parts King Dionysio his father but was far inferior to him in the Virtue of Liberality he is blamed also for the immoderate love he had to the exercise of Hunting He took for his Device a Stone upon which stood an Eagle with his Wings expanded This was the Soul ALTIORA PETO to signifie that he aspired to High and Celestial things Children of ALPHONSO IV. King OF PORTUGAL and of BEATRIX OF CASTILLE his Wife ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL dyed young at Penelle and lieth in the Church of St. Dominick at Santarem Nunez DIONYSIO OF PORTUGAL deceased at a year old and was inhumed in the Church of the Abbey of Alcobace at the feet of King Alphonso III. his great Grand-father JOHN OF PORTUGAL dyed also in his youth and was ensepultured at Odiuelles a Monastery of Religious dedicated to St. Bernard near unto King Denis his Grand-father PETER succeeded his father in the Kingdom OF PORTUGAL and continued the Line MARY OF PORTUGAL Queen of CASTILLE was conjoyned in Marriage with Alphonso XI CASTILLE King OF CASTILLE AND LEON EscarteleÌ„ Au 1. 4. de gueulles au Chasteau d'or au 2. 3. d'argent au lyon de pourpre eldest son of King Ferdinand IV. Her Marriage She was espoused unto him in the Year One thousand three hundred eight and thirty and they had issue Peter the Cruel King of Castille MARY deceased Years of CHRIST 1338 at Evora and was interred in the Chappel Royal having in her life-time suffered many indignities For Alphonso her Husband forsook her and bestowed his affections upon Leonora de Gasman his Concubine An History of Spain tells us that she dyed in the Year Party de PORTUGAL One thousand three Years of CHRIST 1356 hundred six and fifty Her too much freedom and prodigal Carriage to Martin Tellez a Portugal Lord Mariana Lib. 16. C. 22. was the cause why she was poysoned by her brother nay some stick not to say by her own father Alphonso XI left this world in the Year One thousand three hundred and fifty after he Years of CHRIST 1350 had by the Aid of the King of Portugal his Father-in-law vanquished the Moors at Teriffa as we have before written LEONORA OF PORTUGAL Queen of ARRAGON had for her Spouse PETER IV. ARRAGON D'or a quatro pals de gueulles King of ARRAGON Her Marriage eldest Son of King Alphonso IV. and of Teresa Countess of Urgel This Marriage was consummated in the Year One thousand three hundred eight Years of CHRIST 1348 and forty Party de PORTUGAL Peter being at that time a Widower his first Wife was Mary of Navarre He deceased at Barcelona in the Year One thousand three hundred fourscore and seven aged Seventy five years By this Princess of Portugal he had only a daughter named Beatrix who dyed young and was entombed in the Cathedral Church of Lisbonne near unto the body of Beatrix of Castille her Grand-mother 8. PETER KING of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES CHAP. IX PORTUGAL Comme cy devant PORTUGAL Party de MANUEL De gueulles a un bras au naturel aile d'or mouuant du second party tenant une EspeeÌ„ d'argent garnia d'or EscarteleÌ„ d'Argent au lyon de pourpre couronne d'or His Birth He first saw the light of day in the Year One thousand three hundred and twenty the Nineteenth day of the Month of April and was also in the Years of CHRIST 1320 Seven and thirtieth year of his age when his fathers death made his way to the Crown the end of whose Reign was sad and mournful occasioned by the death of CONSTANCE MANUEL this his sons Wife who was Daughter of the Infant John Manuel Duke of Penastel Marquess of Vilena and Siegnour of Asâ—alona who was son of the Infant Emanuel issued from Ferdinand III. King of Castille as hath been said before Nâ—â—â—z PETER had been before married to Blanche the daughter of Peter King of Castille whom he repudiated This Princess CONSTANCE was Entombed in the Abbey of St. Francis at Santarem Among the Ladies of Honour which attended her at Court the principal was Agnes de Castro daughter of Pedro-Fernando de Castro the most Excellently qualified Lord of Galicia Ga ibay and nearly related both to the Kings of Castille Mariana and Portugal This Lady being adorned with many beauties both of body and mind attracted the Affection of Prince PETER in the life time of his Wife Constance and after whose decease he clandestinely married as he afterwards confirmed by his Solemn Oath But some Lords of the Court having conceived a secret envy against her supposing her to be instrumental to incite the young Prince to prefer and agrandize her relations and kindred perswaded the King Alphonso IV. to put her to death Nunez Vasconcellius which was accordingly executed But the young Prince PETER conceived so great a displeasure and indignation thereat that he not only took Arms against his father but put to cruel torments the Instruments of this wicked assassination During his whole Reign he deported himself so to the Kings his Neighbours that although they were continually infested with grand Warres and troubles with which the Kingdoms of Castille and Arragon were often afflicted his Estate on the contrary had the happiness to enjoy under him a blessed and happy Peace He raised two Proud and Magnificent Tombs in the Abbey of Alcobace one for himself the other for Agnes de Castro whose Effigies was to be seen upon this Monument adorned with a Royal Diadem to signifie that he owned her for his Queen and Wife Also he caused Royal Obsequies to be performed at her Burial In fine when he had ruled the Scepter of Portugal for the space of ten years seven months and eight dayes he expired at Estremos in January His death in the Year One thousand three hundred threescore and seventeen He had Years of CHRIST 1377 for his Device a Star with these words Mariana Nunez MONSTRAT ITER which he took in Memory of the three Kings who were conducted by the Star going to adore our Lord at his Nativity Children of PETER King OF PORTUGAL and of CONSTANCE MANUEL his Wife DIONYSIO OF PORTUGAL whom some by error name Lewis dyed in his infancy FERDINAND King OF PORTUGAL whose History is contained in the Chapter following MARY OF PORTUGAL was married unto FERDINAND OF ARRAGON ARRAGON D'or a quatre pâ—ls de gueulles Party de PORTUGAL Marquess of Tortosa and Lord of Albarazzin son of Alphonso IV. King of Arragon and of Leonora of Castille his Wife This Prince was slain in a place called Chastillon by the command of his Brother there having several quarrels fell out betwixt them and upon a suspicion that he had that this Prince would attempt the Crown This violent death hapned in the Year Mariana Lib. 17. C. 8. One thousand three hundred Years of CHRIST 1363 threescore and three Natural Children of
their Enemies Mariana The Principal of which was the King of Castille who incited by the Queen of Portugal Leonor his Wives Mother raised a considerable Army with which he laid a Siege to Lisbonne defended this City was with so much resolution that after the Castillians had sate down before it some months Vasconcellius they were constrained to raise their Camp Upon their retreat the Portugues animated by the presence of their generous Prince JOHN fell into the pursuit of them unto Aljuberot The Battel of Minberot where both Armies drew up and began the Fight and where the Castillians were worsted This notable Victory hapned to be in August Froisard Anno One thousand three hundred Years of CHRIST 1385 fourscore and five From which year some have computed the time of the Reign of JOHN and write that he was then Proclaimed King Nunez After this generous exploit gathering the fruit of this his Victory he conquered from his Enemy and reduced to his obedience those Cities and Towns which had been lost in the former Warre In the mean time the King of Castille being deceased Henry III. his Son and Successor having had the sad experience of his Fathers losses and the new King of Portugals successes was willing to let fall his Fathers pretentions to hearken to a peace at last concluded betwixt these two Kings and afterwards continued with King John II. Son of this Henry So that now King JOHN OF PORTUGAL seeing himself in the enjoyment of a happy peace and also in a good correspondence with his Neighbours Notwithstanding he was grown in years that checked not his resolution from aspiring unto high and pious designs He turned his Armes therefore against the Moors and Sarazens of Affrick and by the example of his Valiant Sons Godefroy subdued the strong Town of Septe which stood Years of CHRIST 1415 as a Rampire opposite to Spain to the great prejudice of the Christians And considering his Kingdom to be of too small an extendure Mariana lib. 20. c. 7. to Dignifie the numerous issue he had by his happy Marriage he projected to acquire them possessions by the force of his Armes in other Kingdoms Insomuch that he gave beginnings to those famous Conquests which have since been prosecuted and continued by the illustrious Kings his Successors The exercise of his Armes was no Remora to impede the progress of his Justice witness the Code of Justinian Vasconcellius which he caused to be translated into his own Language Nunez to the end his Subjects might observe it as his Royal Ordinance And for a Monument of his Piety he founded the Monastery of the Order of St. Dominick dedicated to the holy Virgin giving it the name of BATTEL in remembrance of that signal Victory there gained vpon the Castillians and caused it to be built in the same place where he was Conquerour And because the Cathedral Church of Lisbonne was first subject to the Arch-bishop of Merida and then to that of Braga he obtained the erection thereof into an Arch-bishoprick from Pope Boniface II. which was done in the Year One thousand three hundred fourscore and ten The Magnificence of this Prince yet appears in those superb Structures of several Palaces and Royal Mansions which he built in the City of Lisbonne and in those of Saintre Sanctareâ— Almerin and other places In fine after so many Hernick performances Vignier King JOHN whom Froissard by mistake calls Dionysius finished the course of his life at Lisbonne His death Years of CHRIST 1433 the Fourteenth day of August in the Year One thousand four hundred three and thirty after he had lived Threescore and sixteen years and Reigned Eight and forty years Four months and Nine dayes Vasconcellius His body was with Funeral Pomp at that time a thing unaccustomed conducted by men of all Estates in a Chariot of Triumph his Sons accompanying it and deposited in the same Monastery of BATTEL He was so lamented by his Subjects that they gave him these glorious Titles of With the good Memory and of Father of the Countrey In short he had in the course of his life several rencounters and conformities parallel with those of the Valiant French Prince Charles Martel This King JOHN OF PORTUGAL united his Forces and Designs against the Castillians with John of England Duke of Lancaster And du Chesne in his History of England one of the younger Sons of Edward III. King of England who pretended to the Kingdom of Castille in the right of his second Wife Constance daughter of King Peter the Cruel this English Prince assisted him with a Fleet well furnished with Souldiers and more firmly to contract this Alliance King JOHN after he had obtained Dispensation from the Pope for the Vow he had made as a Knight of the Order d'Avis espoused PHILIPPA OF LANCASTER his Daughter Nunez His Marriage this Marriage was Celebrated Years of CHRIST 1387 in the Year One thousand three hundred fourscore and seven The Duke of Lancaster promising himself Vasconcellius that by this course he should more easily make his way to the Kingdom of Castille The Queen PHILIPPA dyed a long time before the King her Husband about the Year One thousand Years of CHRIST 1415 four hundred and fifteen during that preparation of Warre which he made for his Voyage into Affrica leaving with the grief of her Death a Noble and Flourishing Progeny which did not degenerate from the Vertues and Excellencies of their Father His Device was a Rock the Chief of which was transpierced with a Sword held by an Arm issuing out of a Cloud with these words ACUIT UT PENITRET for to signifie that he exercised his Souldiers to things trouble some and difficult that they might the more easily perform the high and generous Enterprises Children of JOHN I. King OF PORTUGAL and of PHILIPPA OF LANCASTER his Wife ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL dyed being aged Ten years the Two and twentieth day of November Anno One thousand four hundred and was inhumed in the Cathedral Church of Braga EDWARD OF PORTUGAL Successor to the King his father continued the Posterity PETER OF PORTUGAL Duke of CONIMBRA Seigneur of Mount-Maiour le Vieil PORTUGAL-CONIMBRA and Regent of the Kingdom of Portugal was a Prince whose Travels had excellently qualified him having gained much experience by the frequentation of several people of Europe Asia Party de ARRAGON and Affrick he was in the Court of the Emperour Sigismond and left not unvisited that of the great and renowned Sythian Tamerlane after several dangerous adventures D'or a quatre pals de guculles he returned home in the Year One Years of CHRIST 1428 thousand four hundred twenty and eight when passing through Castille the Inhabitants left their houses to meet him in his journey Mariana lib. 24. cap. 16. lib. 22. cap. 7. reporting what they had seen with wonder as
Mariana 11. JAMES OF PORTUGAL dyed shortly after his Father some write that he succeeded him in his Honours and Dignities which others make a doubt of CASTILLE 11. ISABEL OF PORTUGAL Queen OF CASTILLE Her Marriage Anno Escurtelé de LEON One thousand four hundred seven and forty was conjoyned by Marriage unto JOHN second of the name King of CASTILLE Party de PORTUGAL Years of CHRIST 1447 Son of Henry III. and of Katherine of Lancaster his Wife He dyed at Valedolit the Nineteenth day of July in the Year One thousand four hundred fifty and four leaving among other Children a Daughter named Isabel of Castille Wife to the King of Arragon Alphonso V. She was a Magnanimous Princess PORTUGAL-VISCO 11. BEATRICE OF PORTUGAL Her Marriage was the Wife of her Cousin FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL Duke of Visco Party de PORTUGAL a younger Son of King Edward This Princess had for her Son among others King Emanuel of Portugal in the Year One Years of CHRIST 1479 thousand four hundred threescore and nineteen she effected the peace betwixt the Kings of Portugal Alphonso V. and of Castille Ferdinand V. and is much commended by Historians for her singular Prudence and grand Authority 11. PHILIPPA OF PORTUGAL never married FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL youngest Son of John I. King of Portugal Vasconcellius and of Philippa of Lancaster Grand Master of the Order d'Avis Seigneur of Atouguie and of Sanueterre was given in Hostage by his Brother King Edward to the General of the Sarazens Aben Sala until that the said King should deliver up into their Hands the Town of Septe according to the Composition made after the fatal Battel of Tangier In the mean time Edward's death procured his deliverance and although he had Ordered it so in his Will yet FERDINAND ceased not to continue in the hands of these Barbarians the space of six years where he suffered many hardships which he underwent with much constancy and incredible patience and was moreover of so holy a life that he deserved to be Registred in the Rubrick of Martyrs His Death He dyed Aº One thousand Years of CHRIST 1443 four hundred forty and three in the One and fortieth year of his age His bones were brought out of Affrick into Portugal and reposed in the Abbey of Battel BLANCHE OF PORTUGAL eldest Daughter of John I. King of Portugal and of Philippa of Lancaster dyed young Her Marriage ISABEL OF PORTUGAL second Daughter BOURGONGNE was espoused in the Year One thousand four hundred nine and twenty unto PHILIP Years of CHRIST 1429 sirnamed the Good Duke of BOURGONGNE Escartelē Au 1 4. de FRANCE a la bordure componneē d'argent de gueulles qui est BOURGONGNE moderne Au 2. bandê d'or d'azure de six pieces a la bordure de gueulles qui est BOURGONGNE l'ancien Party de sable au Lyon d'or qui est BRABANT Au 3 des mesmes Armes de BOURGONGNE l'ancien Party de LIMBOURG qui est d'argent au Lyon de gueulles couronnē d'or Sur le tout de FLANDRES qui est d'or au Lyon de sable Le tout party de PORTUGAL and dyed in the Year One thousand four hundred threescore and thirteen Natural Children of JOHN I. of the name King of PORTUGAL ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL Duke of BRAGANZA who hath given original to that illustrious House from which the two last Kings of Portugal John IV. Father of King Alphonso VI. now Reigning Aº 1662. are descended BEATRIX OF PORTUGAL was three times married in England first to Thomas Fitz-Allan Earl of Arundel secondly to Gilbert Lord Talbot but had issue by neither her third Husband was Thomas Fettiplace of Shefford in the County of Berks Esq by whom she had issue John Fettiplace servant to King Henry VI. from whom is descended Fettiplace of North-Denchworth Pusey and Letcombe in the same County Joseph Texera a Portugues hath committed a notorious errour as he hath often done in writing the Genealogies of his Kings when he reporteth That King John I. of the name beside Blanche and Isabel had three other lawfully begottten Daughters viz. Philippa whom he writeth to be Wife of Eric King of Denmark Jane of Henry III. King of Castille and Leonora of the King of Arragon Peter IV. For which this Texera is justly reproved by Edward Nunez in that Censure which he hath published against him 10. EDWARD KING of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES CHAP. XII PORTUGAL Comme cy devant PORTUGAL Party d' ARRAGON D'or a quatre pals de gueulles Nonius The beginning of his reign was employed in the War of Affrick Mariana at the Siege of Tangier which succeeded not according to his desire Vasconcellius so that for the accomplishment of a Treaty which he made with the Moors into whose hands he promised to render in a certain time the City of Septe he was constrained to give them in Hostage the Prince Ferdinand his Brother who dyed in their hands The Estates of Portugal thinking it not reasonable to quit unto those Infidels a place of so great importance It was also in the beginning of his reign that the Popes Martin V. then Eugenius IV. assembled the Council of Basil at which all the Christian Princes were exhorted to give their assistance King EDWARD resolved to go thither in person Idem But the grand affairs that at this time lay upon his hands impeaded his Journey For to supply which default he sent thither a Solemn Embassade of which Alphonso Bishop of Porte and the Count of Ouren were chief They obtained of the Pope That from that time forward the Knights of the Military Orders of St. James and St. John should be dispensed for Marriage As also that the Kings of Portugal might from that time be Anointed and Sacred as the Kings of England were The same King EDWARD was of a temper couragious and that which is rare in a Prince joyned the exercise of Armes with the knowledge of Letters and Sciences Mariana and so earnestly dedicated himself to the study of Philosophy that he composed many rare and excellent Works among others a Treatise of the Administration of Justice and the Duty of a Prince another of the Office of the Faithful Councellour and a third also of the Art of Riding and Managing of Horses His Eloquence and Piety History makes famous He was a favourer of Learned men and of all those that he observed to be excellent in any Art giving them access to his person and conferring familiarly with them for the advantage and information of his judgement Among those evils wherewith he was afflicted Vasconcellius that of the Plague was the most fatal which hapned in his Kingdom and from which his Royal person it self was not exempted For he was touched with a contagious Disease upon the opening of a Letter which one sent him from an infected place suddenly after which
he dyed in the Abbey of Tomar whither he had retired Years of CHRIST 1438 to avoid the danger the Eighteenth day of September His Death in the Year One thousand four hundred eight and thirty which was the Seven and thirtieth Year of his age and the Fifth of his reign He had his Burial in the Abbey of Battel His Marriage In the Year One thousand four hundred eight and twenty this King EDWARD Despoused ELEANOR OF ARRAGON L. Marin siculus Mariana Lib. 20. Cap. 16. Lib. 21. Cap. 13. Years of CHRIST 1428 second Daughter of Ferdinand of Castille King of Arragon and Sicilie and of Eleanor of Albuquerque his Wife the Princess had in Marriage Two hundred thousand Florins She was then aged Twenty seven years and not Six and thirty as writeth Mariana for the Portugal Historians note her Birth to be in the Year Her Birth One thousand four hundred and one Years of CHRIST 1401 By his Testament he ordained his Wife Regent of the Kingdom during the minority of his eldest Son and Successor to the great dissatisfaction of the Princes his younger Brothers and also of the people who would not submit to the Command of a Woman and more especially of a Stranger this gave occasion to the Estates of the Kingdom to reject this his Will and on the contrary to nominate for Regent Peter Duke of Conimbra Brother to the Defunct at which the Queen conceived so great a displeasure that she made her complaint to her Brothers and the King of Castille but in vain so that leaving Portugal she retired to Toledo where she dyed a sudden death in the Year Her death One thousand four hundred five and forty the Years of CHRIST 1445 Eighteenth day of February not without suspition of poyson Her body was first inhumed in the Abbey of Religious of the Order of St. Dominique founded in the place where she chose her abode but afterwards transported to that of Aljubarot by the care of the King her Son King EDWARD had for his Device a Lance environed with a Serpent the one is the Symbole of Warre and the other of Wisdom with this Inscription LOCO ET TEMPORE to represent that War must be prosecuted in time and place and in such occasions to use Prudence and Discretion Children of EDWARD King OF PORTUGAL and of LEONOR OF ARRAGON his Wife 11. ALPHONSO King of PORTUGAL continued the Line FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL Duke of VISCO Years of CHRIST 1438 grand Master of the Orders of Christ PORTUGAL-VISCO and of St. James and Constable of Portugal he accompanied King Alphonso V. his Brother in his Warres of Affrick D'argent a cinq Escussons d'azure peris en Croix chacun chargé de cinq besants d'argent posez en sautoir a la bordure de gueulles aussi chargeé de huict chafleaux d'er at what time he took the Fort of Alcacer a Maritime Port. Afterwards he was again sent into Affrick where he performed several acts of Hostility against the Mahumetans among others the prize of the Town of Anafe and then returned Triumphant and Glorious into his own Countrey He married his Cousin Beatrice of Portugal His Marriage a younger Daughter of his Uncle John of Portugal Grand Master of the Order of St. James and Constable of the Kingdom She was a Princess prudent and deliberate it was she that finished the Peace betwixt the two Kings Ferdinand of Arragon Escartelé d' ARRAGON and Alphonso of Portugal upon the difference they had concerning the Kingdom of Castille as we have told you before Some Historians write That the King of Portugal D'or-a quatre pals de gueulles John II. Nephew of FERDINAND His Death put to death this Prince his Father-in-law But others better informed Years of CHRIST 1470 say That he dyed at Cetobriga above ten years before John came to the Crown of Portugal PORTUGAL-VISCO viz. the Eighth day of September Anno One thousand four hundred threescore and ten being only Seven and thirty years old Party de PORTUGAL which was the Flower of his age His Corps was interred at Badaios within the Church of the Conception which had been founded by the Dutchess Beatrice his Wife who there placed a Convent of Nunnes Children of FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL Duke of VISCO and of BEATRICE OF PORTUGAL his Wife PORTUGAL-VISCO 12. JOHN OF PORTUGAL Duke of VISCO after his Father dyed without issue PORTUGAL-VISCO qui est Escartelé de PORTUGAL d' ARRAGON 12. JAMES OF PORTUGAL also Duke of VISCO succeeded in the Dutchy after the decease of Prince John his eldest brother But because he maliciously conspired against King John II. his brother-in-law he came to a mournful and tragique end For in the Year One thousand four hundred fourscore and three this young Prince being but in the Twentieth year of his age was killed by the Kings own hand Mariana Lib. 24. C. 23. Vasconcellius which some Authors believe was done to the intent that way might be made to the Crown for his Bastard-son George Duke of Aviero after his decease But this design took not effect for the King better counselled gave the Estate of the Defunct unto his Brother Emanuel and furthermore appointed him Heir of the Kingdom by his Testament which he enjoyed accordingly Natural Children of JAMES OF PORTUGAL Duke of VISCO 13. ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL was highly advanced PORTUGAL for King Emanuel gave him the Dutchy of Visco and Dignified him with the Office of Constable of Portugal which he had in the Year One thousand five hundred Comme cy devant but he dyed four years after leaving no Children but one only Daughter named 14. MARY OF PORTUGAL who was espoused to the Marquess of VILLE-REAL 12. EDWARD OF PORTUGAL all Children of Ferdinand of Portugal PORTUGAL-VISCO Duke of Visco by Beatrice of Portugal his wife and died in their minority 12. DIONYSIO OF PORTUGAL all Children of Ferdinand of Portugal PORTUGAL-VISCO Duke of Visco by Beatrice of Portugal his wife and died in their minority 12. SIMON OF PORTUGAL all Children of Ferdinand of Portugal PORTUGAL-VISCO Duke of Visco by Beatrice of Portugal his wife and died in their minority 12. EMANUEL King OF PORTUGAL youngest son of Ferdinand of Portugal Duke of Visco and of Beatrix of Portugal his Wife succeeded King John II. and continued the Posterity Her Marriage 12. LEONORA was Queen of Portugal PORTUGAL as you may observe in the History of John II. King of Portugal her Husband by whom she had one only Son which was Prince Alphonso Party de PORTUGAL-VISCO deceasing before his Father as shall be discoursed hereafter Her Marriage 12. ISABEL OF PORTUGAL PORTUGAL-BRAGANZA was Dutchess of BRAGANZA There shall be more ample mention made of this Princess in the Story of Ferdinand II. of the name Duke of Braganza her Husband
Torches of his pompious Funeral set on flame almost so soon as those of his Nuptials He was then Sixteen years old His body was brought and interred in the Monastery of Battel His Widow in second Marriage was espoused to the Great Emanuel Successor of John II. Father of this ALPHONSO Some Authors write that this death came by the Judgement of God for his Fathers cruel usage of some Princes of his own Blood So the Crown of Portugal that had continued Three hundred and fifty years in a direct Male Line from Father to Son or from Brother to Brother fell into the Collateral of the Dukes of Visco A Natural Son of King JOHN II. GEORGE OF PORTUGAL Duke of Conimbra hath given original to the Dukes of Aueiro who shall be mentioned in the Second Part of this History 12. EMANUEL KING of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES on this and the other side the Sea in Affrick Lord of Guineé and of the Conquest Navigation and Commerce of Ethiopia Arabia Persia and India CHAP. XV. PORTUGAL Comme cy devant Party de CASTILLE-ARRAGON De gueulles au Chasteau d'or qui est CASTILLE Escartele d'argent au lyon de pourpre qui est LEON Party d'or a quatre pals de gueulles qui est ARRAGON Contre party de mesme l'escu flanchē d'argent a deux Aigles de sable qui est ARRAGON-SICILIE PORTUGAL Party de CASTILLE-ARRAGON comme cy dessus PORTUGAL Party D'AUSTRICHE ou ESPAINE Qui est Escartele Au premier aussy Escartelé Au 1. 4. de CASTILLE Au 2. 3. de LEON Au 2. grand quartier d' ARRAGON Party d' ARRAGON-SICILIE Au 3. quartier de gueulles a la fasse d'argent qui est AUSTRICHE Sousteun de bandē d'or d'azur de six pieces a la bordure de gueulles qui est de BOURGONGNE la primiere Branche Au 4. quartier d'azur a trois Fleurs de Lis d'or a la bordure compouneê d'argent de gueulles qui est BOURGONGNE de la second Branche Sousteun de Sable au Lyon d'or armé lampasse de gueulles qui est BRABANT Et sur les trois quatriesme grands quartiers d'or au Lyon de Sable qui est FLANDRES Party d'argent a une Aigle esployee de gueulles becqueé membreé d'or qui est du Marquisat du Sainct Empire The King of Portugal his Grand-father by the Fathers side had issue a younger Son who carried the name of Ferdinand and was Duke of Visco who by a Princess of his own Blood called Beatrice daughter of his Uncle John of Portugal Grand Master of the Order of St. James and Constable of the Kingdom had among other Children this King EMANUEL born in the City of Alcochet the last day of May in the Year One thousand four hundred threescore and nine His Birth Years of CHRIST 1469 He was first honoured with the Title of Duke of Beia then being in the Six and twentieth year of his age succeeded to the Crown of Portugal after the death of John II. his Cosin dying without Children in the Year One thousand four hundred thirty and five Years of CHRIST 1495 First of all he called a General Council in which he put the Question Hier. Osorius in Hist Reg. Emanuel Mariana Whether he should prosecute or decline the designs of the King his Predecessor for the Conquest of new discoverie after the deliberation and advice required in a matter of that moment it was resolved That he was obliged to prosecute them as well for the Honour as the Profit and great advantage that would thereby accrue to him and his Estate Then being set on edge by the example of the Kings of Castille his Neighbours who had made discovery of the West-Indies he endeavoured for his part to find out with his Ships all that Countrey on the further side the Cape of Good Hope at which the Fleet of King John II. had before arrived unto the East-Indies from whence he knew that the precious Stones Spices Drouges Perfumes Medicinals and other singular and precious commodities were imported for the accommodation of whole Europe Years of CHRIST 1499 So that in the Year One thousand four hundred fourscore and nineteen Osorius he sent Vasquez Gama a Portugal Gentlemen with four Ships who in two years Voyage discovered the whole Western Coast of Ethiopia with the Isles of Quiola Mosambique Monbaze Melinde and at last arrived at the Kingdom of Malabar otherwise called Calecur so named from the Capital City so named which is the place of all the East most frequented by the Merchants and from whence the greatest quantity of Spices is shipped for this part of the world Wherefore after that the Portuguesses had been favourably received by the King of this Countrey and observed with great danger which was occasioned by the unfaithfulnesse of the Moors that which they knew their Prince EMANUEL to be most desirous of they returned to bring the honour to their Countrey of the Discovery of things not known nor seen since the Creation of the World by any Nation of Europe which Antiquity it self thought to be impossible Years of CHRIST 1500 Not long after he sent a second Caravelle about the Year One thousand five hundred under the Command of Pedro Alvarez Cupral Idem Osorius which endeavouring to steer the same course with the former was by storm driven upon the Coast of Brasille at that time known by the name of St. Croix joyning to Peru. By others nevertheless it 's believed Mariana lib. 26. that it was Americ Vespure a Florentine who under the Countenance of the same King EMANUEL discovered the Countrey of Brazille But be it as it will Lopez Castagneda in the History of the East-Indies John de Baros Cupral having informed himself of the state of this Countrey steered the course that he formerly intended and passed by the Kingdoms of Quiola Mosambique and Melinde with the Kings whereof he contracted an Alliance in the name of EMANUEL his Master and there raised several Fortresses Finally he arrived at the Port of Calecut the King whereof at his first entrance entertained him with friendship desiring also to enter into a League with the King of Portugal Damian de Goez But the Moors and Sarazens that held a Commerce in his Kingdom so wrought upon the King that they changed his mind and he became a mortal enemy This was the ground of a cruel Warre betwixt them which lasted above Thirteen years in which time the Portugals performing many notable actions of Warre Osorio acquired a grand reputation and Empire in the East the experience of their Valour causing the Kings of Cochan Coulan and Cananor Neighbours of Calecut to seek their friendship by a Peace with their King EMANUEL In the mean time the Portugal Garisons of Affrica under the Government of John Meneses the Kings Lieutenant in the City and Fortress of Arzille and of Roderick de Castro engaged the Moors with
