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	Encyclopedia: Henry of Portugal
		Isabella of Portugal (1503 - 1539) was princess of Portugal.
		Beatrice of Portugal (1504 - 1538) was princess of Portugal.
		Anthony I of Portugal (Portuguese: AntÃ³nio) (Lisbon, 1531 â€“ Paris, August 26, 1595), known by The Prior of Crato (and, rarely, as The Determined, The Fighter or The Independentist), was a grandson of Manuel I, claimant of the Portuguese throne during the 1580 crisis (struggle for the throne of Portugal...
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	Henry the Navigator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry the Navigator was the third son of John I of Portugal, the founder of the Aviz dynasty; and of Philippa of Lancaster, the daughter of John of Gaunt.
		Henry's court rapidly grew into the technological base for exploration, with a naval arsenal, an observatory, and a school for the study of geography and navigation added over time.
		The school at Sagres achieved several advances in the art of navigation, and the discoveries Henry made possible provided the groundwork for the development of Portugal's colonial empire when his great-nephew, King John II of Portugal, continued his policy of exploration on assuming the throne in 1481.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_the_Navigator (1049 words)

	Henry of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry, the cardinal-king or Henrique (in Portuguese) the Chaste (Port.
		He 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_of_Portugal (271 words)

	Henry, Count of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry of Burgundy (1066–1112) was Count of Portugal from 1093 to his death.
		He was the son of Henry of Burgundy, heir of Robert I, Duke of Burgundy, and brother of Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy.
		As a younger son, Henry had little chances of acquiring fortune and titles by inheritance, thus he joined the Reconquista against the Moors in the Iberian Peninsula.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry,_Count_of_Portugal (224 words)

	Encyclopedia: Prince Henry of Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Henry the Navigator was the third son of John I of Portugal, the founder of the Aviz dynasty.
		On May 25, 1420, Henry was appointed the governor of the very rich Order of Christ, the Portuguese successor to the Knights Templar, which had set up it headquarters in 1413 at Sagres, near Cape St Vincent at the far southwestern tip of Portugal (Braudel 1985).
		Until Henry's coastal explorers, Cape Bojador was the most southerly point on the unpromising desert coast of Africa known to Europeans, for the Carthaginian peripl;us of Hanno the Navigator was lost.
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	Henry the Navigator
		Henry the Navigator (13941460), prince of Portugal, noted as the patron of navigation and exploration, born in Oporto.
		Henry participated in the capture of Ceuta in North Africa from the Moors in 1415.
		In 1826 Pedro I of Brazil succeeded to the throne of Portugal as Pedro IV.
	www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu /antillians/henry.html (1893 words)

	HENRY OF PORTUGAL - LoveToKnow Article on HENRY OF PORTUGAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1424-1425 Prince Henry attempted to purchase the Canaries, and began the colonization of the Madeira group, both in Madeira itself and in Porto Santo; to aid this latter movement he procured the famous charters of 1430 and 1433 from the Portuguese crown.
		In 1445f 446, again, Dom Henry renewed his earlier attempts (which had failed in 1424-1425) to purchase or seize the Canaries for Portugal; by these he brought his country to the verge of war with Castile; but the home government refused to support him, and the project was again abandoned.
		As protector of Portuguese studies, Dom Henry is credited with having founded a professorship of theology, and perhaps also chairs of mathematics and medicine, in Lisbonwhere also, in 1431, he is said to have provided house-room for the university teachers and students.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HE/HENRY_OF_PORTUGAL.htm (1733 words)

	Henry the Navigator
		Prince Henry the Navigator (Dom Henrique) was the son of King João of Portugal, born in 1394.
		Prince Henry (properly the Infante Dom Henrique) was born in 1394, the third son of King João of Portugal.
		Henry seems to have communicated his enthusiasm to the people of Oporto: the shipbuilders and other craftsmen worked day and night, and the citizens gave up eating meat so that it could be preserved for the expedition.
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	cardinal henry of portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cardinal Dom Henriques, King of Portugal was the younger brother of King John III.
		A younger son, Henry was not expected to succeed to the Portuguese throne and early took Holy Orders to promote Portuguese interests within the Catholic Church, then dominated by Spain.
		Henry renounced his clerical offices and sought to take a bride for the continuation of the Aviz dynasty, but it was too late.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Cardinal_Henry_of_Portugal.html (253 words)

