Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: He tūranga nui tana i te wā o te kingitanga o Kingi Afonso V o Potukara, i a ia i whakanohoia hei Kaihautū o te Kīngitanga. I uru ia ki nga haerenga a te kingi ki Castile (
Ko te Pakanga o te Whakawhiti o Castilian) me te haerenga a te kingi ki France. I tana hokinga ki Portugal, ka marena ia ki a "Dona" Filipa de Melo (c. 1460<unk>1516), te tamahine whai rawa me te rangatira o Rodrigo Afonso de Melo, 1st Count o Olivença. Tokorua ā rāua tama, tokowha ā rāua tamahine: