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  portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mainland Portugal is bordered by Spain to the north and east and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south.
In 1249 - 1250, the Algarve is finnaly reconquest by Portugal to the Moors, and in 1255, the capital is shifted to Lisbon.
Portugal is the country for wine lovers, known since the Roman Empire as one of the greatest in the empire; the Romans immediately associated Portugal with its God of Winery and Feast, Bacchus.
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 HENRY BENEDICT MARIA CLEMENT STUART - LoveToKnow Article on HENRY BENEDICT MARIA CLEMENT STUART   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
HENRY FITZ HENRY (11551183), second son of Henry II., king of England, by Eleanor of Aquitaine, became heir to the throne on the death of his brother William (1136), and at the age of five was married to Marguerite, the infant daughter of Louis VII.
HENRY, or in full, HENRY BENEDICT MARIA CLEMENT STUART (17251807), usually known as Cardinal York, the last prince of the royal house of Stuart, was the younger son of James Stuart, and was born in the Palazzo Muti at Rome on the 6th of March 1725.
HENRY OF PORTUGAL, surnamed the Navigator (1394 1460), duke of Viseu, governor of the Algarve, was born at Oporto on the 4th of March 1394.
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 Portugal. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Portugal is bordered by Spain on the east and north and by the Atlantic Ocean on the west and south.
Estremadura, in W Portugal, has broad, alluvial plains, rising to cool and rocky uplands; along the Atlantic coast is a celebrated resort region, reaching to the town of Estoril, near Lisbon.
Henry of Burgundy married an illegitimate daughter of Alfonso VI and became (1095?) count of Coimbra and later count of Portucalense.
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 Henry of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry, the cardinal-king or Henrique (in Portuguese) the Chaste (Port.
Henry was the younger brother of King John III and, as a younger son, Henry was not expected to succeed to the Portuguese throne.
Henry renounced his clerical offices and sought to take a bride for the continuation of the Aviz dynasty, but Pope Gregory XIII, affiliated with the Habsburgs did not release him from his vows.
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 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1473? - 1530)
Henry's presence in France was unwelcome to Maximilian and Ferdinand when they realized he intended to depose Louis XII and crown himself King of France.
Henry claimed having long had doubts of the validity of his marriage to his dead brother's widow, citing a biblical passage (from Leviticus 20) which condemns such a marriage as unclean, and which God will render childless.
Henry sent to Rome Edward Fox, doctor of divinity, and Stephen Gardiner, doctor of both civil and church law, to influence the Pope to grant Wolsey the power to rule on Henry's case.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Portugal
Portugal is situated on the west of the Iberian Peninsula, being bounded on the north and east by Spain and on the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean.
The population of Portugal, according to the census of 1900, was 5,423,123, the greater portion (68 per cent) being rural.
As a result of the encyclicals of Leo XIII on Christian democracy, the movement for the establishment of Catholic circles for workingmen was inaugurated in Portugal, and these mutual-aid societies existed in the principal centres of population, furnished education to the workmen and their children, and kept them together by conferences, concerts, and excursions.
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 Katharine / Katherine / Catherine of Aragon: Biography, Portraits, Primary Sources
Henry was not unhappy with the birth of Mary; he assured ambassadors that if it were a daughter this time, a son would surely follow.
Henry sent Princess Mary to Ludlow Castle as Princess of Wales and his official heir, but even that did not stop the rumors or her mother's concerns.
Henry, who was also deeply pious and a student of theology, now took a closer look at his marriage to Katharine.
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 Keeping Catholics Catholic Page XXV-The Timeline-The Sixteenth Century Continued   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Henry VIII declared his Divine Rite of Kings, that is by virtue of being a nation’s King, he can make Ecclesiastical judgments that can override the Pope.
The Cardinal said of him: “...an upright and religious monk, a provident and discreet man, and priest commendable for his life, virtues, and learning.” St. Thomas More was among those who signed his Commission.
Henry VII, whose wife was her first cousin, gave her in marriage to Sir Reginald Pole.
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 European Voyages of Exploration - Portugal Overview
The lifework of Alfonso Henriques, first King of Portugal (1128-1185), consisted in his assertion, by fighting and diplomacy, of the political independence of the country, and in his enlargement of its boundaries by conquests from the Moors who occupied more than half the present kingdom when he began to rule.
Nevertheless, when he died, the independence of Portugal had been secured, its area doubled, and the name of the little realm was famous throughout Europe for its persistent struggle against the enemies of the Cross.
The bishops renewed their complaints of the disorders in Portugal, and in 1245, by the Bull "grandi non immerito", Innocent IV committed the government to Sancho's brother Alfonso who was living in France.
