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  Portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mainland Portugal is bordered by Spain to the north and east and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south.
Portugal traces its national origin to the Battle of São Mamede in 24th June 1128, when the first Portuguese King, Afonso I, son of Henry of Burgundy, proclaimed himself as Prince of Portugal and in 1139 as King of Portugal, outthrowning his mother, Teresa, Countess of Galicia and former Countess of Portugal.
In 1249 - 1250, the Algarve is finnaly reconquest by Portugal to the Moors, and in 1255, the capital is shifted to Lisbon.
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 List of Portuguese monarchs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The First County of Portugal would last for two centuries when the last count, Nuno Mendes, lost the Battle of Pedroso to Garcia II of Galicia and Portugal, son of Ferdinand I of Castile-León, and the first monarch to use the tile "King of Portugal".
However, the Church did not recognize Portugal as an independent country with the right to conquer territories from the Moors until 1179 when Pope Alexander III acknowledged Afonso as king of Portugal, and some argue that that event marks the beginning of the first royal dynasty of Portugal.
The dynasty began with the acclamation of Philip II of Spain as Philip I of Portugal in 1580, officially recognized in 1581 in the Cortes of Tomar.
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 Afonso I of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Alfonso was the son of Henry, Count of Portugal and Teresa of Leon, the illegitimate daughter of Alfonso VI of Castile.
Portugal had still to be acknowledged by the neighbouring lands and, most important, by the Catholic church and the pope.
Portugal was obliged to surrender as his ransom almost all the conquests Afonso had made in Galicia in the previous years.
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 Sancho I of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The kings of León and Castile were trying to annex the country and the Catholic church was late in giving its blessing and approval.
Teresa, princess of Portugal (1176-1250), married to king Alfonso IX of Castile
Berengaria, princess of Portugal (1194-1221), married to king Valdemar II of Denmark
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 Portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Portugal is a country in the extreme southwest of Europe, on the Iberian peninsula, bordering the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south, and Spain to the north and east.
Portugal emerged from the Reconquista as an independent kingdom in 1143.
Portugal itself entered the European Union in 1986, whilst another Asian dependency, Macau, reverted to Chinese sovereignty in December 1999.
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 Manuel I of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
These actions were meant to please the catholic kings and were taken as a clause of his marriage to princess Isabella of Aragon, then heiress of the future united crown of Spain (widow of his distanced nephew Afonso of Portugal).
Beatrice, princess of Portugal (1504-1538), married duke Charles III of Savoy
Edwart(Duarte), duke of Guimarães (1515-1540), great-grandfather of John IV of Portugal married Isabella (1512-1576),daughter of Jaime, duke of braganza.
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 Peter I of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pedro I of Portugal, eighth king of Portugal (in English, Peter I), known as the Cruel (not to be confused with Pedro I of Castile, also known as Pedro the Cruel) or as the Just (Port.
Once he was king he announced that he had married Inês de Castro in secret and that she, despite dead, was Queen of Portugal.
Maria, princess of Portugal (1342-1367), married to Ferdinand, prince of Aragon
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 Portugal
Portugal is a republic on the Iberian Peninsula in the extreme southwest of Europe and in the Atlantic Ocean (islands of Azores, Madeira, and Savage).
Main article: History of Portugal '' Before the creation of the Portuguese state, Portugal was ruled by the Phoenicians (from 1104 BC), Carthaginians (from 258 BC), Lusitanians (native insurrection from 194 BC), Romans (from 218 BC), Suevi (from 409), Visigoths (from 416), Arabs (from 711), and Asturians and Leonese (from 739).
Portugal, three years earlier, did not accept Christopher Columbus ' idea of reaching India from the west, because it was seen as unreasonable.
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Afonso I Henriques of Portugal, known as the Conqueror, was the first king of Portugal, after the independence from Castile.
Portugal had still to be recognized by the neighbouring countries and, most important, by the Catholic church and the pope.
Meanwhile, king Alfonso VII of Castile (Afonso's direct cousin) was not pleased with the independence of Portugal that, in his view, was nothing more than a rebellion.
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 John I of Portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
João I, king of Portugal (in English, John I) (the Good or sometimes, the Great), was born at Lisbon in April 11 1357 and died in the same city in August 14 1433.
He became king of Portugal in 1385, after the 1383-1385 Crisis.
Soon after, the king of Castile invaded Portugal, with the purpose of conquer Lisbon and remove João I from the throne.
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 John I of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
João I, tenth king of Portugal (in English, John I) (the Good or sometimes, the Great or even the One With Good Memory), was born in Lisbon on April 11 1357 and died in the same city on August 14 1433.
His love for knowledge and culture was passed to his sons: Duarte, the future king was a poet and a writer, was one of the most learned princes of his time and prince Henry the Navigator, the duke of Viseu, started a school of Navigation and invested heavily on science and development of nautical topics.
In 1430, his only surviving daughter, Isabella, married the Philip III, duke of Burgundy and enjoyed an extremely refined court in his lands; she was the mother of Charles the Bold.
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Sancho I of Portugal, known as the Populator, second king of Portugal, was born in November 11 1154 in Coimbra and died in March 26 1212 in the same city.
In 1170, Sancho was made a knight by his father, king Afonso I, and since then he became his second in command, both administratively and military.
With the death of Afonso I, Sancho I becomes the second king of Portugal in 1185.
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Sancho II of Portugal, the Pious, fourth king of Portugal, born in September 8, 1207 in Coimbra, was the oldest son of Afonso II of Portugal by his wife, princess Urraca of Castile.
Sancho became king in 1233 and was succeeded his brother, king Afonso III in 1247.
By the time of his accession to the throne, in 1233, Portugal was embroiled in a difficult diplomatic conflict with the Catholic church.
