9 Marques 1988, pp. 517−518. 10 Marques 1988, p. 324. 11 Ramos 1991, vol. 2, doc. 320; Melo 2020, p. 44. 12 Melo 2020, p. 45. 13 Melo 2020, p. 49. some remarks on last wills at guimarães in the 13thand14th centuries lived in a community and owned private property. José Marques maintains that the congregation had adopted the model of the newly-founded cathedral in Braga and was guided by thecanon et regula Sancte Gregorii, which was not exactly a Rule but an ideal of life. At the beginning of the 12th century, the secularization of the chapters attached to the cathedrals and collegiate churches took place, that is to say, patrimonial goods and respective rents were shared, and beginning at the same time came the end of the obligation to live in a community.9 The Collegiate patrimony, which until then had been common, was divided in 1223 into two tables: the prior and the capitular.10 Over time, community life ceased completely, as many capitulars began to live in individual houses near the Collegiate house. In the 13th century, there was a school in the Collegiate Church of Guimarães, following what had been recommended at the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), with the position of schoolmaster earning a prebend to which could be added fourteen annual aureos.11 The first founding statutes were granted by Cardinal-Bishop John of Abbeville, apostolic legate, in 1228, and confirmed by King Dinis in 1291.12 The establishment of the mendicant orders in Guimarães inevitably led to conflict with the Collegiate church. This new form of religious life proposed by the Mendicants, as in all of Europe, won over the interest of the faithful in Guimarães, who entrusted them with the commissioning of their souls and those of their loved ones at the time of their death, and chose the convents as their burial place, causing disputes since the Collegiate church also functioned as a parish church.13 But despite the intense conflicts between the friars and the canons of Guimarães, the latter had great confidence in the intervention of the mendicants with the divine and therefore considered them in their wills. “In addition, the funeral services of the religious from each of the institutions were attended by prayers from the others, as if death would momentarily suspend the conflict between these institutions” during their earthly life.14 538
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