Mulier ne debuerit habere regnum: a regência na menoridade de D. Afonso V vista pelos juristas = The regency during D. Afonso V minority seen by lawyers

• Autor(a) principal: Ramos, Manuel
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/118220
• topic: História; History

The question concerning the regency during D. Afonso V minority is not an easy one tosolve. During this period, D. Leonor became the Regent of the country and she wassworn in full powers for the government of the kingdom, but later her authority wasquestioned and she lost her cause against D. Pedro during the Cortes de Lisboa in1439. The tutorial power over the kingdom and the young king was not an effortlessanswer to achieve, since there was no Law on the subject of the succession of Regency.Thus the lawyers might become the most accurate authorities to tackle the problem,among the many that actually did so. Two of them: Afonso Mangancha and JeanJouffroy, dean of Vergy, took a public position on these questions. The former juristpresented his view at the time of the events and the latter a posteriori. Although theyhad never met, they held similar opinions and they both favoured D. Pedros intentions: no woman should ever be in charge of the Regency. Nevertheless, when it comes toanalysing and evaluating the power and propriety of their arguments, we get suspiciousof their speeches for we know that, as lawyers, they were supporting the interests theyrepresented. They were not searching the truth and the equity. Even so, it is worthknowing the arguments of each of them and finding out their strength.