Infante Fernando, Lord of Serpa

Infante Fernando
Lord of Serpa and Lamego
Coat of Armes of Infante Fernando, Lord of Serpa.
Spouse	Sancha Fernández de Lara
Issue
Infanta Eleanor, Princess of Dacia Dom Sancho Fernandes de Serpa
House	House of Burgundy
Father	Afonso II
Mother	Urraca of Castile
Born	summer of 1217 Kingdom of Portugal
Died	19 January 1246 (aged 29) Kingdom of Portugal
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Infante Fernando of Portugal (Portuguese pronunciation: [fɨɾˈnɐ̃du]), or Ferdinand in English, was a Portuguese infante (prince), son of King Afonso II of Portugal and his wife Urraca of Castile, daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile.

Fernando was born in the summer of 1217 and was made Lord of Serpa and Lamego in 1223. It is known that he travelled to Rome around 1239 to beg for a pardon from Pope Gregory IX. He died January 19, 1246.

Marriage and offspring

He married Sancha Fernández de Lara, daughter of Fernando Núñez de Lara, Lord de Jerez, and wife Maior Garcéz de Aza; their only child was Leonor who married an unnamed "Prince of Dacia".

He had, however, a bastard son by an unknown woman named Dom Sancho Fernandes de Serpa, who was a Prior but had illegitimate issue, being the ancestor of the de Serpa family.

Coat of arms

Coat of Armes of Infante Fernando, Lord of Serpa.

In a study from the Spanish historian F. Menéndez-Pidal de Navascués, the infante Fernando should have used a Coat of Arms representing a Wyvern (Serpe in Portuguese), the symbol of his Lordship of Serpa, in south Alentejo, with a border where, alternately, are represented the arms of Portugal (paternal ancestry) and those of Castile (maternal ancestry).

Bibliography

• ”Nobreza de Portugal e do Brasil”, Vol. I page 152, published by Representações Zairol Lda., Lisbon, 1989.

External links

• Genealogia of Infante Fernando, Lord of Serpa (in Portuguese)