The "Notícia de Torto" [Notice about (the damage, offense, injury) - old Portuguese] is a minuta

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 of a notarial document written in the first decades of the 13th century, and though it does not contain any date it has been dated as between 1211 and 1216, the first reigning years of King Alfonso II. Together with the King's will (written in July

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, 1214) it is considered the oldest known non-literary document of the Portuguese Language

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. The title is a reference to its first line (De noticia de torto que fecerum a Laurencius Fernãdiz.. ). The text is about the persecutions, violence

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 and robbery

Robbery

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 by the sons of Gonçalo Ramires against Lourenço Fernandes da Cunha, a noble

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 of Braga

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, all of whom were heirs of Gonçalo Ramires. The document was probably written in Braga's region.

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