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Beatrice of Portugal

Queens Regent – Leonor Teles

A regent is “a person appointed to administer a state because the monarch is a minor, is absent or is incapacitated.” Leonor Teles was born around 1350 as the daughter of Martim Afonso Telo de Meneses and Aldonça Anes de Vasconcelos. She was a descendant of King Sancho I of Portugal through an illegitimate line. Her [read more]