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a Portuguese prelate, was born in 1406 at Alpedrinha, a village of the diocese of La Guarda; was educated at Lisbon, became a professor there, and a dean of the cathedral; eventually bishop of Evora, archbishop of Lisbon, and cardinal in 1476. He removed to Rome in 1487, and died there, September 19, 1508.