Edited sentence: A knight with a sword in one hand, and two heads in the other, from that time became the armorial bearing of the city.Full of this idea, one evening he entered Évora, which then belonged to the Moors.He was a man of rank, who, in order to avoid the legal punishment to which several crimes rendered him obnoxious, put himself at the head of a party of freebooters.In the night he killed the sentinels of one of the gates, which he opened to his companions, who soon became masters of the place.The king pardoned Gerald, and made him governor of Évora.The legends which later arose surrounding Gerald are given concise retelling by Louis-Adrien Duperron de Castera, the French translator of Luiz Vaz de Camoens:.This exploit had its desired effect.Tiring, however, of that life, he resolved to reconcile himself to his sovereign by some noble action