João das Rules, an important decisive in the choice of the Master of Avis (D. João I) as king of Portugal, in 1385
It was the jurist John of the Rules who was able to convince the courts of Coimbra that D. João I should be appointed king of Portugal; and got it right. Today they would call him “influencer”.
In 1383, after Morte d’El King D. FernandoPortugal lived two very critical years. Perhaps the most critical of your history.
There was no son to inherit The Portuguese Crown. D. Fernando’s only legitimate daughter was Infanta D. Beatriz… who, for the unlucky of the Portuguese, was married to King John I of Castile. Such a scenario was a threat to Portugal’s sovereignty.
O people and the defenders of the kingdom thus sighed by the Master of Aviswho was D. Pedro I bastard son (and half brother of D. Fernando).
A April 6, 1385the Master of Avis was able to gather consensus and was appointed by the courts of Coimbra as King of Portugalin a title that consolidated on August 14, 1385, in.
But, Without the decisive role of John of the Rules, the destinies of Portugal could have been quite different.
Who was John of the Rules?
It was this jurist which convinced the participants in the courts of Coimbra that the throne was vacant, because no suitor was considered a legitimate heir.
Influencer of the fourteenth century? Perhaps. What is certain is that no one was able to counteract the arguments that denied validity to the claims of other candidates for the throne. At the end, John of the Rules filed: Only the Master of Avis serves; And almost everyone agreed.
As the Polytechnic of Santarém in one, João de Aregas (real name) explained to that counsel that would fit the people to choose a new king, began to enumerate the qualities that should have, which, according to him managed to prove, existed in the Master of Avis.
D. João I (Master of Avis) then named him Chancellor-Mor of the Kingdom and his counselor, in charge of sort and reform the laws; of a new Portugal that just reaffirmed as independent.
Part This plot, which portrays Importance of John of the Rules in the History of Portugalis told in a movie dedicated to the Battle of Aljubarrota, presented exclusively at the Battle of Aljubarrota (CIBA) interpretative center in São Jorge, Porto de Mós (Leiria) municipality.
João Afonso of the Rules (or Aregas) was born in Lisbon in 1357 and died on May 3, 1404. He PhD in Law from the University of Bologna and was a professor at the University of Lisbon.
Forgotten by many, unknown to another. But history does not lie: João das rules was one of the most important decision makers in our country.
