Arms of Portugal Now MAUD understanding the design of the King her Husband to take another wife From France she undertook a journey into Portugal and there made her protestations and opposition against this unlawful Marriage which ALPHONSO regarded not but slightly passed over When this would not move him to Justice the Princess and her kindred of the number of which was the King St. Lewis made their appeal to Pope Alexander IV. with whom their complaint and the Princesses tears took such effect Mariana that he first mildly admonished ALPHONSO to receive again his lawful wife and forsake BEATRIX but continuing refractory and stubborn the same Pope thundred out his Excommunications against him and his Kingdom prohibiting Divine Service throughout all his Dominions under which Interdiction he lay the space of two years and to the death of MAUD happening in the Year Nunez One thousand two hundred Years of CHRIST 1262 threescore and two when the Prelates of the Kingdom so carried the matter to Pope Urban IV. that he not only removed this Excommunication but also approved the Marriage this proceeded principally from the Relation of kindred the said Pope had to the King ALPHONSO and for the peace and welfare of the Kingdom MAUD having made her last Will and Testament in the Year One thousand two hundred forty and one bequeathed unto her Husband King ALPHONSO the Summe of Twenty thousand Livets Idem beside the right she had to another Summe of Four thousand l. due unto her by the Count and Countess of Flanders Also to others she left many pious Legacies and ordered for the Executors of this her last Testament Robert Bishop of Beauùais her Cousin Matthew de Trie and others Gifts which were approved by Gaucher de Chastillon sieur de Monjay her Kinsman who had espoused Jane her daughter Mariana descended from her first Marriage Nunez Lastly His Death King ALPHONSO having lived Threescore and nine years Vasconcellius and Reigned Three and thirty finished his dayes at Lisbonne the Capital City of his Estate in the Year One thousand two hundred threescore Years of CHRIST 1279 and nineteen He received the honour of Sepulture within the Church of St. Dominick in the same place and from thence ten years after his body was transported to the Chappel dedicated to St. Vincent in the Abbey of Alcobace where lieth also Queen Beatrix of Castille his Wife Tâ—aâ—té du droit de succession sur la Portugal de la Royne Catherine de Medicis Some are of opinion that he had by the Countess of Bolongne two sons the elder of which named after him Alphonso dyed young the younger called Robert lived in France and was Count of Bolongne from whom are descended the other Earls unto Jane de la Tour who exchanged this County for that of Lauregais and had issue her daughter Magdelene de la Tour Mother of Queen Katherine de Medicis wife of Henry II. King of France The same Queen as being descended from Robert pretended a right to the Kingdom of Portugal after the death of the Kings Sebastian and Henry And at what time the Estates were assembled to Advise of a Successor to the Crown she sent her Embassadors also thither to represent her Right and Pretentions as also did several other Princes upon the same account At the same time there was published in France a Treatise which is reputed to have for Author Peter Beloy afterwards the Kings Advocate in the Court of Parliament of Toulouse concerning the right and lawful succession of the Kingdom of Portugal appertaining to this Queen Katherine Mother of the most Christian King Henry III. En Chronica des Reis de Portugal But the Castillian and Portugal Historians among others Edward Nunez will not admit of this descent of the House of Bolongne nor that ALPHONSO III. had any children by Queen MAUD his first Wife But to confound this extraction and to prove it only imaginary he grounds upon divers Circumstances and pregnant Conjectures which he particularly toucheth upon in the Chronicle of the Kings of Portugal by him published in his own Language Conjectures drawn from the time as also from the consideration of the Age of the Princess and the words of her last Testament in which there is mention made only of her daughter by the first Bed And lastly from the Contents of that Supplication Years of CHRIST 1262 presented by the Prelates to the Pope intreating his Holiness to give Absolution to their King and a Dispensation to the end that he and Beatrix might lawfully continue and live together and that their Children after them might be capable of the possession of their Estates Children of ALPHONSO III. King OF PORTUGAL and of BEATRIX OF CASTILLE his second Wife DIONYSIO OR DENIS King OF PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES continued the Posterity ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL Lord of Portalegre PORTUGAL-PORTALEGRE Chasteauvieux His Marriage Marvau and of Arouce was joyned in Marriage with YOLAND OF CASTILLE daughter of the Infant Emanuel son of Ferdinando III. King of Castille Party de CASTILLE and of Constance of Arragon his Wife And because that ALPHONSO married his daughters to Castillian Lords De gueulles au Chastean d'or and would have given them those places of his appennage in Portugal his brother King DIONYSIO opposed him But this difference was at last appeased by exchange made betwixt the King and this Lord of Portalegre who consented to part with places upon the Frontire of Castille for those that were situate within the middle of Portugal He was inhumed in the Church of St. Dominick at Lisbonne and left issue a Son and four Daughters which follow 7. ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL Seigneur of Leiria dyed without Children 7. ISABEL OF PORTUGAL BISCAY Comme cy devant Wife of JOHN Lord of BISCAY sirnamed the Purblind 7. CONSTANCE OF PORTUGAL Party de PORTUGAL espoused to GONCALE-NUNEZ DE LARA LARA Party de PORTUGAL son of John Nunez de Lara called the Good 7. MARY OF PORTUGAL was conjoyned in Marriage with TELLEZ son of Alphonso Infant OF MOLINA 7. ISABEL OF PORTUGAL sirnamed the Young to difference her from her elder Sister of the same name was married unto JOHN-ALPHONSO Lord of Albuquerque son of Alphonso-Sanceo who was Nephew of Dionysio King of Portugal Here follow the Children of King ALPHONSO III. and of BEATRIX OF CASTILLE FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL dyed young in the City of Lisbonne BLANCHE OF PORTUCAL Abbess of Loruano then of that Das Holgas at Burgos This Princess was exceeding rich For the King of Castille her Grand-father by the Mother and King Dionysio her Brother gave her the Seigneuries of Monmor le Vicil and Campo-Major CONSTANCE OF PORTUGAL having been with Queen Beatrix her Mother in Castille for to visit the King her Grand-father she there dyed in the City of Seville being young Her body was brought home and buried in the Abbey of
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
the most Christian King his Master but that he would disburse himself for the service of the King of Portugal promising that he would presently send thither a Fleet of Twenty Sail with his Nephew Admiral and Ambassador Extraordinary This Treatment thus ended the Ambassadors took their leaves his Eminence waiting upon them as far as the Stairs which when they endeavored to hinder he replied That the Ambassadors of the King of Portugal were to be Treated with as much Respect as those of the Emperor or Pope Few dayes after a Juncto of the King of France his Council were appointed to Treat with the Ambassadors in the House of the Lord High Chancellor of the Kingdom where a Peace was fully concluded between the two Kingdoms of France and Portugal Other Ambassadors were about the same time that the afore-mentioned were sent into France dispatched into England for it very much concerned the Kingdom of Portugal to maintain a good Correspondence with the Crown of England both in regard of the Navigation and Commerce of both States and also the better to break that Amity and good Understanding which was now held between the Crown of Spain and that State Hither therefore were sent Don Antonio D'Almado and Don Francisco D'Averado Leilon both persons of exquisite parts who notwithstanding that the Dunkirkers Chased them arrived safe in England And for all the sturdy endeavors of the Spanish Ambassadors they were received on shore with abundance of Respect yet His Majesty of England would not give them Audience or accept of the Ambassage from the King of Portugal so tender was He of His Honor and Conscience till Don Antonia de Sosa their Secretary had drawn up a Paper to satisfie Him of the Right and Title of the Duke of Braganza to the Crown of Portugal The sum of which was Upon the Death of King Henry the Cardinal without Issue many pretended together with the Infanta Donna Catherina Dutchess of Braganza and Grand-mother to this present King to the Crown of Portugal but all their pretences wanting foundation soon fell except that of Philip the Second King of Spain who propt up his with force King Henry was Uncle equally near to both but with this difference Catherine was the Daughter of a Son named Edward and Philip was the Son of a Daughter named Isabella Brother and Sister to King Henry King Philip pleaded That he being in equal degree with Catherine was to be preferred for his Sex Catherine replyed That the Constitution of that Kingdom allowing Females to succeed and withal the benefit of Representation in all Inheritances she representing Edward must exclude Philip by the very same right that her Father if he were living would exclude Philips Mother This Conclusion is infallible in Jure whereto Philip answered That Succession of Kingdoms descending Jure sanguinis there was allowed no Representation Catherine destroyed that foundation alledging That the Succession by the Death of the last King was derived Jure haereditatis non sanguinis because the Succession of Kingdoms was to be regulated by that Antient way whereby all things descended by Inheritance the other way of Succession being not known until later Ages nor ever practised either in Spain or Portugal in such Cases Briefly in behalf of Catherine it was urged which by the Castillians can never be denied or answered That she was no stranger but a Native of the Kingdom to whom alone according to the Laws of Lamego the Crown of Portugal can appertain The King having perused and deliberated upon this Paper gave immediately Order they should be presently conducted to London which was done with all convenient Solemnity and they lodged in a Palace ready prepared for them soon after with great Ceremony they received Audience of His Majesty in a fair and Stately Hall prepared for that purpose where His Majesty sate upon a Throne raised two steps and at the entrance of the Ambassador pulled off His Hat nor would be covered till they were so too To the Propositions made in the Speech of D. Antonia D'Almoda concerning a Peace between Portugal and England His Majesty replied That he should be very glad if an expedient might be found out to renew the Antient Leagues of Friendship between the two Crowns without the breaking with Spain Some few dayes after the Ambassadors were conducted to give a Visit to Mary Queen of England who sate in a Chair of Estate ready to entertain them when they came into the Presence She rose out of the Chair and came as far as the Carpetting making low reverence as the Ambassadors bowed when they came near Her Majesty made them be covered but afterwards they spoke with their Hats off In conclusion the Queen told them That she much desired to hold Correspondence with Her Majesty of Portugal In fine on the Thirteenth of June One thousand six hundred and forty one a Peace was absolutely concluded with the Portugal notwithstanding the earnest endeavors of Don Alonza Cardenas â—â—ger Ambassador for Spain who by Gifts and Promises even as far as the restitutioâ— of the Palatinate endeavored to hinder it The Ambassadors that were sent 〈◊〉 the King of Denmark notwithstanding the great Traffick and Commerce that had formerly bin held between that Kingdom and Portugal were not by reason of the great interest the House of Austria had with those Kings received yet the King gave all possible Respect otherwise to them From thence they passed into Sweden and were Magnificently entertained at the young Queens Court at Stockholm where a League was soon concluded and the Ambassadors dismissed according to the Custom of that Nation with Gold Chains and the Queens Portraicture in a Meddal of Gold The Ambassador D. Tristano De Mendoza Hurtada that was sent to the States of the United Provinces was received with the like Magnificence and seeming affection and a Truce concluded with the Kingdom of Portugal for Ten years for a Peace the States would not assent to because they having Conquered many places in Brasil Angola c which belonged to the Crown and Kingdom of Portugal could not make restitution of them by reason they now belonged to the West-India Company nor could the King of Portugal allow the Conquest as things of right belonging to his Crown and depending on it But now we come to treat of a more solemn Embassie to wit that to the Pope Long was it debated in the Assembly of Estates whether an Ambassador should be sent to Rome immediately or a more opportune conjuncture of time be expected Some were of opinion that the sending an Ambassador without further delay would be a testification of their duty and incline the Popes Holiness to acknowledge DON JOHN the lawful Heir and rightful King of Portugal which would extreamly further and advance the Affairs of the Kingdom But others there were who conceived those things rather desirable than feasable and were of the opinion they should rather stay till a fitter opportunity alledging
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
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
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
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
Letters to Madrid which discovered not only the whole Plot but even the names of all the Conspirators The Act of Holding Correspondence with the Spaniard was Treason in it self sufficient to take away their lives being contrary to his Majesties express command its being to this intent made it but so much the more hainous His Majesty therefore not knowing how far it might have proceeded made no delayes but presently by the sound of Drum and Trumpet as the Custom is caused to be Proclaimed That he intended to go forth of the City upon which all the Nobles and Gentry according to the usual manner assembled at the Palace to accompany his Majesty who when he saw them all ready commanded first that a Council of Estate should be called which was done many of the Conspirators being assistant in it who being sate his Majesty without any noise caused them to be arrested one by one which without the taking of this course he could never have effected for if the Conspiracy had been detected before their Persons had been seized they had either been torn in pieces by the fury of the People or else had some of them escaped It was very strange that of all the Plotters in this Conspiracy not one should either by accident or otherwise escape for the Persons of these now taken were no sooner imprisoned but his Majesty published a Proclamation declaring a Free Pardon to all the Complices in this Conspiracy that should within Four dayes come and acknowledge their fault and beg it but the Kings diligence had been such before that there was not one left to accept of this Grace Shortly after those who had been taken were Arraigned according to Law found Guilty of High Treason and in manner following executed On the last day of August One thousand six hundred and forty one the Marquess of Villa-Real the Duke of Camigna his Son the Count de Armamac and D. Augustine Manuele were led along a Gallery to a Scaffold erected for the purpose with two stories on the uppermost of which stood two Chairs on the next one and on the Scaffold it self the fourth The first that was conducted forth to Execution was the Marquess of Villa-Real who was clothed in a long black Bayes Cloak and his servants attending him in mourning being mounted to the uppermost part of the Scaffold he prayed for a good space upon his knees and then rising up asked If there were no hopes of Pardon which made the people with one voice cry out No let him die let him die for a Traytor The next funebrious Ceremony of his Execution was the Proclamation which according to the usual manner was made by the Executioner in these words This is the Justice that the King our Soveraign Lord commands to be executed upon the person of Don Lewis de Meneses sometimes Marquess of Villa-Real that his throat be cut as a Traytor to his Majesty Nobility and People of this Kingdom that for his Crime his goods be confiscated and his memory banished out of the World Whereat all the people cryed out Justice Justice The Marquess thereupon seeing no hopes of any Repreive with a sober and becoming gravity demanded Pardon of all the Spectators desiring them to assist him with their prayers to God for the Pardon of this and all his other sins then turning to a Father-Jesuite his Confessor he prayed him in his behalf to present himself at his Majesties feet and beseech him out of his wonted goodness to forgive him that hainous offence committed against him and the whole Kingdom Having ended this Speech he very patiently sate down in the Chair and the Executioner having tied his arms and legs to the arms and legs of the Chair he leaned his neck over the back of the Chair and the Executioner with his knife cut his throat covering him afterwards with a black Scarf In the same maner his son the Duke of Camigna came to the Scaffold his servants all attending him in mourning as he came to his fathers Corps he kneeled down and several times kissed his feet begged of the people the suffrage of one Pater nostre for his fathers soul then after some prayers and Proclamation made by the Executioner he received the same punishment Next that suffered was the Count of Armamac in the Chair seated upon the lower story and after him Don Augustin Manuel upon the Scaffold it self the Judges would have had all their necks cut behind but his Majesty would not consent thereto as a punishment too ignominious for persons of their quality The same day Pietro de Baeza and Melchior Correa de Franca were drawn at a horse-tail to an extraordinary high gallows and there hanged whilest Diego de Brito Nabo and Antonio Valente were executed upon a lower the Quarters of these four were set up at the Gates of the City and their Heads placed upon several Frontier Towns In the Month of September following for the same offence Antonia Cogamigne and Antonio Correa were likewise executed the first of which during the whole time of his Imprisonment was an example of Penitence feeding only upon Bread and Water and whipping himself very often with continual prayers to God for Pardon of that and all his other sins As for the Arch-Bishop of Braga and the Bishops of Martiria and Malacca and Fryer Emanuel de Macedo though they were the persons that had the greatest hand in the Conspiracy yet in regard they were Ecclesiastical persons they suffered not death according to their deserts but were kept in prison till the Popes pleasure were known concerning them Here must not be forgot a great example of humility and repentance in the Arch-Bishop of Braga not only in his life time when he often writ to the King that he might suffer and others be spared who were rather drawn in in complyance and obedience to him than out of any ill-will to the King and Kingdom but also at his death which hapned about Three years after his Imprisonment when he gave Order That as soon as he was dead his Last Will and Testament should be carried to the King wherein he humbly intreated his Majesty to Pardon the Treason committed against him and his Native Countrey and that he would permit his body to be buried without the Church of any Parish of Lisbonne and that without any Inscription or Tomb-stone that there might remain no memory of a man who had been a Traytor to his King and Countrey This exemplary punishment and rigorous execution of Justice upon the forementioned trayterous Delinquents established the King in his Kingdom struck a terror into his enemies and increased his Subjects love and care of him more diligently to Watch his Royal Families and the Kingdoms safety But in the mean time daily incursions were made upon the Frontiers between the Castillians and Portuguesses with the same Violence Cruelty and Animosity as formerly About the beginning of the year One thousand six hundred and forty
a second Son to His Majesty but first Child after he came to the Crown which added to the Magnificence of his Christning he was named Alphonso and his Brother Theodosio dying before his Father succeeded in the Kingdom and is at present King of Portugal Many Skirmishes had passed between the Castillians and Portuguesses many town had been surprized many lands wasted but never happened a set-battel between them till in the year One thousand six hundred and forty four when both Armies met upon the Border of Portugal in a field called Campo Major The Spanish Army which for the most part consisted of strangers was under the Command of the Marquess of Forrecusa and the Portugal Army consisting of Natives and some few Hollanders were commanded by Macchias de Albuquerque This fight was maintained with all possible courage and resolution on both sides but the Spaniards being more numerous especially in horse at length put the whole Portuguese Army in Disorder seized on their whole Artillery and Baggage and slew Albuquerques Horse under him took many Prisoners and assured themselves of an absolute Victory But Fortune which had thus favourably smiled upon them in the beginning of the Day frowned as harshly upon them in the Conclusion for Albuquerque being re-mounted Rallied again his scattered Forces re-charged the pursuing Spaniards put them to a total Rout and pursued the Chase for above three Miles In this Battel the Castillians lost One thousand six hundred men upon the place amongst which were the Lieutenant General the General of the Horse the General of the Artillery the Count de Montixo five Camp-masters two Adjutants of Horse three Serjeant Majors three and twenty Cornets together with many Knights of the Order of St. James Calatrava and Alcantara there were taken about Four thousand Arms and a thousand Horse On the Portuguese side there were not above Three hundred slain among which were two Camp-masters one Serjeant Major a Captain of Horse and eight of Foot but many Noblemen Commanders and Officers taken Prisoners in the first encounter were carried away by the Spaniards in their flight It was not long after this Battel that the Marquess De Montalban D. George Mascaneras Lord Treasurer President of the Council of the Indies and Councellor of Estate with some others were imprisoned upon suspition of a Conspiracy against the King of Portugal but it being upon Examination found that the suspition was by the Spaniards cunningly raised to deprive King JOHN of his most able Ministers and to make the World believe the Portuguese Nobility were discontented with their King they were set at Liberty and their Honours fully repaired by a Proclamation of the Kings For the Spaniards ceased not by all means and devices which the Will and Policy of the most wicked States-men could invent not only to weaken the Portuguess Nation within it self by breeding discontents if possible between the King and the three Estates but likewise to undervalue them and make their credit be slighted and disregarded by other Kingdoms and States their Confederates and Allies Yet besides these subtile Ambages the King of Castille did not desist the endeavoring to oppress this Kingdom by force of Arms but not only the resolved and immutable unity of the Portuguess Nation was a strong Tower and invincible Fortress against the Spanish Power but so extreamly was the House of Austria involved in Wars and Disasters on every side that that vast Body was rather in a condition to crave help and assistance from others than indeed to oppress them For besides the Wars in Catalonia which had put itself under the protection of the most potent King of France in the Low-countreys which had proved so tedious and so chargeable a War to Spains in Italy in this Kingdom and in Germany there happened several Commotions and popular Tumults in some of the King of Spain's Dominions which not only robbed the King of a present supply of Treasure but were otherwise retardments to the prosecution of his Wars in other places The first of these Commotions began in the Island of Sicily where the people gathering together in a tumultuous manner forced the Vice-roy to take off all new Imposts and Taxes which the Kings present necessities had enforced him to lay upon them This encouraged their neighbours on the adjacent Continent the Inhabitants of the Famous City of Naples in hopes to rid themselves of their oppressions to rise in like manner in Arms which they did encouraged and commanded by one Thomas Aniello or vulgarly Masaniello who though of so mean and obscure a birth as a poor Fisher-boy yet to the wonder of the World for ten dayes Commanded this mighty City and freed it from all Gabels so that ever since these two Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily have rather been a great charge than any benefit to the Spanish Monarch These Troubles and the Austrian Families being every where encompassed and embroiled in Wars together with the earnest desire of the King of Castille to prosecute a vigorous War against Catalonia and Portugal were I suppose the motives which perswaded the Catholique King to end those Wars which had lasted in the low Countreys for above ninety years by owning now at last what he had so long refused the united Provinces free States so an obsolute peace was concluded on and proclaimed at all the chief towns in the Netherlands on the 5. of June One thousand six hundred and forty eight a Peace no less advantagious to the Spaniards than disadvantagious to the Portugals by reason of the pretences the Dutch had to Brazil and other places in the West-Indies King JOHN of Portugal about the beginning of the year One thousand six hundred and forty nine thought his Son the Prince Theodosio arrived at an age fitting to keep a Court of himself Lodgings were therefore appointed for him divided from the Royal Palace and Officers of his Houshold nominated and appointed by the King amongst whom the Earls of Villa nova of Miranda of Valdereis Fernando Telles de Monezez who had formerly been Governour of the City of Port were entrusted as the principal Gentlemen of his Chamber The King likewise thought fit to adde a third to the two former Superintendants of his Revenue whom he nominated to be D. Rey de Moure Tellez whose former Office of Steward to the Queen was at the same time conferred on D. Antonio de Silva Lord of Billas Notwithstanding the Truce the Hollanders still continued their outrages on the other side the Line but principally in Brazil where they seized upon many of the Portugal sorts impeded the Traffick abused and murthered the Subjects which made His Majesty resolve to call the Earl of Castle Melhor from his charge of being General of the Portugal Forces upon the Frontiers of Gallicia and committing that to the young Viscount de Villanova de Servera that the Earl might be imployed as Viceroy to Brazil to curb the Flemmings insolencies and to secure the
