page_title: Nuno Álvares Pereira
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Nuno Álvares Pereira / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Statue of Nuno Álvares Pereira on horseback in Batalha.
context_page_description: D. Nuno Álvares Pereira, O. Carm., also spelled Nun'Álvares Pereira, 7th Count of Barcelos, 3rd Count of Ourém and 2nd Count of Arraiolos, was a Portuguese general of great success who had 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 by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009.
  Nuno Álvares Pereira is often referred to as the Saint Constable or as Saint Nuno of Saint Mary, his religious name.
context_section_description: The Blessed Nuno Society is a mission society and prayer apostolate officially recognized by the Catholic 
  Church as a diocesan Private Association of the Christian Faithful and affiliated with, the Catholic Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota.
  Nuno Álvares Pereira had a daughter by his marriage to Leonor de Alvim, Beatriz Pereira de Alvim, who later became the wife of Afonso, first Duke of Braganza. Therefore, Nuno Álvares Pereira was, through the female line, the ancestor of the House of Braganza which became the Portuguese royal house in the 17th century, ruling the Kingdom of Portugal (1640–1910), the Kingdom of Brazil (1815–1822) and the Empire of Brazil (1822–1889).
caption: Statue of Nuno Álvares Pereira on horseback in Batalha
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