	Mappa.Mundi Magazine - Locus - Prince Henry, The Navigator
		Henry was born in 1394, the third surviving son of King John of Portugal and a member of a large and diverse family of European royals.
		Henry's mother was Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaunt; Henry was cousin to three English kings, all also named Henry (IV, V, and VI), and his aunt was married to the king of Castile.
		Henry desired "to make increase in the faith of our lord Jesus Christ and bring to him all the souls that should be saved." He also sought the court of Prester John, the mythical Christian king said to live in Asia.
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	Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Portugal is bordered by Spain to the north and east and by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south.
		Portugal developed an increasingly service-based economy and it was one of the eleven founding countries of the Euro in 1999, with very restrictive criteria, and began circulating its new currency on January 1, 2002 along with 12 other EU members.
		Portugal was recognized as a autonomous kingdom by Leon in 1143 and by the Pope in 1179.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/P/Portugal.htm (7308 words)

	European Explorers: Nenry the Navigator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The founder of the Portuguese empire, Prince Henry of Portugal was a patron of explorers, and he was one of the earliest geographers.
		Henry was born in 1394 as one of the sons of the Portuguese King John I, founder of the Aviz dynasty.
		Henry the Navigator (1394-1460), prince of Portugal, noted as the patron of navigation and exploration, born in Oporto.
	www.cdli.ca /CITE/exnavigator.htm (962 words)

	HENRY OF PORTUGAL
		HENRY OP PORTUGAL, surnamed the " Navigator ” (1394 – 1460), duke of Viseu, governor of the Algarve, was born at Oporto on the 4th of March 1394.
		In 1424 – 1425Prince Henry attempted to purchase the Canaries, and began the colonization of the Madeira group, both in Madeira itself and in Porto Santo; to aid this latter movement he procured the famous charters of 1430 and 1433 from the Portuguese crown.
		In 1445 – 1446, again, Dom Henry renewed his earlier attempts (which had failed in 1424 – 1425) to purchase or seize the Canaries for Portugal; by these he brought his country to the verge of war with Castile; but the home government refused to support him, and the project was again abandoned.
	www.ermeland.de /henry_portugal.html (1658 words)

	Henry of Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Henry, the cardinal or Henrique (in Portuguese) (January 31, 1512 - January31, 1580), was the seventeenth King of Portugal between 1578 and 1580.
		He was theyounger brother of king John III and, as a younger son,Henry was not expected to succeed to the Portuguese throne.
		Henry renounced his clericaloffices and sought to take a bride for the continuation of the Aviz dynasty, but Pope Gregory XIII, afiliated with the Habsburgs did notrelease him from his vows.
	www.therfcc.org /henry-of-portugal-192145.html (234 words)

	Definition of Henry I of Castile
		Henry I of Castile, king of Castile and Leon, son of Alfonso VIII of Castile, and his wife Eleonor Plantegenet, (daughter of Henry II of England and Eleonor of Aquitaine), was born in 1204.
		In 1215, Henry married Mafalda of Portugal, daughter of Sancho I of Portugal.
		Henry I died in Palencia in 1217, with the age of 13.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Henry_I_of_Castile (193 words)

	Henry of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Henry, the cardinal or Henrique (in Portuguese) (January 31 1512 - January 31 1580), was the seventeenth King of Portugal between 1578 and 1580.
		Henry, more than anyone, endeavoured to bring the Jesuit order to Portugal and employed them in the colonial empire.
		He served as regent for his grand-nephew, Sebastião, after 1557, and then succeeded him as king after the disastrous Battle of Alcazarquivir in 1578.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Cardinal_Henry_of_Portugal (265 words)

	European Voyages of Exploration: Prince Henry the Navigator
		Prince Henry the Navigator was the fifth child and fourth son of King João I (John I) and Queen Philippa.
		Henry was somewhat of a paradox: a dreamer, a scholar, and a monk who nevertheless possessed the instincts of a businessman.
		Prince Henry and his brothers began to think of an alternate plan that would enable them to win their spurs in a time of peace with the Castilians and the Spaniards.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/henry1.html (668 words)

