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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

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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 s●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 V●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. qua●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
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
III. his Father 15. SEBASTIAN KING of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES on this and the other side the Sea in Affrica Lord of Guineé and of the Conquest Navigations and Commerce of Ethiopia Arabia Persia and India CHAP. XVII PORTUGAL D'argent a cinq Escussons d'Azur peris en Croix chacun chargé de cinq besans aussi d'Argent posez en sautoir a la bordure de gueulles chargé de sept Chasteaux d'or trois en chef deux en fasse deux en poïnt This King SEBASTIAN was only Son of Prince John of Portugal and of Joane of Austria his Wife No●ius born a posthumus in the Year One thousand five hundred fifty and four the Twentieth day of January His Birth on which day is celebrated the Feast of St. Sebastian Vasconcellius in memory of whom Years of CHRIST 1554 he had this name given him After the death of his Grand-father King John III. being but Three years old he succeeded to the Crown of Portugal and during his minority was under the Government of Queen Katherine of Austria But afterwards this Princess not being able to undergo so great a charge as that of the Regency transferred it by the Estates to Cardinal Henry great Uncle by the Fathers side to King SEBASTIAN who having attained to the Fourteenth year of his age began to take the Reins of Government into his own hand Vasconcellius The Moors taking advantage by the infirmity of his age thought it now a fit time to endeavour the reduction of some of his best Garisons in Affrica So that Mahomet King of Mauritania the Son of Cherif Abdala came Years of CHRIST 1562 with a considerable force and begirt Magazon with a strait Siege and had it not been by Roderick de Sosa nobly defended for the space of Three months they had carried it Thuanus No better was the Fortune of the Infidels Ten years after when they Years of CHRIST 1572 undertook the same design upon the Towns of Goa and Chiaule For Attaida and Mascaregna so resolutely opposed that after Six months Siege before the one and Nine before the other they were forced to retire with loss and shame Now was King SEBASTIAN in the Twentieth year of his age who being of an able Body and of a Couragious and Martial Soul not content with those Dominions which he possessed resolved to make Conquest of new not considering that this design was not to be effected without great hazard and in the alteration of that repose his Kingdom had so long enjoyed He had first designed a War against the Indians but that his Kinsmen and Subjects would not consent unto But as there was some difficulty wholly to withdraw the young Prince who had a Warlike spirit from this Enterprise such as were near him laboured to divert him by means of another which they laid before him turning all his Resolution upon Affrick to engage the Moors which live in that part called Mauritania Tingitana where the Portugals maintained to their great Charge upon the Coast of Barbary the three Fortresses of Septe Tangier and Magazon the In-let and Key of Spain by which the Moors have heretofore conquered it But this diversion whereunto they perswaded the King produced sad effects principally proceeding for want of Judgment for although it were difficult wholly to disswade him from the expedition of India and therefore convenient to represent unto him some other Action yet should they advisedly have foreseen not to divert him from one mischief to thrust him into a greater The young King stayed not long to put this design in execution For in the Year One thousand five hundred threescore and fourteen he assembled Years of CHRIST 1574 against the inclination of his best Friends certain of his Souldiers King Sebastian's first Voyage into Affrica and with four Gallies and some Ships and Carvels passed into Affrica under colour of visiting his Forts Co●●staggio although he really desired to effect more than he made shew of There they came to some Skermishes with the Moors at which he was almost alwayes found in person where discovering his own weakness and vexing himself that he could not perform what he desired He returned back to Lisbonne still devising some new manner of War which so disquieted his conceit that he neither said nor did any thing to other end deliberating not as a King but as a private Souldier to accustom his body to labour intending thereby to habituate himself more to the hardships and miseries of War This inclination in which the heavens had some part was not contradicted by any of his Council For although these actions of the Kings were rash yet Ambition and fear of his displeasure were of such force That the Nobility Magistrates and other persons who might have forced him durst not open their mouths nor oppose themselves against his Will and if any did mutter or speak to the contrary they were men of base Quality and not admitted The Cardinal Henry his great Uncle Brother to John III. Conestaggio his Grandfather and Queen Katherine in whom Flattery should have found no place had small credit with the King neither did they use the Authority they might have had both fearing they should not prevail but lose with the Kings disgrace that small command was yet remaining in them So as by a fatal silence they suffered this young Prince for the second time to return into Affrica And the more to enflame King SEBASTIAN it fortuned that Muley Mahomet chased out of the Kingdom of Morocco by his Uncle Muley Moluc endeavoured his re-establishment by the aide of the Christians Errera and for this purpose entreated succours from SEBASTIAN perswading this King that by the advantage of those Friends that he could make in his own Kingdom he should be able to defeat Moluc and to open him a way to trace the whole Empire of Morocco SEBASTIAN drawn on by this vain hope Vasconcellius embraced the Moors offer and finding himself not able to perform this expedition without another Confederate endeavoured to draw into this Action his Uncle by the Mothers side the King of Spain Philip II. to which effect an Interview was appointed at Guadalupa There the Kings met Nonius and proposals were made of a match betwixt King Philips Daughter and King SEBASTIAN and as to the War of Affrica the Spanish King liked well of it so that it might be prosecuted by his Lieutenants but not that he should undertake it in person excusing himself that he could not assist him with a considerable force pretending he had occasion for Souldiers to resist the Turk in Italy so that from the Catholique King he could expect but small supplies Years of CHRIST 1578 So that now assisted only with some Regiments of Italians Germans and Irish after he had with great pomp caused the Royal Standerd to be hallowed in the Cathedral Church of Lisbonne SEBASTIAN set Sail