as the Magnificent Church of Bethleem dedicated to the holy Virgin upon the River Tagus near unto Lisbonne and the Monastery of St. Jerosme in the same place another stately Church at Tomar and the Convent of the Cordeliers at Evora as also a House at Lisbonne called De Misericordia for the Relief of poor Gentlemen He also Founded the Royal Palace in the same City and another at Conimbra Idem After so many notable Victories he sent a stately Ambassade to Pope Years of CHRIST 1513 Leo X. with several rich presents besides a Rinocere and an Elephant which was according to a Portugal Historian the first that Rome had ever seen come from the Eastern parts In fine His Death EMANUEL departed this life at Lisbonne the Thirteenth day of December in the Year One thousand five hundred twenty and one Years of CHRIST 1521 aged Fifty and two years Mariana having Reigned Six and twenty He was inhumed in the same Church of Bethleem Vasconcellius which he left unfinished But Queen Katherine King John III. his Sons Wife built the High Altar and also erected two stately Monuments for this King and Queen a place since designed for the Mortuary of their Kings Osorius Besides the works of Piety which we have observed in this King he had also the care to convert unto the Christian faith a good number of Jews and to exterminate the Sarazens his Kingdom He remitted to the Ecclesiastiques the tenths which they payed to his Demain for Sales and Acquisitions caused several profitable Laws to be digested into better Order and Administred Justice with all Integrity Also by his Wisdom and by so many signal Acts and prosperous Voyages he rendered his Kingdom Rich and Flourishing abounding in Gold Silver Pearl pretious stones Spices and other excellent Commodities so that the Portuguesses called his Reign The Golden Age. He was furthermore admired for his Sobriety and to have abstained from Wine the whole course of his life He was a great Lover of Hunting Hawlking and Musick His Device was a Sphere and a terrestial Globe environed with the Sea with this Circumscription PRIMUS CIRCUNDEDISTI ME. To signifie that His Fleets had compassed the whole Circle of the Earth Idem This great King was thrice married His first Marriage First Aº One thousand four hundred fourscore and seventeen Mariana in the Month of October and in the City of Alcantara Vasconcellius to the Princess ISABEL OF CASTILLE eldest Years of CHRIST 1497 Daughter of Ferdinand and Elizabeth King and Queen of Castille and Arragon and Widow to the Prince of Portugal Alphonso Son of King John II. his Cosin and Predecessor Not long after this Marriage the young Prince John of Castille Isabels brother deceased so that she became heir apparent to the Kingdoms of her Father and Mother of which King EMANUEL and she were declared Princes But a little while after the Three and twentieth day of August Aº One thousand four hundred fourscore Years of CHRIST 1498 and eighteen this young Queen dyed in Child-bed at Saragoca in Arragon her Body was transported to Toledo and interred in the Nunnery of St. Isabel which King Ferdinand her Father had founded Idem Two years after the Thirtieth day of October His secōd Marriage Aº One thousand five hundred King EMANUEL espoused after Dispensation granted by Pope Alexander VI. his second Wife at Setubal not at Valence as some Years of CHRIST 1500 write being the Princess MARY OF CASTILLE Sister of Isabel his first Wife She also dyed in Child-bed at Lisbonne in the Year Years of CHRIST 1517 One thousand five hundred and seventeen aged Five and thirty years and was buried in the Monastery of our Lady His third Marriage The third and last Wife of King EMANUEL was LEONOR OF AUSTRIA Sister to the Emperour Charles V. and Daughter of Years of CHRIST 1519 Philip I. of the name and of Joane King and Queen of Castille This Marriage was Celebrated in the Year One thousand five hundred and nineteen and lasted but two years Leonor espoused for her second Husband Francis I. of that name King of France who had before married Queen Claude a former Wife She deceased at Validolit Mariana others say at Badaios where Years of CHRIST 1558 she was buried in March Anno One thousand five hundred eight ond fifty in the Sixtieth year of her age The History of King EMANUEL hath been most elegantly written in the Latin Tongue by Hierosme Osorio Bishop of Silve in the Algarvies by Damian Goez a Portugal Knight in his Language who was employed in several important Voyages and other affairs His Conquests also have been recorded by Lopez de Castagneda and Anthony de St. Romain in their Histories of East-India by Alphonso d'Albuquerque in his Commentaries John de Baros in the History of Asia Peter de Maris in his Dialogues John-Pedro Maffeé of the Order of Jesus in the History of the Indies in a most eloquent stile but incomparably well worded by John Mariana and Antonio Vasconcellos of the same Order Children of EMANUEL King OF PORTUGAL and of ISABEL OF CASTILLE his first Wife MICHAEL Prince OF PORTUGAL Castille and Gironne PORTUGAL born in the Year His Birth One thousand four hundred fourscore and eighteen Escartele Au 1. 4. de PORTUGAL Au 2. 3. contre-escartele Au 1. 4. de CASTILLE Au 2. 3. de LEON Years of CHRIST 1498 and in the Month of August was acknowledged for the Prince and Heir apparent of the Kingdoms of Castille and Arragon but he lived only two years His Death and dyed Anno One thousand five hundred at Granada where Years of CHRIST 1500 he lieth in the Chappel of the Kings By his decease the Infanta Donna Joane his Aunt by the Mothers side came to the Succession of the Estates of Castille Arragon Sicilie and several others which she transmitted to the Emperour Charles V. her Son Children of EMANUEL King OF PORTUGAL and of MARY OF CASTILLE his second Wife JOHN III. of the name King OF PORTUGAL continued the Succession LEWIS OF PORTUGAL Duke of BEIA PORTUGAL-BEIA Escartele de PORTUGAL de CASTILLE Seigneur of Septe Maure Couillan and Almade and Constable of Portugal second Son of King EMANUEL by his second Wife MARY OF CASTILLE was born in the City of Abrantes the third day of March in the Year Nonius One thousand five hundred and six At what time the Emperour Charles V. Sandoval His Birth his Brother-in-law undertook the Voyage of Affrick for the Conquest of the City of Thunes from the Moors and the protection of Years of CHRIST 1506 Muleasses Mariana who had made his application to this great Emperour for assistance Years of CHRIST 1535 LEWIS accompanied him in that glorious expedition and had the command of the Ships which King John III. his Brother had sent to the
also thought that it would be agreeable to the Portuguesses to have a young King as was Rainucio that they might educate and instruct him after their own fashion and manners But King Philip of Spain having the power in his hand rendred himself peaceable possessor Years of CHRIST 1580 of this Kingdom Rainucio espoused Margaret Aldobrandin Pope Clement VIII his Neece and had issue Alexander Farnese second of the name Duke of Parma and Placentia who after the death of his Father remained under the Tutilage and Government of Edward Farnese the Cardinal his Uncle younger Son of Duke Alexander first of the name Margaret Farnese Sister of Rainucio and Edward was married to Vincent de Gonzaga first of that name Duke of Mantua but they were separated by the Authority of the Church KATHERINE OF PORTUGAL Her Marriage Dutchess of BRAGANZA PORTUGAL-BRAGANCE younger Daughter of Prince Edward was married to John of Portugal her Cosin sixth Duke of Braganza who was one of those Princes that were Competitors for the Kingdom of Portugal in the right of this Katherine his Wife D'argent au sautoir de gueulles chargé de cinq Escusson de Portugal alledging that she ought to precede the King of Spain Philip II. Son of the Empress Isabel of Portugal as being Daughter of Edward this Isabels Brother whom she did represent And caused to be written in the University of Conimbra divers reasons in her favour which they sent to several Kings and forrein Princes Katherine grounded principally upon these reasons a Party de PORTUGAL H. Franchi Conestaggio That in all Successions of Crowns the last possessor was to be succeeded jure hereditatis which allowed the benefit of representation that she representing the Infante Don Edward her Father Brother of Henry ought to precede all the other pretendants the Catholique King because issued from a Daughter the Prince Anthony for being Illegitimate Raynucio Farnese as being farther removed from Henry by the decease of Mary of Portugal his Mother the Law never allowing a Grand-child that benefit But especially by the prime and fundamental Laws of the Kingdom put in execution against Beatrix Daughter of Ferdinand King of Portugal who having married out of the Kingdom to the King of Castille as you may note page 35. See also a clause of the Law of Lamego Fol. 6. her right of succeeding was utterly lost and King John chosen in her stead she was to be preferred before all Claimers or Competitors whomsoever in regard of her being both born and married within the Kingdom They had issue Theodosius II. of the name seventh Duke of Braganza Father of John II. of that name eighth Duke of Braganza Crowned King of Portugal by the name of John IV. who by this just Title left the Kingdom to his Son King Alphonso VI. Reigning at present 1662. Here are continued Children of King EMANUEL by MARY OF CASTILLE his second Wife ANTHONY OF PORTUGAL dyed not long after his Birth in the Year One thousand five hundred and seventeen ISABEL OF PORTUGAL Empress and Queen of SPAIN AUSTRICHE-ESPAGNE Escartelé Au premier quartier aussi Escartele Au 1. 4. de CASTILLE Au 2. 3. de LEON Au 2. quaâ—tier D'ARRAGON Party de ARRAGON-SICILIE Au 3. de gueulles a la Fasse d'argent qui est AUSTRICHE Soustenu de l'ancienne BOURGONGNE Au 4. quartier de la second branche de BOURGONGNE Soustenu de BRABANT Sur les trois quatriesme quartiers de FLANDRES Party de Marquisate de St. Empire Le tout Party de PORTUGAL born at Lisbonne in the Year One thousand five hundred and three the Fourth day of October Her Birth and having arrived at the Three and twentieth year Years of CHRIST 1503 of her age was in the Year One thousand five hundred twenty and six espoused at Seville Her Marriage to CHARLES OF AUSTRIA fifth of that name Emperour and King of Spain eldest Son of Philip of Austria first Years of CHRIST 1526 of the name and of Joane Queen of Castille and Arragon his Wife This Empress ISABEL brought to her Husband the Summe of Nine hundred thousand Ducates in Dower They were married by the Cardinal Salviati Pope Clement V. his Legate Her death She dyed in the City of Toledo the first day of May in the Year One Years of CHRIST 1539 thousand five hundred nine and thirty aged only Six and thirty years and her body was transported to Granada The Emperour her Husband deceased the One and twentieth day of Years of CHRIST 1558 September Ao One thousand five hundred eight and fifty having carried the honour and reputation of one of the greatest and most virtuous Monarchs that have commanded since Charles the Great Having gained several signal Victories upon the Turks and Infidels he most of all shewed the grandure of his Courage in this that he which had so many times vanquished others remained now Victorious upon himself in quitting the Empire with the other Estates and Kingdoms which he possessed and all worldly pomp to retire into a place of Solitude and there to pass the remainder of his life that he might the better apply himself to the service of God which he did after he had held his Empire Six and thirty years and his Hereditary Kingdoms Forty He left one Son Philip II. King of Spain who in the right of his Mother was of the number of the pretenders to the Kingdom of Portugal and rendred himself Master thereof as you have heard before Charles V. had also two Daughters the elder of which Mary of Austria was espoused to the Emperour Maximilian II. and the younger was married to John Prince of Portugal Son of King John III. and had issue King Sebastian BEATRICE OF PORTUGAL Dutchess of SAVOYE SAVOYE Escartele Au 1. 4. de pourpre au cheval gay effrayé contourné d'argent qui est le HAUTESAXE Party de Fasse d'or d sable de six pieces a la couâ—onnâ— de sinople perie en bande brochant sur le tout qui est la BASSESAXE Anté en point en forme de tâ—iangle d'argent a trois houtâ—rolles d'Espee de gueull s 2. 1. qui est ANGRIE Au 2. quartier d'argent au Lyon de sable l'Escu sâ—n é de billettes de mesme qui est du Daché de CHABLAIS Au. 3. de sable au Lyon d'argent armé lampassé de gueulles qui est d'Aouste Sur le tout de gueulles a la Croix plaine d'argent qui est l'Escu de SAVOYE moderne Party de PORTUGAL born at Lisbonne the last day of December Her Birth in the Year One thousand Years of CHRIST 1504 five hundred and four Her Marriage was conjoyned by Marriage in March Anno One thousand five hundred twenty and one with Charles III. Duke of Savoye Years of CHRIST 1521 Son of Philip Duke of Savoye and of Claude of Bretagne his Wife This Dutchess dyed
hundred and fifty three and Conditions on both sides punctually observed Thus did the Hollanders lose all their Acquists in Brazil which so exasperated those high and mighty States that at the coming into Holland of myn Heer Sigismond Schop who had there been General of their Militia they caused him to be imprisoned and tried for his life by a Council of War but notwithstanding endeavors of his enemies he was acquitted Nor were the Portugals at home less fortunate against their neighbour enemy the Spaniards for to omit many petty skirmishes in-roads made by them with all success desirable in the summer One thousand six hundred and fity four D. Antonio D'Albuquerque General of the Portuguess horse taking an advantage upon a party of Castillians which lay upon the Borders neer Aronches under the command of Count D'Amaranthe set upon them slew their General Amaranthe and took six hundred horse and farther animated with this success and the knowledge he had that a vigorous prosecution is the onely mother of a true victory pursued them with an Army of 3000 Foot and 1500 Horse eight leagues into their own Country as far as the old and strong Castle of D'Oluce while encouraging his Soldiers made valorous by their former good fortune he resolved to attacque and with continued batteries and storms so wearied out the enemy that after four days siege they yielded upon composition and Albuquerque looking upon it as a place considerable both for the countenancing of incursions into the enemies country and keeping in awe the town of Xeres which is hard by having repaired it and placed in it a strong Garrison returned About the beginning of the year One thousand six hundred and fifty five D. Francisco De Ferrara Rabella arrived in England with Commission from the King of Portugal as Agent to Oliver Cromwel who then swayed here under the title of Protector to make a more firm confirmation of the Peace with England and to advise I suppose about carrying on the War with Spain which when Cromwel had given some reasons to make the world believe he would commence against that Catholick Monarch and how much such a War was for the Interest of Portugal none will doubt who have read the foregoing story which made King JOHN Court that English Usurper with more Submissness and Complacency by both harbouring his Fleets and sending Presents to his Generals than otherwise his Genius would have permitted him to have done any way in prejudice of Englands lawful KING In the mean time the death of Pope Innocentius the Tenth made D. Francisco de Souza Ambassadour at Rome for the King of Portugal make new Addresses to Alexander the Seventh his Successor for Confirmation of the Church-Officers in that Kingdom for he never had any full Grant from Innocent but now the Spanish Ambassadors opposed themselves more than ever and by means of the Queen of Sweden who wholly imployed her interest for the benefit of that Nation endeavoured to frustrate even the Portuguesses Hopes nay so desperate was the Spaniards Malice That they laid several Designs to murder the Portugal Ambassadour but all proved ineffectual In sum After D. Francisco de Souza had spent some years in the Court of Rome to very little purpose he was upon the death of King JOHN the Fourth called home to be Governour of the young King Alphonso The proffered interchangeable Match with Savoy not taking effect father Du Rozaire a Dominican and Arch-bishop of Goa was sent Agent to France to treat about a Marriage between that King and the Infanta Donna Catharina with Proposals of Three Millions of Gold for Her Portion and that the King of Portugal would for Seven Years maintain Eighteen Men of War at Sea for the defence and service of the French Crown Long was this Business in Negotiation and by many thought would have taken effect the Agent being very highly carressed both by the King and Queen-mother of France but whether by reason of Cardinal Mazarine's dislike of it or other Reasons of State it was prolonged by continual demurs till after the King of Portugal's Death and then wholly broken off For King JOHN being now arrived to about Fifty years of Age in the Sixteenth year of his Reign His Death 1656. and in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and fifty six on the Sixth of November S. N. paid his last debt to Nature having a long time been troubled with an Obstruction in the Kidneys occasioned by the Stone and Gravel which was so sharp all the time of his Sickness that he seldom urined and when he did it was in so little quantity that it did scarce at all ease him this violent Pain put him into a Burning-feaver which in Ten dayes overpressed his Vitals Before his Death he appointed Donna Lucia his Queen to be Regent of the Kingdom during the minority of D. Alphonso her Son recommending to her for Assistants in the management of so great burden as a Crown the Reverend D. Emanuel Arch-bishop of Lisbon Don Runlio Marquess of Nisa the Earl of Canvandake and some others whose abilities love and fidelity he had experience of His Marriage His Queen Donna Lucia was eldest Daughter of John-Emanuel-Perez de Guzman Duke of Medina Sidonia and of Jane de Sandoval Daughter of the Duke of Lerme John-Gomez de Sandoval and Royas by Katherine de la Cerda He was a Person of a very comely presence his Countenance pleasant but inclining to Swarthiness his Body about a middle stature yet comely and well proportioned nor were the lineaments of his mind less becoming than those of his Body though if ye believe common fame he was none of the wisest Kings that ever Portugal could boast of the reason that he left so much of the Reins of the Government to his Wife a Woman of a Masculine and Politick spirit from whence perhaps that jesting Spaniard might take occasion to say That it was not the Portugal force but the Spanish policy that kept that Kingdom from the Catholique King alluding to the Queens being a Spaniard He was buried in the great Church of St. Vincenza del Foro under the High Altar a Monastery of Canons Regular of the Order of St. Augustine with all accustomed and becoming Ceremonies lamented by those Kings who had been his Allies especially by the King of France who honored his memory with a most magnificent Funeral Solemnity himself attended by most of the Nobles and Parliament of France gracing it with his Presence at the Church of Nostre Dame where after the Singing of Mass the Bishop of Vance pronounced a Funeral Oration suitable to so Royal a Subject and Occasion Children of JOHN IV. of the Name King of PORTUGAL and of Queen LUCIA his Wife THEODOSIUS Prince of PORTUGAL eldest Son of King John IV. was born at Villa-viciosa His Birth 1634. the Eighth day of February in the Year of our Salvation One thousand six hundred and thirty four After the Duke his Father came to the Crown the Ceremony of his Installation was performed when the Nobles and Grandees took an Oath to receive him for their Natural Prince as Son Heir
and Successor to their Lord the King but he lived not to give Portugal a King of his Name deceasing in the life-time of his Father in the Month of June His death 1653. Aº One thousand six hundred and fifty three and was interred in the Monastery of Bethleem 18. ALPHONSO second Son of King John was after the Death of his Brother Theodosius also Prince OF PORTUGAL His Birth August 21. 1643. The City of Lisbonne gave him Birth where he now wears the Royal Diademe of his Father 18. PETER Infant OF PORTUGAL third Son born at Lisbonne in the Year of Christ One thousand six hundred forty and eight is now living Anno 1662. 18. JANE Infanta OF PORTUGAL came into this World at Villa-viciosa the Eighteenth day of September in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred thirty and six She dyed young and was inhumed at Belleil 18. KATHERINE Infanta OF PORTUGAL Queen of GREAT BRITAIN FRANCE and IRELAND only Daughter now living of King John IV. took her first breath at Villa-viciosa upon the Five and twentieth day of November being St. Katharines day in the year of our Redemption One thousand six hundred thirty and eight The Treaties and Articles of this Marriage were concluded in England with the Count Don Francisco de Melo Ambassador for the King of Portugal who departed hence with the Ratification of the said Treaty of Marriage Upon his Arrival I need not acquaint you with what Joy this News affected the King Queen Mother and the whole Court nor their most Solemn Demonstration thereof by discharging of their Cannon making of Bonefires and other Entertainments yet were the People unwilling to think of Parting with this their Pious Princess for whose sake they were wont to say God had given them so Signal and Frequent Victories over their Enemies Not long after by an Express from England from the King to Her the Infanta KATHERINE was Complemented with the stile of Queen of GREAT BRITAIN and then with what possible Speed could be made was expected for England all things being prepared in a readiness for so great a Princess and so long a Voyage Then upon the Thirteenth day of April this present year One thousand six hundred threescore and two She passed with the King Her Brother the Queen-Mother Don Pedro and the whole Court unto the side of the River Tagus through several Triumphal Arches and a sumptuous Gallery built upon that Occasion where Her MAJESTY was received by the Earle of Sandwich who conducted Her on Board a stately Brigandine whence amidst many Tire and Vollies of Cannon and many more farewel Acclamations in the same Princely Company and Equipage Her MAJESTY came aboard the ROYAL CHARLES and was welcomed with the Thunder of the whole Navy In the Evening after a Princely Collation and many passionate parting Expressions a Gun from the Admiral gave the Signal of Her MAJESTIES Resolution to depart when all hands were set on work to weigh Anchor and let flie their Sails The King and Queen-Mother and their Train took their Farewel with hearts equally composed of Grief and Joy and Re-imbarqued for Lisbon returning with the discharge of all the Ordnance and so immediately with a fair leading Gale the whole Fleet began their Course being as they passed out of the River saluted by all the Block-houses Forts and Castles That Night and part of the next Day the Wind stood very propitious but afterwards proved averse and stormy so that they were forced to labour to and fro with contrary Winds it being the Six and twentieth of April when they got into the middle of the Bay of Biscay Her MAJESTY by the continual working and tossing of the Sea having been sick the most part of the Voyage About the Fifth of May with unwearied labour and skill the whole Fleet reached the Islands of Scilly Her Arrival had been every day expected a Fortnight before which caused the King to send down the Duke of York Lord High Admiral to attend Her upon the Coast and to Complement Her MAJESTY in His Name whereupon His Highness hasted to Portsmouth and on the Tenth of May attended by the Duke of Ormond the Earls of Suffolk and Chesterfield the Lord Berkley and other Persons of Quality went aboard the stately YAUGH to Coast about to meet Her MAJESTY On Sunday morning about Ten of the Clock they discovered the ROYAL JAMES but there was so great a Calm they could not reach the ROYAL CHARLES till Six at Evening The Earl of Sandwich having discovered His Highness YAUGH went out in his Barge to meet Him the Royal Banner being all the while vailed till He was aboard when His Highness came into the Ship the Souldiers gave Three several Shouts and all the Guns in the ROYAL CHARLES which from the Queens entrance till that time had been silent proclaimed His Welcome after which the several Ships of the Fleet paid Him their Salutes The Thirteenth of May at night the Royal Fleet came to St. Helens Point the most Eastern Promontory of the Isle of Wight and on Wednesday the Fourteenth of May the Queen landed at Portsmouth about Four of the Clock in the Afternoon where She was received by the Nobility Gentry and multitudes of Londoners as also by the Mayor and Aldermen of that Corporation with all the Expressions of Joy His MAJESTY having received the Express of His Queens landing prepared to be gone forthwith to Salute Her upon Her Arrival But His great Affairs of State and Bills by Him to be Ratified into Acts of Parliament which were not fully ready for His Royal Assent delayed him till Monday the Nineteenth of May having sent before Him the Bishop of London who departed the Seventeenth in order to the Solemnizing of the Marriage when He took Coach from the House of Lords at Nine of the Clock in the Evening with His ordinary Guards and lodged that night at Gilford the next day His MAJESTY posted with the same speed to Portsmouth where He arrived about Noon The Queens indisposition which yet held Her in Her Chamber caused the King to satisfie Himself only with a Visit in private that day Yet it pleased God to restore Her Majesty to such a degree of health that she was soon after able to go abroad to consummate the Marriage-Rites which were there performed upon Wednesday the 21. of May by Gilbert Lord Bishop of London which being concluded His Majesty Bedded His most Princely Lady in His Town of Portsmouth The next Week their Majesties removed to Winchester thence to Farnham and then to Hampton Court where They spent most part of this Summer as well for the Healthfulness as Majesty of the Place Then on Saturday the 23. of August being the Eve of St. Bartholomew a Day
