Dom Gualdim Pais (1118 – 1195), Portuguese crusader, Templar Friar and Knight of Afonso I of Portugal, was the founder of the city of Tomar. Gualdim Pais was born in Amares (a town in the province of Minho, near Braga) in 1118, son of Paio Ramires and Gontrode Soares. He fought alongside King Afonso I against the moors, and was ordered a Knight by him in the year of 1139, after the Battle of Ourique.
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