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144 - Concerning the great fear suffered by the Master and Gonçalo Vasques de Azevedo, and how the queen sought an opportunity to kill Gonçalo Vasques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2024

Amélia Hutchinson
Affiliation:
University of Georgia
Juliet Perkins
Affiliation:
King's College London
Philip Krummrich
Affiliation:
Morehead State University, Kentucky
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The Master and Gonçalo Vasques passed that night in a state of great fear and worry, thinking that the next day would be the last one of their lives. However, their fear would have been much greater if they had known what was then happening. When morning came and day began to break, they were so frightened that when someone knocked at the gate of the castle they immediately thought it was some messenger bringing a message to have them put to death. They discussed together the reason why they were imprisoned, and the Master said that he could find nothing to justify it. Gonçalo Vasques said that he knew well why it was, even though they were given to understand it was for something else that they had been arrested; also, that when they took him to be executed, he would be far more distressed for not daring to say why he was being killed, than for the death he might be dealt for no reason.

That day, all the great lords of the Court went to see them, saying that they greatly regretted their arrest, the reason for which they knew nothing about, and that if there was anything they could do for them, they would gladly do it, if it were not contrary to the service of their liege lord the king. However, Juan Fernández Andeiro did not go.

Vasco Martins put a heavy guard on them, not neglecting what the king had said to him, eating and sleeping with them all the time. They were guarded by day and watched over at night by twenty well-armed squires who slept at the door of the house where they were lodged. At this point, the king left the town of Évora, where he had been staying, and went to a place called Vimieiro, but the queen stayed in Évora.

When the two captives realized that the king was leaving but the queen staying behind, they believed it would bring them no good, for they feared her very much and thought that their death was inevitable. In this fear they spent each day, with no hope of escaping or of being set free by any means, so that the Master made a vow and promised God that, if He freed him from that prison, he would go to Jerusalem to visit the Holy Sepulchre.

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The Chronicles of Fernão Lopes
Volume 2. The Chronicle of King Fernando of Portugal
, pp. 248 - 249
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2023

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