The History of the Revolutions of Portugal

Part 2

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___________________________________________________________________________ | | | The Year of their | KINGS AND QUEENS | | | | | CHILDREN. |birth |marriage | coronat | death | _______________________|______|_________|_________|________|_______________ | | | | | Sancho I. |1154 | | 1185 | 1211 |Alphonso, king, Donna Dulcia, daughter | | | | |Ferrand or | | | | La | Ferdinand, of Raymond Bérenger | | | | Clede. | IV, count of | | | | | Barcelona and king | | | | 1212 |Pedro, of Arragon. | | | | Fer- | | | | | reras. |Theresa | | | | |Mafalda or | | | | | Mathilda, | | | | |Sancha, abbess | | | | | of Lorvam, | | | | |Blanca, | | | | |Berengara. | | | | | Alphonso II, surnamed |1185 | 1207 | 1211 | 1223 |Sancho, king, _the fat_. | | | | |Alphonso, king, Urraca, daughter of | | | | |Ferdinand, Alphonso III, king of | | | | |Vincent, Castille. | | | | |Leonora. | | | | | Sancho II, surnamed |1208 | | 1223 | 1248 | _Sancho with the hood_,| | | | | because his mother had | | | | | dedicated him to St. | | | | | Augustine, and had | | | | | him educated amongst | | | | | the canons regular. | | | | | | | | | | Alphonso III. |1210 | 1238 | 1248 | 1279 |Denis, king, Mathilda Dammartin, | | | | |Alphonso, countess of Boulogne- | | | | |Ferdinand, on-the-sea, and widow | | | | |Vincent, of Philip Huspel, son | | | | |Blanch, of king Philip | | | | |Constance, Augustus. She was | | | | |Blanche. repudiated in 1254. | | | | | Beatrix de Gusman, | | | | | natural daughter of | | | | | the king of Castille. | | | | |

+-------------------------------------- ALLIANCES. | PRINCIPAL EVENTS. ---------------------------+-------------------------------------- |1147 or 1148. Capture of Lisbon: |The royal residence was at |that time at Coimbra. | |1203, capture of Elvas. Joanna, daughter of | Baldwin, emperor of | Constantinople. | | Aurembiax, countess of | Urgel. | | Alphonso IX, k. of Leon. | Waldemar, king of Denmark. | |1217. A great victory gained |over the Moorish kings of Cordova |and Badajos. Waldemar, prince of | Denmark. | | He married, or as it is |1245. King Sancho was excommunicated generally thought, had |by the pope, and quitted for a concubine donna |the kingdom. He died in 1248, at Mencia, daughter of don |Toledo. Lopez Dias de Haro, by | donna Urraca, the natural | daughter of Alphonso III, | king of Castille. | |1267. The king of Castille gave |up the kingdom of Algarve to Alphonso, |of which, however, he still |continued the usufructuary.

+----------------------------------+----------------- | The Year of their: | KINGS AND QUEENS +---------+--------+--------+------+ CHILDREN. | birth |marriage|coronat.|death | -----------------------+---------+--------+--------+------+----------------- Denis, surnamed _the | 1261 | 1282 | 1279 | 1325 |Alphonso, king, liberal, and the father| | | | |Constance. of his country_. | | | | | | | | | | Elisabeth, daughter of | | | | | don Pedro III, king | | | | | of Arragon. | | | | | | | | | | Alphonso IV, surnamed | 1291 | 1309 | 1325 | 1357 |Alphonso } died _the brave_ or _the | or | | | |Denis } young proud_. | 1290 | | | |Pedro, king, Beatrix, daughter of |new hist.| | | |Mary, Sancho IV, king of | of | | | | Castille. |Portugal | | | |Leonora. | | | | | Pedro I, surnamed | 1320 | 1339 | 1357 | 1367 |By the queen _the justician_ or _the| | | | | Constance, severe_. | | | | |Lewis died | | | | | young. Constance, daughter | | | | | of John Emmanuel, | | | | |Ferdinand, king of Castille. | | | | |and Maria. | | | | | Inez de Castro, | | | | | By his concubine. | | | | |Inez de Castro, | | | | |Alphonso died | | | | | young. | | | | |Denis. | | | | | | | | | |John, duke of | | | | | Valencia, | | | | | | | | | |John, natural son | | | | |by Theresa de | | | | |Lorenzo, | | | | |who afterwards | | | | |became | | | | |king of Portugal.