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
of Hungary some from William Count of Bourgongne brother of Raymond Count of Outre-Soane and others also from Guy Count of Vernoeil in Normandy brother of this William Aux Antiquitez de la Gaule Belgique Furthermore there are that report that he was son of Henry Duke and Earl of Limbourg and Duke of Lorraine Lastly others which have followed the Error of Richard of Vassebourg a Modern Historian are of Opinion that William was his Father who was called Baron of Joinville whom they make to be Governor of Lorraine in the absence of his Father the great Godfrey of Buillon elected King of Jerusalem But all these Opinions and Imaginary descents have been worthily refuted by Theodore Godefroy Advocate in the Court of Parliament of Paris in a Treatise which he hath published of the Original of the Kings of PORTUGAL having first revived this Opinion and clearly justified by proofs and undeniable reasons that they are descended in Line Masculine from the Royal House of FRANCE by this HENRY the chief of his Branch And he groundeth principally upon the Authority of the Fragment which yet remaineth of an old Latin History of France which begins at the decease of King Robert and is continued to the Reign of Philip the first An History composed by a Monk of the Abbey of Saint Benedict Lez Fleury upon the Loir in the Diocess of Orleance who lived in the time of the same HENRY This Fragment with other Historians hath been published at the end of the last Age by the Learned Peter Pithou Note here the terms of this Ancient Author which hath been translated Our design is not here to mention how many times the King Andefonse he is called also Alphonso the VI. King of Castille and Leon generously behaved himself against the Sarazins Bragm Hist à Rege Roberto ad Philipp I. nor the number of the Battels in which he hath vanquished them It 's he which wrested from them and subjected to his Empire the strong City of Toledo He espoused Constance daughter of Robert Duke of Bourgongne and had a daughter by her which he gave in marriage to Raymond Count of Outre-Sonne As for his other daughter begotten out of marriage He espoused her to HENRY one of the sons of the sons of the same Duke of BOURGONGNE and upon the Confines of Spain opposed them both against the Agarenes He nameth also the Infidels under whose yoke Spain at that time mourned and of which they possessed a good part This is the more to be credited for that the Historian who wrote it was co-temporary with the Prince of whom we speak as may be gathered by other Passages of his History Jo. Mariana Hist Hisp. lib. 10. cap. 1. Several give unto HENRY the Title and Quality of Count of PORTUGAL and agree in this Point that he was established Earl thereof in the Years of CHRIST 1090 year One thousand fourscore and ten by the King of Castille his Father in Law who gave him this County in Dower in hope as this King did verily believe he would war upon the Moors in Portugal as Hugh the first of the name Duke of Bourgongne his elder brother had done in Arragon in which he was not deceived for he served as a Rampire to check the course of those Barbarians But it is otherwise to be presumed and that the same Queen of Castille Constance Th. Godefroy who was Aunt by the Fathers side of this HENRY and lived in the time of the marriage might have contributed her recommendation for the attainment of this Province of Portugal in Dower and Note also that the Count of Outre-Soan who espoused the other lawfully begotten Daughter of the same King as we have said had in Marriage with her only a summe of money Godefroy is not only of this opinion for it was also followed by Jaques Augustus de Thou President in the Court of Parliament in the History of his time by Prudencio de Sandoval Bishop of Pampelona in Navarre and Historiographer of Philip the III. King of Spain in the History of Ferdinand I. and other Kings of Castille by Andrew du Chesne the Kings Geographer in the Histories of Bourgongne and Vergy as also by Antonio de Vasconcellos a Portugues of the Order of Jesus and Rector of the University of Evora in the Latine History of the Kings of Portugal which he hath written in a most elegant Stile This natural Daughter of King Alphonso Duarte Nunez en Chron. des Reis de Port. and of Ximena de Gusman wife of HENRY OF BOURGONGNE was named TERESA Years of CHRIST 1089 OF CASTILLE He left France in the Year One thousand fourscore and nine accompanied with a good number of Lords for the succour of the King of Castille among which there are named seven Counts the principal of which were Raymond the son of William Count of Bourgongne Raymond of St. Gilles and Toulouse Chronique M S. de S. Denys this HENRY who by mistake is sirnamed of Lorraine in the History Rotrou de Perche and William Viscount of Melun they are all said to be at the same Battel for which cause some suppose it had the appellation of the Seven Counts But the Histories of Spain speak otherwise The Count HENRY Ordered the City of Conimbra for his principal residence and that of his Court Vasconcellius Anacephaloeosi I. and the City of Braga for Metropolitane of the other Churches He vanquished and put to flight some Moorish Kings at Visco and Lamego and seized also upon Lisbonne it hath since been the Capital City of the Kingdom which not long after they recovered again But this great Prince being impatient of repose without honour if we Years of CHRIST 1097 credit some Authors undertook the Crossiade with Godfrey of Buillon and other Princes for the recovery of the Holy Land where he performed wonders Duarte Nunez Being upon his return from this Voyage of which some make a doubt he vigorously continued his War against the Moors nor did his great age cause him to discontinue the performance of his Martial Affairs And lastly His Death Vasconcellius he dyed at the Siege of the City of Asturia in the Year One Years of CHRIST 1112 thousand one hundred and twelve being then aged about Threescore and ten years yet there be some that extend the Course of his Life to a longer period He was inhumed in the Cathedral Church of the City of Braga Duarte Nunez which is one of the chief of the Kingdom of Portugal In the Year One thousand five hundred and thirteen Diego de Sousa being then Bishop who was descended from Prince HENRY caused a Chappel to be built in which he reposed the bones of this Prince and wrote an Epitaph which declared him to be Son of a King of Hungary But Edward Nunez In his Chronicle of Portugal a judicious and learned person hath with reason refuted the error of this Original
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
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
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
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.
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
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
this default was recompenced with several perfections of Body and Soul with which he was adorned He designed to prosecute the high and glorious designs of the King his Father for the Discovery and Conquests of strange Regions proposing a beginning by the Western Coast of Ethiopia History of Portugal and giving Commission to John Cane a Portugal Knight to search out a Countrey which is on the other side the Equator where being arrived he found it to be the Kingdom of Congo the inhabitants whereof were so humane and docile that some of them suffered themselves to be brought into Portugal and there with the Language they were instructed in the Principles of the Christian Religion and then Baptized At their return they perswaded their King and his Subjects also to be Baptized With this King and with others of Ethiopia JOHN entred into League and caused in this Countrey to be raised the Cittadel of St. George since called the Mine from which the Kings his Successors have extracted a good quantity of Gold In the beginning of this Voyage the Portuguesses having arrived at a Cape which by estimation is the greatest of the World they conceived so happy success in their enterprise by the advantage thereof that they gave it the appellation of The Cape of good Hope antiently being called the Front of Affrica it opened them the way to the knowledge of the Estate of the Indian Princes and to penetrate further into Ethiopia where they found reigning that Prince which we vulgarly call Prester John because he is named in his Language Belulgian which signifieth A Precious Stone of incomparable excellence a Title and old Sirname usurped by the Antient Emperours of Ethiopia who maintain themselves to be descended from the Blood of Solomon by the Queen of Saba Some time after the same King JOHN II. Nunâ—z sent a great Army into Affrica which landed in the Isle of Gesire which is the mouth of the River Luc where the Portuguesses endeavoured to raise a Fort against the impeachments of the King of Fez but this King after he had cut off their passage of retreat forced them to quit their prize and by composition to return into their own Countrey In the mean time King JOHN being advertised of the Donation made to the King of Castille Vignier Ferdinand by Pope Alexander VI. of those new Regions which had been discovered by his Subjects the Portugal being interessed therein as prejudicial to the discovery that for his part he had made upon the Coast of Ethiopia for this reason entred into a difference with the Castillian which caused the Pope on his own accord to give unto King Ferdinand the Indies newly found out and to the King of Portugal the Coast of Affrica But to the intent that the one might not attempt any thing upon the other he caused to be drawn upon the Globe a Line falling from North to South which passed towards the West above Four hundred miles distant from the Isles of Cape-verd that it might not touch upon Affrica This with other violent Actions of King JOHN drew upon him the odium of several persons Mariana in such manner that they were followed with conspiracies against his life His Death that at last he was found poysoned in the place of Alvor in his Kingdom of Algarvie Vasconcellius the Five and twentieth day of October in the Years of CHRIST 1495 Year One thousand four hundred fourscore and fifteen after he had lived Forty years and reigned Fourteen His body was first inhumed in the Cathedral Church of Silues until that in the Year One thousand four hundred fourscore and nineteen King Emanuel his Cousin and Successor and his Estates caused it to be brought to the Abbey of Battel He was very Pious and Charitable to the Poor for whose Retreat and Relief he founded and endowed a fair Hospital at Lisbonne His Prudence appeared in the government of his Kingdom and by the placing his favours upon persons of desert keeping a most exact Register of the names of those that had faithfully served him and who were capable and endued with qualities required in the administration of his affairs He had a spirit elated and ambitious of the greatest things About the Year One thousand four hundred threescore and ten not being above Fifteen years old Mariana His Marriage he married LEONORA OF PORTUGAL or OF VISCO his Cousin Daughter of his Uncle Ferdinand of Portugal Duke of Visco and Constable of the Kingdom by Years of CHRIST 1470 whom he had only one Son Heir apparent to his Estates but he had the unhappiness and regret to see him dye before him contrary to the common course of Nature Then endeavouring to legitimate his Natural Son George Duke of Aueiro with some intention to leave him the Crown The Queen his Wife opposed this design not willing that her Brother the Prince Emanuel should be deprived of the Right he had to the Kingdom by the decease of his Cousin Alphonso the young Prince and to which he succeeded after decease of King JOHN Who took in his Device a Pelican a Bird so Natural and affectionate to her young Idem Vasconcellius that she wounds her breast and feeds them with her own blood with this Inscription PRO LEGE ET GREGE witnessing thereby how much he both loved and cherished his people for whose defnce and Religion he had exposed his life to several hazards Some have noted that he was the first among the Kings of Portugal that adorned the Helmet of the Portugal Arms with a Sphere for Creast which he took as a presage of the new Discoveries which were made during his Reign and of some of the Kings his Successors under both the Poles Children of JOHN II. of the name King of PORTUGAL and of LEONOR OF VISCO his Wife ALPHONSO Prince OF PORTUGAL PORTUGAL There is remarkable in this young Prince Comme cy devant looked upon as the Hope and Prop of the Royal House of Portugal a notable example of the Inconstancy and frailty of humane things His Marriage For after that in sumpteous apparel and great magnificence he had in November PORTUGAL Ao One thousand four hundred fourscore and Years of CHRIST 1490 ten espoused the Princess ELIZABETH OF CASTILLE Party de CASTILLE eldest Daughter of Ferdinand V. and of Isabel King and Queen of Castille and Arragon in the City of Stremos this Marriage which it was thought would be one day the Earnest of a perpetual Concord betwixt the two Neighbouring Crowns continued not above seven months only for the young Prince finished his life at Sanctarem His Death by a sad and unhappy accident Years of CHRIST 1491 being a violent fall from his House as he was running a Gourser so that with the bruise thereof he died quickly after to the great affliction of the Kings and their people who had the unhappiness to see the
