Cavaleiros e Escudeiros no Porto de inícios do século XV

Abstract

This paper seeks to understand the verifiable presence of “knights” and “squires”in the municipal council meetings in Porto in the late 14thand early 15thcenturies, using the books of “Atas de Vereação” of the period under analysis, but also by crossing with other documentary sources.We try to understand how this reality coexisted with the privilege that the city had long held and for which it permanently fought for centuries, at least until the reign of D. Manuel I, which prevented the residence and/or stay of noblemen within the walls of the city