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Trastamiro Aboazar {{Infobox noble, type , name = Trastamiro Aboazar , title = Lord , image = File:Maia.gif , caption = Coat of Arms of Maia , image_size = 100px , CoA = , more = , succession = , reign = , tenure = , reign-type = , predecessor = , ...

, Ermígio Aboazar, Cid Aboazar, Lovesendo Aboazar, Ausenda Aboazar, , father = Lovesendo , mother = , predecessor = , successor = , birth_date = 10th-century , birth_place =

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, burial_date = , burial_place = , url = , module = Aboazar Lovesendes (died after 978) was a lord (''domno'') in the

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in the middle decades of the tenth century. He is the ancestor of the lords of Maia.{{sfn, Almeida Fernandes, 2001, pp=77–79 Aboazar's parentage is the subject of a traditional heroic tale, the ''

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''.{{Sfn, Mattoso, 1981, p=206 The legend makes him progeny of the romantic liaison between

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and Ortiga/Artiga, the beautiful sister of a powerful local Muslim lord, Alboaçar Abençadan Çada, a great-grandson of 'king Abdullah'. Depending on the version of the legend, this was either in revenge for, or provided the motivation for, a parallel liaison between Abençadan and Ramiro's wife, Aldora, for which Ramiro murders his wife and marries Ortiga, having a son Aboazar. This tale is at odds with the known marital history of Ramiro, as well as with the

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of the Portuguese lord. Though sources derived from the ''Miragaia'' call him Aboazar Ramírez to reflect the paternity given him there, he appears in contemporary records as Abonazar Lovesendes, indicating his actual father's name was Lovesendo (probably representing the

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name Leodesindo). According to the legend in its late medieval form, he was nicknamed ''Cide'' (from Arabic ''

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'', lord), a common nickname in the tenth century and one he may actually have borne. Almeida Fernandes 2001, pp. 77–79, suggests that he could have been ''cognomento Cidi'' ("known as Cidi").

Descendants

Aboazar married Unisco Godins,{{Sfn, Mattoso, 1981, p=206 founder of Santo Tirso Monastery,{{Sfn, Carvalho Correia, 2008, pp=97, 102, 120 n. 435, 141 by whom he had the following children: *

, married to Dórdia Soares;{{Sfn, Mattoso, 1981, pp=206,209{{Sfn, Carvalho Correia, 2008, p=141 * Ermígio Aboazar, married to Vivilide Trutesendes;{{Sfn, Mattoso, 1981, pp=206–207{{Sfn, Carvalho Correia, 2008, p=141 * Cid Aboazar;{{Sfn, Mattoso, 1981, p=208{{Sfn, Carvalho Correia, 2008, p=141 * Lovesendo Aboazar, documented in 999, married a daughter of Egica Honoriques;{{Sfn, Mattoso, 1981, p=206{{Sfn, Carvalho Correia, 2008, p=141 * Ausenda Aboazar, probably married to Piniolo.{{Sfn, Mattoso, 1981, p=207{{Sfn, Carvalho Correia, 2008, p=141 On 9 June 1092, the heirs of Aboazar's children executed an agreement in favor of the Monastery of Santo Tirso promising that they and their descendants would continue to be its patrons, that they would not sell, donate or bequeath the monastery and that it would always be governed by its abbots under the

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.{{Sfn, Carvalho Correia, 2008, p=141

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