other Persons of Quality which have spread not only in Portugal and Castille but also in Italy and more particularly in the Kingdom of Naples some of which have left the sirname of Portugal and taken the names of those Illustrious Houses into which they have matched which we find often practised in Spain ALPHONSO was first dignified with the title and quality of Count of Barcellos in the right of his first Wife BEATRICE PEREIRA Nonius Leo. she was daughter and heir of Nugno Alvarez Pereira second Constable of Portugal Count of Arrayalos Barcellos and Ourem Mariana As for the Dutchy of Braganza he was invested therein by the Infant Peter of Portugal Duke of Conimbra his Brother at what time he was Regent of Portugal during the minority of King Alphonso V. their Nephew in the Year One Years of CHRIST 1442 thousand four hundred forty and two Sometime after the same King Alphonso gave him the Seigneury of Vimarana For his second Wife he espoused CONSTANCE OF NOROGNA daughter of Alphonso of Castille Count of Gijon and of the Countess Isabel of Portugal But from this second Marriage there came no Children Mariana Lib. 21. Cap. 7. ALPHONSO is charged by Historians with extream ingratitude towards his Brother and Benefactor the Duke of Conimbra and to have been of the number of those that incited King Alphonso to pursue him with Armes unto the death as we have informed you before ALPHONSO dyed in the Year His Death One thousand four hundred threescore and one and was inhumed in the great Church at Chuues Years of CHRIST 1461 Children of ALPHONSO Duke of BRAGANZA and of BEATRICE PEREIRA his first Wife ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL Count of OUREM and Marquess of VALENCE gave original to the Counts of Vimioso whose Genealogy shall be deduced in its proper place FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL Duke of Braganza after his Father continued the Posterity ISABEL OF PORTUGAL or Braganza Espoused to JOHN OF PORTUGAL a younger Son of King John the first her Grand-father 11. FERDINAND I. of the name Duke of BRAGANZA Count of ARRAYALOS and Marquess of VILLA-VICIOSA HE was second Son of Alphonso of Portugal first Duke of Braganza and of Beatrice Pereira his first Wife and succeeded him in the Dutchy He was also Count of Arrayalos and Marquess of Valence by the gift of Alphonso V. and Governour of the City of Septe in Affrick His Wife JANE DE CASTRO was daughter and heir of John de Castro Seigneur of Cadaval and of Leonor of Acugna his Wife He received the Honour of Burial in the Church of St. Augustin at Villa-viciosa an Abbey which he had founded in that Seigneury Children of FERDINAND I. of the name Duke of BRAGANZA FERDINAND II. Duke of Braganza whose Story followeth in the next Page JOHN OF BRAGANZA Marquess of Mont-major was Constable of the Kingdom of Portugal but having a hand in the Conspiracy against King John II. forged by the Duke of Braganza his elder Brother he fled into the Kingdom of Castille where he dyed without leaving any issue by his Wife ISABEL OF NOROGNA daughter of Peter de Norogna Arch-bishop of Lisbonne ALVARO OF PORTUGAL hath given original to the Branch of the Marquesses of FERREIRA which shall be spoken of in their place ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL Count of FARO from whom the Counts of MIRA are issued as you may see hereafter KATHERINE OF PORTUGAL dyed having been affianced to JOHN COUTINHO Count of Marialva BEATRICE OF PORTUGAL Wife to PETER DE MENESES Marquess of Ville-real GUIOMARE DE CASTRO espoused to HENRY DE MENESES Count of Loullé 12. FERDINAND II. of the name Duke of BRAGANZA and VIMARANA AMong the Children of Ferdinand first of the name Duke of Braganza and of Jane de Castro his Wife this was the eldest PORTUGAL-BRAGANCE In the life-time of his Father he was established Count of Vimarana by the gift of King Alphonso V. And upon the point of his Marriage to his second Wife ISABEL OF PORTUGAL daughter of the Infant Ferdinand of Portugal he was created Duke of the same place of Vimarana The rigorous usage of this Prince and of other Grandees of the Kingdom by the Officers of King John II. gave ground to his unhappy Conspiracies against the State which Treason was thus discovered For when FERDINAND caused search to be made in his Evidences for certain Charters and Priviledges to get them confirmed his Secretary found the Letters of Intelligence and Conspiracy betwixt the Duke his Master and the Kings of Castille to the prejudice of the King his Soveraign into whose hands the Secretary delivered them in the Hope of a Recompence For some time the King dissembled the discovery and favourably received the Duke into his Court but one day having called him aside he charged him with his fault which the Duke would not confess but on the contrary protested his right intention and fidelity to his service But not ceasing to continue his Treasons the King resolved to bring him to a Tryal where being convicted and condemned to lose his life Mariana Lib. 24. Cap. 23. he was beheaded at Evora His Death the One and twentieth day of June in the Year One thousand four Years of CHRIST 1483 hundred fourscore and three and his Goods were Confiscated The Dutchess ISABEL his Widow the Queens Sister sent her three Children into Castille where they were favourably received by the Queen their Aunt The Body of the Duke was inhumed in the Church of St. Dominique of the same City of Evora and afterwards removed to the Convent of St. Augustine at Villa-viciosa The first Wife of this Duke Ferdinand was LEONOR DE MENESES daughter of Peter de Meneses first Count of Ville-real others say of Urana and of Margaret of Miranda his Wife by her he had no Children but he left issue by his second Wife before mentioned Children of FERDINAND II. Duke of BRAGANZA and of ISABEL OF PORTUGAL his second Wife JAMES Duke of BRAGANZA continued the Posterity PHILIP OF BRAGANZA was sent into Castille by his Mother when that fatal stroke fell upon his Father and there dyed without issue Some believe him to be the eldest Son DIONYSIO OF PORTUGAL or BRAGANZA espoused the Countess of Lemos and in her right was Earl thereof as we shall inform you in the Deduction of his branch MARGARET dyed not having been married 13. JAMES OF PORTUGAL Duke of BRAGANZA and Count of BARCELLOS PORTUGAL-BRAGANCE HE was eldest Son of Ferdinand II Duke of Braganza and of Isabel of Portugal his second Wife and was restored to all his Estates Years of CHRIST 1595 Honours and Lordships by King Emanuel his Uncle by the Mothers side immediately after he came to the Crown of Portugal Mariana He made him General of a Fleet which he sent for Affrica Aº One thousand five hundred and Years of CHRIST 1513 thirteen Vasconcellius where he reduced the City of Azamor which having been tributary to
the King of Portugal had thrown off their Yoke It was sacqued and pillaged by the Portuguesses which stroke so great a terrour into the Infidels that they abandoned to the Christians the Towns of Tite Almedina and other neighbouring places This Duke JAMES espoused two Wives His first Marriage his first was LEONOR DE MENDOZA daughter of John de Gusman Duke of Medina-Sidonia and of Isabel de Velasco his Wife Secondly He married JANE DE MENDOZA His second Marriage daughter of Diego de Mendoza Grand Alcaide of the City of Mouron and of Beatrice Suarez his Wife Children of JAMES Duke of BRAGANZA by LEONOR MENDOZA his first Wife THEODOSIUS OF PORTUGAL first of the name Duke of Braganza had issue ISABEL OF PORTUGAL was conjoyned in Marriage with the Infant EDWARD OF PORTUGAL youngest Son of King Emanuel who among other Children had Edward of Portugal Duke of Vimarana that dyed without issue Children of JAMES Duke of BRAGANZA and of JANE DE MENDOZA his second Wife JAMES OF PORTUGAL dyed without issue CONSTANTINE OF PORTUGAL was Great Chamberlain to King John III. And by him sent Embassadour into France A' Years of CHRIST 1549 One thousand five hundred forty and nine where he stood as his Proxy at the Baptizing of Lewis of France Duke of Orleans second Son of King Henry II. His Marriage He was also honoured with the Dignity of Vice-roy of the Indies and espoused MARY DE MENESES daughter of Roderick de Mello first Marquess of Ferreira and of Beatrice de Meneses his second Wife by whom he had no Children He dyed in the City of Estremos and was interred in the Church de las Hagas at Villa-viciosa FULGENCE OF PORTUGAL Prior of Vimarana had issue these Natural Children 15. FRANCIS OF BRAGANZA Canon at Evora Commissary of the Croissade of Portugal and of the Councel of Portugal residing in the Court of the Catholique King at Madrid 15. ANGELLICA Abbess of Villa-viciosa THEOTON OF PORTUGAL Archbishop of Evora was a Prelate of great Virtue He dyed at Validolit in the Year One thousand six hundred and two and his body was interred in the Monastery of St. Anthony at Evora JANE OF PORTUGAL Wife of BERNARDIN DE CARDENAS Marquess of Elche EUGENIA OF PORTUGAL espoused to FRANCIS DE MELLO Marquess of Ferreira her Cosin MARY and VINCENDA the one Abbess the other a Nun at Villa-viciosa 14. THEODOSIUS OF PORTUGAL first of the name Duke of BRAGANZA and BARCELLOS PORTUGAL-BRAGANCE JAmes Duke of Braganza and Leonor de Mendoza were father and mother of this Duke THEODOSIUS The King of Portugal John III. created him the first Duke of Barcellos a Title which hath ever since been affixed to the eldest Sons of this Royal House of Braganza His first Wife ISABEL DE CASTRO his Cosin was daughter of Dionysius of Braganza Count of Lemos and of Beatrice de Castro his Wife His second was BEATRICE DE LANCASTRO another of his Cosins daughter of Lewis de Lancastro and of Magdalene de Granada his Wife Children of THEODOSIUS Duke of BRAGANZA by ISABEL DE CASTRO his first Wife JOHN OF PORTUGAL Duke of Braganza succeeded his father in the Dutchy Children of THEODOSIUS I. Duke of BRAGANZA and of BEATRICE DE LANCASTRO his second Wife JAMES OF PORTUGAL having accompanied Sebastian King of Portugal at the second Voyage of Affrica against the Moors was at the fatal Battel of Alcacer where they were both slain the Fourth day of August in the Year One thousand five hundred threescore and eighteen without Years of CHRIST 1578 out having been married ISABEL OF PORTUGAL was espoused unto MICHAEL DE MENESES first Duke of Camigna and Marquess of Villa-real 15. JOHN OF PORTUGAL first of the name Duke of BRAGANZA and BARCELLOS Constable of PORTVGAL and Knight of the GOLDEN FLEECE THis Duke was eldest Son of Theodosius first of the name PORTUGAL-BRAGANCE Duke of Braganza by Isabel de Castro his first Wife At the time of the Ceremony performed in Portugal in the Month of August One thousand Years of CHRIST 1578 five hundred threescore and eighteen of the Recognition D'argent au sautoir de gueulles charge de cinq Escussons de Portugal un au melieu les autres au quatre bouts du sautoir Chargee sur le tout d'un Escu de PORTUGAL and Oath of Allegiance taken by the Portuguesses to Cardinal Henry in the Quality of King this same Duke of Braganza held the first place going before him and carrying the Sword as Constable During the life of this King who was much in years JOHN Duke of Braganza His Marriage was one of those Princes which were Competitors for the Crown of Portugal in the right of KATHERINE OF PORTUGAL his Wife daughter of the Infant Edward Son of Emanuel King of Portugal In her lay the only right of Succession page 68. warranted by the Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom page 6. so that from henceforward the Dukes of Braganza did justly wear the Royal Armes of Portugal without distinction the direct Male line being extinguished and the Kingdom falling to the Collateral of the Dukes of Braganza in the right of this Katherine And because that this Duke JOHN was the prime Grandee of the Kingdom and his Tenants the most Warlike and moreover confiding in the good-will which King Henry did bear him he thought himself half in possession of the Estate But in Fine he was forced to give place to King Philip II. whose best Title lay in the strength of a formidable Army with which he subdued Portugal as you have heard before who being come to the Crown continued him in his Estates gave him the Demonstrations of a high favour and associated him into the Order of the Knights of the Golden Years of CHRIST 1481 Fleece in the Year One thousand five hundred fourscore and one He lived not long after for he left this World in the Year One thousand five hundred fourscore and two His Death and was inhumed in the Church of St. Augustin Years of CHRIST 1582 of Villa-viciosa with his Predecessors Children of JOHN I. Duke of BRAGANZA and of KATHERINE OF PORTUGAL his Wife THEODOSIUS OF PORTUGAL second of the name Duke of Braganza mentioned in the Chapter following EDWARD OF PORTUGAL Marquess of Flechilla whose Pedegree is deduced next after this of Braganza ALEXANDER OF PORTUGAL was Arch-bishop of Evora and Inquisitor General of the Faith in Portugal PHILIP OF PORTUGAL fourth Son dyed young MARY OF PORTUGAL dyed without having been married SERAPHINE OF PORTUGAL espoused unto JOHN-FERNANDEZ PACHECO Duke of Ascalona and Marquess of Villena PORTUGAL 16. THEODOSIUS OF PORTUGAL PORTUGAL II. of the name Duke of BRAGANZA and Barcellos D'argent a cinq Escussons d'Azure peris en Croix chacun charge de cinq besans aussi d'argent posez en sautoir a la bordure de gueulles chargé de sept chasteaux d'or and Constable of
fatal Battel of Alcacer in which besides the King there dyed Eight or Ten Princes and Lords of the Blood-Royal The same ALPHONSO had three Wives the first was JANE DE VILENA Daughter of Manuel Telles Lord of Ugnon by Margaret De Vilena his Wife by whom he had no Children His second was JANE DE GUZMAN Daughter of Peter De Meneses Captain of Septe and of Constance De Guzman his Wife neither had he Issue by her But by YOLAND DE CASTRO his third Wife Daughter of Alvaro De Castro and of Anne D'Attaide his Wife he had one Son following SANCEO DE NOROGNA third of the Name Count of ODEMIRA Lord of Mortagoa who was also grand Alcaide of Estremos and espoused JULIANA DE LARA Daughter of Manuel De Meneses Duke of Ville-real and of Mary De Silva his Wife by her he had a Daughter which dyed young The same SANCEO deceased in Ao One thousand six hundred forty and two 14. JOHN DE FARO HE was eldest Son descended from the marriage of Sanceo De Norogna first of that Name Count of Odemira and Lord of Mortagoa and of the Countess Angela Fabra his second Wife and took to Wife ISABEL FREIRE Daughter of Emanuel Freire by Grimanesa de Melo his Wife by her he had his only Son viz. JOHN DE FARO second of the Name who was conjoined in marriage with MARGARET DE NOROGNA Daughter of John D'Almeida by Lucia D'Ornelas by her he had one only Daughter named 16. LUCIA DE FARO married to HIEROSME COUTINHO of the Council of State to the Catholick King Philip III. in the Kingdom of Portugal They had Issue PHILIPPA DE COUTINHO married to LEWIS D'ATTAIDA Count of Attougia and Viceroy of the Indies LORDS AND COUNTS OF VIMIERO AND OF FARO 13. FERDINAND DE FARO Lord of VIMIERO PORTUGAL-VIMIERO OF the Children of Alphonso of Portugal first of the Name Count of Faro and of Mary De Norogna Countess of Odemira his Wife he was the fifth Catherine of Austria Queen of Portugal Wife of King John the Third honoured him with the Office of Steward of her Houshold He left several Children by his Wife ISABEL DE MELO Daughter of Gomez De Figueiredo by Leonor De Melo viz. FRANCIS DE FARO who continued the Posterity DIONYSIUS DE FARO had also Issue as you shall see hereafter SANCEO DE FARO died being elected Bishop of Leiria ALPHONSO ENRIQUEZ Dean of the Chappel-Royal to Sebastian King of Portugal MARY DE NOROGNA Wife of JOHN DE MENESES Captain of Tangier MENCIA GUIOMAR and two other Daughters were Nuns 14. FRANCIS DE FARO Lord of VIMIERO HE was eldest Son of Ferdinand De Faro by Isabel de Melo his Wife and was President of the Council of Affairs to the King of Portugal Sebastian The first of his Wives MENCIA D'ALBUQUERQUE was Daughter of George D'Albuquerque and of Anne Enriquez The second GUIOMARE DE CASTRO was Daughter of Matthew D'Acugna Lord of Pombeiro by Leonor Coutigna The third was MARY DE MENDOZA the Daughter of Manuel Cort-real and of Beatrix De Mendoza his Wife by her he had no Children Children of FRANCIS DE FARO and of MENCIA D'ALBUQUERQUE his first Wife FERDINAND ENRIQUEZ whose story followeth in the next place GEORGE DE FARO was slain at the fatal Battel of Alcacer in the year One thousand five hundred threescore and eighteen MARY DE NOROGNA espoused to FERDINAND TELLEZ DE MENESES Governour of the Indies and the Algarves Children of FRANCIS DE FARO by GUIOMAR DE CASTRO his second Wife FRANCIS DE FARO first Count of VIMIERO of whom we shall speak more fully hereafter MARIANA DE LANCASTRO Wife of LEWIS DE SILVA President of the Council of Affairs to the King of Spain Philip IV. 15. FERDINAND HENRIQUEZ AMong the Children of Francis de Faro Lord of Vimiero and of Mencia d'Albuquerque his first Wife he was the eldest and dyed in the life-time of his Father having married JANE DE GUZMAN Daughter of Alvaro Caraallo by Mary de Guzman his Wife by her he had these Children following LEWIS DE FARO never married MARY DE FARO Wife of MANUEL COUTIGNO MENCIA DE FARO espoused to PETER ALVAREZ PEREIRA Counsellour of State to the Catholick King in the Council of Portugal resident in his Court. KATHERINE DE FARO Wife of BLAISE TELLEZ DE MENESES Captain of Mazagan 15. FRANCIS DE FARO Count of VIMIERO FRom the marriage of Francis de Faro Lord of Vimiero and of Guiomar De Castro his second Wife descended this Count who was raised to this Dignity by the King of Spain Philip III. He had to Wife MARIANA DE LA GUERRA Daughter of Peter Lopez De Sousa by Anne De La Guerra his Wife by whom he had Issue Three Sons and a Daughter viz. FERDINAND DE FARO Lord of Vimiero LEWIS DE FARO a Monk of the Order of St. Augustin ALPHONSO DE FARO was also an Ecclesiastick MARY DE FARO Wife of RODERICK DE LA CAMARA Captain of the Isle of St. Michael 14. DIONYSIUS DE FARO HE was second Son of Ferdinand de Faro Lord of Vimiero and of Isabel de Melo his Wife And was conjoyned in Marriage with LORISE CABRAL Daughter of John-Alvarez Camnigna by whom he had these two Sons following JOHN DE FARO dyed unmarried STEPHEN Count of FARO and St. Lewis mentioned in the next place 15. STEPHEN Count of FARO and of St. Lewis WAS second Son of Dionysius de Faro by Lorisa Cabral his Wife He was of the Council of Estate to the Catholick King and also President of the Council of Affairs Vasconcellos writeth that the King of Spain Philip III. Created him Count of St. Lewis He espoused GUIOMAR DE CASTRO Daughter of John Lobo Baron of Alvito by Leonor Mascaregnas his Wife Children of STEPHEN Count of FARO and of LORISA CABRAL his Wife DIONYSIUS DE FARO married MAGDALENE DE LANCASTRO the Daughter of Alvaro de Lancastro Duke of Aveiro and Tourneuf by her he had issue one Daughter viz. 17. JULIANA DE FARO was Wife of MICHAEL DE MENESES Marquess of Villa-real and Duke of Camigne FRANCIS JOHN SANCEO FRANCIS-LEWIS LUCIA DE FARO Wife of EDWARD DE MENESES Count of Tarouca LEONOR espoused to BERNARDINE DE TAUORA COUNTS OF VIMIOSO 11. ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL Count of OUREM Marquess of Valence and Lord of Porto de-Mos ALphonso of Portugal first Duke of Braganza PORTUGAL-VIMIOSO Son of King John I. and Beatrix de Pereira Countess of Barcellos and Ourem his Wife had two Sons of which this was the elder But deceasing before his father he succeeded not to the Dutchee The King of Portugal Edward his Uncle sent him Ambassadour to the Senate of Florence The same Count ALPHONSO having been chosen to Conduct the Princess Leonor of Portugal to the Emperour Frederick III. her Husband was Created Count of OUREM and Marquess of Valence by Years of CHRIST 1450 King Alphonso V. in the Year One thousand four hundred and
eldest Son of Lewis Count of Vimioso and of Jane de Mendoza his Wife And espoused MARY DE MENDOZA daughter of Christopher de Mora first Marquess of Castle-Rodrigo and of the Marchioness Margaret Corte-real by whom he had these Children following LEWIS OF PORTUGAL II. of the name Count of VIMIOSA was Created Marquess of Aguiar by the King of Portugal John IV. He dyed without lawful issue CHRISTOPHER OF PORTUGAL dyed also not having been married MICHAEL OF PORTUGAL Count of VIMIOSO now living 1662. JANE MARGARET LUCIA BEATRIX 14. MANVEL OF PORTVGAL HE was second Son of Francis of Portugal first Count of Vimioso by Jane de Villena his second Wife King John III. of the name sent him to the Emperour Charles V. to Congratulate with him for his success in the Enterprise of Algier and afterwards King Henry sent him also to the King of Spain Philip II. to Condole with him for the deplorable Death of King Sebastian his Nephews Son Some time after this MANUEL OF PORTUGAL as did Francis second of the name Count of Vimioso his Nephew followed the Designs and Party of King Anthony of Portugal against the same King Philip II. He married two Wives first MARY DE VILLENA daughter of Henry de Meneses by Beatrix de Villena his Wife In second Marriage he took to Wife MARGARET DE MENDOZA daughter of Manuel Corte-real and of Beatrix de Mendoza his Wife Children of MANVEL OF PORTVGAL and of MARY DE VILLENA his first Wife HENRY OF PORTUGAL continued the Posterity JOHN OF PORTUGAL dyed at the Battel of Alcacer after he had married MAGDALENE DE VILLENA daughter of Francis de Sousa Tavares Captain of Diu and of Mary de Silva his Wife by her he had a Son and two Daughters following 16. LEWIS OF PORTUGAL dyed at Septe with a fall from his Horse 16. MARY OF PORTUGAL Wife of PETER DE MENESES Grand Alcaide of Visco 16. JANE OF PORTUGAL Wife of LOPEZ d'ALMEIDA Grand Alcaide of Alcobace ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL was slain in the Battel of Alcantara in the service of Anthony King of Portugal A Daughter of MANVEL OF PORTVGAL by MARGARET DE MENDOZA his second Wife JANE OF PORTUGAL Wife of her Cosin Germain NUGNO ALVAREZ DE PORTUGAL as you have read before 15. HENRY OF PORTVGAL HE was eldest Son of Manuel of Portugal by Mary de Villena his first Wife and espoused ANNE ATAIDE daughter of Anthony Ataide Count of Chastaigneraye by Mary de Villena his Wife by whom he had issue Four Sons and Two Daughters The King of Portugal Sebastian sent him to visit the Emperour Rodolph II. to Condole with him for the Death of his father Maximilian II. His Children were MANUEL OF PORTUGAL II. of the name dyed young in the life-time of his father having married LUCIA DE VILLENA daughter of Manuel de Castro by his Wife Beatrix de Villena by her he had two Sons the elder of which called by his Grandfathers name dyed young the other was 17. ALVARO OF PORTUGAL FRANCIS MANUEL JOHN OF PORTUGAL deceased also in the life-time of his father having espoused ANTONIETTA DE VILLENA daughter of Anthony Corea Batareno MARY OF PORTUGAL Wife of LEWIS d'ALMEIDA GUIOMAR OF PORTUGAL was espoused to MANUEL ATAIDE third Count of Castaigneraye her Uncle DUKES OF CONIMBRA AVEIRO AND TOURSNEUUES 13. GEORGE Bastard of PORTVGAL Duke of CONIMBRA Lord of Toursneuues Aveiro and Mont-Major le Vieil Grand Master of the Order of Christus and d'Avis His Birth THE King of Portugal John II. of the name PORTUGAL-AVEIRO had by his Years of CHRIST 1481 Queen Beatrix of Portugal the Prince Alphonso their only Son who dyed before them in the flower of his age The same King also begat by Anne de Mendoza his Paramore this Prince GEORGE who was born about the Year One thousand four hundred fourscore and one Mariana Lib. 26. Cap. 2. 33. He was affectionately beloved by the King his father insomuch that having no lawful issue he intended after his death to leave him the Crown which the Grandees of the Kingdom did vigorously oppose Vasconcellos as also the Queen his wife as we have informed you before The Princess who was transported with a natural Love towards her Friend would not permit that the Duke of Beia Nonius Leo. Emanuel of Portugal her Brother who was Heir apparent to the Crown by the right of Blood and Proximity should be deprived of his Succession by a bastard-Bastard-Son Nevertheless King John having appointed the Prince Emanuel for his Successor recommended this GEORGE to his care whom he caused to be carefully educated After the Death of his father and that Emanuel had taken in hand the Scepter the young Prince being but Fourteen years old came and offered him his obedience where he received a favourable Entertain from this Years of CHRIST 1495 Great King who promised to be to him a Father and for a Testimony of his Love Confirmed to him the Titles and Seigneuries with which the late King had honoured him This Duke of Conimbra was conjoyned in Marriage with BEATRIX DE MELO AND PORTUGAL who was Daughter of the great Alvaro of Portugal branched from the House of Braganza and of Philippa de Melo Countess of Olivenza his Wife by her he had several Children which took the Sir-name of Lancastro Children of GEORGE OF PORTVGAL Duke of Conimbra JOHN DE LANCASTRO Duke of AVEIRO continued the Posterity ALPHONSO DE LANCASTRO Great Commander of St. James had also issue LEWIS DE LANCASTRO Grand Commander d'Avis had likewise Children JAMES DE LANCASTRO Bishop of Septe HELEN DE LANCASTRO Commandress of the Monastery of the Order of St. James PHILIPPA DE LANCASTRO Nuns at St. John of Setuval MARY DE LANCASTRO Nuns at St. John of Setuval ISABEL DE LANCASTRO Nuns at St. John of Setuval Natural Children of GEORGE Duke of Conimbra GEORGE DE LANCASTRO Grand Prior d'Avis GEORGE DE St. MARY a Monk of the Order of St. Hierosme ANTHONY DE St. MARY a Monk of the Order of St. Augustine and Bishop of Leiria 14. JOHN DE LANCASTRO Duke of AVEIRO Marquess of Toursneuues and Lord of Montmor HE was eldest Son of George Duke of Conimbra and of Beatrix de Melo his Wife The Title of Duke of Conimbra was not continued in his Person But the King of Portugal Emanuel shewed his affection towards this illustrious Family which was so near to him that he Created him Marquess of Toursneuues and King John III. raised him to the Dignity of Duke of Aveiro By the Command of the same King he was to visit the Emperour Charles V. to Condole with him upon the Death of his Empress Isabel the Infanta of Portugal He took to Wife JULIANA DE MENESES daughter of Peter de Meneses third Marquess of Ville-real and of the Marchioness Beatrix de Lara his Wife Children of JOHN Duke of Aveiro GEORGE DE LANCASTRO second of the name and second Duke of Aveiro
Luciadum Regnum cujus vide stemmata Christi Mittit enim rebus stemmata quisque suis. A Genealogical History OF THE KINGS OF PORTUGAL And of all those Illustrious Houses that in Masculine Line are branched from that Royal Family CONTAINING A DISCOURSE Of their several Lives Marriages and Issues Times of Birth Death and Places of Burial With their Armes and Emblazons according to their several alterations as also their Symboles and Mottoes All Engraven in Copper-Plates Written in French by SCEVOLE and LOVIS DE SAINCTE-MARTHE Brethren and Advocates in the Court of Parliament of PARIS Unto the Year M.DC.XXIII Rendred into English and continued unto this present Year M.DC.LXII By FRANCIS SANDFORD Rouge-Dragon Pursuiuant of Armes LONDON Printed by E. M. for the Author ANNO 1662. TO THE MOST Glorious Monarch CHARLES II. KING of GREAT BRITAIN FRANCE and IRELAND c. Royal SIR THose Presents which in themselves are rich and beautiful cannot lose any thing of their esteem though tendred by the meanest hand the Diamond falls not under its true value when found among the low-prized Pebbles Nor will I hope this History which with all due Reverence I presume to lay at Your Majesties Feet be thought worthless although presented to the greatest of Kings by the least and lowest of his Subjects Yet my presumption bears with it a more extentive Modesty than to possess me with a belief that what I now bring can as far as it is any thing of mine be worthy the least regards of Majesty For it's Worth Consists in it self and being a Genealogical History of a Royal House Indubitably Descended from our English Kings cannot I hope find a less Gracious Acceptance from our Great Monarch than it hath formerly done from His most Christian Majesty in Favour of those who but disputably have maintained it to be a Branch of the Royal Stem of France but it may much more engage Your acceptance when Your Majesty considers that out of this Renowned Stock Your Majesty hath made choice of Your most Excellent Queen For from Philippa the daughter of the great Duke of Lancaster John of Gaunt descended that numerous issue which hath since supplyed PORTUGAL for above Three hundred years with a Succession of Heroick and Valiant Kings and was not discontinued but by the Power of the Castillians under Philip II III IV. Kings of Spain and hath been as miraculously restored in the Person of K. John IV. so that as King John I. much augmented the Glory of that Nation by allying himself with England another King John hath no less renewed it not more by redeeming his Kingdom out of the hands of Ambitious Seisers than in being Father to that Daughter by whom in the Persons of Your Royal Majesty and our Gracious Queen KATHERINE a second and much firmer union is contracted between these two so antiently allied Crowns But here Dread SIR I do conclude lest I should too long disturb Your Royal thoughts with those Prayers which all good Subjects are bound to make That as the Portuguesses have acknowledged that Match with England to be the most happy and fortunate that ever any of their Kings contracted both for the strength and glory of that Kingdom So that Heaven would likewise give Your Majesty as numerous and as glorious an issue by this second Match that Generations to come may have cause to Bless that Day wherein a Monarch of Great Britain did Espouse an Infanta of PORTUGAL Thus prayes YOUR MAJESTIES most Faithful and most Obedient Subject and Servant FRANCIS SANDFORD Rouge-Dragon Pursuiuant at Arms. The TRANSLATOR to the READER I Need not a better Authority for the Reputation of this History then to inform you That the first Part thereof from Henry Count of Portugal to Anthony Prior of Crato with the Second Book containing the Pedigrees of the Royal House of Braganza and other Princes of the Blood of Portugal is Translated out of the Genealogical History of the Royal House of France written by Scevole and Lovis de Saincte-Marthe Persons Eminent for their Knowledge in Antiquity and most exact in the Descents of the Kings of France and no less curious in this of Portugal as being a Branch of that Royal Stem The later Part continued from Anthony to the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Alphonso VI. being this present Year One thousand six hundred threescore and two is taken out of the Letters of Francisco Loredano a Noble Venetian and an Able Statesman employed Ambassador from that Republick to most of the Princes and Potentates of Europe Englished by an Ingenious young Gentleman not long since To these French and Italian Authors I have made several Additions out of Don Antonio de Sousa de Macedo a Portuguesse concerning the several Changes of the Arms of that Kingdom The Ceremonies used at the Coronations and Burials of the Kings of Portugal from Conestaggio an Italian And the Modern Additions to the Descents of the Younger Houses either out of Nicholaus Rittershusus a Germain or from the faithful Report of some of the Nobility of the Portugal Nation Having chosen rather to make use of Authors that were strangers and unbiassed with Interest than Natives of that Kingdom both for the Satisfaction of my Reader and also because the Exploits of that Warlike and Industrious People would seem from their own Relations almost incredible For if we consider the small Beginnings out of which they have gained such vast Territories we cannot but confess That they have out-done most of the greatest Conquerors for those with mighty Armies subjected the Old World but these with small Numbers have not only carried Victory to the East but found out New Worlds to Conquer So that the Dominions of Alphonso the first King of Portugal are not the Tenth part of those Kingdoms possessed by King Alphonso VI. If I have too much made use of the French Idiome in this Translation most Gentlemen will I presume pass by that Errour it being almost impossible to meddle with that Language and not to receive some Impressions thereby The Errours of the Press I have entred on the other side of the Leaf in the Errata which I would intreat you to Correct and then I hope you will find the Satisfaction expected in the perusal of this History Farewel F. S. WE having perused this Book which is for the most part a Translation out of French of a Genealogical History of the Kings of Portugal do not find that the same doth materially vary from the Sense of the Authors nor that there is in it any thing contrary to the Rules of Armory EDWARD WALKER Garter Principal King of Arms. WILLIAM DVGDALE Norroy King of Arms. ERRATA PAge 1. line 32. for Idolatrous read Idolators p. ibid. l. 36. for Histories r. Historians p. 2. l. 12. for Father r. Brother p. 3. l. 43. after to be built add in that Cathedral p. ibid. l. 44. to an Epitaph aâ—d in Latine p. 5. l. 36.
