(...)''Additional opponents of Manuel I’s succession were the 2nd Count of Abrantes and his brothers. The Count of Abrantes had been a vedor da fazenda, and a member of the royal council in 1484, before succeeding his father as count of Abrantes in 1486.46 His younger brother, D. Diogo Fernandes de Almeida had received the custody and wardship of D. Jorge after he came to court in 1490 and had shortly thereafter been named Prior of Crato: the title given to the head of the Order of Hospitallers in Portugal. Other prominent members of the family included João ii`s emissary, D. Pedro da Silva the Comendador Mor of the Order of Avis; D. Jorge de Almeida, Bishop of Coimbra and Count of Arganil; D. Fernando de Almeida, named Bishop of Ceuta in 1493and the future vice-roy of India D. Francisco de Almeida.Together with the resources of D. Jorge, who had been made head of the Orders of Avis and Santiago, the Almeida family and their supporters formed a powerful faction—further strengthened by the personal loyalty to D. Jorge held by Fernão Martins Mascarenhas, captain of the mounted troops known as the ginetes.(...) ''

(.....)

SUSANNAH HUMBLE FERREIRA, The Crown, the Court and the Casa da Índia: Political Centralization in Portugal 1479–1521. Leiden/Boston: Brill. 2015

Uma grande historiadora! Chapeu !

mn