Leonor Telles de Meneses

Noble person

1350 – 1386

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Who was Leonor Telles de Meneses?

Leonor Telles de Meneses was a queen consort of Portugal and regent during the years 1383–1385. She was the wife of a Portuguese nobleman from whom she was forcibly divorced by King Ferdinand I, who afterward married her. She is called the Treacherous by the Portuguese, who execrate her on account of her adultery and treason to her native country; she is considered "a sort of Portuguese Lucrezia Borgia".

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Born
1350
Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Province
Also known as
  • Теллеш де Менезеш, Леонора
Siblings
Spouses
Children
Religion
  • Catholicism
Nationality
  • Portugal
Lived in
  • Tordesillas
    (1384 - 1386)
  • Lisbon
    ( - 1384)
Died
Apr 27, 1386
Tordesillas

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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