to Confine this Princess add his Mother p. 7. l. 31. for 1186. r. 1185. p. 8. l. 17. to who dyed add without Issue p. 19. l. 43. to some Historians add of Castille p. 27. l. 33. for Alphonso VI. r. Alphonso IV. p. 36. l. 16. for eracinated r. â—â—ratâ—â—ated p. 55. l. 10. for Forty r. Three and Forty p. 61. l. 34. for Calecur r. Calecut p. ibid. l. 35. for so named r. of that Denomination p. 81. l. 3. blot out Elected p. 94. l. 18. for 1510. r. 1580. p. 105. l. 4. for Messal r. Missal This Book is to be sold by the Author Francis Sandford at his Lodgings next door to the Heraulds-Office upon St. Bennets-hill Or by Edward Mottershed Printer living upon the aforesaid Hill over against Doctors Commons The Genealogy of the Kings of Portugal 1. HENRY OF BOURGONGNE Count of PORTUGAL was second Son of HENRY OF BOURGONGNE that dyed before his Father and Grand-son of ROBERT OF FRANCE Duke of BOURGONGNE which ROBERT was Son of ROBERT and Grand-child of HUGH CAPET both Kings of FRANCE He dyed in the Year One thousand one hundred and twelve 2. URACCA Countess of Tristamare ALPHONSO I. of the name King of PORTUGAL dyed Ao 1186. 3. URACCA Queen of Leon and Galicia SANCEO I. of the name second King of PORTUGAL he dyed Ao 1212. 4. ALPHONSO II. of the name third King of PORTUGAL He died Ao 1233. 5. SANCEO II. of the name fourth King of PORTUGAL dyed Anno 1246. without issue ALPHONSO III. of the name fifth King of PORTUGAL dyed Anno 1279. 6. DIONYSIUS or DENIS sixth King of PORTUGAL dyed Anno 1325. 7. CONSTANCE Queen of Castille ALPHONSO IV. of the name seventh King of PORTUGAL dyed 1357. 8. ALPHONSO DIONYSIO and JOHN dyed all young PETER eighth King of PORTUGAL deceased Anno 1368. 9. FERDINAND ninth King of PORTUGAL dyed Anno 1383. 10. BEATRIX of Portugal Q. of Castille DIONYSIO of Portugal eldest Son dyed young MARY of Portugal Lady Marquess of Tortosa JOHN I. of the name tenth King of PORTUGAL a Natural Son deceased Anno 1433. ALPHONSO dyed aged Ten years EDWARD eleventh King of PORTUGAL dyed Anno 1438. 11. ALPHONSO V. of the name twelfth King of PORTUGAL ob 1481 12. JOHN II. of the name thirteenth King of PORTUGAL dyed An. 1495. 13. ALPHONSO Prince of Portugal dyed young without issue JOHN Prince of Portugal dyed young JANE took upon her Religious Habit. LEONOR Wife to the Emperour Frederick III. JANE Queen of Castille FERDINAND D. of Visco JOHN Duke of Visco dyed young without issue JAMES Duke of Visco slain by King John II. his Brother-in-law EMANUEL fourteenth King of PORTUGAL dyed Anno 1521. ISABELLA wife of the Emperour Charles V. 14. PHILIP II. King of Spain seized upon the Kingdom of PORTUGAL and was Nineteenth King 15. PHILIP III. of the name King of Spain was twentieth King of PORTUGAL 16. PHILIP IV. of the name King of Spain now Reigning 1662. who possessed the Kingdom of PORTUGAL until the Year 1640. BEATRIX Dutchess of Savoy MICHAEL Prince of Portugal Castille dyed young JOHN III of the name fifteenth K. of PORTUGAL dyed Anno 1557. JOHN Prince of Portugal died An. 1554 SEBASTIAN sixteenth King of PORTUGAL was slain in Affrica S. prole 1578. MARY Princess of Spain ISABELLA BEATRIX dyed young LEWIS of Portugal D. of Beia ANTHONY the Bastard eighteenth King of PORTUGAL He dyed 1595. EMANUEL of Portugal CHRISTOPHER of Portugal PHILIPPA LOUISA FERDINAND of Portugal dyed S. prole HENRY the Cardinal seventeenth K. of PORTUGAL ob S. p. 1580. EDWARD Infante of Portugal EDWARD D. of Vimarana dyed young MARY married to Alex. D. of Parma KATHERINE wife of John I. of the name Duke of Braganza LEONOR wife of John II. King of Portugal ISABEL married to Ferd. II. of the name Duke of Braganza PETER Duke of Conimbra PETER elected King of Arragon JOHN Duke of Conimbra JAMES Card. of Portugal ISABEL Queen of Portugal HENRY Duke of Visco and Master of the Order of Christ JOHN Grand Master of the Order of St. James JAMES G.M. of the Order of St. James ISABEL Queen of Castille BEATRIX Dutchess of Visco Mother of King Emanuel FERDINAND great Master of the Order d'Avis ISABEL Dutchess of Bourgongne ALPHONSO First Duke of Braganza a Natural Son FERDINAND I. of the name second Duke of Braganza FERDINAND II. of the name third Duke of Braganza JAMES fourth Duke of Braganza THEODOSIUS I. of the name fifth Duke of Braganza JOHN I. of the name sixth Duke of Braganza THEODOSIUS II. of the name seventh Duke of Braganza 17. KATHERINE of Portugal dyed in her Infancy JOHN II. of that name Duke of Braganza by the universal consent of the three Estates was Crowned King of PORTUGAL Anno 1640. by the name of JOHN IV. 18. THEODOSIUS Prince of Portugal dyed in his youth ALPHONSO VI. of the name Three and twentieth King of PORTUGAL who Reigneth at present 1662. PETER Infante of Portugal JANE of Portugal dyed young KATHERINE of Portugal Queen of England EDWARD of Portugal dyed in Prison at Millan ALEXANDER of Portugal MARY Queen of Castille LEONORA Queen of Arragon ALPHONSO of Portugal Lord of Portalegre ALPHONSO of Portugal dyed without issue ISABELLA Lady of Biscay CONSTANCE married to Nounez Gonsalva de Lara MARY wife of Tellez son of Alphonso Infant of Moline ISABELLA the younger married to John-Alphonso Lord of Albuquerque FERDINAND of Portugal dyed young BLANCH of Portugal Abbess of Loruano FERDINAND of Portugal Infant of Serpe LEONORA Queen of Denmark FERDINAND of Portugal Count of Flanders PETER King of Majorca HENRY of Portugal THERESA Queen of Leon. MAUD Queen of Castille SANCE an Abbess BLANCHE BERENGARIA THERESA Countess of Flanders THERESA Wife of Ferdinando Mendez 1 HENRY Of BOURGONGNE Count of PORTUGAL CHAP. I. PORTUGAL D'argent a la Croix d'Azure PORTUGAL Party de CASTILLE De gueules a un Chasteau d'or Dom. Anto De Sousa Lusit Liberat. fol. 767. Appen Cap. 3. Henricus portavit Crucem in vexillis Inquiunt Doctor Fra. Seraphin de Freitas de Just Imper. Lusit Asiat C. 18 n. 17 c. qui not avit Crucem fuisseâ— coeruleam deducto colore ex domo Ducum Burgundiae ac Regum Galliae unde ille princeps procedebat CruceÌ„ portavit vel ex sua particulari pietate vel quod illis temporibus Crucem pro insignibus solebant portare qui fuerunt in sancto bello Hierusalem in quo ipse fuit ut narrant Maria dial 2 C. 3. post maed Brandan in Monarch Lusit p. 3. lib. 8. C. 22. Several Histories of France Portugal Castille and other Nations have very much laboured to finde out and discover from what Countrey and what House this Prince HENRY deduced his Original His extraction having been unknown for a long time and concerning which there hath been almost as many Opinions as Writers Some have written that he descended from an Emperour of Constantinople others from a King
del â—ombre de AVIS Thus much out of Dom Damiano a Goas Radeâ— de Andrada and the Count of Lansarote in his Nobility of Aâ—daluâ—ia Memorable was that Assembly Convened by this King Alphonso in the City of Lamogo consisting of the three Estates of the Kingdom where were made many Laws which they justly account their Fundamentals Nunez Vasconcellos as unalterable as those of the Meâ—ds and Persians made Sacred by the observation of them both by Prince and People among which it was enacted First That the said King Alphonso's son Grandson and so forward should reign after him for ever But if the King have only daughters the eldest should be Queen after her father upon condition she be married to a Native of Portugal and that he be a Noble-man who shall not take upon him the name of a King until he hath a son born nor wear a Crown on his head nor take the right hand of his Wife But the last clause is most to be considered which my Author hath faithfully transcribed out of the said Laws Sit istadex in sempiterâ—um quod Prima Filia Regis â—â—â—piat maritum de Portugale ut non veniat RegnuÌ„ ad Extraâ—â—s si â—asaverit cum Principe extranto non sit Regina quia 〈◊〉 volumâ—â— nostrum Regnum ire de Portugalâ—â— sibus qui nos sua fortitudine Reges fecerunt sine Adjutorio alienâ— per suam fortitudinem cum sanguine suó This Law was put in execution after the death of Ferdinando the 9th King of that race for Donna Beatrice his daughter being married to John the first of the name King of Castille a Forrein Prince was excluded and John the first King of Portugal though illegitimate was advanced to the Throne In the mean time an Army composed of divers Nations viz. English Flemmings Normans and Lorrainois being embarqued in England and bound for Jerusalem Robt. de Monte. to give succour to the Christians under the Conduct of William Longespe Duke of Normandy my Author meaneth Earl of Salisbury passed by the coast Years of CHRIST 1147 of Spain where making some stay at the instance of King ALPHONSO they besieged and took the City of Lisbonne which the Moors possessed the Siege having continued five months They were at length defeated by the Christians who delivered this City into the hands and power of ALPHONSO he also Conquered from them the Cities of Leirta Santarem Evora Elvas Beja and several other Towns and Fortresses which make at present the better part of the Kingdom of Portugal which he annexed to the Province situate between the Rivers of Dourho and Minho and that of Tarsâ—s Moâ—tes as also a part of Estremaduru where are Brâ—ga Conimbra Visco and other Cities Provinces which descended to him by succession from his Mother the Countess Teresa Now fell out the dispute betwixt Ferdinando King of Castille and Leon Idem Years of CHRIST 1179 and his Father-in-law King ALPHONSO about the City of Badaios which the Castillian urged belonged unto him as being enterprised upon the Moors being come to blows the King of Portugal having by an accident been hurt before the fight fell within the power of the King of Castille his Enemy but afterward a peace being concluded betwixt them the Portugues remitted unto Ferdinand part of the Provinces of Galicia Years of CHRIST 1181 His success was more propitious in the Enterprise he undertook against Alboias King of Seville whom he also subdued Vasconcellos and after the Victory obtained instituted a Military Order called Of the Eagle The device was An Eagle Purple enfermed within a Circle Or. After all these Warres ALPHONSO had attained to a very great age nevertheless he ceased not to exercise himself in his Martial affairs with his Valiant Son who seconded him in his high and generous Enterprises But that hindred not his inclination to Piety and the erection of several Churches and Monasteries Idem among others he Founded that of St. Croix at Conimbra which he so richly endowed and with so stupendious a revenue that the famous University of this City hath a sensible apprehension thereof and that it is at this day the most Famous and Flourishing of all Spaine ALPHONSO also Founded the Monasteries of St. Bernard of Alcobace and of St. Vincent near Lisbonne in the same place where he encamped at the Siege thereof In short the Portugal Historians give him the reputation of having Built and Founded an hundred and fifty Churches and Religious Houses In fine this great Prince being aged Fourscore and eleven years Nunez and after he had Reigned Six and forty His Death departed out of this life into a better in Years of CHRIST 1186 the same City of Conimbra the Ninth day of December in the Year One thousand one hundred fourscore and six and not two years before as some believe and lieth in this Church of St. Croix King Emanuel one of his most Illustrious Successors erected for him a long time after a most Magnificent Tomb. There are divers opinions among Authors Nunez about the House from which Queen MAUD wife of ALPHONSO did descend His Marriage Pingonius whom he married in the Year One thousand one hundred and six and forty and not two Years of CHRIST 1146 years before as some are of opinion Dami. a Gotz For those which write the History of Portugal and Savoy Vasconcellos say that she was Daughter of Amides the second of the name Count of Savoy or Maurienne and of Maud Daughter of the Count of Albon they would say Viennois his second Wife In the Hist of Arragon But Hierosme Surita writes that she was Sister of Peter Count of Lara and Molona and Daughter of Henry Count of Lara and of Ermensiâ—dâ— Vicountess of Narbonna An opinion which is reproved by Nunez And nevertheless it may be that he married both the one and the other certain it is that Queen Maud dyed in Anno One thousand one hundred threescore and eighteen Years of CHRIST 1178 and was interred with her Husband Children of ALPHONSO I. KING OF PORTUGAL and of MAUD OF SAVOY his Wife HENRY PRINCE OF PORTUGAL dyed young There is mention made of him in a Letter which the King his Father wrote to St. Bernard Abbot of Clerveaux in Bourgongne SANCEO first of the name succeeded his Father and was King of Portugal LEON D'argent au lyon de pourpre Party de PORTUGAL Comme cy devant VRACCA OF PORTUGAL Queen of LEON Her Marriage was married unto Ferdinand II. of the name King of LEON and Galicia And notwithstanding she had a son by him which carried the name of Alphonso and was King of Leon after his Father yet this Marriage was dissolved by the Pope because of the proximity of blood betwixt them FLANDERS D'or an lyon de sable TERESA OF PORTUGAL Countess of FLANDERS whom the Flemmish Historians call MAUD Her Marriage
fourscore Years of CHRIST 1187 and seven being come to age Escartelle Au 1. 4. D'or a quatre pals de gueulles l'Escu brise d'unbande aussi de gueulles Au 2. 3. de PORTUGAL whether it were for the displeasure that hapned between him and the King of Portugal Alphonso II. his elder Brother or the desire he had to Travel and to profit himself by the conversation of strangers is not certainly known but depart the Kingdom he did and was sometime in the Court of the Miramolin King of Morocco His Marriage From thence he took his journey into Arragon where he espoused Aremburga Countess of Urgel a rich Heiress in whose right he was Lord Years of CHRIST 1211 and Count of Urgel and other rich Seigneuries PORTUGAL MAJORCA Escarbelle de URGEL She dyed without issue in the life-time of her Husband and for testimony of the conjugal love she did bear to this Prince she gave him her County with the right she had in the City of Valedolit and in some other Lordships she possessed in the Kingdom of Galicia But because that Ponce de Cervera pretended to the County of Urgel and those other Seigneuries PETER parted with them all to his Cousin James King of Arragon Hier. Zurita in his Hist of Arragon Sirnamed the Conquerour Son of King Peter who had received him with affection and also in recompence gave him some Lands in Arragon for his Portion and lawful Appennage which appertained unto him in the right of his Mother the Queen of Portugal Doulce of Arragon Now James having a desire to appropriate to himself this County of Urgel came to a Treaty with Prince PETER OF PORTUGAL by which he made it over to this King of Arragon with the other Lands in Galicia and in exchange this King gave him the Kingdom and Isle of Majorca and the others adjacent But the Moors of this Countrey having rebelled Nunez and King PETER observing that the King of Tunes was preparing a powerful Army for their assistance against him Vasconcellius and finding himself not capable to resist them made another exchange with the King of Arragon For he having returned him the Kingdom of Majorca James remitted him the Cities and Places of Segorbia Morella and others His Death The same Prince PETER gave assistance to William Mongriu Arch-Bishop Years of CHRIST 1235 of Saragoca with which he subdued the Isle of Juica or Ebuse History of Portugal in the Year One thousand two hundred five and thirty about which time he likewise dyed HENRY OF PORTUGAL came into the World in the Year One thousand one hundred fourscore and nine His Birth and died young in the life-time of King Sanceo I. his Father He lieth in the Abbey of St. Years of CHRIST 1189 Croix at Conimbra in the Sepulchre of his Fathers TERESA OF PORTUGAL Queen of LEON was married unto ALPHONSO King of LEON her Cousin Son of King Ferdinando II. which Marriage was Consummated without Dispensation LEON D'argent au lyon de pourpre After the accomplishment of which there succeeded in Portugal several evils and mis-fortunes Party de PORTUGAL the Plague Famine and Tempests Calamities which were attributed to this unlawful Marriage of which Pope Celestine III. being informed Jo. Mariana de reb Hisp. sent into Portugal William Cardinal of St. Angelo his Legate who caused the Prelates of this Kingdom and those of Leon to meet at Salamanca and there was resolved the Divorce and Dissolution of this Marriage which was done although they had three Children one Son named Ferdinand who died young and two Daughters Vasconcellius After this Dissolution the Princess TERESA resolved to forsake the World and to incloyster her self in the Nunnery of Loruano which she restored and enlarged with great Revenues She there most Piously passed the rest of her dayes and in the reputation of great Holiness Also her Tomb having been opened in the Year One thousand six hundred and seventeen Years of CHRIST 1617 by the Command of the King of Spain Philip III. her body was found entire and her face so ruddy as if the Princess had been alive or had departed but some few houres before MAUD OF PORTUGAL Queen of CASTILLE Her Marriage was Wife of HENRY first of the name CASTILLE De gueulles a un chasteau d'or Party de PORTUGAL King of CASTILLE eldest Son of Alphonso VIII But they were also separated because of their proximity of Blood and that by the sentence of Momin Bishop of Burgos and of Tellés Bishop of Palencia whom the Pope Innocent III. had delegated for the Cognizance and decision of this separation Henry Reigned but a short time Nunez and died by the hurt of a Tile which as he was playing with some Lords of his Court Mariana fell with violence upon his head in Years of CHRIST 1217 the Year One thousand two hundred and seventeen And deceasing without Children his Cousin Ferdinand III. succeeded him in the Kingdom of Castille After the Dissolution of this Marriage with Henry the Princess MAUD retired into the Monastery of Arouce in her Countrey of Portugal which she Founded and is there interred Her Death If she deceased the second day of May in the Year One thousand two hundred fourscore and ten Years of CHRIST 1290 as writeth Vasconcellos she attained unto a very great age SANCE OF PORTUGAL would never marry but took upon her Religious Orders and was Abbess of Lorvano She Founded the Monastery of the Order of St. Francis at Alanquer Land which she had for her Portion or appennage Her body was ensepultured in the Church of the same place of Lorvano BLANCHE OF PORTUGAL Lady of Guadalaiara in Castille died in that Kingdom her body was afterwards conveyed into Portugal to St. Croix de Conimbra BERENGARIA OF PORTUGAL also was never married Vasconcellius and was educated with her Sister the Queen Teresa in the Abbey of Lorvano she lieth interred also in the same place of St. Croix de Conimbra with her Ancestors Bastards of King SANCEO I. MARTIN OF PORTUGAL Count of Tristemare in Galicia and two other Counties was a Knight full of Valour and Courage Being employed by the King of Leon in his Warres he twice defeated the Armies of the King Alphonso II. his Brother Nunez He lieth at Cofins of the Order of St. John in the place of Campos He and his Sister Uracca were begotten upon Mary Anez de Fornellos URACCA OF PORTUGAL RODERICK OF PORTUGAL died in a Battel disputed near Porto fighting for the Portugues He is interred in the Monastery of Grio He and his Brother and Sisters had for their Mother Mary Paaez de Ribera GILLES SANCEO died not having been married TERESA SANCEZ OF PORTUGAL was espoused unto ALPHONSO TELLEZ the Aged who built the City of Albuquerque CONSTANCE OF PORTUGAL Founded the Monastery of St. Francis of Conimbra upon the
River of Monda Her body lieth near unto that of Sanceo I. her Father 4 ALPHONSO II. Of the Name KING of PORTUGAL CHAP. IV. PORTUGAL Comme cy devant PORTUGAL Party de CASTILLE De gueulles au Chasteau d'or Following the steps of his Ancestors he behaved himself Valiantly in several Conflicts against the Moors By the assistance of a Naval Army consisting of those of the Belgique Nations he recovered out of the hands of the Infidels the City of Alcassere de Sal which was performed at the instance Years of CHRIST 1217 of Matthew Bishop of Lisbonne a man of an holy life Vasconcellius In pursuance of which ALPHONSO vanquished the Kings of Seville and of Jean who came to lay Siege to the City of Juica But if he was plausable in his Military and publick Affairs he could not avoid the reproach which Posterity hath cast upon him in his History Nunez in what concerned his Domestick having ill treated his Brothers and Sisters and his Brother-in-law the King of Leon not suffering them to enjoy the portions and inheritance which belonged unto them nor performing the Testament and last Will of the King their Father By reason of which there ensued great Divisions untill that the Pope unto whom the younger Princes made their recourse used his Censures and Interdictions against ALPHONSO and constrained him to submit to Arbitration for the Determination of their Differences and to undergo the Execution of that Judgement which should be given He was tall of stature of an able body and so corpulent that his subjects sirnamed him Vasconcellius The Gross which it may be shortned his life for he lived only Eight and forty years And after he had Reigned One and twenty years His Death he expired Anno One thousand two hundred three and thirty Years of CHRIST 1233 as Edwardo Nunez and Antonio Vasconcellos do note and not in the Year One thousand two hundred twenty and four as others have written He was inhumed in a Chappel Mariana which he Ordered to be made in the Abbey of Alcobace near unto the Sepulchre of URACCA OF CASTILLE his Wife Daughter of Alphonso VIII others say IX of that name King of Castille and of Elianor of England his Wife and Sister of Blanche of Bastille Queen of France Nunez Mother of the King St. LEWIS Some years after George de Mello Abbot of the Monastery caused the Corps of King ALPHONSO and of the Queen his wife to be transported to the Chappel of St. Vincent Children of ALPHONSO II. King of PORTUGAL and of URACCA OF CASTILLE his Wife SANCEO II. of the name King of PORTUGAL whose Elogie followeth ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL III. of the name first Count of Bolongne in France then King of Portugal after his Elder Brother continued the Posterity PORTUGAL-SERPE FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL called the Infant of SERPE PORTUGAL-SERPE because he was Lord of this place in the Kingdom of Castille espoused SANCE-FERNANDINE DE LARA Daughter of the Count Ferdinando de Lara Party de LARA Gueulles a deux chaudieres d'or lune sur l'autre chacune chargee de trois traits de sable courbez en facâ— auec sept Serpenteaux d'or sortant de chaque costé des orcilles des ances trois en dedans quatre en dehors Erpold Lindenbruch in Hist Daniae Regum This Prince of SERPE is intombed at Alcobace and from them came one only Daughter who followeth 6. LEONOR OF PORTUGAL who is said to have been married to a Prince Heir apparent to the Kingdom of DENMARK He was as some say VALDEMAR Son of another Valdemar second of the name King of Denmark who out-lived his Son deceasing in the Year One thousand two hundred one Years of CHRIST 1231 and thirty The Father was also allied to this House of Portugal as you shall see hereafter Erpold Lindenbruch in his History of the Kings of Denmark maketh mention of these two Marriages he corrupteth the name of the Princess LEONOR whom he calleth Bormegera adding also by mistake That she was Sister of the Count of Flanders He notes her death to happen in the Year Years of CHRIST 1220 One thousand two hundred and twenty VINCENT OF PORTUGAL fourth Son of King Alphonso II. died young His Marriage LEONOR OF PORTUGAL their Sister was according to some Historians of Allmaine third wife of VALDEMAR II. DENMARK D'or a trois Leopards d'azure couronnez armez lampâ—ssez de gueulles lescu seme de coeurs aussi de gueulles Years of CHRIST 1241 of that name King of DENMARK who died in the Year One thousand two hundred and forty one Hierosme Henninges reports her to be Sister of Ferdinando of Portugal Count of Flanders but it may be that he meaneth Lord of Serpe He addeth that she had by this Danish Prince seven Sons and three Daughters three of which Sons viz. Eric VII Christopher I. and Abel Party de PORTUGAL were successively Kings of Denmark From Christopher descended Eric VIII Father of Eric IX and of Christopher II. all also Kings of Denmark Valdemar IV. Son of this last King was Father of Margaret Queen of the Potent Kingdoms of Denmark Sweden and Norwey Natural Sons of King ALPHONSO II. JOHN-ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL finished his dayes in the Year of our Salvation One thousand two hundred foure and thirty and lieth in the Monastery of Alcobace Those that have written that this King ALPHONSO II. had another Natural Son named Martin-Alphonso are mistaken for he was Son of King Alphonso III. as shall appear hereafter in his place 5. SANCEO II. Of the Name KING of PORTUGAL CHAP. V. PORTUGAL D'argent au cinq Escussons d'Azure chacun charge de cinq besans d'argent PORTUGAL Party de HARO D'argent a l' Abre de Granica de Synople a deux Leups de fable traversez au pied de cost Abre vest a dire l'au devant lautre d'erriere l' Abre laquelle est entre ces deux loups a l'Orle de gueulles charge de sept Croix en saâ—â—ir d'or Who brought with him from the womb such mortal infirmities as made most believe he would sooner arrive at the grave than the Scepter the Queen his Mother having tryed all humane remedies applyed herself to Divine making a Vow to God that if he lived past his adolescency she would make him pass the Hood of Canons Regular of the Order of St. Augustine which she inviolably performed and from which habit this King was sirnamed CAPELLO Nunez Vasconcellius Mariana Also he appeared more apt and proper for a monastick and quiet life than to the exercise of War and the Government of his Kingdom to which he succeeded at the age of Six and twenty years Also the Queen of Castille Berengaria his Cousin who had the Government of this Prince observing him to be of a weak Judgement endeavoured to match him to some Lady of an Illustrious House that in defect
Edmond of Langley Duke of York to Frederick of Castille Duke of Benevente Natural Son of Henry II. King of Castille then to Ferdinand Son of the same King But in the end to knit the Peace of the two Kingdoms of Castille and Portugal with a firm knot BEATRIX was first contracted to JOHN King OF CASTILLE Mariana Lib. 18. Nunez who was at that time Widower to Leonor of Arragon his first Wife by whom he had children Then three years after this Contract in May Anno One thousand three hundred fourscore and three their Marriage was Solemnized at Elvas with great Magnificence at which the King of Cyprus and Charles Prince of Navarre were present By reason of this Marriage the King of Castille pretended to have a right of Succession to the Kingdom of Portugal after the death of Ferdinando his Wives Father and endeavoured therefore to make himself Master thereof by the force of his Armes But that Natural hatred betwixt these two Nations of Castille and Portugal was so eracinated that the Portugals would not permit him the Succession But from this Marriage there came no children So King John of Castille dyed in the Year One thousand three hundred fourscore and ten Years of CHRIST 1390 leaving issue by his first Wife only and not by Queen BEATRIX OF PORTUGAL who being yet young at the time of his death and having been courted by several other Kings and Princes yet lived a Widow to the day of her death and as an admirable example of Continence and Chastity would not hearken to a second Marriage saying That Ladies Nobly born and well educated ought not to be the Wives of two Husbands A Natural Daughter of FERDINAND King OF PORTUGAL ISABEL OF PORTUGAL born in the Year Her Birth One thousand three hundred threescore and four CASTILLE Being Nine years old was promised in Marriage to the Years of CHRIST 1364 Prince ALPHONSO OF CASTILLE Vasconcellos calls him Ferdinand Count of Gigion Party de PORTUGAL and Seigneur of Norogna who was Natural Son of Henry II. King of Castille their Marriage was consummated in the Year Her Marriage One thousand three hundred threescore and eighteen against the grain of Alphonso who was at that time only Eighteen years old therefore this Match gave original to many troubles For King Years of CHRIST 1378 Henry his Father moved with displeasure for that he neglected his Wife deprived him of all his Lands and Seigneuries So that the Count was constrained to fly to Avignion where he made his complaints to Pope Gregory XI and also to the King of France Charles V. Nunez Afterwards having rebelled against Henry III. he was besieged within his County of Gigion with his Wife and Children And to compose their Differences Charles VI. King of France was chosen Arbitrator who understanding the injustice of his cause sent him back to his King forbidding him the refuge of France Thus afflicted in the Year One thousand three hundred fourscore and fifteen he secretly retired towards Rochel where his Wife ISABEL and his Children gave him the meeting and where they had no assistance but what came from the Viscountess of Thouars who gave them the Town of Marans for a Habitation It 's to be believed that some of their Children returned again into Spain among whom was Peter de Norogna Arch-bishop of Lisbonne Vasconcellius John de Norogna Ferdinand Count of Ville-real from whom are descended the Houses of Ville-real and of Meneses Alphonso had issue also Sanceo de Norogna Count of Odemira who had Children Alphonso and ISABEL had also a Daughter named Constance of Norogna second Wife of Alphonso of Portugal first Duke of Braganca but they left no Posterity In Brief the Illustrious House of Norogna in Portugal derive their original from this Marriage The same Count of Gigion Alphonso had also three Bastard-children among the rest Martin-Henriquez who served Charles VII King of France whom he sent Embassadour to the King of Castille From him it 's probable is descended that Family in the County of Foix who bear the Name and Armes of Castille 9. JOHN I. Of the Name KING of PORTUGAL And the ALGARVES Sirnamed With the Good Memory and Father of his Countrey CHAP. XI PORTUGAL D'argent a cinq Escussons d'Azure peris en Croix chacun chargé de cinq besans aussy d'argent posez en saltoir a la Bordure de gueulles chargee de huist Chasteaux d'or Party de LANCASTER Escartelé au 1. 4. d'Azure seme de Fleurs de Lis d'or au 2. 3. de gueulles a trois Lyons passant guardant d'or au lambel d'ermine brochant sur le tout His Birth The Eleventh day of April Years of CHRIST 1357 gave him Birth which was in the Year One thousand three hundred fifty and seven and was but Seven Year old when the King his Father established him Grand-Master of the Knights of the Order D'Avis In the time of King Ferdinand his Brothers Reign he had been imprisoned at the instance of Queen Leonora his Wife who had contracted envy against him for having reproved her too free and familiar carriage with the Count of Andrie for which neither she nor the Count were backward in the procuration of his Death But God who hath the disposition of Crowns had Ordered it other wayes For JOHN found out means to shake off the Bonds of his Captivity and after the Death of his Brother this Queen Elianora administring the Affairs of State otherwise than it belonged unto her and continuing in her unlawful Loves to the great dissatisfaction of the Portugues They perswaded the Grand-Master to take away the life of this Count which he did accordingly by this act acquiring to himself so great an affection that they Proclaimed him Defender and Protector of the Publick Liberty and then he was made General in the Warre against John I. King of Castille who aspired to the Succession of the Kingdom of Portugal in the right of Beatrix his Queen as we have told you before Vignier But the people more willing to submit to the Government of a Prince of the Blood of their Natural Kings than to that of a stranger And observing the lawful Line of the Heirs-Male to fail in Ferdinand they elected this JOHN his Brother King notwithstanding he was born out of Marriage This was performed in a general Assembly of the Estates of Portugal held in the City of Conimbra in the Year One thousand three hundred Years of CHRIST 1384 fourscore and four But this Election suited not with the desires of Prince JOHN who told them that he was well content with that Honourable Title which had before been given him But the Portugues besides that hatred they did bear the Castillians considering his rare qualifications judged him more fit and proper for the Dignity of the Crown than any other earnestly entreating his acceptation thereof as one whom they judged capable of defending them from
the Voyage to Jerusalem where in his youth he had made a Vow to go fight the Turks which he had undertaken had not he been diverted by the King of France At his return into Portugal he found the Prince his young Years of CHRIST 1477 Son commanding in the Quality of King according to that charge which he had given him upon his journey into France Mariana reports that this was by Letters at his departure from Paris Idem Lib. 24. Cap. 20. So ALPHONSO constrained to submit to Time and adverse Fortune looked upon a Peace as the best expedient he could make use of with his enemies Nonius which was concluded at Alcantara in the Year One thousand Years of CHRIST 1479 four hundred threescore and nineteen by which he excluded himself from any farther Pretentions to that Kingdom This Peace was confirmed and Sealed by the agreement of several Marriages contracted betwixt the Children of the Adversary Kings It being remarkable that in the Treaty of this Peace it was particularly declared That it should continue the space of an hundred and one years those which effected it putting as it 's usual so to do Connostaggio au l ure de l'union de PORTUGAL au Royaume de CASTILLE the Incertain for the Infinite But this limited number proved Prophetical For the time an hundred and one years continued from the end of this War until that in the Year One thousand five hundred and fourscore this Kingdom was subdued by Philip II. King of Spain descended from Ferdinand and Elizabeth against King Anthony of Portugal when he rendred himself absolute Master thereof So that the words and Agreements of the Treaty of Peace did at last meet with the quality of the Event Now ALPHONSO transported with indignation that the Queen his Wife had been deprived of that Right which she had to the Kingdom of Castille and vexed with the sinister events that had hapned to his Estate but principally that his Wife had put on the habit of Religious in the Monastery of St. Clare which she had founded at Santarem Mariana was carried away with such an extream excess of Melancholly His Death that it cast him into a Years of CHRIST 1441 violent Disease and so finished the course of his life at Sintra being the place of his Birth Lib. 24. Cap. 21. His decease hapned the Eight Mariana writes the Last day of August Aº One thousand four hundred fourscore and one having held the Scepter Forty years and lived Fifty He lieth at the Royal Abbey of Battel with his Ancestors This Prince is commended for his Valour Sobriety Continence and Liberality as also to have been the first of the Kings of Portugal that placed a Liberary in the Royal Palace by which we may believe that in imitation of his Father he also was a lover of Learning Children of ALPHONSO V. King of PORTUGAL and of ELIZABETH OF CONIMBRA his first Wife JOHN Prince OF PORTUGAL dyed young JOHN II. of the name King OF PORTUGAL whose Story is comprehended in the Chapter following JANE OF PORTUGAL born in the Year One thousand four hundred fifty and two Her Birth was desired in Marriage by three great Monarchs Vasconcellius Years of CHRIST 1452 Maximilian King of the Romans afterwards Emperour first of the name Charles VIII King of France and Richard III. King of England But she refused all these matches and at what time her Father made his expedition Years of CHRIST 1470 into Affrica being only Eighteen years old yet had so great a confidence of her Wisdom that he left her Regent of his Estate in his absence where she governed his affairs with great care At his return being transported with a holy zeal and misprision of the World she made it her supplication to the King her Father that he would permit her to pass the Habit of a Nun and to encloyster her self her request he granted and so she went first to Aveiro then to Odivelles where she passed the rest of her life in great Humility Her death She died at Years of CHRIST 1490 the age of Eight and thirty years in the Month of May Anno One thousand four hundred fourscore and ten Vasconcellos is very large in the Story of her Life and worthy Actions 12. JOHN II. Of the Name KING of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES Lord of GUINEE Sirnamed THE GREAT CHAP. XIV PORTUGAL D'argent a cinq Escussons d'azur peris en Croix chacun charge de cinq besans d'argent posez en sautoir a la bordure de gueulles chargeé de sept chafleaux d'or PORTUGAL Party de PORTUGAL-VISCO Qui est PORTUGAL Escartelé d' ARRAGON In his younger years he behaved himself with so much Gallantry in the second expedition of Affrica but more particularly at the prize of Argesille from the Moors that the King his Father conferred upon him the Order of Knighthood Vasconcellius Afterwards also he gave testimony of a great Courage in the Warre of Castille And upon Alphonso's journey into France he commanded this young Prince to take upon him the Government of his Estate with the Title of King At his return his Father perswading him to retain this Title and Royal quality during his absence in Affrica as a good Son he refused this proffer and relinquished the Dignity of King saying That he received a much greater contentment to see his Father re-established in his Kingdom than that he himself had Command of the whole Earth Years of CHRIST 1481 The time of his Fathers death being come Mariana Lib. 24. C. 23. he succeeded him and took in hand the Scepter when he was of the age of Six and twenty years No sooner was he mounted upon the Throne but he caused Justice severely to be administred without exception permitting the Judges and other Ministers of State to seize upon the Malefactors wheresoever they were to be found not exempting the Houses of the Grandees it self notwithstanding that Priviledge and Antient Custom that might be alledged to the contrary This caused many of his own Relations wickedly to plot against him and to hold intelligence and contrive conspiracies with the Castillian to his ruine The Chief of these were Ferdinand Duke Years of CHRIST 1483 of Braganza and James Duke of Visco the contrivances and pernitious designs of the first having been manifestly discovered by his own Letters at his Indictment so that being convicted he was condemned Vasconcellius and then publickly executed and his Goods confiscated which so much amazed some of them that they fled into Castille But for all this the audacity of the Conspirators was such that they ceased not yet to contrive the death of the King of which he had information and not long after got the Duke of Visco into his power where he lost his life being assassinated by the Kings own hand The severity of which action hath by some been called Inhumanity Cruelty but
