“Estorias hordenadas” da crónica de D. João I: as configurações matrimoniais Lopesianas (século XV)

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to understand the logic of political relations in Portugal regarding the Avis Movement (1383-1385) from a Lopesian perspective, using the method of Discourse Analysis in the Chronicle of D. João I. To do this, we analyzed the relationships established between the female bodies and male bodies by the chronicler-historian from the point of marriage. Marriage was used in the Middle Ages to establish alliances between kingdoms and lineages, and to maintain the “status quo”. In Portugal, the marriage union was a public matter, which gained greater notoriety from the Avis dynasty on, who hired Fernão Lopes with the aim of fostering a cohesive, coherent, orderly and edifying memory of the facts that made possible the royal ascension of the Master. Thus, we initially verified the origins of the writer, and his context, so that from this information we could identify the specificities of Lopesian marriage constitutions. Furthermore, we identified the diplomatic relations established between the kingdoms of Portugal and England, and their consequences were analyzed through statements written by Fernão Lopes. The Luso-British military, political and economic alliance was signed in 1386, and was consolidated through the marriage between D. Filipa of Lancastre and D. João I, in this research we point out the route taken by the knights Johan of Gant and the Master of Avis for the marriage to occur, and the Treaty of Windsor to be legitimized. The Lopesian marriage constitutions are Manichaean, and established to validate his discourse, so the chronicler-historian contrasts the marriage between D. Leonor Teles and D. Fernando (Burgundy dynasty) with that of D. Filipa Lancastre and D. João I (Avis dynasty).