happy success and routed the Army of the King of Fez Vegnier upon his endeavour of the surprise Years of CHRIST 1510 of the Town of Tangier Jo. Pet. Mapheus in Hist Ind. At the same instant a Squadron of three Ships commanded by John Nunez arrived at the Indies where they engaged the King of Calecut who was shamefully defeated by a number much inferiour to his in pursuit of which they obtained several other signal Victories Sometime after the same King of Calecut fell upon the King of Cochin with such fury because he had given entertainment to the Portuguesses that he was forced to forsake his Kingdom Osorius which he chose rather to suffer like a Noble Prince than to renounce that League of Amity and Faith which he had promised to the King of Portugal who was so sensible of this Action that he judged himself obliged to re-establish him and for that purpose sent ten Ships under the Conduct of the famous Captain Alphonso d'Albuquerque Alphonso d'Albuquerque in his Commentaries who chased the Calecutins out of the Kingdom of Cochin re-established their King and built a Fort for his Retreat then having given some allarums to the King of Calecut in his own Countrey they returned Richly laden with Spices Osorius This Infidel King having raised another Army Years of CHRIST 1504 consisting of Fifty thousand Souldiers transported them in an hundred and sixty Gallies and came before the Pass of Cochin to repell the Portuguesses but this great Army found so sharp an entertainment that they returned home less by the number of Eight thousand which were there kill'd without the loss a Miracle if true of one Christian Thuanus lib. 1. This happy success gave encouragement to King EMANUEL to send Francis Almeida his Viceroy to the Indies to Establish and confirm his Empire and also to maintain the Kings his Confederates in security against their Enemies Osorius This Viceroy in his Voyage to establish a Lieutenant Years of CHRIST 1506 at Quiola fell upon the King of Mombaze because he would not declare himself subject to the King of Portugal his Master and also upon the King of Onor which is on the Coast of Arabiae on whom he gained a famous Victory and fired the City thereof At his arrival in the Indies there came an Ambassadour from the King of Narsingne J. Pierre Maffeé the most considerable of East-India on the other side the River Ganges to Contract a friendship with the Portuguesses saying That he was incited to search them out for the wonders that they were reported to have accomplished in those parts Lopez de Castagneda At which time the King of Zophala in Ethiopia came to an engagement with the Portuguesses where they not only put his Army to flight but chased him to the Gates of his own Palace Aut. de Sainct Romain and for the third time were Victors over the Naval Army of the King of Calecut the like good fortune attended their actions in Affrica where they reduced into their power the Years of CHRIST 1507 strong Town of Zafin situate in the Province of Morocca or Mauritania Tingitana and then raised that Siege which Mahumet King of Fez had laid to the Citadel of Arzille About this time Helen the Widow of the King of Ethiopia vulgarly called Prester John who had the Government of the young King Atani Tingil her Grand-child likewise sent her Ambassadour to King EMANUEL to conclude a Peace with him In a Letter which she wrote him she made mention of a Prophesie That in the later dayes there should descend from the French Region a Prince that should extirpate and abolish all the Nations of the Moors and Barbarians Years of CHRIST 1509 The defeat of the Navy of the Souldan of Babylon Osorius Lib. 6. which was joyned with those of the Kings of Cambaye and Calecut given by the Valiant Almeida constrained also this King to render himself Vassal and Tributary to the Portuguesses Who with their new supplies sent to the Indies discovered the Isle of St. Laurence and then delivered from the servitude of the Arrabes the Isle of Zacocora inhabited by the Christians On the other side Alphonso d'Albuquerque Captain of another Army subdued the Isle of Ormus situate in the mouth of the Gulph of Persia and compelled the King thereof to render himself subject to the King of Portugal being at that time Vassal to the Sophy of Persia The same Albuquerque successor of Almeida subjected the City of Goa by fine force Thuanus which Years of CHRIST 1510 is at present an Arch-bishoprick and the Chief of this Estate as also the residence of the Viceroy The strong City of Benastarin also owns him for her Conquerour But we cannot without admiration inform you being a thing which surpasseth almost humane belief that the Generous Albuquerque assisted with a small number subdued the opulent City of Malaca situate in the mouth of the golden Chersonesus a City surrounded with strong Bulworks Vasconcellius defended by Thirty thousand Souldiers and fortified with Eight thousand peeces Years of CHRIST 1513 of Canon where he made prise of above Three millions of gold and then seized the Islands of the Moluccos In the mean time Zeiam Prince of the Puissant City of Azamor in Mauritania having violated the Faith he had given to the Portuguesses Nonius Osorius EMANUEL to be revenged sent a Fleet of Two hundred Ships Vignier attacqued this City with such fury that the Besieged after they had endured some assaults were glad to quit the place to the Portuguesses who encouraged by the success of so much prosperity pursued their Conquests took and sacqued several other Towns and Fortresses and defeated the Armies of Cherif Lord of the Province of Zela in Mauritania and also those of Mahumed and Nazec Kings of Fez and of Mequinesie Years of CHRIST 1515 Not long after in the Year Osorius One thousand five hundred and fifteen the Ambassadour of David King of Ethiopia arrived in Portugal sent to negotiate a Peace with King EMANUEL so much was the Renown of his Puissance and Authority spread almost over the whole Universe But the sweetness of so much Prosperity was at last somewhat distempered with the bitterness of Adversity when in the same year one of the Portugal Armies consisting of a considerable number of Ships was at their return defeated in Affrica near unto the River Mamora by that of the Kings of Fez and Morocco For as this great Monarch in all his famous Designs made the glory and advancement of the service of God his principal end so had he a diligent care for the establishment of the Christian Religion in Ethiopia India Affrick Mariana Lib. 26. Cap. 17. and divers other Regions And for other Monuments of his signal Piety he caused to be built several Temples which he richly endowed he did the like in Portugal Vasconcellius
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
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
Vasconcellius and had Reigned about Two and twenty He never married although there were proposals made of three several wives Isabel of Austria Daughter of the King of Spain Margaret of France Daughter of King Henry II. and also another Isabel of Austria Daughter of the Emperour Maximilian I. and Widow of the King of France Charles IX He had his Piety by inheritance having made his Religion flourish and established it in Brasille and the Indies where he founded several Churches and Colledges but more especially those of the Jesuites About two and twenty years after his decease Thuanuâ— there was a man in Italy who reported himself to be the same King SEBASTIAN and that having escaped from the Battel of Alcacer he had wandred up and down for a long time without making himself known Which being represented to the Senate of Venice with many Circumstances some believed it to be a truth others were doubtful and also many there were that supposed him to be an Imposter But certain it was that having been imprisoned at Florence and from thence conveyed to Naples and put in the Gallies he there came to a miserable end The Cardinal Henry of Portugal being exceeding old Vasconcellius against the common course of Nature succeeded King SEBASTIAN his Nephews Son Mariana Which young Prince in that Warre which he undertook in Affrick endeavouring to deliver a Nation from servitude by his imprudence rendred the greater part of his Nobility slaves to the Arabes and Moors Conestaggio and of a free Nation as it was in a small space of time was reduced under the obedience of the Castillians which they for so many years held for their capital Enemies as writeth Hierosme Franchi Conestaggio a Gentleman of Genoa who hath most judiciously discoursed this last Warre of the Portuguesses in Affrica as also the end of this Branch of the House of Portugal the Change of their Government and the Union of this Kingdom to the Crown of Castille The same Subject hath been ellegantly Written by Jaques Augustus de Thou in the History of his time and by Antonio Errera Historiographer to the King of Spain Philip II. 13. HENRY CARDINAL of PORTUGAL then Elected KING Of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES c. CHAP. XVIII Years of CHRIST 1546 In the Year One thousand five hundred forty and six Pope Paul III. adopted him to the Sacred Colledge of Cardinals During the Reigns of his Brother and Nephews Son John III. and Sebastian he was Inquisitor Major of the Faith in Portugal After that Katherine of Austria Widow of Prince John of Portugal his Nephew Mother of young King Sebastian had quit the Regency of the Kingdom the Estates conferred it upon this Cardinal HENRY great Uncle to the young King in the Year One thousand five hundred Years of CHRIST 1562 threescore and two He exercised this Charge until the King came to age who upon his second expedition into Affrica wanting a careful person to whom he might leave the Government of the Kingdom in his absence went to Evora where HENRY at that time lived And although this Prince was not greatly pleasing to him yet did he intreat him to take this care in his absence which the Cardinal would by no means accept excusing it by reason of his age and indisposition to Rule so that the King made choice of four Governours to command in his name which were George d'Almeda Archbishop of Lisbonne Peter d'Alcasoua Francis de Sada and John Mascaregnas to whom he gave a plenipotentiary power Conestaggio After his death in Affrica these Governours committed the management of affairs to the Cardinal Thuanus who not long after was Proclaimed and Sworne King by the Portuguesses Conestaggio The Ceremony of the Portuguesses in swearing their King The Form of the Oath was performed in this manner The XXV of August the Hospital Church of All Saints was hanged with Silk Tapestry in the which they erected a Throne upon which was placed a Seat of Cloth of Gold thither came the King in the morning in the habit of a Cardinal going from the Palace there marched before him eight Attabales or Drums on Hors-back after the Moresco manner and nine Heraulds all on Hors-back carrying upon their Cloaks their Coats of Arms after followed on foot almost all the Officers of the Court those of the Chamber and other Magistrates behind them was the Duke of Braganza on Hors-back bareheaded bearing in his hand a Sword with a Scabard of Gold as Constable a little after came the Cardinal upon a Mule the which Alvara de Silva Count of Portalegre Lord Steward of his Houshold led by the reins there followed after many Noblemen and Gentlemen on Hors-back with a great number of people on foot The Cardinal invironed with a great multitude ascended the Stairs of the Hospital being entred the Church having heard Service and ended his Prayers he seated himself in the Chair of State prepared on the Throne where presently Francis de Sada one of those that had been Governours put the Scepter in his hand and Michael de Mora Secretary standing a little distant said reading it with a loud voice That King HENRY by the Death of King Sebastian did succeed in the Realm and therefore they had delivered him the Scepter and that he was come to take the accustomed Oath to maintain and observe unto his people and to any other all Liberties Priviledges and Conventions granted by his Predecessors which done the Secretary kneeling before him with an open Book the King laid his hand thereon swearing so to do Then did the Attabales sound every man crying Reale Reale for HENRY King of Portugal This done he rose and with the same company holding still the Scepter in his hand he returned to the Palace the Attabales sounding and the Heraulds crying from time to time as before Conestaggio Now being seated in the Royal Throne The Deliberations of King HENRY at his coming to the Crown although he was Threescore and seven years of age and not healthful yet looked he about him and as it were determined from above that Portugal should fall by degrees to its declination did not provide for the State according to that opinion that was conceived of him but the Realm by reason of their miseries past remained as a body empty and afflicted which needed a wise Physitian to restore it For as one mischief comes not alone the new King did more torment it for although many supposed that he being old a Priest and of an exemplary life should lay all passions aside and be careful to settle the state of the Common-wealth in better order than he had found it yet notwithstanding he could not temper himself with such a disposition as was fit for his Quality and years But as it often falls out in them which have been oppressed who coming to Rule seek Revenge upon their enemies even so did
