Mem Rodrigues de Briteiros Nationality: Portuguesa Biographical Note:
Portuguese troubadour, active in the final decades of the 13th century. The third son of the family’s dean, the also troubadour Rui Gomes de Briteiros and Elvira Anes de Maia, Mem Rodrigues is first documented at the portuguese court around 1252, already after the death of his father1. But from him he inherits the status of rico-homem (high nobility), granted by Afonso III to Rui Gomes de Briteiros, and his path confirms the de facto ascension of the Briteiros lineage, grand representatives of the new ascendant aristocracy in the portuguese court after the civil war that led Afonso to power. References 1 Ventura, Leontina e Oliveira, António Resende de (2003), "Os Briteiros (séculos XII-XIV) 4. Produção Trovadoresca", in Os Reinos Ibéricos na Idade Média. Livro de Homenagem ao Professor Doutor Humberto Carlos Baquero Moreno, coord. Luís Adão da Fonseca et al, vol. II , Porto, Livraria Civilização. |
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