saul antónio gomes The second will of Afonso I, which designates itself “mandacionis karta”, has a textual written structure that is only partially like the previous act. It includes an explicit invocation (In Christi nomine), but does not offer anintitulatio, passing from the invocatio into the harangue, in which he recognizes that giving charity and donating goods to those in need helps him “ob remissionem peccatorum”. The distribution he makes of his immense pecuniary wealth in this act extends over a much more considerable number of dioceses and monasteries, donating money for the construction of a bridge on the Douro River and, also, to the hospitals of Guimarães, Santarém, and Lisbon, and to the poor in the dioceses of Lisbon, Coimbra, Viseu, Lamego, Porto, Braga, and Tuy, in general, and also to those in a large number of urban centres that he specifically mentions. The act ends with the dating, and inscription in capitals christus alpha omega.8 We can recognize that in the writing of these documents, especially the first, there was considerable care, reflected mainly in the choice of a relatively long harangue rich in semantic significance. The chancellor of the Crown, in the 1170s, was master Julião Pais, with legal training (as far as we know) completed in Bologna. He was a chancellor of repute who remained at the head of the royal chancellery in the following reign that began in 1185, until his death in 1215. From King Sancho I, successor of Afonso I, two testaments have come tous.9 The first, without an explicit date, is, however, dated by the editors of this monarch’s chancellery to the year 1188. A codicil is attached, with the same proposed dating.10 The second will of Sancho I was drawn up in Coimbra, in October 1210; it received an addition, however, when the king was in Santarém, on December 29, 1210.11 It is possible that the first will, from March 1188, is in fact from a few months later, as Maria João Branco argues, and that it can be placed in the context of the organization of the military conquest, undertaken be241 8 Azevedo 1958, doc. 334. 9 Branco 2005. 10 Azevedo et al. 1979, docs. 30 and 31. 11 Azevedo et al. 1979, doc. 203.
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