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
Spanish Nation by the late example of the Catalonians and incited by the absolute ruine which they saw hung over their heads whil'st Six thousand of them were yearly listed and forced to serve the Spaniard in his forreign Wars they resolved to loose his Yoke from off their Necks and to disclaim his obedience by the election of a King of their own Some have been of opinion That this Conspiracy was at least of Ten years standing agreed and assented to by most of the Grandees of Portugal I date not affirm it nor deny it for such great actions of State do resemble Lightning which once past leave but the greater darkness the Air of State-mysteries is not to be flown in by less than Eagles I shall therefore omit to search into so great a Privacy and only recount the Publick Action On Saturdoy the First of February Anno One thousand six hundred and forty and Saturdayes have been often observed to be propitious to the Portugal Nation all the Nobility of the Kingdom led on by the Marquesses of Ferreira and the Count of Vimioso took Arms and accompanied with a great multitude of the Inhabitants of Lisbonne and some Portuguese Souldiers came to the Castle which scituate in the middest of Lisbonne serves both for a Palace and a Castle this was the residence of the Vice-Queen and hither assembled all the Magistrates for Governing of the Kingdom the Guards which were two Companies of Spaniards and two of High Dutch either before gained by secret intelligence or frighted with the great numbers of the Portugals or desire of Novelty or else perhaps unwilling to make resistance against those to whom they were most of them joyned by friendship or Marriage without the least opposition abandoning their Post gave them free admittance Whilest these things had hapned the Secretary Vasconsellos was in the Chambers of his Office upon some reasons he had by the Discontents of the People to suspect an Insurrection at that instant writing into Spain of the Alienation of the minds of the Nobility from the Spanish Government and ernestly pressing that some rigorous Resolution might be taken to prevent it which Letters afterwards taken did sufficiently demonstrate his ill will to the Portuguese Nation Whil'st he was thus busied the confused noise of the Souldiers pierced his ears at which wondring not so much at the tumult as at what should be the cause of it being accompanied only with a Dutch-man and another of the Guard he would have gone down but was hindred by the Portugals who came running up crying Kill the Traytor Kill the Enemy of our Blood whereupon not knowing where to save himself he fled with those two accompanying him into an inner Chamber and there with his Sword in his hand accompanied and assisted by those two that were with him disposed himself to sell his Life at the dearest rate he could but his Valour stood him in no stead for those two who endeavored to defend him being slain with two Musquet-shot he seeing it vain to defend himself there longer leapt desperately out of the Window rather to seek his Death than out of any hopes to save his life for no sooner was he down but numberless Swords were embrued in his Blood the very women and children running to tear in pieces his dead body with the same alacrity as he used to torment them when alive In the mean time the Marquess of Ferreira was gone to secure the Vice-Queen whom having committed to the Guard of Two hundred Musquetteers he calls a Council and in a short Discourse sets forth the miseries the Kingdom had endured whilest it lay subject to the Spanish Government who had sought no other end but their destruction Then putting them in mind of the Valor and Merits of their Nation he exhorts them to condescend to the Election of a New King nominating to them the Duke of Braganza as the most worthy of the Crown not so much for his Power Riches or the Greatness of his House as because the Kingdom was his indubitable Right he being the only Person left of that Stock which for so many years had gloriously governed Portugal A long Discourse was superfluous to those who were before perswaded A publick shout interrupted the Marquesses Speech all of them crying with a loud voice That they would have JOHN Duke of Braganza for their King In the whole multitude there was not a face much less a voice that did gainsay this general Vote either because they did all really rejoyce to see that they should again have a King of their own Nation or because none could without danger oppose themselves to the torrent of so a Publick Will The Duke was at this time at his Countrey-house at Villa-Vitiosa whether by accident or because he would always have had occasion to excuse himself if the business should not have succeeded I cannot guess but by reason of his absence they thought fit to make choice of two Governors whom to avoid the pretences of others they nominated to be the Archbishops of Lisbon and Braganza These began immediately to exercise their Command and were obeyed with so much quiet that in all that great and populous City of Lisbon there was none slain but only those before-mentioned the prisons were opened nor was there any that suffered any wrong either in their goods or life All the Shops were opened as if there had not happened any Change of Government Only the house of Vasconcellos was sackt with so much anger and despite that they did not pardon the very Doors and Windows nay such was the fury of the people that had they not been hindred by the Souldiers of the Guard they had levelled it with the ground As for his carcase it suffered all those disgraces which a people wronged both in their liberties and estates could inflict they ran like mad men to express living sentiments of Revenge upon his dead and senseless Corps vaunting who could invent the newest ways of disgrace and scorn till at length almost wearied with their inhumane sport they left it in the street so mangled that it did not seem to have the least resemblance of a man from whence it was the next day carried by the Fraternity della misericordia and thrown into the Burying-place of the Moors The Marquess of Alemquer after he had by command from the Governor assured the strongest posts of the City sent several Souldiers into the streets crying Long live King JOHN the Fourth which the people hearing distracted as it were with very joy leaving their Trades ran up and down proclaiming him with voices of Jubilee the greatest part through excess of passion not being able to refrain from tears The Messengers did not run but flie to the Duke of Braganza to give him notice of his promotion to the Crown The first arrived on Sunday morning before day he feigned a great alteration at this Advice whereupon some have presumed to say That he had
Estates of Portugal who next Resolved to Dispatch Ambassadors to all States of Christendom to enter into Confederacies for the better defence and establishment of the Kingdom and for the Glory and Reputation of the King In the first place the Father Ignatius Mascarenas a Jesuite with another Father of the same Order was sent into Catalonia to offer them all assistance and supplies for their maintenance and defence against the Catholique King for very well did the King of Portugal know that it highly did import his Interest to correspond with them that so they might joyntly not onely defend but also offend the King of Spain whose Country lying betwixt them both they might at pleasure invade or molest it either by Sea or Land This Embassie of King JOHN'S so rejoyced and encouraged the Catalonians that the very next day after the Ambassadors had Audience they obtained a most signal Victory in their own defence against the Spaniards who had assaulted them with an Army of twenty five thousand men under the Command of the Marquiss De los veles Shortly after that the Father Ignatius Mascarenas was dispatched to the Catalonians D. Francisco de Mello and Don Antonia Caelle Carravallio persons both of excellent and admired abilities the one for his great experience and judgment in State-affairs and the other for his noble Spirit and eminent knowledge in the Civil Law to go on a solemn Embassie to the most Christian King Lewis the thirteenth of France These attended with a Stately and most Magnificent Train landed soon after at Rochel and on the fifteenth of March 1641. made a solemn Entrance into Paris being met and conducted in by a great number of Coaches filled with the Grandees of the Kingdom besides numbers of the French Nobility who came to attend them on horse-back Thus accompanied they were conducted to the Palace appointed for the Entertainment of the Extraordinary Ambassadors where they were in a sumptuous and magnificent manner feasted at the Kings Charges From thence they were by the Duke of Chevereux and the Count de Brulon conducted in the Kings Coaches unto his Majesty then at St. Germains to receive the first Audience which was performed with extraordinary shews of love and respect for upon the entrance of the Ambassadors into the place appointed for their Audience the King rose out of his Chair of Estate and went forward three steps to receive them nor would he permit them to deliver their Embassie with their Hats off or to descend so low as to kiss his hands at their departure but in stead of that Ceremony he affectionately imbraced them in his Arms promising them the greatest Assistance his Power was able to give They were from the Kings presence conduced to a sumptuous Dinner provided for them and after that brought to the Queens Lodging who was set to expect their coming at their entrance she likewise rose and advanced three steps to meet them receiving them with a cheerful and courteous countenance and not permitting them to be uncovered Amongst other Discourses which they had with her D. Francisco de Mello told her That he feared his Embassie might not be acceptable because the King his Master had deprived her Brother of one of his Kingdoms Whereunto she readily replyed That though she was sister to the King of Spain yet she was wife to the King of France After some Discourse in French her Majesty began to speak to them in Spanish which they observing desired to know wherefore her Majesty had not vouchsafed them that favor sooner it being a Language by them better understood To which the Queen jestingly answered For fear they should be frighted to hear her speak Spanish and the Embassador to improve the jest replyed Como a tum Grand Signora si pero coma a Castiliano no that it was true considering her Greatness but not her Country The Queen smiling went on promising them all assistance possible and wishing all prosperity to King JOHN and his Queen and so they having delivered her Majesty a Letter from the Queen of Portugal took their leave From her Majesty they went to visit his Eminence the Cardinal Richlieu who being advertised of their coming came forward to the third Chamber to meet them where he received them with expressions of great affection and promises and proffers of services and from thence conducted them to his own Chamber Being all three sate the Cardinal who was the most experienced and greatest Statesman of his time discoursed with them of divers affairs of great importance and they endeavored to explain to his Eminence what was before his sentiment that it very much imported the two Crowns of France and Portugal to be united by an indissoluble League considering that it was the Chief and Principal end and aim of the House of Austria whose Branches were spread over almost all Europe not only to be the greatest but to be the sole and only Monarch of Christendom That to effect those ambitious desires he had never made scruple to usurp and seize upon Kingdoms and States upon the least pretences imaginable as had appeared in the Kingdoms of Naples Sicily Navarre the Dutchy of Millan and lately several States in Germany seizing upon the Valtoline whereby they had a passage open to lead an Army of Germans into Italy at pleasure That considering the vast power and interest that this Family had not only in Europe but also in America it could not but be confessed That they had a large foundation of their imaginary Universal Monarchy but that nothing gave them so great hopes as the possession of Portugal For by the addition of that Kingdom to the Crown of Castille they became absolute Masters not only of all Spain but of all the East-Indies of all the Eastern Trade of Ethiopia Persia Arabia China Japan and all that incredible wealth that was raised out of the Portugal Traffick whereby the Austrian Greatness if not their Monarchy was principally sustained that therefore it concerned all States whatsoever not only to put a stop to the raving Tyranny of this devouring Monster but to suppress and lessen his Power by all means possible That to do this none was more concerned or more able than the Kingdom of France united with that of Portugal That this having been called the Right Arm as Catalonia the Left of that great Austrian Colossus now both being separated from it and united to France will be able to do greater service against it than they were ever forced to do for it not only by assaulting the Spaniard within his own doors but by intercepting the Plate-Fleet which in its return from the West-Indies it being necessarily forced to pass by the Tercera Islands must run in danger of the Portuguez Fleet or be forced to be at the Charge of an extraordinary Convoy These were the sum of the Ambassadors Discourses to the Cardinal In answer to which his Eminence made offer not only of all the Assistance of
