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Fernando, Lord of Serpa

Field	Value
name	Infante Fernando
title	Lord of Serpa
image	Arms of Infante Fernando, Lord of Serpa.svg
image_size	175px
caption	Coat of arms of Infante Fernando
spouse	Sancha Fernández de Lara
issue	Sancho Fernandes de Serpa
house	Portuguese House of Burgundy
father	Afonso II of Portugal
mother	Urraca of Castile
birth_date	1218
birth_place	Santarém
death_date	19 January 1246
(aged 29)
death_place	Kingdom of Portugal

(aged 29)

Infante Fernando of Portugal (), 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 1218 and was made Lord of Serpa in 1232. It is known that he travelled to Rome in 1237 to beg for a pardon from Pope Gregory IX for his violence against certain clerics. He died on 19 January 1246.

Marriage and offspring

He married Sancha Fernández de Lara, daughter of Fernando Núñez de Lara and wife Mayor González, without any documented issue.

He had, however, a bastard son by an unknown woman named Sancho Fernandes de Serpa, who was a Prior at Santo Estevão de Alfama.

Coat of arms

In a study from the Spanish historian Faustino 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).

Ancestors

References

Bibliography

References

Published in "A Monarquia Portuguesa", Reader's Digest, Lisbon, April 1999, page 368, {{ISBN. 972-609-261-2

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