Pedro Martins, Lord of the Tower of Vasconcelos, was a Portuguese

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 12th century noble

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 knight

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, son of Martim Moniz

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Martim Moniz was a Portuguese knight of noble birth, and famous figure in the Siege of Lisbon in 1147.According to the legend, Martim Moniz was a knight participating in the Christian invasion force, led by king Afonso I of Portugal, in the Siege of Lisbon, during the Reconquista. At one point in...

. legendary figure of the Siege of Lisbon

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 in 1147) and Teresa Afonso.

He was the Lord of the Tower of Vasconcelos and of the village of Amares

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, in the north of Portugal, in the modern district of Braga

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. The said tower, seat of the proeminent family of the Vasconcelos

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, had previously belonged to the Order of the Knights Templar

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.

Pedro Martins married Dona

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 Teresa Soares da Silva (as him, a descendant of Ferdinand I, the Great, Imperator totius Hispaniae

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), and had a son and a daughter:

• Dom
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   João Peres de Vasconcelos, “O Tenreiro”, the first to use the surname
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  Vasconcelos and the one to give it continuity; married to Maria Soares Coelho.
• Dona Sancha Peres de Vasconcelos, married first to Dom Mendo Afonso, and secondly to João Gomes Barreto.