that the King of Spain's present power at Rome might probably oppose the Reception of their Ambassador that although the Pope never was in his heart a Spaniard yet he would never yield to show himself an enemy to the Catholick King That the Spaniards cunningly fomenting the opinion which all the world had entertainted that his Holiness did in all things favor the French interest would from such a Reception draw as much as ever they could ask or desire That for this cause the Pope that he might not seem their enemy had alwayes granted them whatever they desired That therefore they thought it convenient first to sound his Holiness before they run the hazard of the disgrace and affront which might fall upon his Majesty and the whole Kingdom That in case the Pope should decline the reception of the Ambassador to whom could they repair or appeal to vindicate the injury done to the Crown That many Popes had been so fascinated to the interest of their own family that the world had very great occasion to believe that their designs tended rather to what was best for themselves than to what was best indeed That the Portugal Nation had as much reason to distrust the See of Rome as any whilst they had to their cost had examples how they onely pursued their own ends As particularly Gregory the thirteenth who at first seemed so affectionate to the Kingdom of Portugal that he imployed the utmost of his Power for the Interest of his own Family approved of all that King had done that there was none who had more to give or at least who had more to promise than the Catholick King so that in any business of Competition he must necessarily gain the better But notwithstanding all these Arguments to the contrary upon the promises of the King of France to be a Mediator at the See of Rome for the Reception of their Ambassadors by the suffrage of some few Voices to make the major part it was concluded That Ambassadors should immediately be sent to Rome And in pursuance of this Vote the King immediately made choice of two Reverend and able Persons to wit Michael De Portogallo Son to the Count Vimioso of the Blood Royal Bishop of Lamego and D. Petableone Rodriguiz Bishop of Elvas No sooner was the news arrived at Rome of their being landed in Italy but the Spaniards in Rome mustred themselves together with resolution either to oppose their entrance or at least hinder their reception whil'st on the other side the French Portugal and Catalonians assembled themselves together resolving to hazard their dearest Blood in their Cause His Holiness seeing these preparations on both sides feared lest his Countrey should be made the Seat of a petty War and considering that in any case the dishonour would accrue to him if whil'st under his Command and Protection the Person of an Ambassador should be violated strictly Commanded all his Guards to take special care to prevent the Violencies intended The Spaniards by this Order hindred from what they purposed their Ambassadors openly protested That if his Holiness did receive the Portugal Ambassador they would immediately leave Rome But notwithstanding these protestations and all other opposition they could possibly make in November One thousand six hundred and forty one the two Portugal Ambassadors being met by divers Cardinals Princes and Cavaliers well armed entred into Rome and were conducted to the Palace of the French Ambassador who received them with all Respect possible still giving them the precedence Hereupon several Manifesto's are scattered abroad by the two Spanish Ambassadors the Marquess De los Veles and D. John Chiumarrero labouring to prove that his Holiness ought not to receive the Ambassadors of the Duke of Braganza as they stiled him First because he was a Tyrant and Usurper of that Kingdom which had been in the quiet possession of the Catholick King these Sixty years Secondly Because he was a Rebel and a Perjured Person having sworn Allegiance to the Catholick King Thirdly That the Reception of these Ambassadors would animate other Subjects of the Catholick King to Rebellion But whil'st the Spanish Ambassadors are violently shooting such Paper-Bullets the Portuguesses used all their endeavors both by themselves and the French Ambassadors who had express Order from the most Christian King his Master to that purpose to prevail with the Pope to give them Audience and admit their Embassie but his Holiness was so fearful to displease the Spaniard lest he should afterwards take occasion to revenge himself upon his Nephews that he utterly declined their Reception yet not out of any of the Spaniards Allegations but upon pretence that certain of the Church Rites had been violated in Portugal the Arch-bishop of Braga and other Ecclesiastical Persons being kept in durance though it was for very good reasons as hereafter shall appear Yet the Spaniards were not content with this Resolution of his Holiness but whil'st the Portugals were endeavoring to prove their Cause by both Political and Legal Declarations Allegations and Arguments fearing lest the Pope might chance to alter his mind resolved to make a quick dispatch of the Business and to that purpose Two hundred Banditi were hired to seize upon the Bishop of Lamego and carry him to Naples as the Prince of Sans had been before served by them and there put to Death But this Design themselves at length could not agree upon for the Marquess De Los Velos thought it would be better and less dangerous to give the Portugals a Publick Affront in the City which was concluded to be put in effect and to that purpose it was communicated to the rest of the Nation whereof upon several occasions there are alwayes many in Rome who assembled together well Armed at the Ambassadors Palace and so great is the Power of Revenge that to the end they might the better effect their design and yet not appear as Souldiers though there were many Gentlemen of quality amongst them they condescended to go under the name of Foot-men to the Marquess The Popes Holiness hearing of the great preparations of the Spaniard sent to them to let them know that he could not but be very much distasted to see such disorders attempted in a peaceable City and therefore desiring them for his Honors sake to desist and withal sent a Messenger to the Bishop of Lamego to assure him that he need not fear any thing for upon the Word of his Holiness he should walk the Streets undisturbed But do the Pope what he could either by threats desires or perswasions the Spaniards were resolved to prosecute their design which they put in execution to their own cost on the twenty of August One thousand six hundred forty two On which day the Bishop of Lamego going to visit the French Ambassador one of his retinue observed that he was dog'd by a Spanish Spie whereupon a Counter-Spie was sent to the Marquesses to bring intelligence what they were doing
two notwithstanding the Truce that had been concluded between Portugal and Holland and that a great Fleet of Hollanders had been sent to assist the Portugal against the Spaniard there passed very high Acts of Hostility between the two Nations in Affrica and America beyond the Line for the Hollanders seeing the disunion of Portugal from Castille made all speed possible to perfect the Conquest of those parts before a perfect Peace should be concluded with Portugal that so in the Treaty they might pretend Reason that all things should continue in the state they were then found To this purpose that is the expediting their Conquest the Hollanders treacherously whilest there was all quiet and peacable Commerce held between the two Nations in the Kingdom of Angola surprized the Portugals that were Governors of the place Killed divers and Robbed all of the great Wealth they there found of which Perfidiousness as also of the Barbarous Usage of the Prisoners there taken Complaints were made to the States General at the Hague but no Redress was granted nor was the King of Portugal of Ability to force it In the mean time the Affairs in Portugal were a little discomposed by the general Discontent and Distaste taken at the Secretary of State Don Francisco de Lucena This man had lived a long time in the Court of Spain till he was by Olivarez made Under-Secretary to Vasconcellos his Readiness to Proclaim King JOHN and his Abilities in the place made the King continue him in it reposing in him so great a Confidence That though some had Advertized his Majesty that he kept Correspondence with the Court at Madrid yet the King would not suspect him nor permit him to be brought to a Trial. But about the middle of the Year One thousand six hundred and forty three the urgent Affairs of the Kingdom requiring a Convention of the Three Estates they openly refused all Acts that should pass the hands of Secretary Lucena positively telling his Majesty That until he were brought to Trial no Acts should Pass in the Assembly of Estates nor any farther Proceedings be made His Majesty was very much Grieved hereat yet prudently Resolved to give his Subjects Satisfaction by delivering up his Secretary to Justice yet Resolving he should have a fair Trial and to that purpose sitting himself to hear the Witnesses examined Whilest Process was framed against the Secretary some secret Advice came to his Majesty which caused the Imprisonment of the Brother and Three Servants of the Secretary together with an English Monck and a Cavalier of the Habit not long after the Secretary was Arraigned and Condemned for betraying his Truth in holding Correspondence with the Enemy and in neglecting timely to Advertise the Infanta Edward to retire out of Germany c. and according to his Sentence executed in a Publick place in Lisbon where at his Death he protested his Innocency touching any Treachery towards his Majesty The Death of the Secretary both pleased the People and satisfied the Assembly of Estates who now according to his Majesties Command met on September 18. One thousand six hundred and forty three and being all sate and his Majesty seated in his Throne D. Emanuel D'Acugna Dean of his Majesties Chappel rose up and after Reverence made to the King spake to the Effect following THat in the space of Sixty Years that that Kingdom was under the Power of the Kings of Castille there had been but Two Assemblies of States the first to Inslave the next to Abuse them But that since they were under the present King within the space of Two Years they had Two Assemblies the former to settle their Liberties the present to beget a right Understanding between the King and his People wherein they had all Freedom to demand whatever was necessary That the World might see they are now no longer Slaves but Children no longer Strangers but Natives and that they are under rather a Loving Father than a Severe Soveraign In the former Assembly said he His Majesty took all the Customs and left the Defence of the Kingdom to your hands you Ordered what seemed good unto your selves you made Choice of a General Assistance by way of Contribution but in the leaving thereof the first Payment was found ineffectual the second unequal the third insufficient whence arose some Complaints some imagining that the fault proceeded from the unequal Division of the Contribution others from the Change of Value in Money and Commodities and others from the disorderly Gathering and Disbursing the whole I may easily say That if there were any errour committed yet it might be excusable for that Never had any weighty affair its Conception and Perfection at once Then shall Errours cease to be in Government when Men shall cease to be in the World These things are to be endured with the same Patience that Droughts Dearths Inundations and such other Disorders in Nature for the Wit of Man cannot hold forth a Remedy for all Diseases But certainly they will be no ground of Reprehension though much of Admiration to him that shall Consider how His Majesty entred upon a Kingdom exhausted by the Castillians of Money and other Necessaries for Offence or Defence and yet how in less than a Year and an half we should want neither Shipping nor Artillery nor Horse nor Arms nor Fortification nor Armies upon the Frontiers three Powerful Fleets put to Sea divers Honorable and Extraordinary Ambassages besides many Secret yet Necessary Expences all which will astonish any Understanding Man Now to the end that the People may have full satisfaction His Majesty hath Commanded That before further Proceeding it be made appear Particularly how all the Money Received hath been laid out and then it is Expected and the present state of Affairs Requireth That we all Contribute Liberally Considering that these Charges are but for a time but our Liberties are for ever That we shall never have a better opportunity to Destroy our Enemy That Nature teacheth To Hazard an Arm to Save the whole Body The Merchants at Sea cast away some part of their Goods sometimes to save the rest we are now on Ship-board in a Storm our Goods our Lives our Liberties our Honour our Countrey are all in Danger Moreover the Barbarous Usage of the King of Castille towards the Infante Don Edward calls upon this Assembly for Revenge that we spend not only our Money but our Blood in Affection to Him and that we make our Enemies spend theirs in Satisfaction for Him c. This Speech of the Deans was spoken with so much Affection that it stirred up and encouraged the States readily to give all Assistance imaginable both for Redressing of Grievances and for the Levying Arms so that within a small time after the King was in the Head of Twenty thousand Foot and Three thousand Horse marching towards the Fronteirs of Castille Whil'st these great preparations for Hostility were made the Queen brought forth into the World
