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Brites de Almeida
Also known as: The Baker of Aljubarrota
fl. 1385
Portuguese

Patriot. In a war between her native Portugal and Spain, she courageously fought with a baking tool.

Contemporaries
1378–1446Vittorino da Feltre
1330–1384Wycliffe
?–1386Arnold von Winkelried
?–1381Wat Tyler
1404–1440Gilles Retz
1380–1459Giovanni Poggio
1304–1374Petrarch
1378–1417Sir John Oldcastle
1401–1464Nicholas of Cusa
1370–1451John Lydgate
1332–1400William Langland
1373–1440Margery Kempe
1379–1471Thomas Kempis
1342–1413Julian of Norwich
1340–1399John of Gaunt
1412–1431St. Joan of Arc
1370–1440Laurens Janszoon
fl. c. 1394–c. 1437James I
1394–1460Henry the Navigator
1387–1422Henry V
1325–1408John Gower
1363–1429Jean de Gerson
1333–1404Jean Froissart
1347–1380Catherine of Siena
1300–1358Jean Buridan
1313–1375Giovanni Boccaccio
1380–1444St. Bernardino of Siena
1320–1395John Barbour
1404–1472Leon Alberti