João Afonso Telo, 4th Count of Barcelos


João Afonso Telo de Menezes was a Portuguese nobleman, 1st Count of Ourém, 1st Count of Viana do Alentejo, and 4th Count of Barcelos.

Life

João Afonso Telo was the second son of Afonso Martins Telo "Raposo" and Berengária Lourenço de Valadares, daughter of Lourenço Soares de Valadares — advisor to kings Afonso III and Denis of Portugal — and his second wife Sancha Nunes de Chacim. Berengária was also the sister of Aldonça Lourenço de Valadares, the mother of Inés de Castro.
João Afonso Telo was a trusted advisor of King Pedro I and his son King Fernando I of Portugal, married to his niece, Leonor Teles. He was also the alferes-mor of King Pedro who on 10 October 1357 made him Count of Barcelos and appears with the title of Count of Ourém in December 1371 after King Fernando I had given him the town of Ourém in January of the previous year but without the title of count at that time.
He died during the Christmas holidays in 1381 and was buried at the Graça Church in Santarém, which he and his wife, who was still alive in 1404 and was subsequently buried next to her husband, had founded.

Marriage and issue

He was married to Guiomar Lopes Pacheco, daughter of Lopo Fernandes Pacheco and Maria Rodríguez de Villalobos. They were the parents of: