Person:Martin Fagundes (1)

In 1439, Martin Gil, as notary for King Alfonso, issued a public document of great importance, setting forth the terms of agreement between the queen mother and the regent concerning how the kingdom was to be governed during the young king's minority. Martin Gil also drafted a royal document dated 1443 which was signed by Prince Peter as regent.

In 1450, a royal document was issued excusing a worker of Martin Gil, Clerk of the Treasury, to care for his houses in Salvaterra, a town near the city of Santarem, and to work on his property at the said place. Another document, dated 1453, records recent service to the crown given by the Jews of Santarem to a servant of Martin Gil, Clerk of the Treasury. Yet another royal document of the same year grants a military position to the husband of a niece of Martin Gil, Clerk of the Treasury. It's possible that Martin Gil was living as late as 1462, for there is a document of King Alfonso's dated that year that was drawn up by a Martin Gil. (Braamcamp Freire, Archivo, Vol. 3, pp. 141, 144, 146, 154, 218, 220, 403, 410, 433; Augusto Romano Sanches de Baena, Archivo Heraldico-Genealogico, Typographia Universal, Lisbon, 1872, pp. XXIV, XXVII; A. J. Dias Dinis, Documentos do Arquivo Historico da Camara Municipal de Lisboa, Oficinas Gra! ficas do Casa Moeda de Lisboa, Lisbon, 1959, Vol. 2, pp. 136, 278, 288, 295; Sousa, Provas, Vol. I, Pt. III, pp. 110-6, 128, Vol. II, Pt. I, p. 64; Archivo dos Acores, Universidade dos Acores, Porta Delgada, San Miguel, the Azores, 1983, Vol. 4, p. 545; Estudios Henriquinos, Vol. I, Acta Univesitatis Coimbrigensis, Coimbra, 1960, pp. 427, 441)