Sahran
Grandmaster Knight

Vilao is singular for Villein (serf) in Portuguese. Infacao is singular for infanções.
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/html/issue7/html/jpizarro_main.html
Some sources said the Infancoes were princes, others linked them to the role of the Infanzones in Castille (or aragon, I forget) which were second tier knights beneath the Cavaleiros (Castille's Caballeros).
Feel free to correct the term linkage and post it here and Outlawed can adjust it accordingly.
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/html/issue7/html/jpizarro_main.html
Let us succinctly analyze these two points, beginning with the first. The participation of the nobility in the Reconquest, especially from the second half of the 9th century, i.e. from the establishment of the domains of Porto and Coimbra to the end of the 11th century, is an undeniable fact, as proved by the different personal trajectories of various members of the comital families of Portucale and Coimbra, and, above all, during that last century, by those members of the families of the infanções (feudal lords – nobles of the second rank) who gradually distinguished themselves until they came to occupy the pinnacle of the hierarchy of nobles, thus filling the gap created by the decline and extinction of the comital nobility3.
Some sources said the Infancoes were princes, others linked them to the role of the Infanzones in Castille (or aragon, I forget) which were second tier knights beneath the Cavaleiros (Castille's Caballeros).
Feel free to correct the term linkage and post it here and Outlawed can adjust it accordingly.





