| Summary: | The aim of this paper is to characterize the royal power in Portugal through the analysis of cartas de doação and forais of the captaincy of São Tomé, issued between 1485 and 1493. Throughout this study, we will highligth the controversial character of the formulas and political-legal doctrines of the age and the active perspective of royal action, which sought to establish the supremacy of his authority, defined also by their public dimension and the coercitive faculty and exception of its power. Legal frameworks and experiences of conquest and colonization of the Atlantic islands reafirmed the relations of competition and complementarity between the kingdoms of Portugal, Castile and Aragon and influenced the politics of alliance of the Iberian crowns in the passage of the fifteenth century to the sixteenth.
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