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 | | The House of Braganza continues unofficially until today, and the title of Duke of Braganza is still used by Duarte Pio, the 24th Duke of Bragança and the presumptive heir to the throne of Portugal. | | | The second dynasty of Portuguese Royalty is known as the House of Aviz, after John, Master of Aviz, who later became John I of Portugal. | | | The dynasty began with the acclamation of Philip II of Spain as Philip I of Portugal in 1580, officially recognized in 1581 in the Cortes of Tomar. |
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| | The House of Aviz, 1383-1580 (from Portugal) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The House of Aviz, 1383-1580 (from Portugal) -- Encyclopædia Britannica | | | Originally housed in a warehouse at Lagos in southern Portugal, it was reestablished in Lisbon with the death of Prince Henry the Navigator (1460). | | | More from Britannica on "The House of Aviz, 1383-1580 (from Portugal)"... |
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| | PORTUGAL - LoveToKnow Article on PORTUGAL |
| | The House of Commons was composed of 148 members, representing the 26 electoral divisions of Portugal, the Azores and Madeira, which returned I 13 elected members and 3 5 representatives of minorities, and of 7 members representing the colonies. | | | The sovereign exercised his executive power through a cabinet which was responsible to the cortes, and consisted of seven members, representing the ministries of (I) the interior, (2) foreign affairs, (3) finance, (4) justice and worship, (5) war, (6) marine and colonies, (7) public works, industry and commerce. | | | Up to 1885 some members sat in the House of Peers by hereditary right, while others were nominated for life. |
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| | Aviz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The House of Aviz is a dynasty of kings of Portugal. | | | After a period of struggle for the throne of Portugal the Crown of Portugal was taken by the Spanish Habsburgs, even if only in a personal union that did not formally ended Portuguese independence. | | | The house of Aviz ended with the death of king Henry I in 1580. |
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| | Ruler: King Alphonso V of the House of Aviz, born 1431, married Isabella Aviz, heir John (5). | | | Portugal and England have been close since 1294; the House of Aviz has been friendly practically from its inception, the Treaty of Windsor in 1386 making us eternal allies. | | | In 1128, Alphonso Count of Portugal rebelled against his mother, Queen Teresa of Castile, becaming Portugal's first king in 1143. |
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| | Pretenders |
| | But legitimately and legally, the closest heirs would have been the House of Aviz, the Royal House of Portugal, via the marriage of John of Gaunt's eldest daughter to João, Master of Aviz and first King of Portugal (1385-1433) of his dynasty. | | | This position regards the crown as completely inalienable, and inheritable therefore only by successive eldest stems of the House of Capet, regardless of who they might be otherwise (as long as they are of legitimate birth and Roman Catholic). | | | The first English list above details seniority within the House of Plantagenet and, guided by English succession laws current at the time, ignores the Lancasterian Branch who actually held the throne 1399-1461, 1470-1471 for the usurpers that they, in fact, were. |
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| | Paradox Interactive Forums - Rumors |
| | While resting his head upon his hands he thought of the peril of the House of Aviz. | | | She was brought up with her siblings in the Spanish Netherlands, and at the age of 21 she married Manoel of Aviz, King of Portugal. | | | The third child was Eleonore, born in Brussels, in the year of our Lord 1498. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search View - Portugal |
| | In this period the royal houses of Castile and Portugal frequently intermarried, repeatedly raising the possibility that one of the kingdoms might be absorbed by the other. | | | His branch of the Burgundian line became known as the House of Aviz. | | | John, Duke of Braganza, was elected John IV, first king of the House of Braganza, which ruled Portugal as long as the monarchy endured. |
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| | Articles - John I of Portugal |
| | Finally on April 6 1385, the council of the kingdom (cortes in Portuguese) met in Coimbra declared João, then Master of Aviz, king of Portugal. | | | He became king of Portugal in 1385, after the 1383-1385 Crisis. | | | This was in effect a declaration of war against Castile and its pretensions to the Portuguese throne. |
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| | This treaty, which is still in existance today, was cemented by help from English troops in the vital Battle of Aljubarrota between Portugal and Castile, and solidified by King João I's marriage to John of Gaunt's daughter, Philippa of Lancaster. | | | João I founded Portugal's most illustrious dynasty, the House of Aviz. | | | Shortly afterwards, the death of Sebastião's celibate uncle, a cardinal, brought to an end the House of Aviz. |
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| | BATTLE OF ALJUBARROTA |
| | In April 6 1385, the council of the kingdom (cortes in portuguese) summoned in Coimbra and declared king João, Master of Aviz (bastard son of Pedro I de Portugal). | | | However, the Castilian king would not back of his wife's rights to the throne and invaded Portugal in June, with an important French cavalry detachment on his command. | | | The place was Aljubarrota, between the towns of Leiria and Alcobaça in central Portugal. |