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 Duke of Braganza - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
On Henry I’s death in 1580, King Philip_II_of_Spain became Philip I of Portugal and the country lost its independence.
Portugal was on the verge of rebellion and a new Portuguese king had to be found.
24º Duarte II Pio of Bragança (born 1945, present heir to the throne of Portugal) Another claimant to the position of head of the House of Braganza is the Italian born Rosario Poidimani, calling himself "Rosario of Braganza" but not her son or grandson.
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 Timeline Portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Henry began dispatching expeditions from the nearby port of Lagos.
Spain’s Philip II was proclaimed King Philip I of Portugal and united the colonial empires of Spain and Portugal.
He led Portugal's CP for half a century and became a national hero after the overthrow of the country's dictatorship.
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 Portugal - Evora - evora1
Henry— the last surviving son of Manuel I — had previously ruled as regent from 1562 while Sebastian was still not of age.
He was soundly defeated at the Battle of Alcácer-Quivir where many of the Portuguese leaders were killed or captured and held to ransom, payment of which bled the country dry for years to come.
Regrettably too, on his deathbed in 1580, Henry acknowledged that Philip of Spain had a legitimate claim to the throne of Portugal and effectively thereby plunged the country into 60 years of foreign domination.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Prince Henry the Navigator
On the death of his brother, King Duarte, Henry acted as intermediary between his brother Pedro, who claimed the regency, and Queen Leonor, to whom it had been left by her husband, and he greatly promoted the success of Pedro's claim.
Though Henry certainly spent much time in the Algarve, of which province he was governor, the centre of his maritime activity was not Sagres or the Villa do Infante, but Lagos, where nearly all the early expeditions were equipped.
The finding of the road to India by Vasco da Gama, which completed Henry's work, and the discovery of America, to which Columbus was inspired by the achievements of Henry and his successors, led to a greater spread of the Faith than the Prince could have imagined.
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 Portugal - Gurupedia
Mainland Portugal is bordered by Spain to the north and east and the
Henry became ruler, but died two years after.
Because Philip II of Spain was the son of a Portuguese princess, Spain invaded Portugal and the Spanish ruler became Philip I of Portugal in 1580.
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 Duke of Braganza   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
When his six-year-old nephew became King Afonso V of Portugal he was the king's most cherished This would provoke a short civil war his brother Pedro Duke of Coimbra that in his death in the Battle of Alfarrobeira in 1449.
João II's successor King Manuel I of Portugal was uncle of Jaime and in 1500 he recalled his nephew to Portugal to him the titles and (part of) lands of Bragança.
He was loathed by the powerful Portuguese guild of Portugal was on the verge of rebellion a new Portuguese king had to be The choice fell upon the eighth duke João II of Bragança.
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 ♫ Prince Henry ♫   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Prince Henry The Navigator Prince Henry, the son of King John I and Queen Philippa,was a Portuguese prince who ordered explorations of the west African coastduring the 1400's.
Prince Henry The Navigator And The Institute At Sagres - Geography Prince Henry was born in 1394 as the third son of King John I (King Joao I) of Portugal.
Henry received a good education and, upon his father's death in 1358, was proclaimed the Lord of Rosslyn.
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 Henry Medwall --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Medwall was chaplain to Cardinal John Morton, archbishop of Canterbury, and was the rector of Balynghem in the English marches of Calais, in France.
Caxton's Malory (1485) was published in the same year that Henry Tudor acceded to the throne as Henry VII, and the period from this time to the mid-16th century has been called the transition from medieval to...
Fearless and eloquent, Patrick Henry became the spokesman of the Southern colonies during the stirring period that led to the American Revolution.
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 Book 8, Chapter 5: A History of the Inquisition of Spain Vol. 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Jesuits, however, by this time were a dominant power in Portugal; Cardinal Henry, the inquisitor-general, transmitted the memorials to the Spanish Inquisition, with a request for the condign punishment of the audacious fraile.
On February 15th, Cardinal Cibò, the secretary of the Congregation, addressed to all the bishops of Italy a circular stating that in many places there existed or were forming associations called spiritual conferences, under ignorant directors, who, with maxims of exquisite perfection, misled them into most pernicious errors, resulting in manifest heresy and abominable immorality.
Cardinal Badoaro, then Bishop of Brescia, took energetic measures to stamp out this recrudescence of the condemned doctrines; the leaders scattered to Switzerland, Germany and England, while Beccarelli was tried by the Inquisition of Venice and was condemned to seven years of galley-service.
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 Spanish Civilization   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Portugal, which began as a county of León, was the only kingdom to ultimately maintain its independence of the rest of Spain.
Spain was sometimes styled an "empire," and Alfonso X of Castile was actually elected Holy Roman Emperor, but nothing much came of it all.