+---------------------------------------- ALLIANCES. | PRINCIPAL EVENTS. ----------------------------+---------------------------------------- | 1290. A university founded at Ferdinand IV, king of |Lisbon, which was transferred to Castille. |Coimbra in 1308. The Portugueze |language underwent several improvements; |and the celebrated romance |of _Amadis de Gaul_ was written |by Vasco Lobeira. The French |have endeavoured, though in vain, |to attribute it to one of their nation. | 1319, institution of the ordre of |Christ. | 1340. Famous battle of _Tarisa_ |or _Celdona_, in which, according |to the Spanish historians, more than Alphonso XI, king of |200,000 Moors were slain. Castille. | 1355, the king causes the celebrated Second wife of Pedro IV, |Inez de Castro to be put to king of Arragon. |death. | | 1361. Don Pedro gave orders for |the body of Inez de Castro, to be |taken up, and removed with all the |pomp due to royalty, to the royal |monastery of Alcobaça, there to be Ferdinand of Arragon, |interred under a white marble Marquis of Tortosa. |monument, on which she is represented |with a crown on her |head. | Jane, natural daughter of | Henry II, k. of Castille. | Maria Tellez, and, secondly,| Constance, natural | daughter of Henry | II, king of Castille. |

+-----------------------------+--------------------- | The Year of their | KINGS AND QUEENS +-----+--------+--------+-----+ CHILDREN. |birth|marriage|coronat.|death| -------------------------+-----+--------+--------+-----+--------------------- Ferdinand. | 1340| 1372 | 1367 | 1383|Beatrix, Leonora Tellez, wife | | | | | L. da Cunha. | | | | | | | | | | | | | Regent | | John I, surnamed the | 1357| 1387 | 1383 | 1433|Edward, _great_, and _ather of | | | King | |Pedro, duke of his country_. | | | 1385 | |Coimbra, Philippa, the daughter | | | | |Henry, duke of of the duke of Lancaster.| | | | | Viseu, | | | | |Ferdinand, | | | | |Juan, | | | | |Isabella, | | | | | | | | | |and a natural son. | | | | | | | | | | Edward. | 1391| 1428 | 1433 | 1438|Alphonso, king, Leonora, daughter of | | | | |Ferdinand, duke Ferdinand, king of | | | | |of Viseu. Arragon and Sicily. | | | | |Philip died | | | | | young, | | | | |Leonora, | | | | |Catherine, | | | | | | | | | | Alphonso V, surnamed | 1432| 1446 | 1438 | 1481|Jane or Joanna, _the African_. | | | | | Isabella, his cousin. | | | | |a natural son, | | | | |called John Emmanuel. | | | | |

+------------------------------------------ ALLIANCES. | PRINCIPAL EVENTS. ---------------------------+------------------------------------------ Don Juan I, of Castille. | 1381, the English, under the |command of the earl of Cambridge, |brother to the duke of Lancaster, |came to the assistance of the king. | 1385. Battle of d'Aljubarotta |against the king of Castille. A |convent built on the field of battle, |which afterwards became the burying |place for the kings of Portugal. |Ferdinand Nugno Alvarez Perreyra, |constable of Portugal, was made Philip _the good_, duke of |duke of Braganza, as a reward for Burgundy. |his great services. His heiress afterwards |married Alphonso of Portugal, |the natural son of John I, from |which marriage sprung the family |of Braganza now reigning in Portugal. | 1415, capture of Ceuta in Africa. | 1420, discovery and conquest of |Madeira. | 1422, the Christian era first in |general use throughout Portugal. | Frederic III, Emperor. | | | 1459. Alphonso V instituted Henry IV, king of Castille.|the order of the sword. | 1476. The battle of Toro gained |by Ferdinand, king of Castille, |against Alphonso, who goes to |France to demand assistance from |Louis XI, whom he met at Tours. |He embarked the next year at |Houfleur, in Normandy, for Portugal, |where he arrived Nov. 15.

