álvares Pereira, her son, is present and agrees to this foundation, giving up his legitime to the entail as well. António Pereira, represented by an attorney, also accepts this entail and its conditions.
Contains the bonds by which D. Maria's daughters gave up their legitimes, letters of attorney, consent deeds a papal bull authorising the nuns of Santa Clara de Santarém and Lorvão to sell their reserved portion and an instrument requiring the papal bull.

Silva, Maria da (flor.1537-1538)

Letter of attorney

Letter of attorney by which António Pereira and his wife, Catarina de Meneses, appoint João Fernandes as their attorney, to accept the conditions of the entail founded by his mother and siblings, which António Pereira will inherit, and promise to fulfil its conditions and to annex their properties to it. Catarina will have the usufruct of their acquired assets after her husband's death, which she will have to annex to the entail at the time of her own death. António Pereira bequeaths his brother, Nuno Álvares Pereira, their mother's properties in Castille, and makes payments to his sisters in compensation for the loss of their legitimes.

Pereira, António (flor.1537)