13th Century [Complete] Lastwills Copy of Isolated Bequests 1 5 13 5 9 12 13 14 10 105 23 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 8 14 1 3 4 7 2 3 1 1 0 2 24 1 5 2 10 8 9 14 10 5 7 77 7 1201–1210 1211–1220 1221–1230 1231–1240 1241–1250 1251–1260 1271–1280 1281–1290 Total 1261–1270 1291–1300 1301–1310 1311–1320 1321–1330 1331–1340 1341–1350 1351–1360 1371–1380 1381–1390 1391–1400 1361–1370 Total 14th Century [Complete] Lastwills Copy of Isolated Bequests Table 1 shows us that after the mid-13th century the number of testaments slowly decreased. This decrease may be related to the establishment of the mendicants in Guimarães, who in 1285 were already constructing their monasteries.20 The new religiosity, expressed in the preaching and catechetical practice of the mendicant friars, appealed more and more to the local inhabitants, who wished to be buried in the monasteries, leaving other institutions, traditionally the beneficiaries of pious charity, such as the Collegiate Church of Nossa Senhora da Oliveira, less money and assets than before. This decisive difference between the number of wills of one century and the next can also be explained by the development of public notarial activity itself, mainly in the last decades of the 13th century; although the first publico tabellio known in the Portuguese territory comes from Guimarães,21 the region experienced, as everywhere else in the country, an eclipse of notaries public until the reign of AfonsoIII (1248–1279),22 20 Marques 1984, p. 59. 21 Nunes 1981. 22 Nogueira 2008. table1: Wills and bequests copied at Guimarães (13th and14th centuries) maria cristina cunha 541
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