Revolt of Portugal, 1640; Revolt of Catalonia, 1640-1659
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 The Periphery of Francia: Spain, Britain, Eastern Europe, & Scandinavia
Henry II of England, whose Normans began to overrun the island, styled himself "Lord of Ireland" (c.
Henry brought with him additional French territory, and then obtained a large part of the whole Kingdom of France by marrying Eleanor, the hieress of Aquitaine and Gascony, who had recently divorced King Louis VII of France.
Richard was killed by Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, in battle at Bosworth Field in 1485.
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 Chapter 8: The Kingdom of León-Castilla under Queen Urraca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In April and May of 1112, when Urraca was in Galicia organizing support for a counteroffensive against Alfonso of Aragón and working out a temporary alliance with Count Henry of Portugal, the canons Muño Alfónsez and Hugh of Santiago de Compostela were elected to the sees of Mondoñedo in Galicia and Oporto in Portugal, respectively.
Cardinal Boso, papal legate in the peninsula at that time, conceded this privilege to the latter and protected the rights of Rome and the exempt status of Burgos.
Bishop Sancho was consecrated at Compostela in March 1121 in the presence of Urraca, Alfonso Raimúndez, and the legate, Cardinal Boso.
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 PORTUGAL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Duke of Burgundy (died 1071), a member of the Royal House of France, established himself as ruler of a substantial portion of modern Portugal, with the title Count, circa 1093, and was father of Alfonso I (died 1185), who assumed the title King of Portugal ca 1139.
The House of Aviz, as John’s descendants became, was extinguished in the legitimate male line with the death of Henry I, Cardinal King in 1580, when the throne was assumed by his nephew, Philip II King of Spain.
King John’s yr son, (2) Infante Miguel, Duke of Bragança (born 26 Oct 1802; died 14 Nov 1866), was King of Portugal as Miguel I from 30 Jun 1828 to 26 May 1834, but he and his descendants were deprived of their rights and expelled from the throne 19 Dec 1834.
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 The world's top Portugal websites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Portugal is a republic on the Iberian Peninsula (southwestern Europe), with several islands in the Atlantic Ocean (islands of Azores, Madeira, and Savage).
Althought, the country still has 9% (2001) of the population illiterate, mostly elderly, Portugal is in need to advance structural reforms needed to boost country's economic competitiveness.
The modern variety uses smaller sticks of 0.60 to 0.80 m (2.0 to 2.6 foot).
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 Association with the Oxford Movement. (from John Henry Newman) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
One of England's 19th-century religious leaders, John Henry Newman attempted to reform the Church of England in the direction of early catholicism—the church as it had existed in its first five centuries.
The founder of the Portuguese empire, Prince Henry of Portugal was a patron of explorers, and he was one of the earliest geographers.
In honor of the discoveries he inspired, he came to be called Henry the Navigator.
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 Genealogy Index for surnames beginning with P
PORTUGAL, Denis the Farmer of (9 OCT 1261-7 JAN 1325)
PORTUGAL, Henry the Cardinal of (31 JAN 1512-)
Portugal, Maria of (15 OCT 1527-12 JUL 1545)
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 In Italy Online - The Basilica of the Santi Quattro Coronati
The church was restored again under Martin V (1417-1431) and given a carved wooden roof in 1580 by King Henry of Portugal, who had earlier been the basilica's titular Cardinal.
Another titular cardinal, Giovanni Garcia Mellini redecorated the apse in the early seventeenth century (paintings by Giovanni da San Giovanni from 1621-23) and built an altar to house the skull of Saint Sebastian (now kept in the Vatican Museum), which he discovered while verifying the martyrs' relics in the crypt.
The last restorations were carried out by Professor Antonio Munoz, who, as Rome's Superintendent of Monuments in the 1930's, tried to return so many Roman churches to their original pure state.
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 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: 1580   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Portugal loses independence to Spain following the death without heirs of king Henry of Portugal.
January 31 - King Henry of Portugal (born 1512)
Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (born 1511)
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 Slide #119 Monograph
Corrected and amended by a succession of editors, this version also formed the basis upon which all of the editions of the 15th century are built.
Again, the original manuscript of Angelus' translation and the first maps of Ptolemy in the Latin language have not survived, but a manuscript copy, dated 1427, prepared under the direction of Cardinal Fillastre, can be found in the library at Nancy, France (thus known as the Nancy Codex).
In manuscript form, four other cartographers are significant in editing and influencing the evolution of Ptolemy's atlas.
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 Boa Nova Tea House Portugal by Alvaro Siza
Boa Nova Tea House Portugal by Alvaro Siza
The Boa Nova Tea House was designed following a competition held in 1956 by the city council and won by Portuguese architect Fernando Tavora.
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