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A60078	A genealogical history of the kings of Portugal, and of all those illustrious houses that in masculine line are branched from that royal family containing a discourse of their several lives, marriages, and issues, times of birth, death and places of burial, with their armes and emblazons aaccording to their several alterations, as also their symboles and mottoes : all engraven in copper plates / written in French by Scevole and Lovis de Saincte-Marthe, brethren, and advocates in the Court of Parliament of Paris, unto the year MDCXXIII ; rendered into English, and continued unto this present year, MDCLXII by Francis Sandford ...; Histoire genealogique de la maison de France. English. Selections	Sainte-Marthe, Scévole de, 1571-1650.; Sainte-Marthe, Louis de, 1571-1656.; Sandford, Francis, 1630-1694.	1662 (1662)	Wing S360; ESTC R8624	194,067	211

Majesty gave himself wholly to consult of preparations for the Warre shewing thereby that Kings in their greatest felicity and delights should not forget affairs of State and taking care for the preservation of their Subjects But amongst debates of the War abroad there happened one of an affair near home concerning the placing or displacing Officers of State and because His Majesty knew that the charge of such Officers must needs be with the resentment of many and that there is nothing more alienates the minds of men than to see themselves undeservedly deprived of their honours he took away only the places of two to wit that of the Providitore of the Custom-house because he was Son-in-Law to Diego Soarez and Brother-in-Law to Vasconsellos the late deservedly-slain Secretary and that of the Count of Castanhie who was President of the Tribunal or Court of Conscience because he was too much interessed with His Catholick Majesty As for the Infanta Margarita di Mantoua late Vice-Queen and the Marquess Della Puebla Kinsman to Olivarez the Castle called Pasos de Angiobregas was assigned them with Fourteen thousand Crowns a year for maintenance An honorable Prison it was nor could they desire any thing but liberty which show'd a great Nobleness of mind in King JOHN but Princes alwayes do like Princes and much it demonstrates the Magnanimity of the mind to honour our Enemies though they be our Prisoners Nor must we here forget the Magnanimous and Couragious Carriage of the Dutchess of Mantoua late Vice-Queen during these confusions and distractions for King JOHN sending to ascertain her That she should want none of those Civilities that were suitable to a Princess of her high Birth Provided she would forbear all Discourse and Practises which might infuse into any an ill opinion of his present Government She returned Thanks to the Duke for she would not stile him King for his Complement but withal fell into a grave Exhortation to those Nobles that carried the Message telling them That they should lay aside all vain hopes and not cozen themselves but return to their old Allegiance according as they were obliged by Oath which if they did she doubted not to find them all pardon The rest of the Castillians of Authority were confined in the Castle and all the Souldiers took the Portuguese Pay either because they believed doing so to be most for their interest or else because being most of them linkt in Parentage with the Portuguesses they believed the Portugal interest to be their own Shortly after Lucia now Queen of Portugal Sister to the Duke of Medina Sidonia with her Son the Prince Theodosio arrived at Lisbonne who were received with all imaginable expressions of joy the Queen was soon after Solemnly Crowned and the Prince installed at whose Installation the Nobles and Grandees of the Realm took to him the following Oath WE acknowledge and receive for our true and natural Prince the high and excellent Prince D. Theodosio as Sonne Heir and Successor of our Soveraign Lord the King and as his true and natural Subjects we do him homage in the hands of the King and after the death of our true and natural King and Soveraign of these Kingdoms of Portugal and Algarve and beyond Sea in Affrica Lord of Guiana of the Conquests Navigation and commerce in Ethiopia Arabia Persia India c. we will obey his Commands and Decrees in all and through all both high and low we will make War and maintain Peace with all those that His Highness shall Command us And all this we swear to God upon the holy Cross and the holy Gospel These Ceremonies performed with all fitting Solemnity the King to show that the good of his Subjects was his only care called an Assembly of the Three Estates of the Kingdom who being Convened and the King seated in His Royal Throne Don Emanuel D'Acugna Bishop of Elvas made a Speech to them to the following purpose THat one of the first Laws of Nature was the uniting of men together from whence Cities and Kingdoms had their Original and by which they after defended themselves in War and maintained themselves in Peace That for that cause His Majesty had called this Assembly to Consult for the better service of God Defence in War and Government in Peace That there could be no Service of God without Union of Religion no Defence without Union amongst men no Regular Government without Union of Councils That His Majesty did expect to be informed by his loyal Subjects what was for the good of the State That they were to render thanks to the Almighty who had given them a King that would govern them by known Laws That His Majesty did not esteem those Tributes lawful that were paid with tears and therefore did from that present take off from His Subjects all Tributes that had been imposed by the Kings of Castille because His Majesty would not Reign over their Goods nor over their Heads nor over their Priviledges but over their Hearts hoping that they would find out a sweet expedient to defend their Countrey against their Potent enemy who threatned to make them all slaves and to destroy and to annihilate their Nation That they would therefore considering His Majesties Goodness and their own Honor manifest at once unto the world That as never Subjects had such a Gracious King so never King had such Loyal Subjects The Bishop having ended his Speech the most antient Officer of the Chamber of Lisbonne stood up and in the name of all the three Estates who stood up likewise returned humble thanks to His Majesty for this gracious bounty heartily professing That they did not only offer up their Goods but their Lives to His Majesties service earnestly intreating His Majesty to dispose both of the one and the other as he pleased And to manifest that their hearts and their mouths concorded in this free offer of themselves to His Majesty they presently Voted That Two Millions should be immediately raised by the Kingdom but His Majesty wisely and politickly declined the imposing of a Tax upon his Subject chusing rather to accept of their Benevolence which made every one strive who should offer most so instead of the Two Millions there was in short time brought into the Treasury Four Millions of Gold Nor was this Money intended by them nor employed to any other use than to maintain the Grandezza and Splendour of the King and Kingdom there being no need of Money for the payment of Souldiers every one offering to serve freely and at their own Charge against their Vow'd Enemies the Castillians But let us for some time leave the Assembly sitting and give an account how this Action was resented into the Spanish Court Most mens minds were struck with consternation but Olivarez came smiling to the King saying Sir I pray give me las Albricias to hansel the good news for now you are more absolute King of Portugal than ever for the People have forfeited

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. Nun●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

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 Thuanu● 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