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| | 1385 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | August 14 - The Union of Krewo established the Jagiellonian dynasty in Poland and Lithuania through the marriage of Queen Jadwiga of Poland and Grand Prince Jagiello of Lithuania and saw the acceptance of Roman Catholicism by the Lithuanian elite. | | | John I of Portugal becomes the first Portuguese king of the House of Aviz |
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| | Soon, with squandered wealth spreading decadence at home, Portugal fell from the pinnacle of greatness with a crash. | | | Not for nothing did the government name it Portugal's "most typical village" as long ago as 1939. | | | By 1578, when King Sabastiao and his nobles were slain in a reckless war with Morocco, the House of Aviz was near collapse. |
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| | PORTUGAL |
| | Duke of Burgundy (died 1071), a member of the Royal House of France, established himself as ruler of a substantial portion of modern Portugal, with the title Count, circa 1093, and was father of Alfonso I (died 1185), who assumed the title King of Portugal ca 1139. | | | The House of Aviz, as John’s descendants became, was extinguished in the legitimate male line with the death of Henry I, Cardinal King in 1580, when the throne was assumed by his nephew, Philip II King of Spain. | | | All members of the Royal House in the male line have the surname Bragança. |
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| | Extinct Houses - Fading Suns |
| | One of the Rogue Houses who sought to capture Byzantium Secundus. | | | House Kambei is the house of Saint Lextius. | | | Once a house on Istakhr, was caught in a war with House al-Malik and House Hashim, was assimilated by House al-Malik. |
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| | Portugal - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Portugal |
| | Maria I, the ‘mad’ queen of Portugal, suffered from fits of melancholia after the death of her husband, Peter III, and her eldest son. | | | Red-roofed, whitewashed houses in one of Portugal's many medieval walled towns. | | | In order to preserve Portugal's independence of Castile, the Cortes asserted its right to elect the new king, choosing John I (ruled 1385–1433), an illegitimate brother of Ferdinand and the first king of the house of Aviz. |
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| | Articles - Henry the Navigator |
| | Henry the Navigator was the third son of John I of Portugal, the founder of the Aviz dynasty; and of Philippa of Lancaster, the daughter of John of Gaunt. | | | In 1414 he reportedly convinced his father to mount a campaign of conquest against the Muslim port of Ceuta, on the North African coast across the Straits of Gibraltar from the Iberian peninsula. | | | Henrique, duke of Viseu, nicknamed o Navegador and generally known in English as Henry the Navigator, (March 4, 1394 â“ November 13, 1460), a prince of Portugal, looms large as an important figure in the early days of European colonial expansion. |
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| | THE CONSTANT PRINCE - 1433 |
| | It was held by Portugal till the house of Aviz was extinguished in Dom Sebastiao, and since that time has belonged to the crown of Spain. | | | The illustrious days of Portugal were during the century and a half of the dynasty termed the House of Aviz, because its founder, Dom Joao I. had been grand master of the military order of Aviz. | | | Philippa was greatly beloved in Portugal, and was a most noble-minded woman, who infused her own spirit into her children. |
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| | The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 21 - The Recent Days (1910-1914) by Editor Charles F. Horne eBook by ... |
| | John of Aviz, known as the Great, married Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaunt; and from this union sprang a line of princes and kings under whom Portugal became one of the leading nations of Europe. | | | As the house of Aviz was an illegitimate branch of the stock of Affonso Henriques, so the Braganzas were an illegitimate branch of the House of Aviz, with none of the Plantagenet blood in them. | | | Only one prince of the line, Pedro II., can be said to have attained anything like greatness. |
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| | Portugalia - Portuguese Restaurant and Pub in San Diego |
| | These policies were retained as high priorities of the Kingdom of Portugal, notably under the House of Aviz, the new royal line that ascended to the Portuguese throne with the help of England in 1385. | | | In implementation of these policies, King João I, the first Aviz king, concluded with England the Treaty of Windsor in 1386. | | | Following the proclamation of Portugal& independence in 1143, Affonso Henriques and his son focused their attention on consolidating their power, defending their country against Spanish encroachments, sustaining their crusade against Muslims, and staging campaigns to seize the trade routes that were under the control of Muslim powers in Africa and Asia. |
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| | Chapter Samson Carrasco <i>to</i> Sandwich of S by Brewer's Phrase & Fable |
| | A man's private house is his sanctuary; his own special private room in that house is the sanctuary of the sanctuary, or the sanctum sanctorum. | | | On one occasion the sieur being desirous of aiding Henri I. in his struggle for the crown, pledged the diamond to the Jews at Metz. | | | It was next purchased (1495) by Emanuel the Fortunate of Portugal, and remained in the house of Aviz till the kingdom was annexed to Spain (1580), when Don Antonio sold it to Sieur de Sancy, in whose family it remained more than a century. |