Remarkable for its Beauty being the Fairest of Ten that either came before or followed it after Dinner the King and Queen took Barge in order to Their entertainment by the City of London upon the River of Thames and came to Putney about Four of the Clock in the Evening where They changed Their spare Barge and were by the Lord Chamberlain conducted on Board that Barge which was prepared to bring Them to Whitehall in which They were placed under a Canopy of Cloth of Gold adorned with Five Plumes of White and Yellow Ostrich-Feathers the Barge lined also with Cloth of Gold and Cussions of the same the two Gondeloes went on either side before in which were His Majesties Trumpets which sounded continually At Chelsey Their Majesties were met by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen in their Barge afterwards by all the Companies in their Barges with loud Musick all adorned with their several Banners and Pennons of Arms I cannot spend time to particularize the several Pageants and Representations of the Mercers Drapers Merchant-Taylors Goldsmiths c. being neither possible nor proper for this place therefore I shall only say which none but the absent will deny That the oldest person alive never saw the Thames more fully nor more Nobly covered Amid'st a Throng of a Thousand Boats and more than Ten thousand joyful Subjects Their Majesties landed at Whitehall about 7. of the Clock in the Evening where the most Excellent Princess the Queen Mother and the Dutchess of York gave Her Majesty Her Welcome which was seconded by a Tere of Artillary Planted at Stangate-Wharf over against Whitehall for that purpose the same Night afterwards being made an Artificial Day by the Number of Bone-fires and Fire-works I omit to fix a Character upon the Goodness and Beauty of this our Royal Queen as deserving a larger Room and an abler Pen or to speak of that Portion store of Money and Jewels as great as ever any Princess brought a Husband because I will not presume to meddle with those sublime particulars As also of those Advantages that the English Merchant receives by the Trade of both the Indies where the Portuguesses over-rule the Dutch and by the commodious situation of Tangier for the checking and curbing the Insolencies of the Pirates of Algier Tunis and Tripoli if at any time they break their League with England it being a place situate upon the mouth of the Streight of Gibraltar so that no Ship can pass that Streight without Licence first had from the King of Great Britain who upon this Account Commands the whole Trade of the Levant May we long enjoy Their Majesties with the Blessings we have received with Them and from Them a continued Line of Great Britains Kings that we may not want a Soveraign to Reign over us who derives his Goodness as well as Greatness from this our Soveraign Pair 18. ALPHONSO VI. Of the Name KING of PORTUGAL Algarvia Affrick Arabia Persia India and Brasil c. CHAP. XXII PORTUGAL D'argent a cinq Escussons en Croix chacun charge de cinq besans aussi d'argent posez en sautoir a la Bordure de gueulles charge de sept Chasteaux d'or trois en chef deux en fase deux en point The whole Kingdom of Portugal was in a kind of amaze at the so sudden death of Kng John especially considering the youth of their present King fearing lest their common Enemies should now take advantage of them but the prudent management of the most important business of State by the Queen Regent soon banished all those fancied fears The Queen being sensible that upon this occasion of the Kings death she should have most occasion to use the Souldiery by the Advice of her Council Ordered all the Infantry of the Kingdom should have Half a years pay the better to encourage them who were of themselves ready enough to fight against their common and inveterate Enemy the Castillians And because she knew that the King of Spain would lose no opportunity to oppress the Kingdom of Portugal she thought it imprudence to let any slip where an advantage might be gained upon him and therefore all the Spanish Forces being drawn out of Andaluzia to oppose the English in case they should attempt to land at Cadiz for they then blocked up that Port with a Potent Fleet she commanded Four thousand Horse to make an in-road into that Countrey who plundered and laid waste all before them bringing away between Forty and fifty thousand head of Cattel and leaving the whole Soil in a manner desolate This so exasperated the Spaniards That draining most of the Garisons of his Kingdom he raised a Potent Army and with Ten thousand Foot and Five thousand Horse entred Portugal and laid Siege to the strong City of Olivenza which at length they reduced to that necessity that the Defendants were willing to Capitulate and sounded a Parlie but when they came to treat the Spaniards would not admit the King of Portugal any other Title than that of Duke of Braganza which made the Portugals renounce any farther treating But at length the Spaniards condescending to treat the Town was delivered upon Articles but so much did the Queen-Regent and Council of Portugal resent it that they immediately gave Order to Arrest the Person of Don Mandiol de Saldagna the Governour who with several of his chief Officers was by the Count de St. Lorenze General of the Portuguesse Forces in those parts sent Prisoners to Lisbon there to answer their ill-defending of that Town it appearing That at the surrendring of it there marched out Two thousand two hundred well Armed Foot and One hundred Horse nor were they reduced to that necessity that was pretended there remaining in the Stores of Ammunition and Provision sufficient to have defended the Town a great while longer The loss of this Place was a great blow to the Portuguesses it being a strong Frontier Town and giving the Spaniard absolute Command a great way into the Countrey but this the King of Spain resolved should be but a beginning of his Conquest if possible of this Kingdom for he still made all preparations he could to assault it with a greater force and not only endeavoured this with might and main to oppress it himself but by his Ambassadors solicited the States General of the United Provinces to send their Vice-Admiral Opdam with the Fleet he then had before Dantzick into Portugal to demand satisfaction for the damage the Portugals had done to their West-India Company in Brazil and in case the King of Portugal should deny to comply with their desires to force them to a Composition The High and Mighty States easily listned to this counsel and Vice-Admiral Opdam with a Potent Fleet was sent to Lisbon carrying with him some Commissioners from the States to make their demands which the Queen Regent and Council thought so unreasonable that they could not return any satisfactory answer to them whereupon
the Commissioners departed But Opdam still stayed with his Fleet to wait an opportunity of catching the Brazil Fleet in their return home many of which notwithstanding the care and endeavors of the Portuguesses to prevent it he made prize of and sent into Holland By this means was the War which for many years had been maintained between the Hollanders and Portugals on the other side the Line transferred to this side which the King of France endeavoured by all means possible before its eruption to prevent and afterwards to compose by his Ambassadours Monsieur de Thou in Holland and the Sieur de Comings in Portugal but to no Effect Thus assaulted by two potent Nations both by Sea and by Land were the Portuguesses which yet made them not at all falter in their Courage and Resolution the generous Queen-Regent causing all possible Levies to be made to oppose the Castillian sending into Barbary to buy Horses and by Leagues abroad endeavouring to strengthen the interest of the Kingdom an Ambassadour was sent to that purpose into England to renew and confirm the Amity before concluded on and many Conferences there were between the Archbishop of Goa who had before been Ambassadour in France and the Sieur de Comings so that many were in hopes that the Match between the King of France and the Infanta would have gone forward and an indissoluble League both defensive and offensive been concluded between the two Nations And to join Force to Policy a gallant Army of about Sixteen thousand Foot and Three thousand Horse all Portuguesses took the Field and in Revenge for the loss of Olivenza laid siege to Mouron which in Three or four dayes they took by storm putting Fifteen hundred Spaniards to the Sword and resolved to proceed to the regaining of Badayox and Olivenza and to that purpose marching without opposition by Caya which they left fortified they came to the Fort of St. Christopher the strongest hold of the City of Badayox which they several dayes battered and thrice stormed but were beaten off yet at the length they took it and so securely entrenched themselves about the whole City The Duke of Ossima General of the Castillian Horse having notice of this strait siege of the City endeavoured with Sixteen hundred Horse to cut off their Convoyes and Provisions but the Count del Prado Governour of Elvas receiving Advice of his Design sallied out of the City with Three Companies of Horse and all the Foot he had to prevent him by which means Ossima was encompassed on both sides for at the same time that he was on the other part charged by Don Andrea D'Albuquerque General of the Portuguesse Horse and that with so much Gallantry that they presently discomfited their Enemies slew Four hundred upon the place took Three hundred Prisoners and forced the Duke of Ossima to save himself by swimming This happy Success encouraged them to return with more Alacrity to the siege which they prosecuted with all vigour possible and on the Three and twentieth of June stormed and took a Redoubt which was palisadosed but at length when they had spent much time blood and treasure they were enforced by the powerful Army of Don Lewis de Haro to raise their siege For the King of Spain exasperated with the loss of Mouron and fearing likewise to lose Badayox had Rallied a great Army which he committed to the Care of his Favourite Don Lewis de Haro who not only with it raised the siege from before Badayox but likewise so straitly besieged Elvas one of the Portuguesses strongest Frontier-towns the taking of which might have endangered the whole Kingdom and reduced it to such Necessity that it was even upon the point of yielding But the Portugals who knew of how much importance it was to them had ever been anxious for its Relief and therefore having at length bravely recruited their Army they advanced with full Resolution to drive the Spaniards out of their Trenches nor did they effect it less bravely than they had resolved it for they totally Routed their General Don Lewis de Haro very hardly escaping but in this Battel the Portuguez lost the worthy Albuquerque General of the Horse And to Counterpoise this Victory the strong Fortress of Mounson upon the Borders of Gallicia was surrendred to the Spaniards and a Party of the Portugals not having Advice that it was already possessed by the Castillians going to relieve it were surprized and forced shamefully to retreat with the loss of some hundreds and this Success encouraged the Spaniards under the Command of the Marquess of Viana to besiege the only City the Portugals were possest of on the River Minho but it was relieved by the Portugals The Spaniards likewise gained a signal Victory over a Party of Portugal Horse nigh Alcantara for Advice being brought to the Governour of that Town That the Portuguez with a Party of Four hundred Horse were entring upon the Frontiers in two Bodies he taking Five hundred Horse and a select Party of Foot went to meet them and so handsomly managed his Business that he surprized one whole Body scarce a man escaping a Commissary General five Captains and several other Officers being taken Prisoners But these things were inconsiderable Disadvantages to the interest of Portugal in respect of what it was like to feel by the Peace which was treating of between those two mighty Monarchs of France and Spain which the Queen-Regent and Council were sensible of and therefore dispatch Don John D'Acosta Ambassadour Extraordinary to the French Court to represent unto his most Christian Majesty the state of the Kingdom of Portugal and to insist that there might be a due Consideration had of the Interest of his Master in the concluding of the Peace with Spain seeing he had formerly approved himself so good an Ally to the Crown of France But this Embassie could produce no other Effect than a promise to endeavour a Mediation for them with the King of Spain and procure them good terms upon Submission which by the Magnanimous Portuguesses was rejected with Indignation Nor were they at all Daunted with the great Power of the Spaniard which he intended to employ against them but Manfully resolved to endure all Hazards yet would they willingly have concluded a Peace with the Hollanders and to that purpose Don Fernando Tellez de Faro Duke of Aveiro was sent Ambassadour to the States-General but he like a treacherous Villain revolted from them to the King of Spain carrying along with him the papers of his Ambassie for which according to his Desert his Effigies was executed at Lisbon as a Traytors his Goods confiscated his House razed to the ground and his Children banished and degraded of Nobility his Brother Don Deigo De Sylva who had served the King of Portugal in the quality of General at Sea was likewise upon this Occasion commanded to retire to one of his Houses and deprived of all publick Employment After him was sent
