Abstract
In this work we will study essentially the ecclesiastical members of king Joao I’s royal chapel. We will begin by presenting a list containing the number and category of the clerics who constituted it, and their respective salaries. We discriminate the functions of its principal members – head chaplain, singers, almoner – and give particular attention to the king’s confessors, recruited among the mendicant friars, who played a fundamental role in the court’s adoption of lines of spirituality and devotion, as well as in the kingdom’s politics, due to their proximity to the king and the royal family. We then take a closer look at the political-religious dimension of this organ, stressing the infl uence exerted by those clergymen on the king – both at the personal level, acquiring assets, positions, benefi ts and privileges, and in their contribution to defi ning and carrying out the kingdom’s policies.
Highlights
In this work we will study essentially the ecclesiastical members of king João I’s royal chapel
We discriminate the functions of its principal members - head chaplain, singers, almoner – and give particular attention to the king’s confessors, recruited among the mendicant friars, who played a fundamental role in the court’s adoption of lines of spirituality and devotion, as well as in the kingdom’s politics, due to their proximity to the king and the royal family
We take a closer look at the political-religious dimension of this organ, stressing the influence exerted by those clergymen on the king – both at the personal level, acquiring assets, positions, benefits and privileges, and in their contribution to defining and carrying out the kingdom’s policies
Summary
Taking advantage of the presence of noblemen and men from the municipalities who had come to the royal wedding, he convened the Cortes – the Portuguese medieval parliament – in the city of Porto, possibly from the 15th to the 23rd of February 1387. In this meeting, decisions were made concerning both the king’s and the queen’s households, no description of either one has come down to us. The chapel was the institution which channelled the religious life of the court, while accumulating, in its early days, the all – important function of written memory – the chancery. The court’s evolution was marked, in the 14th and 15th centuries, by a progressive rationalization and bureaucratization, which led to the separation of the existing functions, each assigned to its own official
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