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 Portugal Information - TextSheet.com
Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the loss of its Brazilian colony in 1822.
The following year Portugal granted independence to its colonies in Africa: Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe) and lost its colony of East Timor in Asia to an Indonesian invasion.
Portugal is a fairly homogenous country linguistically, ethnically and religiously; Portuguese is spoken throughout the country, with only the town of Miranda de Douro's Leonese dialect recognised as a locally co-official language as Mirandese, Asturian in Spain is another Leonese dialect but not officially recognized by Spain.
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 List of Brazilian monarchs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Brazil was officially discovered on April 22, 1500 and based on the Treaty of Tordesilhas, it became a possession of Portugal.
The Kings of Portugal then were the Monarchs in Brazil until Napoleon's invading army forced the Portuguese government to flee to Brazil in 1807.
Having proclaimed independence from Portugal in 1822, Pedro I, son of Joo VI, was crowned Emperor of Brazil on December 1, 1822.
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 Ferdinand II of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
According to the Portuguese laws, the husband of a Queen could only be titled King after the birth of any child from that marriage (that was the reason the Queen's first husband,, did not have that title).
After the birth of the future Peter V of Portugal, he was proclaimed Ferdinand II of Portugal.
Eventually, Maria died in the birth of their eleventh child and Ferdinand had to assume regency because his son King Peter V was only 13 years old.
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 Afonso IV of Portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The first-born of this union, princess Maria of Portugal, married King Alfonso XI of Castile in 1328, at the same time that Afonso IV's heir, Peter, was promised to another Castilian princess, Constance of Penafiel.
Maria, princess of Portugal (1313-1357), married to king Alfonso XI of Castile
Leonor, princess of Portugal (1328-1348), married to king Peter IV of Aragon
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 Afonso II of Portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
With Portugal position as a country firmly established, Afonso II endeavoured to weaken the power of the clergy and to apply a portion of the enormous revenues of the Catholic church to purposes of national utility.
Afonso III of PortugalAfonso III, king of Portugal/ (1210-1279)
Leonor, princess of Portugal (1211-1231), married king Valdemar III of Denmark
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Edward of Portugal (Duarte, in Portuguese), the Philosopher, eleventh king of Portugal, was born in Viseu on October 31 1391 and died in Tomar on September 13 1438.
He was the son of John I of Portugal by his wife, Philippa of Lancaster.
Duarte was made king in 1433 and soon showed interest in internal consensus.
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 Portugal - Gurupedia
Mainland Portugal is bordered by Spain to the north and east and the
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.
December 1, 1640, a national king, John IV, is acclaimed, and a Restoration war against Spain is made.
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 Peter I of Portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pedro I of Portugal, king of Portugal (in English, Peter I), also known as Pedro the Cruel, was born in April 8 1320 and died in January 18 1367.
Pedro is chiefly known for his love of Ines de Castro, the Hispanic maidservant that his father had killed in 1355.
True he brutally murdered the killers of Ines de Castro, but he also persecuted felons of all classes, and instituted reforms to free the Portuguese Crown and Church from Papal intervention.
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 Portugal at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Before the creation of the Portuguese state, Portugal was ruled by the Phoenicians (since 1104 BC), Carthaginians (since 258 BC), Lusitanians (native insurrection from 194 BC), Romans (since 218 BC), Suevi (since 409), Visigoths (since 416), Arabs (since 711), Asturians and Leonese (since 739).
Portugal first became independent (as Kingdom of Galicia and Portugal) in 1065 under the rule of Garcia.
Portugal traces its national origin by the Battle of São Mamede in 23 June 1128, when the first Portuguese King, Afonso I, proclaimed himself as Prince of Portugal.
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 ipedia.com: Portugal Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Portugal is a democratic republic on the Iberian Peninsula, with several islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
Mainland Portugal is bordered by Spain to the north and east and the Atlantic Ocean to the west...
Mirandese, a related Romance language, is officially recognized in the municipality of Miranda do Douro, spoken in the villages of the municipality.
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Under the terms of the Peace of Trent the German king Maximilian I recognizes the French conquest of Northern Italy.
He has the parliament pass the Act of Supremacy which states that the King is the supreme head of the English church, and he is the one to appoint all clergy.
He was at the forefront of the Kings efforts to break the power of the Catholic church.
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 Articles - Monuments of Portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Portugal is a country with a rich and diverse history.
Throughout the centuries, many civilisations left a mark in the territory; from the Greeks and the Celts through the Romans and the Moors, this rich heritage is evident in the wealth of historical monuments throughout the country.
Portugal took its autonomy from the Kingdom of Leon in 1128 and emerged as a fully independent kingdom, officially recognised by thr Pope in 1143.
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 Articles - Sancho II of Portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
o Capelo), fourth king of Portugal, born in September 8, 1207 in Coimbra, was the eldest son of Afonso II of Portugal by his wife, princess Urraca of Castile.
Sancho became king in 1223 and was succeeded by his brother, king Afonso III in 1247.
By the time of his accession to the throne, in 1223, Portugal was embroiled in a difficult diplomatic conflict with the Catholic church.
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* Teresa, princess of Portugal (1176-1250), married to king Alfonso IX of Castile
* Berengaria, princess of Portugal (1194-1221), married to king Valdemar II of Denmark
* Mafalda, princess of Portugal (ca.1200-1257), married to king Henry I of Castile
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 List of Portuguese monarchs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This is a List of Portuguese monarchs from the independence of Portugal from Leon in 1128-29 to the proclamation of the Republic in October 5 1910.
See also: History of Portugal -- Lists of incumbents -- Kings of Portugal family tree -- Monuments of Portugal
The Royal Family of Portugal - House Bragança (http://www.geocities.com/henrivanoene/royalportugal.html)
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