Nuno Álvares Pereira, Portuguese general

Nuno Álvares Pereira

Portuguese general (1360–1431)

Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira, OCarm, known as Constable of Portugal, was a Portuguese general who played a decisive role in the 1383–1385 Crisis that assured Portugal's independence from Castile. He later became a mystic and was beatified by Pope Benedict XV in 1918, and canonised…