Royal sentence judging a legal action which opposed Catarina Fernandes, wife of Mateus Domingues, plaintiff, against Pedro Eanes, Escrivão do Tesouro do Infante, and Isabel Martins, wife of João Esteves, concerning the administration of the chapel instituted by Sancha Eanes Palhavã in the church of Santa Justa of Lisboa. Its former administrator, Lourenço, son of Catarina Fernandes and brother of Isabel Martins, had been missing for 20 years.
A previous sentence recognized the degree of kinship of Isabel Martins with the institutor and the last administrator, declaring that she was the legitimate administrator of the chapel, since the institution did not prohibited women of administering it. The defendants made an appeal against that decision, but the royal sentence confirmed it.
Contains detailed informations regarding the institution of the entail and its first administrators.