Published in Manifestations of the Ancient and Medieval World

Keywords: Keywords: Battle of Toro, Order of the Hospital, Portugal, Priory of Crato, Vasco de Ataíde.

This article analyzes the social relations that involved the Priory of Crato of the Order of the Hospital in the days of D. Vasco de Ataíde, between the years 1453-1491. The Priory of Crato was the Portuguese branch of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, a religious and military order. The text presents a study about the family Ataíde, about the bond of this family with the kings that governed Portugal during the analyzed period. It also presents an analysis of the people who composed the prior's house of this prior and the alliance made between D. Vasco de Ataíde and the hospitaller prior of Castile on the occasion of the Battle of Toro.