Don Henry de Sousa Count of Miranda to negotiate an Accomodation with the Netherland States yet he prevailed little for the pertinacious Hollanders were still resolute in their unreasonable demands computing their losses in Brazil where they had no right to be to amount to no less than thirty millions The Spaniards in the mean time were forced to give the Portugals some respite in the summer One thousand six hundred and fifty nine but preparations were made to assault them with the whole power of that Monarchy in the Spring One thousand six hundred and sixty Don John D'Austria being called out of Flanders to be Generalissimo of the Spanish Forces and having Orders given him in April One thousand six hundred and sixty to march directly to Merida on the Frontiers of Portugal though he went not that Summer But the Portuguesses resolved not to be behind-hand with their Enemies and therefore made several in-roads into the Spanish Territories depopulating all before them which made the Spaniards to be revenged resolve to do the like to them Order was therefore given to fall into the Kingdom on all sides the Marquess of Viana Governor of Gallicia marching in that way with Eight thousand Foot and eight hundred Horse and the Governor of Camara invading that part which was adjacent to his government In this condition was the Kingdom of Portugal when His Majesty Charles the Second King of England was restored to his Crowns and Kingdoms welcomed by his Subjects with all gratulatory and submissive Obedience the News of which was no sooner by advice from D. Francisco de Melo Ambassador for the King of Portugal in England conveyed to the ears of his Master but he caused all the Guns of the Town Castle and Ships in the Road to be fired and for three days and nights kept solemn and magnificent Rejoycings the Portuguess Nation as well as by this their joy at the Restoration of King Charles the Second as by their sorrow and general mourning at the Death of King Charles the First expressing their great affection for the English Nation But because their joy should be somewhat for their own as well as our sakes there at the same time arrived News at Lisbon that Don Alphonso Turtudo General of the Horse on the frontiers of Alentejo meeting with a Brigade of the Enemies Horse nigh to Bajadox had fought and defeated them killed and took four hundred of them amongst whom were four Captains of Horse prisoners The Spaniards still continued their Leavies against Portugal being resolved to employ an Army of four thousand Horse and twelve thousand Foot constantly recruited about the Frontiers of Estramadura and another of three thousand Horse and ten thousand Foot about Gallicia and a third of twelve thousand men to serve as a Reserve to the two former In this manner were they resolved to assault them by Land while the Prince of Montesarchio with ten men of War was appointed to coast up and down before their Ports and do them what mischief he could by Sea Thus did this Kingdom struggle with Spain for her Liberty by the prudent management of Affairs by that sage and industrious Queen-Regent until this present year One thousand six hundred threescore and two when upon the Ninteenth of August the Castillian Army marched towards the Towns of Barbeisus and Chosaes whereupon the General of the said Province the Earle of Prado and the Earle of St. John General of the Horse with all the Force they could make did set forth to oppose the Enemy who being surprized by the Care of the said General did engage with the Approbation of the chief Commander Don Balthasar Pontaju who immediately commanded them to fall on but the Earle of Prado did as well receive them he desiring nothing else but to shew the Castillians how little they did value them The Fight began with a great deal of Resolution on the Enemies side who for many houres hotly disputed the Quarrel till wearied by the unwearied Courage of the Portuguesses their whole Army was forced to flie in great Disorder A considerable number of the Enemies were slain and many taken Prisoners by which the said Province was freed from the Enemy with great Satisfaction to the Crown and great Honour to the Count of Prado whose Prudence and Valour in the management of this Business was much commended In the Province of Beira no less Success smiled upon the Portuguesses by the Count of Villaflor Governour thereof and the General of the Horse Manuel Treire D'Andrada who having intelligence that the Duke of Ossana had made himself Master of Escalas and raised a considerable Fort upon it with several Guns and placed Four hundred men to defend it went out and giving Battel to the Duke put him to Flight killing about Six hundred men and taking the greatest part of his Baggage with all his Ordnance and then falling upon the said Fort in few houres took it at mercy to the astonishment of the Castillians who fully perceived that they were not able to Act any thing against the same Provinces being so nobly defended by the same Governour and the People so unanimous to oppose them Nor had the Castillians gained those Advantages in Alentejo had it not been for the Civil Dissentions and Animosities among the Portugal Colonels which since have been sufficiently provided against by the Care of the Ministers of State and especially by the Prudence of Don Antonio De Sousa of Macedo now principal Secretary of State heretofore Resident from the King of Portugal in England If that the Portuguesses have thus long and so valiantly defended themselves by their own proper Valour without a Forreign Assistance against so potent a Monarch as the King of Spain then how much more now will they be able since they have renewed the old League with England whose Forces being united may defie all those that shall oppose them both Kingdoms being most formidable at Sea and Masters of a potent Army Nor was the King of Great Britain unmindful of returning the King of Portugal an Acknowledgment for the Happiness His Majesty received from Him in the Person of His Sister that Royal Lady the Princess KATHERINE when He sent Supplies into that Kingdom under the Command of that Valiant Lord the Earle of Inchequeen almost as soon as His Majesty had the Assurance of receiving His Beautiful Queen into His own Arms such was His MAJESTIES Care of the Welfare of that Monarchy the Knot of a perpetual Alliance being now so firmly tied That maugre all the Opposition of the most malignant Opposers They are resolved to link their Concerns together ever hereafter Since the Arrival of the English Forces in Portugal there hath been little Action they having been disposed of into Three several Squadrons so that now in September last the Generals all returned to Lisbon to refresh themselves there being no further Occasion for the Field Don John's Army had Orders sent them not to march and
pag. 133 John-Alphonso B. of Portugal pag. 18 John B. of Portugal pag. 33 Isabel B. of Portugal Countess of Gigion pag. 36 John-Emanuel B. of Portugal Bishop of Septe pag. 51 K. KATHERINE Queen of GREAT Britain pag. 133 Katherine of Portugal died young pag. 49 Katherine of Portugal pag. 59 Katherine of Portugal Dutchess of Braganza pag. 68 L. LEonor of Portugal Princess of Denmark pag. 17. Leonor of Portugal Queen of Denmark ibid. Leonora of Portugal Queen of Arragon pag. 30 Leonora Tellez Queen of Portugal pag. 35 Leonora of Visco Queen of Portugal pag. 49 Leonora of Portugal the Empress pag. 50 Leonora of Visco Queen of Portugal pag. 58 Leonor of Austria Queen of Portugal pag. 65 Lewis of Portugal Duke of Beia ibid. Lucia Queen of Portugal pag. 132 Leonor B. of Portugal Wife of Garsia de Souza pag. 24 M. MAud of Savoy Queen of Portugal pag. 7 Mary of Flanders pag. 12 Maud of Portugal Queen of Castille pag. 14 Maud of Dam-Martin Countess of Bolongne pag. 20 Mary of Portugal Lady of Molina pag. 23 Mary of Portugal Queen of Castille and Leon. pag. 30 Mary of Portugal Lady Marquess of Tortosa pag. 32 Mary Tellez pag. 33 Martin Vasquez de Cunha ibid. Mary of Castille Queen of Portugal pag. 65 Michael Prince of Portugal ibid. Mary of Portugal Princess of Parma pag. 67 Mary of Portugal pag. 70 Mary of Portugal ibid. Mary of Portugal Princess of Spain pag. 74 Martin B. of Portugal Count of Tristemare pag. 15 Martin-Alphonso Chicorro B. of Portugal pag. 24 Mary B. of Portugal pag. 33 Mary B. of Portugal Wife of Peter Minho ibid. Mary B. of Portugal Lady Marqu'ss of Ville-real pag. 49 P. PETER King of Portugal Chap. IX PHILIP II III IV. Kings of Spain 19 20 21. Kings of Portugal Chap. XX. Peter of Portugal King of Majorca pag. 13 Philippa of Lancaster Queen of Portugal pag. 39 Peter of Portugal Duke of Conimbra pag. 40 Peter of Portugal elected King of Arragon pag. 41 Philippa of Portugal a Nun at Odivelles pag. 42 Philippa of Portugal never married pag. 44 Philip Duke of Bourgongue pag. 45 Peter De Norogna pag. 36 Philip of Portugal pag. 49 Philip of Portugal pag. 73 Peter Infant of Portugal pag. 133 Peter B. of Portugal pag. 4 Peter B. of Portugal Count of Barcellos pag. 28 Peter B. of Portugal Seigneur De Guerra pag. 33 R. ROderick of Portugal pag. 15 S. SANCEO I. King of Portugal Chap. III. SANCEO II. King of Portugal Chap. V. SEBASTIAN King of Portugal Chap. XVII Sibille of Flanders Lady of Beanjeu pag. 12 Sance of Portugal Abbess of Loruano pag. 14 Sance Fernandine De Lara Lady of Serpe pag. 17 Sance-Mentie-Lopez De Haro Queen of Portugal pag. 19 Sanceo of Castille pag. 34 T. TEresa of Castille Queen of Portugal pag. 3 Teresa otherwise called Sance of Portugal pag. 4 Teresa of Portugal Countess of Flanders pag. 8 Teresa of Portugal Wife of Sanceo-Nuniz pag. 9 Teresa of Portugal Queen of Leon. pag. 13 Theodosius Prince of Portugal pag. 132 Teresa-Sancez B. of Portugal pag. 15 U. URacca of Portugal Countess of Trastemare pag. 4. Vracca of Portugal Queen of Leon. pag. 8 Vracca of Castille Queen of Portugal pag. 17 Vincent of Portugal ibid. Valdemar II. of that Name King of Denmark ib. Vracca B. of Portugal pag. 15 Y. YOland of Castille Lady of Portalegre pag 23 FINIS THE SECOND BOOK OF THE ROYAL HOUSE OF PORTUGAL CONTAINING THE GENEALOGIES OF THE Dukes of BRAGANZA and BARCELLOS Counts of LEMOS and Dukes of TAVRISANO Marquesses of FERREIRA and Counts of TFNTVGAL Counts of GELVES and Dukes of VERAGVA Counts of FARO and of MIRA Counts of VIMIOSO Dukes of AVEIRO Counts of VILLAR IN DEFENCE THE TABLE OF THE SECOND BOOK 8. PETER King of Portugal 9. JOHN first of the name King of Portugal 10. EDWARD King of Portugal 11. ALPHONSO V. of the name King of Portugal 12. JOHN II. of the name King of Portugal 13. GEORGE B. of Portugal Duke of Conimbra 14. JOHN D. of Aueiro 15. GEORGE D. of Aueiro 16. JULIAN Dutchess of Aueiro ALPHONSO ALVARO D. of Aveiro GEORGE D. de Tours neufues ALPHONSO B. of Portugal Duke of Braganza ALPHONSO C. of Ourem ALPHONSO of Portugal FRANCIS B. of Portugal Count of Vimioso ALPHONSO I. of the name Count of Vimioso FRANCIS II. C. de Vimioso LEWIS C. de Vimioso ALPHONSO II. C. de Vimioso and Marquess of Aguiar 17. LEWIS II. Count of Vimioso MICHAEL C. of Vimioso * FERDINAND I. of the name D. of Braganza DENYS Bastard of Portugal Lord of Cifuentes FERDINAND of Portugal DENIS Lord of Torres FERDINAND Lord of Villar BERNARDIN Lord of Villar FERDINAND Count of Villar BERNARDIN de Torres de Port. JOHN de Torres de Portugal Count de Villar DVKES OF BRAGANZA 11. * FERDINAND I. of the name Duke of Braganza Son of Duke Alphonso 12. FERDINAND II. Duke of Braganza 13. JAMES Duke of Braganza 14. THEODOSIO I. D. of Braganza 15. JOHN Duke of Braganza 16. THEODOSIO II. D. of Braganza 17. JOHN IV. King of Portugal 18. ALPHONSO VI. King of Portugal DENIS Count of Lemos FERDINAND I. C. of Lemos PETER Count of Lemos FERDINAND II. C. of Lemos PETER II. C. of Lemos FRANCIS D. of Taurisano FRANCIS Duke of Taurisano ALVARO Seigneur of Ferreira RODERICK Marquess of Ferreira FRANCIS I. Marq. of Ferreira NUGNO ALVAREZ FRANCIS II. Marquess of Ferreira NUGNO II. Marquess of Ferreira and D. of Cadaval GEORGE I. of the name C. of Gelues ALVARO C. of Gelues GEORGE II. Count of Gelues LEONORA Countess of Gelues NUGNO Duke of Veragua ALVARO D. of Varagua PEDRO NUGNO Columb D. of Veragua ALPHONSO Count of Faro SANCEO first C. of Odemira ALPHONSO of Portug SANCEO II Count of Odemira ALPHONSO C. of Odemira SANCEO III. Count of Odemira DUKES OF BRAGANZA and BARCELLOS 10. ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL first Duke of BRAGANZA and Count of BARCELLOS THE House of Braganza deriveth its Original from the Royal Family of Portugal PORTUGAL-BRAGANZA and enjoyed more fair and ample Priviledges in this Kingdom than any other For those of this House might justly have like Officers D'argent au sautoir de gueulles charge de cinq Escussons de Portugal un au melieu les autres aux quatre bouts du sautoir and wear the same Armes as the Kings do They had their Life-guard and likewise Heraulds and Kings of Armes and Power to confer Military Orders They also held the first place and degree of honour among the Illustrious Houses of this Kingdom as well because of their High Extraction the Marriages they have made with several Kings and Princes of the Blood-Royal as also by reason of the Rich Seigneuries they have possessed for this Two hundred years From the Chief or Source of the House which was this ALPHONSO first Duke of Braganza and Natural Son of King John first of the name are descended several Branches of Dukes Marquesses Counts and
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
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