Career
He was an honoured man and a much honoured Knight at the time of King John I of Portugal and an Escrivão da Puridade (Notary/Registrar of the Purity/Secret, furthermore, a Secretary) of the 2nd Constable of Portugal Nuno Álvares Pereira, and some say also his relative, in 1422, and Vedor (Overseer) of the things belonging to Ceuta in 1423. He was buried at his Chapel of Our Lady of Piety or of the Prant of the Carmo Convent, in Lisbon, in a Chapel that had been given to him by the Constable for his burial place, and there he nominates himself Escrivão da Puridade do Condestável.
