maria helena da cruz coelho & maria do rosário morujão mission, and the payment the job could earn – in this case intended for the person who was named only as executor, and not a beneficiary of the will itself. Both aspects will be addressed again later. 281 15 See note 6 above. 16 Morujão 2010, doc. 2.23. 17 Morujão 2010, doc. 1.45. 18 Morujão 2010, doc. 6.1. 19 These are the wills of Paio Pais, cantor of Porto, and Pedro Salvadores, bishop of the same diocese (Morujão 2010, docs. 7.2, 7.3). Both documents were written by João Eanes, public notary in the city of Porto. 20 Morujão 2010, doc. 1.48. In this case, the executors’ appointment is presented at the end of the disposition, as was the case with the previously mentioned will from 1156,15 in which it is located at the end of the text, just before the eschatocol. This is the most frequent location for this clause – a curious choice, given how common it is for the executor to be mentioned throughout the text. Naming them at the very end meant that the will had to be fully read to find out who would be in charge of its execution. In some thirteenth century documents, the executors were indicated before the list of the testator’s debts, or of those who were indebted to him. This is the case, for example, of the 1249 will of Pedro Gonçalves de Barbudo, canon of Braga.16 The relevant clause could equally well be presented right at the start of the document or after the initial protocol, as in the second will of another canon of Braga, Rodrigo Esteves, dated 1315, which, curiously, changed the executors he had appointed eight years before.17 The clause might also appear in the middle of the disposition, as exemplified in the 1258 will of Aires Vasques, bishop of Lisbon.18 More uncommonly – found only in two documents, one from 1236, the other from 1247, drawn up by the same notary in Porto – the appointment of the executors appears in the eschatocol, between the date and the notarial subscription.19 A rather interesting case is that of João Vicente, archdeacon of Braga and canon of Évora: while lying ill in bed in Évora, in 1324, he presented his will, written on three scrolls, to his abbot (surely his confessor or spiritual advisor) and a notary.20 At the end of the reading, the abbot 2
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