Brites de Almeida

[1] Brites de Almeida is said to have been born in Faro, Algarve, in 1350, to poor parents.

Another that she was on a boat attacked by Algerian pirates who sold her as a slave to the Imperial Harem in Algiers, from which she escaped.

She ended up settling in Aljubarrota, where she became a bakery owner and married a local farmer.

[1][2][3][4] After their defeat in the Battle of Aljubarrota, the Castilian soldiers in flight were attacked and killed by the local inhabitants.

According to the story, seven or eight of them found shelter at Brites' bakery, which was empty because she had gone out to help to kill the soldiers.