at Nice Her death in the Year One thousand five hundred seven and Years of CHRIST 1537 thirty the Eighth day of January at the same age with the Empress her Sister which was Three and thirty years As for Duke Charles her Husband he departed this life at Verceil Anno One thousand five hundred fifty and three the Seventeenth day of August being aged Threescore and Years of CHRIST 1553 seven years From this his Marriage with the Princess BEATRICE OF PORTUGAL came the Duke Emanuel-Philibert his Successor who by Margaret of France had his only Son Charles-Emanuel Duke of Savoye This Duke Emanuel was of the number of those Princes Competitors for the Kingdom of Portugal although he was Son of the younger Daughter of King Emanuel An Historian writes that among the pretenders that were strangers the Portuguesses were more inclined to him than to any other and this inclination proceeded from the opinion they had that in regard of the quality of his person he was fitter than any other to defend them from their enemies and if need were he might vigorously resist King Philip if he should stirre both by reason of his Valour and for the means he had to molest him in his Dutchy of Millain joyning unto Piedmont using chiefly the Alliance and Neighbourhood he had with the French who laid claim to that Dukedom But his pretentions succeeded not according to his desire for he dyed immediately after this overture was made MARY OF PORTUGAL the Elder dyed in her Cradle Children of EMANUEL King of PORTUGAL and of ELEONOR OF AUSTRIA his third Wife Nunius CHARLES OF PORTUGAL born at Evora in the Year His Birth One thousand five hundred and twenty the Eighteenth day of February Years of CHRIST 1520 and deceased at Lisbonne the Fifteenth of April Anno One thousand five hundred twenty and one MARY OF PORTUGAL the younger Her Birth came into the world at the end of the Year Vasconcellius One thousand five hundred twenty and Years of CHRIST 1521 one Notwithstanding this Princess was adorned with singular Beauty both of body and soul and had been courted by several Princes yet would she never be brought to marry any but lived with the honour and pudicity required in Princesses of her Quality then being aged Seven and fifty years she payed her last debt to Nature at Lisbonne Anno Her death One thousand five hundred threescore and Eighteen Her body was inhumed in the Monastery of our Years of CHRIST 1578 Lady of the Light of the Order of the Warfare of Christ which she caused to be built near unto Lisbonne 13. JOHN III. Of the Name KING of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES on this and the other side the Affrican Sea Lord of Guineé c. CHAP. XVI PORTUGAL Comme cy devant PORTUGAL Party de AUTRICHEESPAGNE Escartelé Au premier quartier aussi escartele Au 1. 4. de CASTILLE Au 2. 3. de LEON Au 2. quartier d' ARRAGON Party d' ARRAGON-SICILIE Au 3. d' AUSTRICHE Soustenu de BOURGONGNE de la premier branch Au 4. de BOURGONGNE de la second branche soustenu de BRABANT Et sâ—r ces deux derniers quartiers est un Escusson de FLANDRES Party de L'Escu du Marquisate du St. Empire At the age of Twenty years he succeeded to the Crown of his Father and wanted no courage to continue his high designs as well to maintain himself in those memorable Conquests that he had so happily accomplished as for the gaining of other Isles Kingdoms Cities and Countries To this effect Nonio Acuna his Viceroy in the Indies took and ruined the Isle of Bethleem then subjected Bacin and Daman two famous Indian Cities slew Sultan Baduc the puissant King of Cambaie and subjected the City of Dium where he built a Cittadelle The success the Christians had in these parts so perplexed the Turk that he sent a powerful Fleet commanded by the Bassa of Egypt to drive the Portugals from Dium and other places which they had in that Countrey This Army joyned with that of Cambaie but at the rencounter they received so sharp a welcome from the Defendants commanded by Antonio Silueria Vasconcellius that a great number of them were kill'd upon the place Years of CHRIST 1538 Andrade Nine years after this the second Siege of Dium was with much resolution Years of CHRIST 1547 maintained by John Mascaregna against the Sultan Mamudin not less notorious than the other being that then also the Turk assisted the Indian with his Forces The like success smiled for a time upon the Christians at Safin in Africa where they valiantly endured Six months Siege by the Cherifs Army consisting of an hundred thousand Souldiers but not long after the Cherif or King of Suez worsted the Portuguesses which so much cooled their resolutions that King JOHN deliberated to abandon all his Forts of Affrica the more firmly to settle and establish himself in the Indies Guineé and Brasille but this councel was not followed for only quitting and dismantling the Inland Forts he retained and fortified the Port Towns of Septe Tangier and Mazagan with all things necessary for a resistance Vasconcellius This King JOHN obtained from the Pope That the City of Evora should be erected into an Arch-bishoprick the Cities of Portalegre Leiria and Miranda in Portugal into Bishopricks as also of Cochin and Malaca in Asia of Baia in Brasille of Cape Asinaire in Guineé and in Ethiopia he established John Bermudes for first Patriarch of the Latine Church Andrada Following the steps of the King his Father to him was attributed the honour of having planted the Gospel in the Eastern parts of Asia in Ethiopia the Higher and other remote Provinces as also in the Molucco Islands and Japon where he sent that famous Jesuite Francis Xauier afterwards Canonized the fruit of whose labours appeared in the conversion of many Infidels to the faith Insomuch that it 's remarkable that under the happy Reign of this Prince JOHN there were twelve Pagan Kings baptized with the greater part of their people He performed many other profitable works for the advancement of Piety caused several Monasteries to be reformed according to their Antient Rules and was one of the first Kings that favoured and greatly encreased the Order of the Society of Jesus for whom he erected several Colledges in Portugal and his other Dominions Nunius He was a devout Prince and naturally so benigne and clement that he even shewed himself slow in Ordering punishment to the Malefactors and when Judgment was given against such which he did in person once a week he rather inclined to Forgiveness than Condemnation A Lover he was of Peace and Tranquility a favourer of persons of merit and parts having given entertainment in his Kingdom to strangers of divers professions He transferred the University of Lisbonne to Conimbra Vâ—sconcellius and richly endowed it augmented the Salaries of the
publick Professors and rendred this Achademy one of the most famous of Europe He raised also several proud Structures at Evora and restored the Aquaeduct of this City which place he so much delighted in that he made it the most ordinary place of his dwelling Mariana In the Year One thousand five hundred twenty and five His Marriage and in the Month of February he espoused Katherine of Austria at Salamanca she Years of CHRIST 1525 was Sister of the Emperour Charles V. and fourth Daughter of Philip I. of the name King of Spain and of Queen Joane his Wife She dyed at Lisbonne Anno One thousand five hundred threescore and seventeen having Years of CHRIST 1577 lived to a very great age His Grand-son King Sebastian who succeeded this King JOHN for the respect and reverence which he did bear this Princess his Grand-mother did for some time bridle the impetuosity of his rash designs King JOHN III. her Husband deceased twenty years before her of an Apoplexie His Death in the City of Lisbonne the Eleventh day of June in Years of CHRIST 1557 the Year One thousand five hundred fifty and seven after he had lived Fifty and five years and reigned Five and thirty and an half His body was interred in the Church of the Monastery of Bethleem which being begun to be built by his Father was accomplished by him and the Queen his Wife The Symbole or Devise of this King was a Rock composed of five Collumnes upon which was exalted a Cross and for the Soul of the Device IN HOC SIGNO VINCES presenting thereby in imitation of Constantine the great and of one of his Ancestors that in this sign of the Redemption of Man-kind and of the Death of the Saviour of the world he vanquished the enemies of our Faith Children of JOHN III. King OF PORTUGAL and of KATHERINE OF AUSTRIA his Wife ALPHONSO Prince OF PORTUGAL born at Almerin Years of CHRIST 1526 the Four and twentieth day of February in the Year One thousand five hundred twenty and six dyed young EMANUEL OF PORTUGAL came into this world the Years of CHRIST 1531 first day of November being All Saints day Aº One thousand five hundred thirty and one and departed this world three years after PHILIP OF PORTUGAL first saw the light of day at Evora Years of CHRIST 1533 the Five and twentieth day of May in the Year One thousand five hundred thirty and three and deceased also in his infancy DIONYSIO or DENIS OF PORTUGAL born in Years of CHRIST 1535 the same City of Evora the Six and twentieth day of April Aº One thousand five hundred thirty and five dyed likewise in his youth JOHN Prince OF PORTUGAL out-lived his four Brothers PORTUGAL The place of his Birth was Evora His Birth upon the third day of June in the Year Comme cy devant Years of CHRIST 1537 One thousand five hundred thirty and seven About the sixteenth year of his age he espoused JOANE OF AUSTRIA His Marriage second daughter of the Emperour Charles V. and of Isabel of Portugal his Wife PORTUGAL Party d' AUSTRICHE who was Years of CHRIST 1553 Aunt by the Fathers side to this Prince He enjoyed her but seven months and then dyed the second day of January His Death Aº One thousand five hundred Years of CHRIST 1554 fifty and four not having arrived at the Seventeenth year of his age Comme cy devant He left this Princess JOANE with child who after delivery of her posthumus Son King Sebastian returned into Castille and in the absence of her Brother King Philip II. who was at that time in the Low-Countreys governed his Kingdoms with Prince Charles his Son her Nephew and then departed out of this life into a better Mariana in the Year of Salvation Years of CHRIST 1578 One thousand five hundred threescore and eighteen She founded a Nunnery for barefooted Sisters at Madrid and had this happiness not to see the loss and miserable death of her only Son hapning but few Months after her decease A Son of JOHN Prince OF PORTUGAL and JOANE OF AUSTRIA his Wife 15. SEBASTIAN the last King OF PORTUGAL in descent of this branch ANTHONY OF PORTUGAL sixth Son of King John III. born the ninth day of March in the Year One thousand five hundred Years of CHRIST 1539 thirty and nine finished his dayes in his infancy MARY OF PORTUGAL Princess of SPAIN eldest Daughter of King John III. first saw the light of day at Conimbra Her Birth the Fifth day of October AUTRICHE ou ESPAGNE Anno Her Marriage One thousand five hundred twenty and seven Years of CHRIST 1527 and was married at Salamanca in March Anno One thousand five hundred forty and three to Philip II. Escartelé Au premier quartier aussi escartele Au 1. 4. de CASTILLE Au 2. 3. de LEON Au 2. quaâ—tier d' ARRAGON Party d' ARRAGON-SICILIE Sur lesquels deux premiers quartiers est pose l'Escu de Portugal Au 3. d' AUSTRICHE Soustenu de BOURGONGNE de la premier branche Au 4. de BOURGONGNE de la second oranche soustenu de BRABANT Et sur ces deux derniers quartiers est un Escusson de FLANDRES Party du Marquisate du St. Empire Le tout Party de PORTUGAL at that time Prince and afterwards Years of CHRIST 1543 King of Spain She was the first of four wives that he had Her death and dyed at Validolit the Twelfth day of July in the Year One thousand five hundred Years of CHRIST 1545 forty and five four dayes after she was delivered of her only Son Prince Charles who dyed before the King his Father and had a sad and Tragical end The same King Philip II. deceased the Thirteenth day of September in the Year of Grace One thousand five hundred fourscore and eighteen Years of CHRIST 1598 aged Threescore and eleven years He reigned Forty years in Spain and Eighteen in Portugal The body of the Princess Mary his Wife was conveyed to Granada and there interred She never carried the Title of Queen for her Husband came to the Crown a long time after her decease ISABEL OF PORTUGAL born at Lisbonne the Eight and Years of CHRIST 1529 twentieth day of April One thousand five hundred twenty and nine was second Daughter of King John III. and dyed young BEATRIX OF PORTUGAL brought into this world also at Lisbonne the Fifteenth day of February in the Year of our Redemption One thousand five hundred and thirty dyed in the Cradle Years of CHRIST 1530 A Natural Son of JOHN III. King of PORTUGAL EDWARD OF PORTUGAL Arch-bishop of Bracara and Primate of Spain was a Prelate well read in Philosophy Divinity and other good Learning these excellent parts had laid a foundation for higher expectations Vasconcellius when Death surprised him in the flower of his years to the great affliction of King John III. his Father 15.
had intended to admit the Spanish Gallies so that all the places about Lisbonne were at his devotion But Alva very much prevailed as well through his own good Discipline as the Inconstancy Headiness and unskilfulness of his enemies so that he soon conquered the whole Kingdom of Algarves Notwithstanding the Pope thinking it not convenient in Reason of State that the Catholique King whose power was already so formidable in Italy should grow more potent by the addition of a new Kingdom had sent his Legate to exhort him to desist from Armes offering him a Judge to decide the Rights of the Pretendants H. F. Conestaggio but the Spaniard being loth to put that to Compromise whereof he was already assured deceived him with delayes so long until the Victory was even in his hands so that the feaâ—s of ANTHONY encreased as his hopes decayed The Duke of Braganza and the greatest part of the Nobility making their peace with the Enemy to their best advantage no hope of Relief remaining from other Countries a foundation built upon succours from the Enemies ill-willers being alwayes unsure since they will not declare themselves unless their Companions be strong and his Army which he had levied being composed either of unwilling minds or unable bodies since all were Mechaniques Mariners Slaves or religious persons whose vaunts before the Fight did more inflame than their valour in Fight did defend him whom they had inflamed Yet such as they were they banded together under the leading of ANTHONY ANTHONY's Aâ—my defeated near Lisbonne at Alcantara expecting the Enemy in the Year One thousand five hundred and fourscore where they were put to rout chased to Lisbonne Walls and the Suburbs sacked a thousand Portugals being slain in Fight partly in their Trenches and partly at Years of CHRIST 1580 the defence of a Bridge where they made a valiant resistance ANTHONY fled to Viana whither he was so sharply pursued by Zanches d'Avila Marescal of the Field that in the habit of a Mariner he hardly escaped in a small Boat both Captivity from his Pursuers and drowning through the violence of the wind and waves The year following viz. One thousand five hundred fourscore and one he escaped into France from Setuval in a Flemmish Ship which he did hire by the aid of a woman and a Religious person where he incited the Duke of Alenzon to annoy the Catholick King in Brabant and the Queen Mother who seemed discontented with the Spaniard for interrupting the course of Justice by the violence of Armes to assist him with Men and Munition for the recovery of Portugal and the Defence of the Terceraes which stood out in his Cause and had vanquished Peter de la Baldes with the loss of Four hundred of his men who had been sent thither to reduce those Islands to the obedience of the King of Spain Portugal was now peaceably enjoyed by the Catholick King who had made his Magnificent entry into Lisbonne granted a General Pardon to all ANTHONY's Faction excepting the Religious and some few particulars and received the Oath of Allegiance to himself and Dom Diego his son from the States of the Kingdom At this time ANTHONY was armed by the Queen Mother with Sixty Sail and Seven thousand men for the assurance of the Islands and the surprising of the Indian Fleet under the leading of Philip Strozzi Collonel of the French Infantry and Monsieur Brisack against whom they sent the Marquess of St. Croix with a formidable Army who engaged with the French near the Island of St. Michael in a bloody fight wherein Strozzi Strozzi and the Count of Vimioso slain and the Count of Vimioso were slain much blood spilt on both sides but the French received the Foil and yet not so weakned but that ANTHONY retained the Island in his hands from whence he after Sailed into France leaving Emanuel de Silva Governour behind After the Report of this Victory the Catholick King imagining his assurance of Portugal to be good departed into Castille leaving Cardinal Albert Arch-duke of Austria Vice-roy in his stead having first received a new Oath to his Son Dom Philip because Dom Diego his eldest Son was deceased Conestaggio But because he meant to make his Conquest entire the year following 1583. he sent the Marquess of St. Croix with a greater Navy than Years of CHRIST 1583 before to the Islands where Twelve hundred French under the Conduct of Monsieur de Chattes being joyned with those Portuguesses which were under Emanuel de Silva made a valiant resistance but being oppressed with so great a number of Enemies being Ten thousand trained Souldiers at least the French yielded upon Composition and Emanuel de Silva was taken and beheaded After which Victory Faiole was reduced to obedience after some small resistance Portugal wholly subjected to the Catholick King and thus was the Conquest of the Kingdom of Portugal wholly compleated and subjected to the Catholick King ANTHONY being returned into France the Sanctuary of afflicted Princes from thence he writ a long Letter to Pope Gregory XIII representing the Right he had to the Kingdom of Portugal adding That he had been justly Elected King That the Marriage of Prince Lewis his Father had been declared lawful by the Sentence of the Bishop of Angra the Popes Legate That King Henry his Uncle had unjustly Sentenc'd him in his own Defence for his Legitimation having been proved the Crown had in Justice fallen upon him the said ANTHONY before Henry himself as being the Son of his elder Brother whose Sentence was revoked and annihilated by Pope Gregory To whom Pope Sixtus the Fifth succeeding the same King ANTHONY writ him also another Letter as well to Congratulate with him in his Election offering him the Vowes of an obedient Son as to implore his help towards his Establishment in his Ancient Possession and Royal Dignity Camdenus ANTHONY not long after obtained Letters of Recommendation from Queen Katharine to Elizabeth Queen of England in which ANTHONY entertained in England she forewarned her and other Princes to beware of the Spanish Greatness who now enriched with the Addition of Portugal East-India and many Islands in the Atlantique Sea might in time over shadow all his Neighbouring Princes Queen Elizabeth alwayes Provident of her own and her Subjects Safety easily listned to this Councel and bountifully relieved ANTHONY which she thought she might do without Offence considering that she acknowledged him her Kinsman descended of the Blood Royal of England nor was there any League made betwixt the Spaniards and English that the Portugals might not be received into England Here then ANTHONY resided till that fatal Blow was given to their as they called it Invincible Armado when Queen Elizabeth judged it more Honourable to attaque her Enemy than again to be assailed by him suffered a Fleet to be set forth against Spain commanded by Sir John Norris and Sir Francis Drake and some
that Kingdom resides in the Kings of Spain An Errour springing either from their Ignorance in the Descent of those Princes An apprehension that Sixty years Possession by the Austrian Family could make a Title indubitable which was never warranted by the Right of Birod or by the Laws of Portugal Or that many being wilfully Ignorant would have others to be so too I have therefore thought it necessary to spend this Sheet for the Entrance of the Table of the Competitors their several pretentions and to clear the Title of King John IV. to that Crown I. The Pretention of the People THe People Claimed Jure Regni alledging That the Issue-Male of their Kings failing the Election belonged unto them fortifying this Reason by the Example of the Election which was made of their King John I. But against the People it was answered That they had no greater Priviledge of Election in this Kingdom than in the rest of Spain all which Realms fall by Succession when there is any lawfully descended of the Blood-Royal And that in Portugal they have less Liberty than the rest growing from the Gifts of the Kings of Castille and from the Conquest of the Kings of Portugal And forasmuch as the People did not give the Realm to their Primative Kings they could not since be invested with any Power to Choose one And for that which they alledged concerning the Election of King John I. it was answered That this Reason did so little serve their turn that it was rather an Argument against them to prove that the Kingdom in that Case was Successive having themselves secretly confessed That they had no Right to Choose whil'st there remained any one lawfully descended of the Royal Issue Inferring That Beatrice being married to a Stranger The Realm was in the same estate wherein according to the Law of Lamego they were to choose the next Prince of the Blood which Choice proceeded from Duty rather than any unlimited Power in the People But to put this Dispute out of doubt there had been Four several Examples put in Practice against the Peoples Election 1. Alphonso III. Successor to his Brother Sanceo II. left the Crown to his Son Dionysio by the Right of Inheritance 2. Emanuel in the same Right succeeded John II. his Fathers Brothers Son 3. Emanuel upon his journey into Castille declared That if he deceased without Children the Succession did belong to James Duke of Braganza his Sisters Son 4. And Henry the Cardinal in the same manner without Election succeeded Sebastian to whom he was great Uncle So that Consequently That Custom was to be observed in the Succession of a Kingdom which had been ever practised II. Of the POPE THe Popes Title was not forgot who Challenged to be Jure divino Arbitrator if not Donor in all Controversies for Crowns but especially in this because Alphonso the first King to obtain that Title became Tributary to the See of Rome But this was slighted and disregarded as not worthy an Answer III. Of Katherine de Medicis KAtherine de Medicis Widow of Henry the Second King of France was the Third Competitor for the Crown of Portugal as being descended legitimately from Alphonso III. King of Portugal vide pag. 22. charging all that Reigned since to be Usurpers and that the Kingdom ought to return by direct Line to the Heirs of the Lawful Children of Alphonso and the Countess of Buillon whom they said to be this Katherine Daughter of Lawrence de Medicis and of Magdalene of Buillon and de la Tour the only remainder in Direct Line of that House and Heir to the County the which although she did not then possess being incorporate by the Kings of France as a matter of importance seated upon the Limits of France and England yet they gave unto the Queen in Recompence the Earldom of Lauregais which she enjoyed But against the most Christian Queen it was pleaded That her Pretention was improbable and prescribed seeing that the Successors of the Earl of Buillon had never made any mention thereof neither is it credible that since this Pretention was incorporate to the Crown of so mighty a Realm such Wise and Potent Princes as were Francis I. and Henry II. would have forgotten to call it in question But the truth was the Countess Matilda left no Children as it appears in her Testament in the Publick Registers of Portugal making therein no mention to leave any by King Alphonso nor to have had any It was likewise proved That Matilda or Maud had no Children by a formal Request found in the same Registers by the which all the Prelates in the Realm did beseech Pope Urban That it would please him to disannul the Curse which he had laid upon the Realm and that he would approve the Marriage of Beatrix the second Wise of Alphonso that he would make their Children Legitimate that there might be no hindrance in the Succession of the Kingdom whereby it was concluded That if there had been any lawful Children of Maud they could not have perswaded the Pope to preferre the Bastards of Beatrice It was added That these Reasons were not unknown in France and that of late there had been a Book Printed of the Genealogie of the Houses of Medicis and Buillon continued unto Katherine the most Christian Queen whereby it did clearly appear That Maud left no Children by Alphonso her second Husband having been formerly married to Philip Son of Philip Augustus King of France by which Marriage she had one Daughter named Jane who did not succeed her Mother in the County dying before her without Issue So as Robert Son of Alix Sister to Matilda came to the Succession and this is that Robert from whom they would draw the descent of Queen Katherine being the Nephew and not the Son of Maud. So as not being at all proved that Alphonso III. had any Children by his first Bed but the contrary by many Reasons the Queen had no Reason they said to Pretend The Interest of the other Pretenders more nearly concerned this ensuing Table will make clear Emanuel Fourteenth King of Portugal Beatrice Dutchess of Savoye Defunct Emanuel Philibert D. of Savoy Competitor Isabel the Empress Defunct Philip II. King of Castille Competitor John III. Fifteenth K. of Portugal Def. John Prince of Portugal Defunct Sebastian 16th King of Portugal Defunct Lewis Duke of Beia Defunct Anthony Prior of Crato Competitor Henry Cardinal and Seventeenth K. of Portugal after whose death these several Princes laid Claim to that Kingdom Edward Duke of Vimerana Defunct Mary Dutchess of Parma Defunct Raynucius Duke of Parma Competit Katherine Dutchess of Braganza Competit IV. Of Emanuel Philebert Duke of Savoye THe Fourth that pretended to this Crown was Emanuel Philebert Duke of Savoye as Son to Beatrix younger Daughter to King Emanuel though it is to be supposed that he laid not his Claim out of any hopes to prevail whil'st he was descended of the younger Daughter and
Portuguess Merchants Ships from their Pyracies the King appointed a Fleet of forty Ships of War and six thousand Men to attend that service as Convoys His Holiness the Popes anger as yet continued towards the Kingdom of Portugal for he had not only hitherto refused to receive Ambassadors from thence but to supply those Archbishopricks Bishopricks and other Ecclesiastical Offices of the Kingdom which by the death of the former possessors were vacant this the King found a great inconveniency in and therefore thought fit once more to attempt his Holiness and to present him the names of such of his own Subjects whose piety learning or other sufficiencies he thought might make them capable of such dignities As first for the Archbishoprick of Braga formerly acknowledged to be the primacy of all Spain notwithstanding the pretensions of Toledo he nominated Don Pedro de Lancastro President of the Justice of the Palace of the House of Ameiro and descended from JOHN the second King of Portugal For the Archbishoprick of Evora His Majesty nominated D. Francisco Barrez Bishop of the Algarez Bishoprick he bestowed upon the Father Dennis Des Anges an Augustine Monk and Confessor to His Majesty for the Bishoprick of Guarda was appointed D. Antonio Pobo great Prior of the Military Order of St. James for the Bishoprick of Lamego D. Antonio de Mendosa Commissary of the Bula de la Croisaida for the Bishoprick of Lerida D. Deigo de Souza Inquisitor of the holy Office for that of Conimbra Don Sebastian Casar de Menerez who was before nominated for the Bishoprick of Porto but that was given by his Majesty to D. Pedro de Menerez once named Bishop of Miranda of which last place D. Pedro de Porros Tutor of the Prince D. Theodosio was now named Bishop These choices of his Majesty the Pope after some time Confirmed D. Francisco de Souza who was sent as extraordinary Ambassador notwithstanding the opposition of the Spaniards received not unlikely out of a fear that they would Officiate without his Confirmation and so in a manner Renounce the Power of the See of Rome But in the middest of this setling of Ecclesiastical affairs Arms were not silent for upon the Borders there hapned a Skirmish between the Castillians and Portuguese about the latter end of April One thousand six hundred forty and nine Lord of Themer Court Lieutenant General of the Portuguese Horse and Monsieur Du Quesne the Commissary General gained a Victory over a small Army of the Spaniards defeating Seven hundred of the Spaniards and taking divers Prisoners amongst whom was the Nephew of the Marquess of Melinguen Lieutenant General of the Castillian Army at Badajox who was after exchanged for the Count Fiesque Lauagna who for some years past had been Prisoner in Castille in this Conflict the Portuguese lost but Twenty five men the Chief of which was Sieur de la Touche a French Captain who had behaved himself most Valorously The Commotions of the Perisians against the King of France had given the Spaniard great hopes of better success than they had many years had but the middle of the Year One thousand six hundred and forty nine happily concluding them the news of their Pacification and that of a great Victory gained by the Portuguesses against the Hollanders in Brazile caused a general joy over all Portugal for the King appointed Publick Thanks to be given and Te Deum to be Sung in all Churches Hopes to revenge the late defeat given by the Lord Therimicourt and desire to do some Valiant Act before he departed from his Government made the Marquess of Leganez Governour of the Spanish Forces at Estramadura give an Alarum to the Portuguese Frontiers and enter into the Countrey with Two thousand Horse and Six thousand Foot but the Valiant Count of St. Laurence assaulting him forced him to retire with shame and excuse himself that he marched out only to meet the Marquess of Mortare who was appointed to succeed him in the Government Yet this small and worthless Alarum made the King of Portugal who knew that too much care could not be had of the Safety of his Kingdom to send Orders to the Governors to look more exactly to the Countreys committed to their Charges than formerly and strictly to give Charge to Don Juan de Menezez Governor of Porto The Viscount Ponte de Lima Governor of the Countreys between Douro and Mimbo to the Count of Arogna Governor of Trasmontes and Don Roderigo de Castro Governor of Beira to repair with all expedition to their several Commands Nor was his Majesty less careful of his Dominions abroad than of those near home which made him dispatch the Baron of Alviro to be Governor of Tanger and D. Francisco de Norogna to Mazagan both strong Forts in Affrica the last of which had been neer surprized by the Moors of Barbary but the Commander of that Party which assaulted it being slain by a Valorous French-man they were beaten off with loss for which service the King bestowed upon the French-man a Pension of Six hundred Crowns per annum And whil'st His Majesty was distributing his Bounties he could not forget the Lady Dona Maria Manuel Widow to the some-time before deceased D. Antonio Coello D. Caravallio who had ever since His Majesties coming to the Crown been one of His Privy-Councellors and was one of the Chief Persons that went Ambassadors into France to renew the Alliance and conclude a firm League between the King of Portugal and Lewis the Thirteenth King of France His Majesty therefore in consideration of his services bestowed a valuable Pension on his aforesaid Widow There was almost daily in-roads made upon the Frontiers in some places or other amongst the rest the Baron of Themericourt entred with a strong Party into the Spanish Territories surprised the Suburbs of the City of Albuquerque and brought away a very rich Booty without the loss of so much as one Souldier upon the place and not above Twenty wounded The succour of the distressed Subjects of the more distressed King of England about the Year One thousand six hundred and fifty gave occasion to the King of Portugal to manifest his affection to the English Nation which he did by giving assistance to the Gallant Prince Rupert who being by His Majesty of England made Admiral of those few Ships which in the Year One thousand six hundred and forty eight returned to their Allegiance had ever since been pursued by the more Potent Fleets of the English Rebels and was now by them driven to seek the protection of his Portugal Majesty who notwithstanding that the Fleet of the Rebels with threatning Bravado's demanded the said Kings leave either to assault them in his Port or to force them to come out bravely protected them under his Castles In Revenge of which the Rebels of England who stiled themselves a Parliament Proclaimed an open War with the Portugal Nation which his Majesty notwithstanding his
Alcobace Natural Children of ALPHONSO III. King OF PORTUGAL FERDINAND-ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL Knight of the Order of the Templars lieth at Lisbonne in the Church of St. Blaise GILLES-ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL was father of Lawrence-Gilles Baily of the Commandrie of the same Church of St. Blaise ALPHONSO-DIONYSIO OF PORTUGAL espoused MARY DE RIBEIRA by whom he had Pedro-Alphonso Roderick and Diego-Alphonso and Garsia Mendez Prior of Alcaceua of Sautarem Diego-Alphonso son of Alphonso Dionysio married Yoland Lopez daughter of Lopo Fernandez Lord of Ferreira and of Mary Gomez Tauiera and had issue Alvaro and Lopo Dia from which Lopo descend those of Sousa which at present are called Diabos MARTIN-ALPHONSO CHICORRO DE PORTUGAL another natural son of King Alphonso III. by a Moorish Woman hath given original to the Lords so called some but erroneously suppose this MARTIN was son of King Alphonso II. LEONOR OF PORTUGAL Wife of Count GARSIA DE SOUSA a Nobly qualified Lord whom his Father-in-law King Alphonso honoured with the Title of a Count. 6. DIONYSIO KING of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES sirnamed Father of his Countrey CHAP. VII PORTUGAL D'argent a cinq Escussons d'Azure chacun charge de cinq besans d'argent peris en saltoir a la Bordure de gueulles chargee de huict Chasteaux d'or PORTUGAL Party de ARARGON D'or a quatre pals de gueulles He was a Prince both Pious Just and Liberal and moreover so singular an Admirer of Truth of which he was so Grand and Religious an observer that he was never known to make breach of his promise often saying That Nothing was more offensive than an Untruth He had arrived at the Eighteenth year of his age at the death of his father at what time he took the reins of the Government into his own hand when the Queen his Mother fearing that by his too prodigal Liberality and profuseness he would exhaust the Treasure of the Kingdom desired to take a part with him in the administration of his affairs But this King DIONYSIO would not consent unto which so much incensed the Queen Nunez that she retired into Castille under pretext of a Religious desire she had to give assistance to the King her father and being gray with age she there finished her mortal life before which nevertheless King DIONYSIO went into Castille where he obtained a reconciliation and had the happiness to comfort her at her last gasp But King Sanceo of Castille making little reckoning of performance of the agreements of Marriage made betwixt his Children Mariana and those of King DIONYSIO gave ground to that Warre set on foot betwixt them in the beginning of which Sanceo deceasing his Son and Successor continued it who was so Canvased by the Portuguesses that he was constrained to Demand the Peace Vasconcellius which not long after he violated and so again to his great prejudice drew upon himself the just Armes of King DIONYSIO But their discords ended in another agreement sealed and confirmed by the knot of other alliances of Marriage reciprocally contracted between their Houses of Castille and Portugal Nunez The differences between the Kings of Castille and Arragon and Alfonso de la Cerda who pretended to the Kingdom of Castille being put to the Arbiterment of this King DIONYSIO he shewed the admirable effects of his wisdom in composing their discords and left them to the enjoyment of a most happy peace But the Divisions and Civil Warre happening betwixt him and his son and Successor the Prince Alphonso jealous and envious of the affection which the King did bear to Alphonso-Sanceo his natural brother gave him some trouble in his declining years for though the Bastard had fled into Castille Mariana Nunez Vasconcellius yet this young Prince ceased not to continue discontents towards his father who having held the Scepter six and forty years and lived threescore and four dyed at Santarem in the Year His Death One thousand three hundred twenty and five the seventh day of January His body was brought and Years of CHRIST 1325 interred in the Monastery of St. Dionysius called Odiuelles Religious of the Order of the Cistertians by him founded and situate three Leagues from Lisbonne Nor was this the only Foundation of his raising For the Monastery of Nunns of the Order of St. Clare at Conimbra which Queen ISABEL OF ARRAGON his Wife Founded and where she was inhumed oweth much to his Liberality Aub. Miraus Hil. de Costo Marin Siculus He espoused this Princess in the Year His Marriage One thousand two hundred fourscore and two who was daughter of Peter III. King of Arragon and of Years of CHRIST 1282 Constance who had for father Manfroy King of Sicelie and for Grand-father by the Mothers side Vasconcellius Perpinian the Emperour Frederick II. ISABEL was born Years of CHRIST 1271 in the Year One thousand two hundred threescore and eleven In the whole course of her life especially in her younger years she wholly dedicated her self to Piety and Devotion exercising several works of Charity principally towards the poor and indigent and was the instrument of the accord and reconciliation betwixt the Princes her kindred She vailed her self a Nun of the third Order of St. Francis In fine as she made a journey into Castille to endeavour an Agreement betwixt her Son the King of Portugal Alphonso IV. and the King of Castille Alphonso IX her Nephew she found out her heavenly rest at Estremos in the Year One thousand Years of CHRIST 1336 three hundred six and thirty being aged Threescore and five years And because there had been several Miracles wrought at her Tomb it was first beautified by Pope Leo X. then in our dayes and in the Year of Jubile Years of CHRIST 1625 One thousand six hundred and twenty five Pope Urban VIII Canonized her and entred her in the Catalogue of Saints the Five and twentieth day of May being the Feast of the Trinity this was performed at the intreaty of Philip IV. King of Spain and of Queen Elizabeth of France his Wife Several famous men have written the Life and Actions of this good and Pious Princess among others John-Peter Perpinian and Antonio Vasconcellos Jesuites and Aubert le Mire grand Dean of the Church of our Lady at Anuers but more particularly than all the rest P. Hillarian de Coste a Frier Minor of the Order of St. Francis de Paula hath most ingeniously treated thereof This King DIONYSIO This Order of Chrâ—stus had CoÌ„mandries not only in Portugal and Algarue but in Affrica and the Indies also and especially in Brasille which made the Mastership thereof seem so wealthy that is amounted to the yearly rent of an Hundred thousand Ducates And this was the reason why it was annexed inseparably as well as that D'Avis to the Crown of Portugal The Kings thereof having taken the Title of Perpetual Administrators of the Orders D'Avis and of Christus And. Favine fol. 188.
