O Paço dos Estaus de Lisboa. A génese fundacional de Quatrocentos (original) (raw)

2016, LISBOA MEDIEVAL Gentes, Espaços e Poderes

Although the Lisbon’s Estaus Palace served as the main stage for relevant ceremonial performances for the diplomatic politics of the Portuguese Crown, it has always been linked to the most fanatic and religious violence procedures promoted by the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition. According to Portuguese medieval chronicles, the Estaus Palace was ordered to be built in the 15th century, during the regency of the Duke of Coimbra, for the retirement of the court, which was still itinerant, and for the many foreigners embassies and national deputations that were directed to Lisbon in diplomatic affairs. However, the rereading of some documents allows for the distinguishing of the establishment of two different building destined to the retirements authorized and supported by the Portuguese monarchs of the House of Avis. Based on the consultation of published documentary sources and the analysis of a set of paintings and architectural and urban drawings, made between the 16th and 18th centuries, we intend in the present article to prove the existence of the two Estaus established in Lisbon in the end of the first half of the 15th century, one under the responsibility of the regent D. Pedro, and the other, under the responsibility of the monarch D. Afonso V, where the Inquisition Tribunal was actually installed.

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