	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.
	www.users.bigpond.com /bobhay/portl01/evora1.html (297 words)

	Prince Henry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Prince Henry of Portugal (1394-1460) was called the Navigator not because he went to sea himself, but rather because he encouraged exploration in the early 15th century.
		Henry's early expeditions were unprofitable and he needed a way to change that.
		He was the third surviving son of King John I of Portugal, so the king gave Henry the monopoly for travel and trade on the Guiana Coast.
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	Henry the Navigator
		Henry, son of King John I of Portugal, earned the respect of his countrymen early in life by his bravery in the Battle of Ceuta (1415), a victory over Muslim forces that allowed European forces to establish their first permanent position in North Africa.
		Portugal in the early 15th century was one of the first European nations to unify, but had been plagued by its geographic isolation; it faced westward toward the Atlantic Ocean and was surrounded to the east and north by Spain.
		Henry’s greatest contribution was the establishment of a government-sponsored institute at Sagres, which maintained a school, an observatory and a base for exploratory ventures at nearby Lagos.
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	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Carey Henry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The treatise Progress and Poverty (1897), by the economist Henry George, as well as the novel Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888) by the journalist...
		Henry (of Portugal) (1512-1580), King of Portugal (1578-1580), son of King Emanuel of Portugal.
		Henry was educated for the priesthood and at about...
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	Henry the Navigator
		In 1416 he established at Sagres in SW Portugal a base for explorations, later adding a naval arsenal and an observatory and a school for the study of geography and navigation.
		When Henry's captains returned with slaves and gold, African exploration, long derided, became very popular; from 1444 to 1446 between 30 and 40 vessels sailed for the W African coast under the prince's authority.
		Henry's chief importance, however, lay in his notable contributions to the art of navigation and to the progress of exploration, which provided the groundwork for the development of Portugal's colonial empire and for the country's rise to international prominence in the 16th cent.
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	Henry I of Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Henry, more than anyone, endeavoured to bringthe Jesuit order to Portugal andemployed them in the colonial empire.
		Henry renounced his clerical offices and sought to take a bride for the continuation of the Aviz dynasty, but Pope Gregory XIII, afiliated with the Habsburgs did not release him from his vows.
		Lisbon soon fell, and Philip was elected King of Portugal oncondition that the kingdom and its overseas territories would not become Spanish provinces.
	www.therfcc.org /henry-i-of-portugal-73666.html (239 words)

	>HENRY the Navigator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Henry was the third son of John I, King of Portugal, and Philippa, daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.
		Henry the Navigator established a navigational school in southern Portugal where he employed Arab, Jewish and Italian geographers and astronomers to produce the best maps in Europe.
		Henry was made grand master of the Order of Christ in 1420, after which the pope awarded him Madeira, the Azores and parts of the West African coast.
	www.hyperhistory.com /online_n2/people_n2/ppersons5_n2/henrynav.html (119 words)

	Henry of Portugal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He was the younger brother of king (Click link for more info and facts about John III) John III and, as a younger son, Henry was not expected to succeed to the Portuguese throne.
		Early in his life, Henry took Holy Orders to promote Portuguese interests within the (Any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian Church) Catholic Church, then dominated by (A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power) Spain.
		Henry, more than anyone, endeavoured to bring the (A Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen) Jesuit order to Portugal and employed them in the colonial empire.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/he/henry_of_portugal.htm (399 words)

	Chapter 12:The Individualtity of Portugal
		The second figure of importance was Henry, cousin of Raymond and grandson of Robert, Duke of Burgundy.
		Nevertheless, it was not autonomy; Henry was the vassal of the Spanish king.
		It should be remembered that Portugal took form in the area with a persistent core of independent character, in the northwest of the peninsula.
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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Hadley Henry Kimball
		Hadley, Henry Kimball (1871-1937), American composer and conductor, the leading American composer of his era.
		Numbered rulers named Henry are entered below by their countries, in alphabetical order, and by regnal numbers.
		Henry (of Portugal) (1512-1580), king of Portugal (1578-1580), son of King Manuel of Portugal.
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