A. Favin◠in the Year One thousand three hundred and eighteen others say twenty Instituted the Military ORDER OF CHRIST The Order of Christ instituted which is the chief of the three Orders of Portugal The Knights live according to the rule of the Cistercians wear a black Robe and upon that a Cross Pateé Red surmounted by a Plain Cross White This Order was Confirmed by Pope John XXII The King gave unto the Knights the Towns and Lands which the Templars but a little before abrogated had in Portugal and for their principal abode the City of Tomar This Prince was so great an Admirer of Learning that he established the Famous University of Conimbra in his Kingdom Vasconcellius He was a Lover of Poesie unto which he sometimes addicted himself And so much favoured Labouring men by the example of one of his Ancestors that he bestowed upon them several Immunities and Priviledges giving them the appellation of The Nerves of the Earth In Brief His excellent Government his Ordinances and Rules for the order of Justice and the Cities and Towns which he either built or restored did deservedly merit him the name of Father of his Countrey So that whatsoever his Illustrious Predecessors made themselves Renowned for in Martial Performances he commanded and acquired by those of Peace and Policy Children of DIONYSIO King of PORTUGAL and of St. ISABEL OF ARRAGON his Wife ALPHONSO VI. King of PORTUGAL continued the Posterity CONSTANCE OF PORTUGAL CASTILLE Queen of CASTILLE Her Marriage Escartele Au 1. 4. de gueulles au Chasteau d'or Au 2. 3. d'argent au lyon de pourpre was espoused to FERDINAND IV. King of Castille who dyed in the Year One thousand three hundred and ten He was son of King Sanceo IV. From this Marriage proceeded King Alphonso IX who by Mary of Portugal had issue Peter sirnamed the Cruel also King of Castille By a Love-Mistress he had several Bastards among others Henry Count of Tristemare who usurped the Kingdom of Castille by aide of the French Her death CONSTANCE deceased in the Year Party de PORTUGAL One thousand Years of CHRIST 1313 three hundred and thirteen in the Month of November Natural Children of DIONYSIO King of PORTUGAL ALPHONSO-SANCEO Count of Albuquerque was affectionately loved by the King his father Vasconcellius to the great displeasure and jealousie of his lawful Son who forced him to flie into Castille as we have said But returning into Portugal with a Force they had some disputes after which they came to an agreement PETER OF PORTUGAL Count of Barcellos wrote a Book of the Illustrious Houses of Portugal Nunez he received the honour of Burial in the Church of St. John de Tourouce 7. ALPHONSO IV. KING of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES CHAP. VIII PORTUGAL Comme cy devant Party de CASTILLE Escartelé Au 1. 4. de guuelles au Chasteau d'or 3 au 2. 3. d'argent au lyon de pourpre He still continued in that unwarrantable Hatred towards his brother Sanceo whom by his own Judgement he banished the Kingdom deprived of his Honours and Dignities seized upon his Lands and confiscated his Goods Sanceo was at that time in Castille who by Letters made his application to King ALPHONSO but his Prayers wrought little effect upon the hard and obstinate heart of his brother wherefore seeing intreaties would not soften him the Bastard resolves to force that with the reason and Justice of his Sword which his supplications could not obtain raises an Army enters Portugal takes several places and layes the Countrey waste The King also draws into the Field where he performs the like acts of Hostility but at length an agreement was made betwixt them The end of this Warre was the beginning of another Commotion betwixt the Father-in-law and the Son this King of Portugal and the King of Castille Alphonso XI Vasconcellius who being incensed for that the Portuguesses would marry the Princess Constance daughter of the Infant John-Emanuel descended from King Ferdinand of Castille called the Holy to his Son the Prince Pedro These Princes were upon the point of another Cruel Warre but that Pope Benedict XII and the King of France Philip IV. perfected a reconciliation betwixt them shewing these two Kings the danger that Spain at that time did undergo by reason of the progress the Moors had made and that their Armies would be better employed against the Enemies of their Faith the Infidels than in the ruine of themselves To whom the Holy Queen of Portugal Isabel of Arragon having joyned her prayers things were at last agreed So the two Kings of Enemies being made Friends Garibai Mariana Lib. 16. C. 7. joyned their Forces against their common adversaries the Moors conducted by Albohacen King of Fez and Joseph King of Granada who had laid a straight Siege to Tariffa The famous Battel of Tariffa or Salado 1340. which they resolved to raise maugre the almost numberless number and to be imagined invincible Troops of these Barbarians they gave them a Field near unto the River Salado in which famous Battel the two Christian Kings both ALPHONSO's engaged them with so indefatigable and undaunted Resolutions that they obtained a most Famous Victory and a Glorious Trophy which hapned in the Year One thousand three hundred and forty An incredible number of these Infidels were killed both upon the Field and in the pursuit And if we will believe the Castillian Historians there dyed of them Two hundred thousand the Portugal Histories say Four hundred thousand with the loss only of twenty of the Christians These two Kings by this wonderful Victory gained a grand reputation in the world and that reputation a security to their estates The King of Portugal took prisoner with his own hands the son of Albohali then King of Salamanque whom he brought Captive into Portugal Years of CHRIST 1355 Not long after his arrival Nunez at the instigation of some evil instruments of his Court he stained his reputation in the cruel Execution of Agnes de Castro of whom his son was most passionately enamoured taking her as his Wife after the death of the Princess Constance from this Original sprung that most Unnatural Warre betwixt the father and the son which was looked upon by Historians as a judgement from God who had permitted that ALPHONSO should suffer the same injuries from his son which he had done to his father His Death ALPHONSO IV. dyed at Lisbonne in the Month of May Mariana One Years of CHRIST 1357 thousand three hundred fifty and seven after he had performed the Kingly Office One and thirty years and five Months Nunez and lived Threescore and seven He lieth in the Cathedral Church with the Queen BEATRICE OF CASTILLE his Wife who was daughter of King Sanceo IV. and of Mary of Molina his Wife He was a Lover of Justice Magnanimous and resembled in many good
PETER King of PORTUGAL by Agnes de Castro ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL dyed young JOHN OF PORTUGAL was conjoyned in Marriage with MARY TELLEZ His Marriage daughter of Martin-Alphonso Tellez and sister to Elianor PORTUGAL TELLEZ Wife or rather Love-Mistress of King Ferdinando of Portugal his brother His Memory is worthy of blame for having imbrued his hands in the blood of his Wife Nunez whom he put to death under a false pretence that she had forfeited her honour and violated the Laws of Marriage An act so much the more mournful and Tragical as being committed by the Artifice and Machinations of Queen Elianor Maries Sister envious that she had married a Prince of so accomplished a Personage loved and honoured by all and into whose hands after the death of Ferdinando his Brother would fall the Government and Management of the Affairs of the Kingdom so that the Queen having charged him with no less a Crime than of Designs against the Life of the King he was forced to flie into Castille where he dyed being kept a Prisoner by King John I. from this Marriage came one Son Viz. 10. FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL D'AUALOS Seigneur of Eca in the Kingdom of Galicia was several times married but last of all unto ISABEL D'AVALOS daughter of Peter-Lopez d'Avalos son of the Constable of Castille Ruy Lopez by which Wife and others which he married and by several Concubines he â—â—d to the number of two and forty children from some of which are issued the Lords of Eca The second Wife of JOHN OF PORTUGAL CASTILLE Natural son of King Peter was CONSTANCE OF CASTILLE who was also a Bastard-daughter of Henry II. King of Castille by whom he had three daughters 10. MARY OF PORTUGAL CUNHA Wife of MARTIN-VASQUEZ DE CUNHA to whom she brought in Dower the County of Valence and from this Marriage according to some the Counts of Valence are descended 10. MARY OF PORTUGAL espoused to the Count MINHO PETER MINHO 10. N. OF PORTUGAL Wife of Lope-Vasquez de Cunha CUNHA The same Prince JOHN OF PORTUGAL had also these Bastards following 10. ALPHONSO DE CASCAES married BLANCH DE CUNHA CUNHA 10. PETER Seigneur de Guerra who hath left a long Posterity 10. FERDINAND Lord of Braganca DIONYSIO OF PORTUGAL another Natural Son of King Peter from whom are descended the Lords of Colmenercio and the Counts of Villar as you shall see hereafter in the Descents of the Bastards of the House of Portugal BEATRIX OF PORTUGAL also a Natural Daughter of King Peter and Agnes de Castro was espoused to SANCEO OF CASTILLE son of Sanceo Count of Albuquerque who was Bastard-Son of King Alphonso XI and of Leonora de Guzman his Paramore they had issue Vracca of Albuquerque afterwards named Leonora a very wealthy Lady married to the Infant Ferdinand of Castille called d'Antaguera he was King of Arragon by Election and they had two Sons Alphonso V. King of Arragon and Sicelie from whom are descended some Kings of Naples and John King of Navarre and Arragon who hath given original to Kings of these two Monarchies Another Natural Son of PETER King of PORTUGAL and of TERESA LAURENS JOHN King OF PORTUGAL first of the name continued the Posterity 9. FERDINAND KING of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES CHAP. X. PORTUGAL Comme cy devant PORTUGAL Party de TELLEZ His person was comely and his aspect pleasant and most accomplished he had been in all perfections had it not been that he was unstable and wavering in his Resolutions Mariana He pretended a right of Succession to the Crown of Castille after the death of King Peter as being Great Grandchild of King Sanceo IV. and in this end he contracted an alliance with the King of Arragon but to no purpose for having to do with so Valiant a Prince as was King Henry II. Bastard-brother of the same King Peter he discontinued his pretentions He gave his promise for the Marriage of Leonora daughter of the King of Arragon and contracted the same agreement with the King of Castille to espouse his Daughter also of the same name but being ill counselled and continuing in his Levity he abandoned these honourable and advantageous Marriages to contract an unlawful one with LEONORA TELLEZ Daughter of Martin-Alphonso Tellez Nunez Vasconcellius and of Aldouce de Vasconcellos notwithstanding she was before married to John-Laurens de Cugna under colour that her former Marriage was unlawful as being contracted without Dispensation and notwithstanding the propinquity of kindred betwixt the Parties This gave disgust to several of the Portugal Lords who retired into Castille as did also Cugna The King FERDINAND was yet so rash as to renew his former Claim and Pretentions to the Kingdom of Castille but Henry King of Castille being the more expert Souldier had much the advantage of him who entred into the Field marched into Portugal stormed several Towns laid waste the Countrey and at length begirt Lisbonne with a straight Siege But their differences were at last composed in the Conjugal Bed the ordinary way of reconciliation between the two Royal Houses of Portugal and Castille by several Marriages contracted betwixt them After the death of Henry History of Castille FERDINAND renewed his old quarrel against John King of Castille his Successor and called in the English to his succour who were in the end so burthensome that he was for the second time enforced to come to an agreement He begirt the Cities of Lisbonne and Evora with strong Walls The Dignities of Constable and Marshal first created in Portugal Nunez Vasconcellius Mariana and was the first that created the Dignities of Constable and Marshall in Portugal And dyed in the same City of Lisbonne His death the Nine and twentieth day of Years of CHRIST 1383 October Anno One thousand three hundred fourscore and three having Reigned Seventeen years and lived Three and forty He lieth in the Church of Santarem near unto his Mother Constance Manuel He took for his Symbole a Sword which transpierced two hearts with these words CUR NON UTRUNQUE by which he would have understood that by the sagacity of his Judgement he could penitrate into the most secret thoughts Children of FERDINAND King of PORTUGAL and of LEONORA TELLEZ N. OF PORTUGAL a Son born about the Year One thousand three hundred fourscore and two to the great joy of the King his father but that contentment lasted not long for he dyed within four dayes after his birth BEATRIX OF PORTUGAL Queen of CASTILLE CASTILLE born in the Year Her Birth One thousand three hundred threescore and twelve Escartelé Castille de Leon. She had been by King FERDINAND her Father promised in Years of CHRIST 1372 Marriage to several Princes among others to Edward of England Son of Edmond of Cambridge my Author meaneth I believe Party de PORTUGAL Edward Duke of York and Albemarle Son of
if a man fallen from heaven had come to visit them He was by the Portugues so affectionately beloved that after the Death of King Edward his elder brother the Government of the Kingdom was committed unto him during the Minority of Alphonso V. his Nephew which he managed for the space of Ten years with great Fidelity and Prudence Nunez Vignier when Alphonso Count of Barcellos his Natural Brother a Prince both Ambitious and Envious and who by the means of this PETER had been before exalted to the Dukedome of Braganca most ingratefully opposed him rendred him a dangerous and obnoxious person unto the King their Nephew and also charged him with a scandalous accusation the heads of which were That he had performed the Office of Regent much to the prejudice of the Kings interest had got into his own hands the whole treasure of the Kingdom and that also he designed to ascend the Throne by the Deposition of the King his Nephew To these Articles the Duke would have answered and cleared himself but the King who was willing and apt to believe any thing that might secure him his Crown being possessed with a prejudicate opinion would not hear of his Answer but on the contrary Resolved to take him off The Duke had timely intelligence thereof who to avoid the effects of the Kings Anger and to secure his person shut himself up in his Town of Conimbra and there finding that he could not be upon the Defensive part without the Offensive forgetful of his Duty put himself into the head of a considerable Army with which he marched towards Lisbonne resolving to make himself Master thereof but he fell into the hands of the Ambushes prepared for him by the Kings party where His Death after a hot dispute near unto the River Alfaruberie Mariana Vasconcellius Duke PETER was killed upon the Field being shot through the Years of CHRIST 1449 Heart with an empoysoned Arrow which fell out to be in the Year One thousand four hundred forty and nine and on the Twentieth day of May. His loss nevertheless was much lamented as being a Prince worthy of a longer life and better Fortune He lived unto the age of Seven and fifty years His body lay the space of three dayes without Burial until that by the supplication of the Queen of Portugal his Daughter Wife of Alphonso it was brought and interred in the Monastery of Battel the Sepulchre of the Kings his Predecessors This Duke was so much the more Praise-worthy following the footsteps of some Princes of his House because he joyned the use of his Pen with that of his Sword he writ several Books both in Prose and Verse and Translated some Latine Authors into his own Language There is yet to be seen of his Verses in Portugal which Treat of Morality and are replenished with Learning and Precepts of Wisdom In the Month of September Anno Mariana lib. 20. c. 16. One thousand four hundred eight and twenty His Marriage Duke PETER married ISABEL OF ARRAGON Years of CHRIST 1428 Daughter of James of Arragon Count of Urgel and of Isabel the Daughter of Peter IV. King of Arragon by which Princess he had Six Children here underneath mentioned Children of PETER OF PORTUGAL Duke of CONIMBRA by ISABEL OF ARRAGON his Wife PETER OF PORTUGAL elected King of ARRAGON ARRAGON Years of CHRIST 1450 and Count of Barcelona Escartelé de PORTUGAL was eldest Son of Peter of Portugal Duke of Conimbra and of Isabel of Arragon his Wife and was established Constable of the Kingdom of Portugal by the Regent his Father after the decease of his Uncle by the Fathers side Prince John Years of CHRIST 1445 In the Year One thousand four hundred five and forty he had the Command of an Army committed to him for the succour of the King of Castille and for the Reduction of some of his Subjects that had rebelled Afterwards the Catalonians and some of the Grandees of Arragon having revolted from the King of Arragon and Navarre John II. They caused this Prince PETER to return out of Affrick where he fought against the Moors and acknowledged him for King of Arragon and Count of Barcelona Years of CHRIST 1464 in September in the Year One thousand four hundred threescore and four maintaining that these Estates did lawfully belong unto him as being Son of the eldest Daughter of the Count of Urgel descended from the King of Arragon so that PETER was Proclaimed King And notwithstanding he had assistance from his Cousin Philip Duke of Bourgongne yet he could not maintain himself in his Estate for after the loss of a Field disputed betwixt him and the Prince Ferdinand Son of King John he was constrained to retire to Mauresa But nevertheless he carried still the Royal Title And on his journey to Barcelona he fell sick at Granolie and there deceased the Thirtieth day of June His Death in the Year Mariana Lib. 23. C. 20. One thousand four Years of CHRIST 1466 hundred threescore and six some say in the precedent year His body was inhumed at Barcelona in the Church of our Lady near unto the Sea It 's believed he was poysoned but some think that being over-much wearied and troubled at the evil success of his affairs he dyed with grief without leaving any Children His Device was an Haulk with these words MOLESTIA PRO LAETITIA signifying thereby That the honour of the Kingdom which he had accepted of had been accompanied with more vexation and trouble than satisfaction and contentment PORTUGAL CONIMBRA Escartelē Aupremier de Jerusalem Au 2. contre escartelē de PORTUGAL D'ANGLETERRE Au 3. d'or au lyon de gueulles Au 4. d'argent au lyon aussy de gueulles a la queve fourche Sur le tout burelle d'argent d'Azure au lyon de gueulles brochant sur le tout qui est CYPRE JOHN OF PORTUGAL Duke of CONIMBRA and Years of CHRIST 1447 Regent of the Kingdom of Cyprus second Son of Peter Duke of Conimbra succeeded his Father in this Dutch hoping to advance his Fortunes by his Marriage he espoused CHARLOTE OF CYPRUS His Marriage Daughter of John II. King of Cyprus of the House of Lusignan and of Helene Palealogus his Wife which CHARLOTE was Heir apparent to the Kingdoms of Cyprus and Jerusalem But the Prince JOHN her Husband dyed without issue before the King his Father-in-law Therefore Mariana and other Authors are mistaken that give him the qualification of King of Cyprus For he was only Regent of this Kingdom a Title which he had when in the Year One thousand four hundred threescore Years of CHRIST 1466 and six he was admitted into the Order of Knights of the Golden Fleece by Philip the Good Duke of Burgundy in the Chapter held at the Hague in Holland His Widow married for her second Husband Lewis of Savoy Count of Geneva Brother of Amides Duke of Savoy and Son of
he not imitating the example of Lewis XII King of France who disdained to requite the wrongs done to him being Duke of Orleance who resolved to revenge the injuries done to him being Cardinal if they may be justly called injuries when as Princes be not respected of their inferiours as they ought For not being greatly favoured by the King his Predecessor the Ministers and Favourites of his Nephew did not use him with that Respect as was required conceiving that being so old and Sebastian so young that he would never have attained to the Crown By reason whereof he deprived almost all the Officers of the Court and some of them that did manage the Kings Treasure of their Offices and advanced his own Servants In the mean time the Estates of the Kingdom beseeching him to take care for the declaring of his Successor to the Crown he Convoked a Solemn Assembly of the same Estates in the City of Almerin to hear the Claims of those Princes which pretended to the Kingdom The number of whom was many viz. Antonio Bastard of Portugal King HENRY's Nephew the Catholick King Philip II. the Duke of Braganza in the Right of the Dutchess his Wife the Duke of Savoy the Prince of Parma the Queen of France Katherine de Medicis Mother of King Henry III. and Pope Gregory XIII His Death During this Assembly Conestaggio King HENRY left this World the last day of Years of CHRIST 1580 January in the Year One thousand five hundred and fourscore it being remarkable Thuanus That he began to die in the beginning of the Eclipse of the Moon and finished with it Vasconcellius as if that celestial Sign had wrought that Effect in him being a King of a weak body which it doth not in stronger Mariana or at least not so suddenly as Astrologers do write Neither is the houre to be neglected being the same wherein he was born Threescore and eight years before having Reigned Seventeen Months and eight dayes so that in him ended the Male Line of the Kings of Portugal of that Branch since derived from the Collateral of the Dukes of Braganza He was of a thin Body small of Stature and of a lean Face As for his Judgment it was indifferent indued besides the Latine Tongue with some Knowledge Alwayes held to be Chaste and did never blemish this Angelical Virtue but with the desire of Marriage in his later dayes He was acounted sparing giving rather than denying for he refused seldom but he gave sparingly Ambitious he was of all Jurisdiction as well Ecclesiastical as Civil zealous in Religion yet in the Reformation of religious persons more strict than was convenient He was Bishop Governour of the Realm Inquisitor Major Legate Apostolick and King But the more he soared the more he discovered his weakness suffering himself in his most important Affairs to be governed by his Ministers Conestaggio not being able to determine the Cause of the Succession Opinions were grafted in him with great obstinacy retaining a continual remembrance of wrongs so that Justice was in him but an unjust execution of his own Passions In Fine He was indued with great Virtues and with fewer and lesser Vices yet were they equal in this for he had the Virtues of an Ecclesiastical person and the defects of a Prince During his life he was feared of many and beloved of few so as none lamented his death only such as were well-affected desiring the Dispute of Succession had been determined before his death had a sensible apprehension of his loss His Body rested some time at Almerin until that Philip II. King of Spain caused it to be brought to the Monastery of our Lady at Bethleem notwithstanding that HENRY had Ordered his Sepulture at Evora where he had in his life-time erected a stately Marble Tomb. His Device was an Anchor and a Daulphin with this Inscription FESTINA LENTE for to denote That in the execution of all Actions Diligence with Diseretion and a Mediocrity was to be used 14. ANTHONY The Bastard Proclaimed King of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES c. CHAP. XIX THE Prince Lewis of Portugal Duke of Beia his father whose Years of CHRIST 1580 Natural and only Son he was educated him in good Learning but more particularly in the study of Divinity with intention to make him a Divine But being come to a riper age he was made Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and Prior of Crato He had embraced this Profession against his inclination so that Pope Gregory XIII was the more willing to dispence with the Vow he had made which Dispensation was obtained at the instance and pursuit of King Sebastian of Portugal who so highly esteemed this Prince ANTHONY his Years of CHRIST 1574 Cosin that upon his first Voyage into Affrick he made him his Lieutenant General notwithstanding that Prince Edward of Portugal the Constable was present Conestaggio At the second expedition that the same King Sebastian undertook for Years of CHRIST 1578 Affrica Jac. Augustus Thuanus he also accompanied him and assisted him at the Fatal Battel of Alcacer in which he was made a Prisoner and reduced to a miserable Captivity for the space of Forty dayes After which by an especial Providence he found means to recover his liberty Being upon his return he had intelligence that his Uncle the Cardinal Henry after the Death of King Sebastian was Elected King of Portugal During whose Reign as you have read the Estates having been assembled to advise of a Successor to the Crown ANTHONY was of the Number of the Competitors urging That he ought to be preferred as only Male-child of the Posterity of King Emanuel In pursuit of which after the Decease of Henry he was by the consent of the Three Estates also Elected King the Nineteenth day of June in the Year One thousand five Years of CHRIST 1580 hundred and fourscore Conestaggio in the City of Sanctarem then afterwards Confirmed in that of Lisbon Texera Metropolis of the Kingdom then received in the Quality of King at Setubal and acknowledged for such by all the Towns and Fortresses of Affrica and Isles subject to the Dominion of Portugal as also by the famous University of Conimbra But the King of Spain Philip II. H. F. Conestaggio pretending on the contrary to be lawful Successor to the Crown in the Right of the Empress Isabel of Portugal his Mother incontimently raised a considerable Army Thuanus Texera under the Conduct of his Martial favourite that famous Captain Ferdinand de Toledo Duke of Alva who entred the Frontiers and seized upon divers Towns by accord which the Populaâ—s hearing of which were with ANTHONY at St. Arem Proclaimed him King that so they might have a head to their confused body After which ANTHONY repaired to Lisbonne and there was sworne sent the Count of Vimioso to Setaval whence he expelled the Governours who there
Portugal THis Prince eldest Son of Duke John by the Dutchess Katherine of Portugal his Wife was not past Nine or Ten years old when having the Title of Duke of Barcellos he accompanied King Sebastian his Cosin in the second Voyage he undertook into Affrica against the Moors Years of CHRIST 1578 where he was by them made Prisoner at the Battel of Alcacer The Cherif Muley-Hamet King of Morocco Party de VELASCO kept him in durance until that Philip II. King of Spain obtained his liberty who having passed the Straits to return into Portugal Conestaggio was detained at St. Lucar by the Duke of Medina-Sidonia upon the news of the Death of Henry King of Portugal conceiving it would be a matter of importance to the Catholick King his Master to keep this Prince in durance as being Son of the principal Pretendants to the Kingdom whereupon the Duke of Barcellos wrote a Letter to his Father the Duke of Braganza that he must not then expect him and that his detention should not any way prejudice the rights of the Realm preferring Justice before his own life This Letter being come into Portugal was by the Duke his Father sent unto the Assembly of Estates at Almerin shewing on the one side the grief for the detainment of this his dear Son and on the other side the contentment he received that in so tender years he was so great a Lover of the good of his Countrey that he offered if there were occasion to sacrifice his Life for the Service of the State But immediately this fear of the Duke of Braganza his Father ceased for the King of Spain commanded that he should have free liberty to depart which he did as well to avoid the indignation of the Portuguesses as to make a friend of the Duke of Braganza Not long after THEODOSIUS succeeded the Duke his Father and still continued the demonstration of his Magnanimity for when that the Catholick King Philip III. and second of the name King of Portugal made his solemn Entry into the City of Lisbonne who willing to shew how much he affected him above all the other Grandees of this Kingdom Vasconcellius and desirous to make him a participant of his Royal Favours promised that he would grant him whatsoever he would ask To which the Duke answered That the Kings of Portugal his Predecessors which were also his Majesties had so often and so freely conferred their Benefits upon his House that there was not any thing remained that he could demand and if there were acknowledged to have received a signal Favour from his Majesty if he would vouchsafe to honour and embrace his Subjects of Portugal with a fatherly affection but more especially the Grandees of the Kingdom This Duke THEODOSIUS who was seventh Duke of Braganza and twelfth Constable of Portugal espoused ANNE DE VELASCO daughter of the Constable of Castille John-Fernandez de Velasco and of the Dutchess of Frias Mary de Giron his first Wife Children of THEODOSIUS II. Duke of BRAGANZA by ANNE DE VELASCO his Wife JOHN II. of the name eighth Duke of BRAGANZA crowned King of Portugal by the name of John IV. and had issue Alphonso VI. King of Portugal now Reigning 1662. of whose Histories and Issue you may read in the First Book EDWARD OF PORTUGAL born the One and thirtieth day of March in the Year of our Salvation One thousand six hundred and five who coming unto Mans estate had served the Emperour in his Waâ—s with much gallantry and no less success long before his Brother Duke John had any thoughts of a Crown nor did he shew any endeavours to desert the Emperours service after the news arrived of the Revolt of Portugal but seemed resolved to continue there till he was betrayed by Francisco de Mello a Portugal at that time Ambassador to the Catholique King in the Emperial Court This Mello notwithstanding he was bound by many strong Obligations to the House of Braganza yet like an ungrateful Villain having opportunity offered now resolved to build his fortunes upon their ruine or at least displeasure he therefore earnestly sollicited the Emperour to seize upon the person of Don Duarte and deliver him up to the King of Spain alledging of what great concernment the securing of his person would be to the Catholique King that it much behoved his Imperial Majesty to shew his affection to his brother the Catholique King in this particular which would not only prove of Interest to Spain but the whole house of Austria That this Prince was the only Prop of the House of Braganza and this was the only means which God had left in the hands of the House of Austria to recover the Kingdom of Portugal that it would be a great errour both in prudence and policy to let slip so fair an occasion for that if he should scape out of their hands and get to the assistance of his brother both his personal valour and experience in Warlike affairs would very much infest the Catholique King The Emperour was not only not perswaded by this Discourse of Mello's but extreamly offended at it returning him in answer That he did abhorre and detest so great a breach of publick faith and violation of all Laws of Hospitality that it would be both against the liberty of the Empire and against his own Honour to imprison a Prince who had committed no fault to the Empire but rather had laid innumerable Obligations both upon it and himself Nor was the detestation of the Arch-duke Leopold to an act so soul and shameful less than that of his brothers the Emperour notwithstanding all which Mello was not at all discouraged but still prosecuted his villanous design by corrupting with great sums of money the Count of Tratsmandorf and several other Pensioners of the Crown of Spain but they were soon weary of so base and shameful an employment which made Mello think of a more cunning Artifice which was to perswade the Emperour to hearken to the allurements of one Diego di Quiroga who of a Souldier was turned Monk and was now Confessor to the Empress This Father who had often been called to give his judgement in Affairs of State endeavored by all means possible to perswade the Emperour that he might not only with a good conscience secure the Infante but that according to the best Rules of Interest of State he ought to do it His Imperial Majesty notwithstanding all these perswasions was very much unsatisfied in the action and once fully resolved not to do it but at length overcome by Mello's importunities and the Ghostly perswasions of Quiroga he was as it were constrained to alter his resolution and to give order to Don Lewis Gonzaga to go to the Princes quarters at Leipen and summon him to Ratisbone In the mean time to endeavor to prevent all ill impressions which an action so hainously wicked might strike into all bosoms that had either honor or honesty it was