________________________________________________________________________ KINGS AND QUEENS | The Year of their | | CHILDREN. |birth| marriage| coronat.|death| _____________________|_____|_________|_________|_____|__________________ Don Juan or John II, | | | | | surnamed | | | | | _the perfect._ |1455 | | 1481 |1495 |Alphonso died | | | | |12th July, 1491. Emmanuel, surnamed | | | | | _the fortunate_. |1469 | | 1495 |1521 | | | | | |By ISABELLA; Isabella of Arragon, | | 1497 | | |Michel, died at stiled of Castille, | | | | |the age of two widow of the infant | | | | |years, don Alphonso. | | | | | | | | | |By MARIA; Maria of Castille, | | 1500 | | |John III, king, Isabella's sister. | | | | |Louis, | | | | |Ferdinand, Eleanor of Austria, | | 1519 | | |Alphonso, cardinal, sister of Charles V, | | | | |Henry, cardinal afterwards married to| | | | |and king, Francis I. | | | | |Edward, | | | | |Anthonio, | | | | |Maria died in her | | | | |infancy, | | | | |Elisabeth.

____________________________________________________________ ALLIANCES. | PRINCIPAL EVENTS. ___________________|________________________________________ | 1482, John II, erected Fort St. | George on the coast of Guinea. | | 1483. The duke of Braganza beheaded | for conspiring with the king | of Castille against the state. | | 1486. The Cape of Good Hope | discovered by Bartholomew Diuz, | who gave it at first the name of | _Capo Tormento_. | | 1492. Discovery of the kingdoms | of Congo and Benin. | | 1493, The Pope fixes the line | of demarcation which limits the | navigation of the two crowns of | Spain and Portugal in the new | hemisphere. This line was afterwards | changed by pope Alexander | VI. | | 1496. Emmanuel banished the | Jews. | | 1497, Vasguez and Paul Gama | doubled the Cape of Good Hope, | for the first time; they discovered | the whole of the eastern coast of | Ethiopia, and in | | 1498 arrived at Calcutta. | | 1500, Pedro Alvarez Capral or | Cabral, discovered Brazil. | | 1506, Francisco d'Almyda formed | several settlements in the kingdoms | of _Norsinque_, _Quito_, _Cananor_, | and _Cochin_. His son Lorenzo | took possession of the Maldiva | islands, and the island of Ceylon. | | 1507, Ormus taken by Francisco | Alburquerque. | | 1510, Jaquez Signeira entered Emperor Charles V. | the island of Sumatra. Alburquerque | took Goa by surprise.

+-------------------------------------+---------------- KINGS AND QUEENS | The Year of their | CHILDREN. | birth | marriage | coronat. | death | ------------------+-------+----------+----------+-------+---------------- | | | | | Maria Beatrix. | | | | | | | | | | By ELEONOR; | | | | | A Prince and | | | | | Princess. | | | | | | | | | | John III. | 1502 | | 1521 | 1557 | Alphonso, Catherine of | | | | | Emmanuel, Austria. | | | | | Philip, | | | | | Denis, | | | | | John, | | | | | Anthonio, | | | | | Maria, | | | | | | | | | | Isabella, | | | | | Beatrice. | | | | | | | | | | Sebastian, son of | 1554 | | 1557 | 1578 | the infant John V,| | | | | son of John III. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Henry I, cardinal.| 1512 | | 1578 | 1580 | See History of | | | | | Spain. Anthonio, grand | 1531 | | 1580 | 1595 | prior of Crato, | | | | | natural son of | | | | | Louis II, the son | | | | | of Emmanuel. | | | | | | | | | |

ALLIANCES. | PRINCIPAL EVENTS. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles III, duke of | 1511, Capture of the island of Savoy. |Malacca. | | 1517, Ferdinand Peres Auduade |landed in China, and obtained permission |to build the town of Macao. | | 1520, Anthonio Correa discovered |Pegu. | | A modern author takes notice |of earthquakes which happened in |the beginning of John IIId's reign, |but we know not on what authority |he founds his information. | | 1526, The inquisition instituted |in Portugal. | Phillip II, king of Spain. | 1541. Introduction of the Jesuits. |The king takes the habit of |that order, and submits himself to |the superior, though by permission |of the Holy See he still preserved |his crown. | | 1548. Orange trees first brought |from China, and planted in Portugal. | | 1578. Sebastian defeated by the |Moors in the battle of Alcacer. |For particulars of this unfortunate |expedition into Africa, (see Vertot.) | Sebastian was the first king of |Portugal who bore the title of majesty |bestowed upon him by Philip |II, of Spain. | | 1580. Anthonio defeated at Alcantara |by the Spaniards. He flew |for refuge to France, where he |died in 1595, and having made |Henry IV his heir, he particularly |recommended his two sons to his |protection.