FERDINAND ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO Count of Oropesa and of MENCIA PIMENTEL his wife JOHN DE TOLEDO died young EDWARD ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO Count of Oropesa and Viceroy of Navarre married ANNE daughter of Modica de Cordova Count of Alcaudere MARIANA DE TOLEDO espoused to PEDRO FAXARDO Marquess de les Veles and Molina COUNTS OF LEMOS AND MARQUESSES OF SARRIA 13. DIONYSIUS OF PORTUGAL Count of LEMOS Years of CHRIST 1495 AFter that the Duke of Braganza Ferdinand II. of that name PORTUGAL-LEMOS his Father had been beheaded the Dutchess Isabel his Widow sent this Prince DIONYSIUS OF PORTUGAL their third Son into Castille where he established his Fortune For the Queen of Castille Isabel his Aunt about the Year One thousand five hundred procured his Marriage with a rich Heir His Marriage whose name was BEATRICE DE CASTRO Countess of LEMOS daughter of Roderick de Castro and of Teresa Osorio his Years of CHRIST 1500 Wife by whom he had a numerous Issue she had among other things in Dower the Lordships of SARRIA Castro and Ottero which had been given by the Kings Lib. 27. Cap. 10. Mariana mistakes in making this DIONYSIUS Son of James of Braganza contrary to the Evidences and Records of this House which exactly prove their descent Their Children took the name of CASTRO upon the account of their Mother as is observed often in Spain Children of DIONYSIUS OF PORTUGAL Count of LEMOS FERDINAND DE CASTRO first of the name Count of LEMOS and Marquess of SARRIA continued the Posterity ALPHONSO DE LANCASTRO Grand Commander of the Order of Christ had also issue mentioned in his place PETER DE CASTRO Bishop of Cuenca LEONOR DE CASTRO Wife of JAMES-SARMIENTO DE MENDOZA Count of Ribadauia ISABEL DE CASTRO first Wife of THEODOSIUS OF PORTUGAL first of the name Duke of BRAGANZA her Cosin ANTONIETTA DE LANCASTRO married to ALVARO COUTINHO Marescal of Portugal MENCIA DE LANCASTRO first Wife of RENE Count of CHALANT in Savoye who had issue Elizabeth de Chalant Wife of Frederick Madruce Count of Aue and Arbe and Lord of Beaufremont TERESA DE CASTRO dyed before Marriage CONSTANCE DE CASTRO a Nun in the Monastery of our Lady at Lisbonne 14. FERDINAND DE CASTRO Count of LEMOS and Marquess of SARRIA PORTUGAL-LEMOS TO Dionysius Count of Lemos and the Countess Beatrix de Castro his Wife succeeded this FERDINAND their eldest Son who was sent Embassadour to Rome during the Pontificalty of Paul III. by the Emperour Charles V. who created him Marquess of SARRIA and the King of Spain Philip II. also sent him Embassadour to the Court of Rome where he resided in the time of the Popes Julius III. and Paul IV. The Princess Jane of Portugal Mother of King Sebastian honoured him with the Office of Steward of her Houshold He espoused TERESA d'ANDRADA daughter and heir of Ferdinand d'Andrada Count of Vilalua and Andrada and of Frances de Ulloa and Zuniga his Wife Children of FERDINAND DE CASTRO Count of LEMOS and of TERESA d'ANDRADA his Wife PETER-FERDINAND DE CASTRO first of that name Count of LEMOS of whom we shall speak hereafter ISABEL DE CASTRO Wife of RODERICK DE MOSCOSO Count of Altamira 15. PETER FERDINAND DE CASTRO I. of the name Count of LEMOS Andrada and Vilalua and Marquess of Sarria HE was Son of Ferdinand de Castro Count of Lemos PORTUGAL-LEMOS and of Teresa Years of CHRIST 1580 d'Andrada and served the King of Spain Philip II. at the Conquest of the Kingdom of Portugal He was twise Married first to LEONOR DE LA CUEUA daughter of Bertrand de la Cueua Duke of Albequerque and of Isabel Giron his Wife Secondly To TERESA DE BOBADILLA de LA CERDA daughter of Peter de Bobadilla Count of Chinchon and of Menecia de la Cerda Children of PETER-FERDINAND DE CASTRO Count of LEMOS and of LEONOR DE LA CUEUA his first Wife FERDINAND-RODERICK DE CASTRO Count of LEMOS whose Story followeth in the next place BERTRAND DE CASTRO was never married but had issue three Natural Children He served the King of Spain in Italy the Indies and Spain 17. JOHN DE CASTRO dyed at Naples 17. FRANCIS DE CASTRO 17. BERTRAND DE CASTRO TERESA DE CASTRO Wife to GARCIA-HURTADO DE MENDOZA Marquess of Cagneta ISABEL DE CASTRO dyed young Children of PETER-FERDINAND DE CASTRO Count of LEMOS and of TERESA DE BOBADILLA his second Wife PETER DE CASTRO Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to King Philip III. married HIERONIMA DE CORDOUA Lady of Honour to Queen Margaret of Austria and daughter of Roderick de Cordoua Lord of Palma and of Menecia de Mendoza his Wife from which Marriage came no Children RODERICK DE CASTRO Canon of Toledo Arch-deacon of Alcaraz and Inquisitor left three Natural Children Viz. 17. FELIX DE CASTRO 17. TERESA DE CASTRO 17. ANGELA DE CASTRO ANDREW DE CASTRO never married but left a Bastard Son named 17. RODERICK DE CASTRO JAMES DE CASTRO Bastard-Children of PETER-FERDINAND DE CASTRO Count of LEMOS ANTHONY a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict Abbot of St. Benet at Madrid and General of his Order JOHN DE CASTRO a Monk also of the same Order Arch-bishop of Otrante dyed being elected Bishop of Cordoua 16. FERDINAND-RODERICK DE CASTRO Count of LEMOS and Viceroy of Naples PORTUGAL-LEMOS AMong the Children of Peter-Ferdinand de Castro Count of Lemos and of Leonor de la Cueua his first Wife he was the eldest After that King Philip III. was come to the Crown of Spain he sent this Count his Embassadour to Rome to Pope Clement VIII for to make tender of his obedience and to have a new investiture in the Kingdom of Naples where this same Earl was also sent Viceroy and where he deceased in the Year One thousand six hundred and one He had to Wife KATHERINE DE ZUNIGA DE SANDOVAL who was daughter of Francis Royas de Sandoval Marquess of Denia and of Isabel Borgia his Wife which Katherine Countess of Lemos was one of the principal Ladies of Honour to the Catholique Queen Margaret Wife of King Philip III. Children of FERDINAND-RODERICK DE CASTRO Count of LEMOS PETER-FERDINAND DE CASTRO second of the name Count of LEMOS mentioned in the next place FRANCIS DE CASTRO Duke of Taurisana of whom we shall speak after his Elder Brother continued the Posterity FERDINAND DE CASTRO espoused LEONOR DE PORTUGAL Countess of Gelves Daughter and Heir of George of Portugal Count of Gelves and of Bernardine de Vincentelo his Wife in whose right he was Count of Gelves They had issue one only Child 18. KATHERINE OF PORTUGAL Countesse of Gelves 17. PETER-FERDINAND DE CASTRO second of the name Count of LEMOS and Andrada Marquess of Sarria and Viceroy of Naples THE King of Spain Philip III. bestowed several Charges and Dignities upon him for he not only honoured him with the Quality of Gentleman of his Bed-Chamber but also made
him President of the Councel-Royal for the Indies and Viceroy of Naples in the Year One thousand six hundred and ten As also established him President of the Councel of Italy His Wife was KATHERINE DE SANDOVAL his Cosin-Germane Daughter of Francis de Sandoval and Royas Duke of Lerme by the Dutchess Katherine de la Cerda his Wife by whom he had not any Children 17. FRANCIS DE CASTRO Duke of TAVRISANO Count of Castro and Viceroy of Naples and Sicilie HE was second Son of Ferdinand-Roderick de Castro Count of Lemos by Katherine de Zuniga and Sandoval his Wife and as his elder Brother was for his great Experience employed in important Affairs by the Catholick King For he not only established him his Viceroy of Naples after the death of his elder Brother but also of Sicily Afterwards the same King sent him Embassadour to the State of Venice to endeavour a Reconciliation betwixt that Republick and Pope Paul V. to whom FRANCIS DE CASTRO was also sent Embassadour in Ordinary He espoused LUCRECE GATINARA LEGNANA Countess de Castro in the Kingdom of Naples only Daughter of Alexander Gatinara Fifth Count of Castro and of Victoria Caracciol his Wife Children of FRANCIS DE CASTRO Duke of TAVRISANO c. FERDINAND DE CASTRO Duke of Taurisano c. continued the descent ALEXANDER DE CASTRO FRANCIS DE CASTRO KATHERINE and VICTORIA DE CASTRO CLARA-MARIA DE CASTRO a Nun. ELISE and MARIA DE CASTRO 18. FERDINAND DE CASTRO Duke of TAVRISANO Count of Castro and Lemos HE was eldest Son of Francis de Castro Duke of Taurisano and of Lucrece Gatinara Legnana his Wife His Wife was ANTONIA DE GIRON the daughter of Peter Giron Duke of Ossuna and Marquess of Pegnafiel Children of FERDINAND DE CASTRO Duke of TAVRISANO Count of Castro and Lemos PETER DE CASTRO Count of Antrada 14. ALPHONSO DE LANCASTRO DIonysius of Braganza or of Portugal PORTUGAL-LANCASTRO and Beatrix de Castro Countess of Lemos had several Children among whom this ALPHONSO was the second honoured with the Dignity of great Master of the Military Order of Christ in Portugal and grand Alcaide of Ovidos King John III. sent him Embassadour to Rome unto the Popes Julius III. and Paul IV. Afterwards he was also sent into France to King Charles IX during the Minority of King Sebastian in the beginning of his Reign The same ALPHONSO was interred in the Monastery of the Carmelites of Lisbon His Wife HIERONIMA DE NOROGNA was Daughter of James de Norogna great Master of the Order of Christ and of Philippa Attaida his Wife he had by her one Son and a Daughter which were DIONYSIUS DE LANCASTRO mentioned hereafter PHILIPPA DE LANCASTRO Wife to MICHAEL DE MENESES Marquess of Villa-real 15. DIONYSIVS DE LANCASTRO HE was as his father Alphonso grand Master of the Order of Christ and by the King of Portugal Sebastian also sent into France to King Year of CHRIST 1572 Charles IX about the Year One thousand five hundred threescore and twelve then into Spain to King Philip II. He was also nominated by the same King Sebastian his Embassadour for Rome to be sent to Pope Gregory XIII But upon the death of this King in Affrica his Embassade ceased and he Years of CHRIST 1598 dyed at Lisbon His Death Ao. One thousand five hundred fourscore and eighteen being very much in years He lieth inhumed in the Monastery of St. Augustine By his Wife ISABEL ENRIQUEZ Daughter of Francis Coutinho second Count of Redondo and of Mary de Guzman his Wife he had these Six Children following ALPHONSO DE LANCASTRO great Master of the Order of Christ and grand Alcaide of Ovidos He espoused MARY DE TAUORA daughter of Alvaro Perez de Tauora and of Isabel de Melo his Wife FRANCIS DE LANCASTRO Gentleman-Waiter at the Table to the Catholick Kings Philip III. and IV. JOHN DE LANCASTRO Bishop of Lamego and Chief Chaplain to the King of Spain Philip III. HIERONIMA DE NOROGNA was never married MARY DE LANCASTRO was espoused to FERDINAND-RODERICK DIEGO MARTINES MASCAREGNAS IOLAND ENRIQUEZ married to FRANCIS COUTINHO fourth Count of Redondo her Cosin MARQUESSES of FERREIRA AND COUNTS of TENTUGAL 12. ALVARO DE PORTVGAL Lord of FERREIRA PORTUGAL-FERREIRA AMong the Children of Ferdinand first of the name Duke of Braganza and of Jane de Castro his Wife this ALVARO was the third He was President of the Councel Royal in Castille and grand Alcaide of Seville and in Portugal also Lord Chief Justice and Chancellor He espoused PHILIPPA DE MELO Countess of Olivenca daughter and heir of Roderick de Melo Count of Olivenca by Isabel de Meneses Children of ALVARO DE PORTVGAL Lord of FERREIRA RODERICK DE MELO and Portugal first Marquess of FERREIRA continued the Line GEORGE OF PORTUGAL Count of GELUES gave original to the Branch of Gelves hereafter mentioned ISABEL DE CASTRO Wife of Alphonso de SOTO-MAJOR Count of Belalcacar BEATRIX DE MELO and Tentugal Dutchess of CONIMBRA Wife of GEORGE Bastard OF PORTUGAL Duke of CONIMBRA and Lord of Aveiro JANE DE VILLENA married to FRANCIS OF PORTUGAL Count of VIMIOSO MARY MANUEL Wife of JOHN DE SILVA second Earl of Portalegre 13. RODERICK DE MELO and Portugal Marquess of FERREIRA and Count of Tentugal HE was eldest Son of Alvaro of Portugal Lord of Ferreira and of Philippa de Melo his Wife and for his Memorable Services deserved well the Title of Marquess of Ferreira and Count of Tentugal into which Honours he was Created by the great Emanuel King of Portugal his Cosin He married two Wives His first Wife was LEONOR d'ALMEIDA Daughter of Francis d'Almeida Viceroy of the Indies by Jane Pereira his Wife His second Wife was BEATRIX DE MENESES Daughter of Anthony d'Almada Major General of Lisbonne and of Mary de Meneses his Wife He had issue by both Wives Children of RODERICK DE MELO Marquess of FERREIRA by his first wife ALVARO DE MELO dyed in the life-time of his Father having espoused MARY DE VILLENA daughter of John de Silva second Count of Portalegre and of Mary Manuel He had one Son bearing his name which followeth 15. ALVARO DE MELO had no Children by his Wife MARY d'ALCACOUA daughter of Peter Count of Ignana and of Katherine de Sousa This Alvaro was slain at the Battel of Alcacer FRANCIS DE MELO first of the name Marquess of Ferreira continued the Posterity PHILIPPA DE VILLENA Wife of ALVARO DE SYLVA Count of Partalegre JANE DE MELO was a Nun. Children of RODERICK DE MELO and of his second Wife ALVARO DE MELO MARY DE MENESES espoused to CONSTANTINE DE PORTUGAL or BRAGANZA her Cosin Of whom we have spoken 14. FRANCIS DE MELO first of the name Marquess of FERREIRA and Count of Tentugal TO the Marquess of Ferreira Roderick de Melo succeeded this his second Son the eldest dying before his Father He married EUGENIA OF BRAGANZA or PORTUGAL daughter of James
Duke of Braganza and of Jane de Mendoza his Wife Children of FRANCIS DE MELO Marquess of Ferreira RODERICK DE MELO second of the name slain at the Battel of Alcacer in Affrick with King Sebastian in the Year One thousand Years of CHRIST 1578 five hundred threescore and eighteen and left no Children by his Wife KATHERINE DEC'A daughter of Alphonso de Norogna NUGNO ALVAREZ DE MELO Count of Tentugal continued the descent JOHN DE BRAGANZA Bishop of Visco CONSTANTINE DE BRAGANZA espoused MARY DE MENDOZA daughter of Ferdinand de Meneses by Philippa de Mendoza his Wife They had these Children following 16. FRANCIS DE MELO Servant to the Catholick King Marquess de la Tour de Laguna and Count of Alcumer married ANTONIA DE VILLENA daughter of Henry de Sousa Count of Miranda by whom he had issue N. DE MELO BEATRIX and MENTIA 16. JOHN DE MELO a Carmelite Fryer 16. ALVARO DE MELO Knight of the Order of St. John 16. FERDINAND DE MELO JANE DE MENDOZA Abbess of Villa-viciosa JOSEPH DE MELO a Natural Son of Francis Marquess of Ferreira was Arch-bishop of Evora FRANCIS d'ALMEIDA also a Natural Son 15. NUGNO ALVAREZ DE MELO Count of TENTUGAL FRancis de Melo Marquess of Ferreira and Count of Tentugal and Eugenia of Braganza or Portugal his Wife were Father and Mother of this Count who married with MARIANA DE CASTRO daughter of Roderick de Moscoso Earl of Altamira and of the Countess Isabel de Castro his Wife Children of NUGNO ALVAREZ DE MELO FRANCIS DE MELO second of the name Marquess of Ferreira continued the Posterity RODERICK DE MELO Arch-deacon of Evora LEONOR DE MELO Wife of MANUEL DE MOURA CORTEREAL second Marquess of Castelrodrigo Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to the Catholique King and great Master of Alcantara JANE OF PORTUGAL espoused to MANRIQUEZ DE SILVA Count of Portalegre also Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to the King of Spain and his grand Master of the Houshold in Portugal 16. FRANCIS DE MELO II. of the name Marquess of FERREIRA and Count of Tentugal General of the Melitia to King John IV. HE was eldest Son of Nugno Alvarez de Melo Count of Tentugal by the Countess Mariana de Castro His Death He dyed in the Year One thousand Years of CHRIST 1645 six hundred forty and five And left no issue by his first Wife MARY DE SANDOVAL his Cosin Germaine daughter of Lopez Osorio de Moscoso Count of Altamira and of the Countess Leonor de Sandoval his Wife His second Wife was JANE PIMENTEL daughter of Anthony Pimentel Marquess of Tabara by her he had these Children NUNIUS DE MELO Duke of Cadaval Marquess of Ferreira and Count of Tentugal now living 1662. THEODOSIUS DE MELO second Son COUNTS OF GELVES AND DUKES OF VERAGUA 13. GEORGE OF PORTUGAL I. of the name first Count of GELVES and Alcaide of Alcacer and Seville PORTUGAL-GELVES OF the two Sons of Alvaro of Portugal who was President of the Councel Royal of Castille and of his Wife Philippa de Melo Countess of Olivenca Roderick of Portugal first Marquess of Ferreira and Count of Tentugal D'argent au sautoir de gueulles charge de cinq Escussons de Portugal dount l'un est au melicu du sautoir les autres aux quatre bouts d'iceluy was the elder and this GEORGE the younger who performed so many good and faithful Services for the Emperour Charles V. that he honoured him with the Title of Count of GELVES The first Wife he espoused was GUIMARE d'ATAIDA and SILVA daughter of John de Vasconcellos second Count of Penela and of the Countess Mary de Sousa by her he had no Children His second Wife was ISABEL DE TOLEDO COLOMBO daughter of James Colombo first Duke of Veragua and second Admiral of the Indies and of the Dutchess Mary de Toledo his Wife which James was issued from that famous Christopher Colombus the Genevis which made discovery of the West-Indies under the Reigns of the King and Queen of Castille and Arragon Ferdinand and Isabel Children of GEORGE OF PORTUGAL Count of GELVES and of ISABEL DE TOLEDO COLOMBO his second Wife ALVARO OF PORTUGAL second Count of GELVES continued the Line ANTHONY OF PORTUGAL a Monk of the Order of St. Dominique GEORGE OF PORTUGAL one of the Four and twenty Magistrates of Seville whose descent shall be mentioned hereafter JAMES OF PORTUGAL as his elder Brother exercised the Charge of one of the Four and twenty of Seville and had to his Wife ISABEL BOTTI daughter of James Botti a Florentine by Anne-Frances Fonti his Wife and by her had these Children following 15. JAMES OF PORTUGAL 15. ISABEL OF PORTUGAL Wife of JOHN GUTIERREZ TELLO DE SANDOVAL Knight of the Order of St. James 15. ANNE-FRANCES OF PORTUGAL conjoyned in Marriage with FRANCIS TELLO DE GUZMAN LEWIS OF PORTUGAL fifth Son of George Count of Gelves dyed not having been married MENCIA DE TOLEDO by some Records named MARY PHILIPPA and ISABEL her Sisters 14. ALVARO OF PORTUGAL Second Count of GELVES AMong the Children of George of Portugal First of the Name and First Count of Gelves and of Isabel de Toledo his Wife this was the Eldest who had two Sons by his Wife LEONOR DE CORDOUA and ARRAGON Daughter of Alvaro de Cordova grand Chevalier to the Catholick King Philip II. which Alvaro espoused Mary of Arragon Children of ALVARO OF PORTUGAL Count of GELVES GEORGE OF PORTUGAL Second of the Name Count of GELVES NUGNO DE PORTUGAL Duke of VERAGUA whose Descent is mentioned after that of his elder Brother 15. GEORGE OF PORTUGAL II. of the Name and Third Count of GELVES HE was eldest Son of Alvaro of Portugal Second Count of Gelves and of the Countess Leonor of Cordova and Arragon his Wife and espoused BERNARDINE VINCENTELO She was Daughter of John-Anthony Corso Vincentelo by Bridget Corso his Wife from which Marriage came only one Daughter following LEONOR OF PORTUGAL Countess of GELVES twice married first to FERDINAND DE CASTRO her Cosin Third Son of Ferdinand-Roderick de Castro Count of Lemos by whom she had her Daughter Katherine of Portugal also Countess of Gelves For her Second Husband LEONOR OF PORTUGAL espoused JAMES PIMENTEL Viceroy of Arragon Son of the Marquess of Tauara from this last Marriage there came no Children 15. NVGNO OF PORTVGAL COLOMBO Duke of VERAGVA and Admiral of the Indies ALvaro of Portugal Count of Gelves and Leonor de Cordova and Arragon his Wife were Father and Mother of this Duke of Veragua who was Heir to his great Grandfather James Colombo first Duke of Veragua he married with ALDONCE PORTOCARRERO Daughter of James de la Bastide and had by her Two Sons and Three Daughters Children of NVGNO COLOMBO Duke of VERAGVA ALVARO OF PORTUGAL COLOMBO Third Duke of VERAGUA continued the Descent CHRISTOPHER OF PORTUGAL Second Son LEONOR OF PORTUGAL one of the Ladies of Honour to the Catholick Queen
Isabel of France LOVISE OF PORTUGAL a Nun. PHILIPPA OF PORTUGAL also a Nun. 16. ALVARO OF PORTVGAL COLOMBO Third Duke of VERAGVA Marquess of Jamaica And Admiral of the Indies HE was the eldest Son of Nugno of Portugal Colombo Duke of Veragua by Aldonce Portocarero his wife and espoused KATHERINE DE CASTRO by her he had Issue PETER-NUNIUS COLOMBUS Duke of VERAGUA now living Ao 1662. 14. GEORGE OF PORTVGAL One of the Four and twenty Magistrates of Sevile HE was Third Son of George of Portugal first of the name and first Count of Gelves and of his Wife the Countess Isabel de Toledo Colombo He was one of the Four and twenty of Sevile By his Wife GENIEURE BOTTI daughter of John Botti he left Four Sons and a Daughter viz. GEORGE OF PORTUGAL JAMES OF PORTUGAL of whom we shall speak in the next place ALVARO OF PORTUGAL followed the profession of the Church CHRISTOPHER OF PORTUGAL a Monk of the Order of St. Hierosme ISABEL OF PORTUGAL a Nun in the Abbey of our Lady at Seville 14. JAMES OF PORTVGAL first of the Name HE was second Son of George of Portugal one of the Four and twenty of Seville and had to Wife GUIOMAR-COLOMBO DE TOLEDO daughter of Licentio-Hierosme Ortegon and of Frances Colombo his Wife in whose Right he pretended to the Dutchy of Veragua against Nugno of Portugal his Cosin to whom by sentence it was adjudged The Children of JAMES OF PORTUGAL were JAMES OF PORTUGAL second of the name conjoyned by marriage with ISABEL DE MEDINA and DE GUZMAN ANTHONY OF PORTUGAL a Fryer LEWIS OF PORTUGAL FRANCES and ANNE-FRANCES MARY PHILIPPA and ISABEL COUNTS OF FARO AND OF ODEMIRA 12. ALPHONSO OF PORTVGAL first of the name Count of FARO and ODEMIRA PORTUGAL-ODEMIRA AFter having heretofore written of the Posterity of Ferdinand II. of the name third Duke of Braganza and Alvaro of Portugal his Brother from whom are issued the Marquesses of Ferreira and Counts of Gelves it rests now to deduce the Descent of ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL who was also their Brother all Three Sons of the Duke of Braganza Ferdinand I. of the name and of the Dutchess Jane de Castro his Wife The same ALPHONSO who was Lord of Faro in his own right was created first Count thereof by Alphonso V. King of Portugal and at what time the Duke of Braganza his Brother of whom we have written was punished for having conspired against King John II. he fled into Castille where he departed this World after he had espoused MARY DE NOROGNA Countess of Odemira Daughter and Heir of Sanceo de Norogna first Earl of Odemira Lord of Aveiro and Vimieiro grand Alcaide of Estremos and of the Countess Mencia de Sousa his Wife Children of ALPHONSO OF PORTVGAL Count of FARO and Odemira SANCEO OF NOROGNA first of the name Count of ODEMIRA continued the Line FRANCIS OF NOROGNA espoused LEONOR MANUEL daughter of James Manuel and Villena Lord of Cheles and of Major de Silva his Wife by whom he had one daughter here mentioned viz. 14. MARY MANUEL Wife of JAMES DE MELO DE FIGUEIREDO by him she had issue several children FREDERICK DE NOROGNA Bishop of Calaotra and Ciguenca Arch-bishop of Sarragoca and Viceroy of Catalonia ANTHONY also followed the profession of the Church FERDINAND DE FARO Lord of Vimiero hath given original to the other Lords and Earls of VIMIERO and FARO as you may read hereafter GUIOMARE DE NOROGNA Dutchess of SEGORBIA Wife of HENRY OF ARRAGON sirnamed the Child of Fortune who was Son of Henry of Arragon great Master of the Order of Knights of St. James by Beatrix Pimentel his second Wife which Grand Master was one of the younger Sons of Ferdinand of Castille King of Arragon and of Elianor d'Albuquerque MENCIA DE NOROGNO Dutchess of MEDINA CELI was married to JOHN DE LA CERDA Duke of Medina Celi KATHERINE DE NOROGNA Abbess of Semide 13. SANCEO OF NOROGNA first of the name Count of Odemira and Lord of Mortagoa TO the Count of Faro Alphonso of Portugal first of the name and to the Countess of Odemira Mary de Norogna his Wife succeeded the Earl SANCEO first of the name their eldest Son who was twice married First He married FRANCES DE SILVA daughter of James Gil Muniz and of Leonor de Silva his Wife By her he had issue Two Sons and a Daughter The second Wife of the same Count SANCEO was ANGELA FABRA daughter of Gaspar Fabra by whom he had also Two Sons and a Daughter Children of SANCEO I. of the Name Count of ODEMIRA by FRANCES DE SILVA his first Wife ALPHONSO OF NOROGNA continned the Posterity RODERICK DE NOROGNA was an Ecclesiastick MENCIA DE NOROGNA espoused to the Count of FRAQUEZ in Savoy Children of SANCEO I. Count of ODEMIRA and of ANGELA FABRA his second Wife JOHN DE FARO whose Branch shall be deduced after that of his elder Brother FREDERICK OF PORTUGAL married in Castille MARGARET DE BORGIA Daughter of John De Borgia third Duke of Gandie by the Dutchess Anne De Castro his Wife and had this only Daughter following viz. 15. ANNE OF PORTUGAL Wife of RODERICK DE SILVA Duke of Prastrana JANE MANUEL was conjoined in marriage with JOHN DE LA CERDA Marquess of Cogolludo and Fourth Duke of Medina Celi GUIOÌ„MARE DE NOROGNA Wife of JOHN BACA DE LIC ANA some Records mention that it was she that was espoused to the Duke of Medina Celi KATHERINE a Natural Daughter of the Count of ODEMIRA Sanceo I. was a Nun in the Monastery of Odivelles 14. ALPHONSO OF NOROGNA IN the life-time of the Count of Odemira Sanceo the first his Father he was slain by the Moors having before been married to Mary D'Attaide Daughter and Heir of Nugno-Ferdinand D'Attaide Lord of Pena Cova Captain of Cafin and of Jane De Faria his Wife from which Marriage came their only Son which was Count Sanceo II. mentioned next following 16. SANCEO DE NOROGNA II. of the Name Count of ODEMIRA HE succeeded his Grandfather Sanceo De Norogna first of the Name and was Fourth Count of ODEMIRA and grand Alcaide of Estremos Katherine of Austria Queen of Portugal Wife of King John III. honoured him with the Office of Steward of her Houshold He espoused MARGARET DE SILVA Daughter of John De Silva second Count of Portalegre from this marriage there came two Sons and a Daughter ALPHONSO DE NOROGNA third of the Name and second Count of ODEMIRA of that Name NUGNO DE NOROGNA Bishop of Visco and De La Guarde MARY DE NOROGNA Wife of LEWIS D'ATTAIDE Count of Atouguia 16. ALPHONSO DE NOROGNO III. of the Name and second Count of ODEMIRA of that Name Lord of Mortaga and grand Alcaide of Estremos ALPHONSO eldest Son of Count Sanceo II. was of the Number of those Lords of Portugal that accompanied King Sebastian in his second Voyage for Affrica and was slain with him at the
fifty and Years of CHRIST 1460 Ten years after dyed at Tomar having had by his Love-Mistress BEATRIX DE SOUSA daughter of Martin-Alphonso de Sousa and of Yoland Lopez de Tauora this his only Son viz. ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL was Bishop of Evora and before he followed the Profession of a Church-man had also by a Lady called DE MACEDON others say DE MELO these two Sons following 13. FRANCIS OF PORTUGAL first Count of VIMIOSO mentioned in the next place MARTIN OF PORTUGAL Arch-bishop of Fonchal afterwards Bishop of Algarvie and Patriarch of the Indies King John III. sent him Ambassadour to Pope Clement VII who made him his Nuncio to the Kingdom of Portugal He had two Bastard-Children by KATHERINE DE SOUSA a Bastard-daughter of Roderick de Sousa viz. 14. ELISHA OF PORTUGAL was of the Privy-Chamber to the Popes Pius IV. and Gregory XIII 14. MARY OF PORTUGAL second Wife to JAMES DE CASTRO 13. FRANCIS OF PORTUGAL first of the name Count of VIMIOSO and Lord of Aguiar THE King of Portugal Emanuel honoured him with the Dignity of Count of VIMIOSO and furthermore instituted him Super-intendant of his Affairs as did likewise King John III. afterward the Prince Portugal his Son made him his High Chamberlain He espoused for his first Wife BEATRIX DE VILLENA daughter of Roderick Tellez de Meneses Lord of Ugnon Steward of the Houshold to the Empress Isabel of Portugal Wife to the Emperor Charls V. His second Wife was JANE DE VILLENA daughter of Alvaro of Portugal of the House of Tentugal and of Philippa de Melo Countess of Olivenza A Daughter of FRANCIS OF PORTUGAL Count of Vimioso by his former Wife GUIOMAR DE VILLENA espoused to FRANCIS DE GAMA second Count of VEDIGUERA and Admiral of the Indies Children of FRANCIS OF PORTUGAL Count of Vimioso by his later Wife ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL Count of VIMIOSO continued the Posterity MANUEL OF PORTUGAL had also Children as you shall see after we have deduced the Branch of his elder Brother JOHN OF PORTUGAL Bishop of Guarda 14. ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL first of the name Count of VIMIOSO HE was eldest Son of Francis of Portugal first Earl of Vimioso by Jane de Villena his 2d Wife and was as his father before him Super-intendant of the Affairs of the Kings of Portugal John III. and Sebastian with whom he undertook the Expedition of Affrick The History notes thus much of him That having been this Kings Chamberlain and having Command in his first Voyage he deported himself so ill that those which emulated his Greatness took occasion to exclude him the Kings Favour He behaved himself no better in the second Expedition For being ambitious and desirous to regain that Reputation with the King which he had lost he seconded his will notwithstanding he knew it to be rash and prejudicial For the Army being landed in Affrick he perswaded them to make their passage by Land instead of that by Sea void of danger which he did principally out of complacency with the King whom he observed to be grounded in this opinion notwithstanding urged and disswaded by many more substantial reasons from several others So that he dyed with his Prince at the unfortunate Battel of Alcacer He was conjoyned by Marriage with LUCIA DE GUZMAN daughter of Francis de Guzman Great Steward of the Houshold to the Infanta Mary of Portugal youngest daughter of King Emanuel Children of ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL first of the name Count of Vimioso FRANCIS OF PORTUGAL second of the name Count of VIMIOSO whose Story followeth in the next place JOHN OF PORTUGAL a Monk of the Order of St. Dominick a Learned man was of the Council general of the Inquisition LEWIS OF PORTUGAL succeeded his eldest Brother in the County of VIMIOSO ALVARO OF PORTUGAL dyed in Sicilie NUGNO-ALVAREZ OF PORTUGAL was President of the Chamber of Lisbonne and had been One of the Three Governours of Portugal By his Wife and Cosin JANE OF PORTUGAL daughter of Manuel of Portugal and of Margaret de Mendoza his second Wife he had besides some Children that dyed young Four Sons and Two Daughters 16. LEWIS OF PORTUGAL 16. JOHN ALPHONSO ANTHONY 16. MARY and MARGARET CONSTANCE DE GUZMAN Abbess of the Monastery of our Lady at Lisbonne BEATRIX DE GUZMAN also Abbess of the same place PHILIPPA DE GUZMAN Prioress of the Monastery of the Holy Sacrament at Lisbonne MENCIA and JANE also Nuns in the Monasteries of d'Esperanza at Lisbonne and of St. Catherine at Evora 15. FRANCIS OF PORTUGAL second of the name Count of VIMIOSO and Constable of Portugal THis Count accompanied King Sebastian of Portugal to the Battel of Years of CHRIST 1578 Alcacer and was there made a Prisoner but afterwards finding means to recover his Liberty and being upon his return into Portugal he there followed the Fortune of Prince Anthony who being declared King honored Years of CHRIST 1580 him with the Dignity of Constable of Portugal He followed this Prince in his Voyage for France Afterwards being at the Naval fight in Ao One thousand five hundred Years of CHRIST 1582 fourscore and two near unto the Azores betwixt the French Army Commanded by the Collonel Philip Strozzi and the Spanish Conducted by the Marquess of St. Croix Lieutenant General to the King of Spain Philip II. This Count of Vimioso was so grievously hurt that he lived but two dayes after the Fight The Marquess for all he was his Enemy did much lament and deplore his Fortune as being his Kinsman His end was more honorable than that of any of the other Lords that had followed Anthony He was young adorned with good parts both of body and mind and was one that joyned Learning to the Military profession 15. LEWIS OF PORTUGAL Count of VIMIOSO HIs eldest Brother the Count Francis II. not having been married and leaving no Children this Count succeeded him and espoused JANE DE MENDOZA daughter of Ferdinand de Castro first Count of Basto by the Countess Philippa de Mendoza his Wife This Count and Countess being touched with a singular Piety took a holy resolution to forsake the World and with mutual consent took upon them the Habit of Religious He entred himself into the Order of St. Dominick and the Countess JANE his Wife Cloystered her self in the Monastery of the Holy Sacrament at Lisbonne with the Barefoot Sisters an Abbey which she and her Husband had founded Children of LEWIS OF PORTVGAL Count of Vimioso ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL second of the name Count of VIMIOSO continued the Posterity MICHAEL OF PORTUGAL Bishop of Lamego Archbishop of Lisbonne Ambassadour from the King of Portugal John IV. to Pope Urban VIII Anno 1641. He departed this world in the Year 1644. FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL was a Souldier in Flanders where he dyed LUCIA DE GUZMAN PHILIPPA DE CASTRO a Nun with her Mother in the Abbey of the Holy Sacrament at Lisbon 16. ALPHONSO OF PORTVGAL second of the name Count of VIMIOSO HE was
PETER-DIONYSIUS DE LANCASTRO had to Wife PHILIPPA DE SILVA daughter of John de Silva heiress of the House of Portalegre and of Margaret de Silva his Wife from which Marriage descended their only daughter JULIANA who dyed young JOHN DE LANCASTRO a Natural Son was a Monk of the Order of St. Dominick 15. GEORGE DE LANCASTRO second of the name and second Duke of AVEIRO and Marquess of Toursneuues OF the two Children of John de Lancastro Duke of Aveiro by his Wife Juliana de Meneses he was the elder He accompanied King Sebastian in the Voyage of Affrica His Death and was slain at the Battel of Alcacer Years of CHRIST 1578 with many more Princes and Lords of the Blood-Royal of Portugal His Wife MAGDALENE GIRON was daughter of John Tellez Giron Count of Urena and of Mary de la Cueua his Wife An only Daughter of GEORGE second Duke of Aveiro JULIANA DE LANCASTRO Dutchess of Aveiro was married to her Cosin ALVARO DE LANCASTRO as we shall shew you more at large hereafter 14. ALPHONSO DE LANCASTRO Great Commander of St. James HE was second Son of George Bastard of Portugal Duke of Conimbra and of Beatrix de Melo his Wife He espoused YOLAND HENRIQUEZ daughter of John Coutinho Earl of Redondo and of the Countess Isabel Henriquez his Wife by her he had four Sons and six daughters Children of ALPHONSO DE LANCASTRO LEWIS DE LANCASTRO dyed young GEORGE DE LANCASTRO was slain at the Battel of Alcacer in Affrick in the Year One thousand five hundred threescore and Years of CHRIST 1578 eighteen ALVARO DE LANCASTRO Duke of AVEIRO mentioned in the next place MANUEL DE LANCASTRO Great Master of the Order of St. James and Governour of the Algarvies had a Natural Son which was 16. JOHN DE LANCASTRO a Monk of the Order of St. Augustine ISABEL 15. MARY Nuns BEATRIX 15. PHILIPPA Nuns HELENE 15. ANNE Nuns HIEROSME DE LANCASTRO a Bastard-Son was Prior of Toursneuues and had issue CONSTANTINE ALVARO and other Natural Children 15. ALVARO DE LANCASTRO Duke of AVEIRO THis Duke was fourth Son of Alphonso de Lancastro Great Master of St. James and of Yoland Henriquez his Wife He took to Wife JULIANA Dutchess of AVEIRO only daughter and sole heir of Duke George II. by Magdalene Giron his Wife So that the Dutchy went not out of the Family From this Marriage did descend several Children Children of ALVARO DE LANCASTRO and of the Dutchess JVLIANA d'AVIERO his Wife GEORGE DE LANCASTRO Duke of TOURSNEUUES espoused ANNE DORIACOLOMNA daughter of Andrew Doria Prince of Melphi and of Jane Colomna his Wife But this Dutchess ANNE dyed without issue ALPHONSO DE LANCASTRO Grand Commander of St. James JOHN DE LANCASTRO was a Monk of the Order of St. Dominick MARIANA DE LANCASTRO a Nun of the Order of St. Francis in the Monastery of our Lady at Lisbonne BEATRIX a Nun of the Order of St. Dominick in the Abbey of St. John at Setubal 14. LEWIS DE LANCASTRO first of the name Great Master of the Order d'Avis OF the four Sons of George Bastard of Portugal Duke of Conimbra by the Dutchess Beatrix de Melo his Wife he was the third He was Years of CHRIST 1559 sent by King Sebastian to the King of Spain Philip II. for to Condole with him upon the death of Prince Charles his eldest Son and also for the decease of his third Wife Queen Isabel of France He married MAGDALENE OF GRANADA daughter of the Infant John de Granada by Beatrix de Sandoval his Wife which Infant was issued from the Blood of the antient Kings of Granada Children of LEWIS DE LANCASTRO first of the name LEWIS DE LANCASTRO second of the name continued the Posterity JOHN DE LANCASTRO had also Children hereafter mentioned BEATRIX DE LANCASTRO second Wife of THEODOSIUS OF PORTUGAL Duke of Braganza ANNE Commandress of Sanctus of the Order of St. James MAGDALENE Wife of JOHN DE SILVEIRA MARY espoused JOHN GONCALEZ DE CAMARA Count of Callera 15. LEWIS DE LANCASTRO II. of the name Great Master d'Avis HE was the eldest Son of Lewis de Lancastro first of the name by the Infanta Magdalene de Granada his Wife and was of the Council of Estate to the Kings of Spain Philip II. and III. and Super-intendant of their Affairs He dyed in the Year One thousand six hundred and thirteen and was interred in the great Chappel of the Monastery of Nuns of St. John at Setubal PHILIPPA DE MENESES his Wife was daughter of James de Silveira second Count of Sortella by Mary de Meneses his Wife Children of LEWIS DE LANCASTRO second of the name FRANCIS-LEWIS DE LANCASTRO whose Story followeth in the next place MAGDALENE DE LANCASTRO Wife of JOHN LOBO sixth Baron of Alvito 16. FRANCIS-LEWIS DE LANCASTRO HE succeeded his father and Grand-father Lewis II. and Lewis I. in the Dignity of Grand Master d'Avis and married PHILIPPA DE MENDOZA daughter of Manuel de Vasconcellos by Lucia de Mendoza his Wife Children of FRANCIS-LEWIS DE LANCASTRO LEWIS and MANUEL PETER and VERISSIME 15. JOHN DE LANCASTRO AMong the Children of Lewis de Lancastro first of the name great Master d'Avis and of Magdelene de Grenada his Wife he was the second and had two Wives His first Wife was PAULA DE TAUORA daughter of Lawrence Perez de Tauora by Katherine de Tauora his Wife His second Wife was PHILIPPA DE CASTRO daughter of Alphonso de Castelblanco Merino Major of Portugal and of Isabel de Castro by her he had no issue and dyed in the Year One thousand six hundred and fourteen He lieth buried in the Monastery of St. Anthony of the Order of St. Francis in the Province of Rabida Children of JOHN DE LANCASTRO by his first Wife LAWRENCE DE LANCASTRO espoused AGNES DE MENESES daughter of Roderick Tellez de Meneses Lord of Ugnon By her he had issue 17. JOHN DE LANCASTRO GEORGE DE LANCASTRO was slain by the Infidels at Mosambique KATHERINE DE LANCASTRO second Wife of JOHN-MARTINEZ MASCAREGNAS grand Alcaide of Mont-Major the new LORDS AND COUNTS OF VILLAR 9. DIONYSIUS OF PORTUGAL Lord of CIFUENTES Ascalona and Alva de Tormes AMong the natural Children of Peter King of Portugal one PORTUGAL-VILLAR which was King John the First came to an Absolute Fortune being chosen King of Portugal after the Death of King Ferdinand and another which was this DENIS whom he begat by Agnes de Castro made his Fortunes in Castille where he was Lord of CIFUENTES and the other Seigneuries here above-mentioned He took to Wife JANE OF CASTILLE natural daughter of Henry II. King of Castille and Leon. Children of DIONYSIO OF PORTUGAL Lord of Cifuentes and of JANE OF CASTILLE his Wife FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL Knight of the Order of St. James Commander of Oreia continued the Posterity PETER OF PORTUGAL Lord of Colmeneraio had also Children BEATRIX OF PORTUGAL founded the Hospital of
Duke Lewis by Anne of Lusignan his Wife In her right he took the Title of King and possessed himself of the Kingdom of Cyprus but at last he was defeated by his Wives Bastard-brother PORTUGAL-CONIMBRA Party de CYPRE Comme cy dessus fo rs que culieu de 2. quartier doit estre mis l'escusson qui est sur le tout and since this Kingdom hath been usurped by the Turks 11. JAMES OF PORTUGAL third Son of PETER OF PORTUGAL Duke of CONIMBRA c. turned Souldier in his youth and was taken Prisoner in that Battel which his Father lost with his life in the Year One thousand four hundred forty and nine Years of CHRIST 1449 after he had obtained his liberty he went to visit his Aunt by the Fathers side Isabel of Portugal Dutchess of Bourgongne who sent him to Rome Years of CHRIST 1456 where the Pope Calixtus III. created him a Cardinal by the Title of St. Eustace PORTUGAL-CONIMBRA in the Year One thousand four hundred fifty and six being at that time but young He was Modest of a Pregnant Wit and a good Scholar Comme cy devant which foundations made men hope great things from him for those Virtues with which he was accomplished He is reported to be of a temper so chaste Onuphrius Fr. Ciatonus and continent that falling extream ill and being counselled by his Physitians to have the knowledge of a Woman for a remedy He refused saying That he would rather dye than be polluted He was Arch-bishop of Lisbonne and dyed at Florence the Sixteenth day of April His death 1459. Anno One thousand four hundred fifty and nine His body being interred Years of CHRIST 1459 in the Church of St. Miniat an Abbey of Monks of the Order of St. Benedict PORTUGAL Party de PORTUGAL ISABEL OF PORTUGAL espoused to the King of Portugal Alphonso V. her Cousin as you may read in his Story PHILIPPA OF PORTUGAL another Daughter of Peter Duke of Conimbra CONIMBRA and of Isabel of Arragon his Wife was a Nun in the Abbey of Odiuelles BEATRICE OF PORTUGAL was allied in Marriage to ADOLPHE OF CLEUES Her Marriage Seigneur of Ravenstein CLEUES-RAVENSTEIN a younger Son of Adolphe Duke of Cleues and of Mary of Bourgongne his Wife from which Marriage descended Philip of Cleues Seigneur of Ravenstein De gueulles au rais pommette Fleuronnē d'or de huict pieces percē d'argent Escartelé de BOURGONGNE qui est contre escartelé au 1. 4. d'azure a trois Fleurs de lis d'or a la Bordure componneé d'argent de gueulles Au 2. 3. bande d'or d'azure de six pieces a la Bordure de gueulles Sur le tout d'or au Lyon de sable qui est FLANDRES Party de PORTUGAL-CONIMBRA Lieutenant General in the City of Gennes for the King of France Lewis XII his Cousin afterwards General of a Fleet against the Turk He left no issue Here follow again Children of JOHN I. King of PORTUGAL and of PHILIPPA OF LANCASTER his Wife HENRY OF PORTUGAL PORTUGAL-VISCO Duke of VISCO fourth Son of King John and Grand Master of the Order of the Knights of Christ hath recommended his Name and Memory to Posterity for his high designs and generous performances for he had the Glory to have undertaken and happily accomplished many dangerous Navigations Step. Garibay After he had given testimony of his Valour in the Reduction of the strong City of Years of CHRIST 1415 Septe in Affrica he resolved to put himself to Sea for the Discovery of the unknown World Nunez Mariana And because he might attain to his design with the more facility he addressed himself earnestly to the study of the Mathematicks and of Astrology rejecting the enjoyment of Marriage as a thing that was altogether incongruous to the designs of a contemplative Life And that he might more easily apply himself to the Comtemplation of the Starres he bestowed a good part of his life upon the Cape of St. Vincent because the Aire was there serene and clear and seldom or never troubled or overcast with Clouds In fine being satisfied in his Judgment that there were Islands yet undiscovered in the Atlantique Ocean he was resolved to hazard the proof thereof upon his own proper costs expence So that first of all he discovered the Isle of Madera so called because of the Forrests wherewith it was replenished he peopled it with several Collonies it having been before a Desert the next discovery was the Canaries unknown for a long time in these Voyages he found out also several Ports in the Atlantique Sea Lastly He so well instructed the Portugues in the direction of their Navigations according to the Course of the Stars that with no less glory than utility they have made large Conquest in Affrick near unto Ethiopia and of several Isles in the main Ocean and the Indies And that he might more commodiously attend upon his affairs towards the end of his life this Generous Prince established his Habitation at Sagra in the Kingdom of the Algarves at the Cape called Sacra from which Port he might with ease send his Ships into the East His Death But being prevented by death in the Year Mariana Lib. 23. C. 3. One Years of CHRIST 1460 thousand four hundred and threescore at the age of Threescore and seven years Mariana adds Ten years more the progress of his glorious designs was interrupted He adopted for his Son Ferdinand of Portugal his Nephew one of the Children of King Edward his elder brother The Corps of Henry was interred within the Church of Aljuberot JOHN OF PORTUGAL Grand Master of the Order of St. James PORTUGAL and Constable of Portugal was fifth Son of John I. of the name Comme cy devant King of Portugal and of Philippa of Lancaster his Wife he followed the steps of his Illustrious Ancestors His Marriage is commended for his Piety and Prudence PORTUGAL and also to have affected the welfare of his Countrey He married ISABEL OF PORTUGAL Party de PORTUGAL-BRAGANCA Qui est d'argent au Sautoir de gueulles charge de cinq Escussons de PORTUGAL un au melieu les aultres aux quatre bouts du Sautoir Daughter of his Natural Brother Alphonso I. Duke of Braganca and of the Countess of Barcellos Beatrice who was Daughter of Avarez Pereira His Death His decease hapned at Alcacar de Sal about the end of the Month of October in the Year One Years of CHRIST 1442 thousand four hundred forty and two and in the Three and fortieth year of his age As for the Princess ISABEL his Wife she departed this life in the Year One thousand four hundred threescore and five in the Years of CHRIST 1465 place of Arceval where she was to visit her Daughter Queen Isabel of Castille Children of JOHN OF PORTUGAL c.
from this Marriage came three Sons Party de PORTUGAL-VISCO and one Daughter viz. James of Portugal fourth Duke of Braganza who continued the Line Philip and Denys of Portugal Margaret their Sister dyed young without having been married 12. KATHERINE OF PORTUGAL dyed young Here are continued Children of EDWARD King of PORTUGAL and of LEONOR OF ARRAGON his Wife PHILIP OF PORTUGAL being twelve years old dyed of the Plague at Lisbonne LEONORA OF PORTUGAL the Empress Her Marriage was in the Sixteenth year of her age espoused Ao One thousand four hundred and fifty AUSTRIA De gueulles a la Face d'argent and in the City of Rome unto the Emperour Frederick III. Years of CHRIST 1450 Arch-Duke of Austria who was eldest Son of Arch-Duke Ernest and of Zimburge of Massovia his Wife Party de PORTUGAL Aneas Sylvius afterwards Pope under the name of Pius II. being at that time principal Secretary to Frederick negotiated this Marriage The Princess was in the Year following Crowned Empress by Pope Nicholas V. Her death She dyed in the City of Neustat in Austria in the Year One thousand four hundred threescore and seven being Years of CHRIST 1467 aged Three and thirty years and was entombed in the Monastery of the Trinity by her founded in the same place As concerning the Emperour her Husband he had undergone a tedious War against the Arch-duke Albert his brother for Austria and also against Mathias Coruin elected King of Hungary for that Kingdom to which he pretended a Right of succession Onuphrius He departed this life in the City of I Lints Years of CHRIST 1493 in Austria the Ninteenth day of August Ao One thousand four hundred fourscore and thirteen which was the Four and fiftieth of his Empire and the Threescore and eighteenth of his age From this Marriage issued one Son and a Daughter viz. The Emperour Maximilian first of the name Grand-father by his Son Philip also first of that name King of Spain to the Emperours Charles V. Hier. Hâ—nninges in Theatr. Geneal and Ferdinand I. Cunegonde of Austria Maximilian's Sister was married to Albert IV. of the name Duke of Bauaria and from them those other Dukes draw their original KATHERINE OF PORTUGAL was promised in Marriage Nunâ—us first to Charles of Nauarre Prince of Viana eldest Son of John King of Nauarre and Arragon Mariana then to Edward the Fourth King of England But she espoused neither the one nor the other Her death and at last died unmarried at Lisbonne in the Abbey of St. Clare Ao One thousand four hundred Years of CHRIST 1463 threescore and three the Twelfth day of June She had the honour of Burial within the Church of St. Eloy JANE OF PORTUGAL Queen of Castille was conjoyned in Marriage the Twentieth day of May CASTILLE Escartelé au 1. 4. de gueulles au Chasteau d'or au 2. 3. d'argent au Lyon de pourpre qui est LEON in the Year Her Marriage One thousand four hundred five and fifty at Cordona to HENRY IV. King of Castille eldest Son of King John II. and of Mary of Arragon his Wife Years of CHRIST 1455 This Marriage was made by the procuration of the King of France Charles VII at that time confederate with the King of Castille who for this purpose sent to the Castillian his Embassadour the Arch-bishop of Tours But this Marriage being Celebrated in a time of War and great trouble men presaged nothing from the effects thereof but evil events Party de PORTUGAL which accordingly fell out HENRY and JANE had issue one Daughter which was Jane of Castille some erroneously call her Elizabeth affianced unto Charles of France Mariana lib. 22. c. 17. Duke of Berry then of Guyenne younger Brother to Lewis XI King of France But this Duke being variable and inconstant abandoned her and applyed himself to Mary of Bourgongne only daughter of Charles the Hardy Duke of Bourgongne whom he likewise married not So that the Princess of Castille had for Husband her Nephew Alphonso V. of the name King of Portugal who challenged the Kingdom of Castill in the Right of this his Wife as you shall see more fully hereafter in his History King Henry was reputed in the opinion of the world uncapable of Children which gave suspition to many to doubt whether this Princess were really his Daughter or supposed to be so nevertheless he owned her by his Testament made before his death which hapned to be at Madrid Years of CHRIST 1474 Ao One thousand four hundred threescore and fourteen in the month of December and in him finished the direct Line of the Kings of Castille descended from Henry the Bastard from whom being of a couragious and high-flown spirit this Prince did much degenerate who was a person of a weak judgement and of little Merit Two years after Queen JANE OF PORTUGAL Idem Lib. 23. Cap. 11. Lib. 24. Cap. 4. 9. his Widow Her death dyed at Madrid in the month of January others more truly report Years of CHRIST 1475 her Death to be in June One thousand four hundred threescore and fifteen She was interred in the Church of St. Francis It 's doubted likewise whether she dyed in Child-bed or whether her life was shortned by Poyson caused to be given her by the King of Portugal her Brother which last is rather to be believed because she is taxed to be incontinent and to suffer her self to be transported to unwarrantable affections A Natural Son of EDWARD King of PORTUGAL JOHN-EMANUEL OF PORTUGAL was base Son of King Edward by Jane Manuel Cousin of Eleanor of Arragon Vasconcellius He was educated with great care and brought up unto Virtue by Nonio Alvarez Pereira Lord of Braganca After he had approved his Valour in that War against the Infidels and Moors of Affrica being inspired with devotion aand contempt of earthly things He forsook the world and took â—n him a Religious habit in the Convent of the Carmelite Friers of Lisbonne which he founded and where he lived most Religiously Yet afterwards he had given him the Bishoprick of Septe in Affrick and then that of Ingonte In fine King Alphonso V. invited him to Court where he gave him the charge of Master of his Chappel of whose Wisdom and good Counsel this King was a strict observer 11. ALPHONSO V. Of the Name KING of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES Sirnamed The Affrican CHAP. XIII PORTUGAL D'argent a cinq Escussons d'azure peris en Croix chacun charge de cinq besants d'argent posez en sautoir a la bordure de gueulles chargeé de huict chasteaux d'er PORTUGAL Party de CONIMBRA Escartelé Au 1. 4. de PORTUGAL au 2. 3. d' ANGLETERRE PORTUGAL Party de CASTILLE De gueulles au Chasteau d'or Escartele de LEON qui est d'argent au lyon de pourpre He was but six years old when he
SEBASTIAN KING of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES on this and the other side the Sea in Affrica Lord of Guineé and of the Conquest Navigations and Commerce of Ethiopia Arabia Persia and India CHAP. XVII PORTUGAL D'argent a cinq Escussons d'Azur peris en Croix chacun chargé de cinq besans aussi d'Argent posez en sautoir a la bordure de gueulles chargé de sept Chasteaux d'or trois en chef deux en fasse deux en poïnt This King SEBASTIAN was only Son of Prince John of Portugal and of Joane of Austria his Wife Noâ—ius born a posthumus in the Year One thousand five hundred fifty and four the Twentieth day of January His Birth on which day is celebrated the Feast of St. Sebastian Vasconcellius in memory of whom Years of CHRIST 1554 he had this name given him After the death of his Grand-father King John III. being but Three years old he succeeded to the Crown of Portugal and during his minority was under the Government of Queen Katherine of Austria But afterwards this Princess not being able to undergo so great a charge as that of the Regency transferred it by the Estates to Cardinal Henry great Uncle by the Fathers side to King SEBASTIAN who having attained to the Fourteenth year of his age began to take the Reins of Government into his own hand Vasconcellius The Moors taking advantage by the infirmity of his age thought it now a fit time to endeavour the reduction of some of his best Garisons in Affrica So that Mahomet King of Mauritania the Son of Cherif Abdala came Years of CHRIST 1562 with a considerable force and begirt Magazon with a strait Siege and had it not been by Roderick de Sosa nobly defended for the space of Three months they had carried it Thuanus No better was the Fortune of the Infidels Ten years after when they Years of CHRIST 1572 undertook the same design upon the Towns of Goa and Chiaule For Attaida and Mascaregna so resolutely opposed that after Six months Siege before the one and Nine before the other they were forced to retire with loss and shame Now was King SEBASTIAN in the Twentieth year of his age who being of an able Body and of a Couragious and Martial Soul not content with those Dominions which he possessed resolved to make Conquest of new not considering that this design was not to be effected without great hazard and in the alteration of that repose his Kingdom had so long enjoyed He had first designed a War against the Indians but that his Kinsmen and Subjects would not consent unto But as there was some difficulty wholly to withdraw the young Prince who had a Warlike spirit from this Enterprise such as were near him laboured to divert him by means of another which they laid before him turning all his Resolution upon Affrick to engage the Moors which live in that part called Mauritania Tingitana where the Portugals maintained to their great Charge upon the Coast of Barbary the three Fortresses of Septe Tangier and Magazon the In-let and Key of Spain by which the Moors have heretofore conquered it But this diversion whereunto they perswaded the King produced sad effects principally proceeding for want of Judgment for although it were difficult wholly to disswade him from the expedition of India and therefore convenient to represent unto him some other Action yet should they advisedly have foreseen not to divert him from one mischief to thrust him into a greater The young King stayed not long to put this design in execution For in the Year One thousand five hundred threescore and fourteen he assembled Years of CHRIST 1574 against the inclination of his best Friends certain of his Souldiers King Sebastian's first Voyage into Affrica and with four Gallies and some Ships and Carvels passed into Affrica under colour of visiting his Forts Coâ—â—staggio although he really desired to effect more than he made shew of There they came to some Skermishes with the Moors at which he was almost alwayes found in person where discovering his own weakness and vexing himself that he could not perform what he desired He returned back to Lisbonne still devising some new manner of War which so disquieted his conceit that he neither said nor did any thing to other end deliberating not as a King but as a private Souldier to accustom his body to labour intending thereby to habituate himself more to the hardships and miseries of War This inclination in which the heavens had some part was not contradicted by any of his Council For although these actions of the Kings were rash yet Ambition and fear of his displeasure were of such force That the Nobility Magistrates and other persons who might have forced him durst not open their mouths nor oppose themselves against his Will and if any did mutter or speak to the contrary they were men of base Quality and not admitted The Cardinal Henry his great Uncle Brother to John III. Conestaggio his Grandfather and Queen Katherine in whom Flattery should have found no place had small credit with the King neither did they use the Authority they might have had both fearing they should not prevail but lose with the Kings disgrace that small command was yet remaining in them So as by a fatal silence they suffered this young Prince for the second time to return into Affrica And the more to enflame King SEBASTIAN it fortuned that Muley Mahomet chased out of the Kingdom of Morocco by his Uncle Muley Moluc endeavoured his re-establishment by the aide of the Christians Errera and for this purpose entreated succours from SEBASTIAN perswading this King that by the advantage of those Friends that he could make in his own Kingdom he should be able to defeat Moluc and to open him a way to trace the whole Empire of Morocco SEBASTIAN drawn on by this vain hope Vasconcellius embraced the Moors offer and finding himself not able to perform this expedition without another Confederate endeavoured to draw into this Action his Uncle by the Mothers side the King of Spain Philip II. to which effect an Interview was appointed at Guadalupa There the Kings met Nonius and proposals were made of a match betwixt King Philips Daughter and King SEBASTIAN and as to the War of Affrica the Spanish King liked well of it so that it might be prosecuted by his Lieutenants but not that he should undertake it in person excusing himself that he could not assist him with a considerable force pretending he had occasion for Souldiers to resist the Turk in Italy so that from the Catholique King he could expect but small supplies Years of CHRIST 1578 So that now assisted only with some Regiments of Italians Germans and Irish after he had with great pomp caused the Royal Standerd to be hallowed in the Cathedral Church of Lisbonne SEBASTIAN set Sail