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| | Finally, Portugal entered into a single, overwhelming disaster under the impetuous and charismatic King Sebastian, last of the House of Aviz (1568‑78). | | | The king lost heart at the sight of his grandchildren, riding back alone and leaving the murderers to stab Ines to death. | | | Castile was quite confident of success, but surprisingly, the Spanish were not able to solidify their position over two years of indecisive battling. |
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| | Maria Pia The Pretender to the Portuguese Throne |
| | Thus, on March 29, 1958, the head archivist of the bishopric of Madrid-Alcalá could certify that baptism had been given on April 15 1907 to Maria Pia of Saxe-Coburg, born on March 13 of the same year, the daughter of D. Carlos of Saxe-Coburg and Savoy, of the house of Braganza in Portugal, | | | Dom Rosario Poidimani is an honourable man. He is a Sicilian, born in Syracuse, the hometown of Archimedes, on 25th August 1946, on St Louis' day. | | | He had set up a lady of excellent breeding and family, the widow of a Brazilian diplomat, in an unobtrusive house conveniently close to his palace of Ajuda. |
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| | THE COLONIAL FOUNDATIONS |
| | In fact, Portugal had become the European leader in exploration by shrewd use of its superior technical skills in cartography and navigation. | | | Under the royal House of Aviz, Portugal had established a far- flung empire with outposts in India, China, Mrica, and some Atlantic is- lands. | | | The history of Portuguese America contrasts with the story of colonial Spanish America. |
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| | Spain, France, and England followed suit, but struggled with fragmentation even more than Portugal. | | | Under the House of Aviz, the Portuguese began to consolidate power. | | | Promoting trade and religious tradition, the crown built unity and pitched the country into a search for a direct sea route to Asia, especially after the primary land route—which led through Constantinople—fell to Ottoman control. |
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| | Station Information - Fernando of Portugal |
| | This led to a period of war and political indefinition known as the 1383-1385 Crisis. | | | João became the first king of the House of Aviz in 1385. | | | Ferdinand left no male heir when he died on October 22 1383, and the direct Burgundian line, which had been in possession of the throne since the days of Count Henry (about 1112), became extinct. |
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| | Henry of Portugal |
| | He served as regent for his grand-nephew, Sebastião, after 1557, and then succeeded him as king after the disastrous Battle of Alcácer-Quibir in 1578. | | | The Cardinal-King died without having appointed a Council of Regency to choose a successor. | | | Henry renounced his clerical offices and sought to take a bride for the continuation of the Aviz dynasty, but Pope Gregory XIII, affiliated with the Habsburgs did not release him from his vows. |
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| | Battle of Ceuta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Born in 1394, Henry was the fourth son of King João I and his Queen, Philippa, who were monarchs from the house of Aviz. | | | He and his brothers lived in an era where honour was as much earned as inherited; the medieval concept of chivalry still held sway in European courts. | | | The Battle of Ceuta (August 14, 1415) and the subsequent conquest of the North African city of Ceuta by the Portuguese had its roots in the earliest years of the Aviz dynasty of Portugal. |
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| | Chapter 6: History of Spain and Portugal |
| | The result was both a civil war and an international war between the Portuguese rebels and the crown of Castile. | | | He introduced nothing radical, but consolidated the institutions of the kingdom and continued most of the positive policies of his predecessors. | | | Desultory hostilities between Castile and Portugal continued for years, especially at sea, until a definitive peace was finally signed in 1411. |
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| | Antonio, Prior of Crato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Because of that, many authors consider him the last monarch of the House of Aviz (instead of Cardinal-King Henry) and the 18th King of Portugal. | | | Since then, he started to rule the country from Terceira Island, in the Azores, where, until 1583, he established an opposition government to the Spanish occupation ocupación, that even minted coin - a typical act of sovereignty and royalty. | | | In the first days of 1581, he fled to France carrying with him the crown jewels, which included many valuable diamonds. |
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| | The draft at Hatfield House is endorsed "1 June 1600". | | | Engraving, showing (left) a genealogical table of the House of Aviz, with a portrait of the exiled Portugese claimant, D. Antonio, prior of Crato; and (right) a map of Portugal. | | | Lyons, at the house of Antonio Bonvisi, 21 Nov.; year not stated but evidently 1535. |
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| | This was Joan of Castile, the mad queen. | | | The Monastery of Jerónimos in Lisbon houses Manuel's tomb. |
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| | Estalia |
| | Ferdan Giovanez of the House of De Rada, | | | Don Juan I of the House of Ayala King of Estalia |
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| | ISLAM AND THE CATHOLIC CRUSADE MOVEMENT IN ZANZIBAR |
| | Prince Henry, was the third son of five surviving Portuguese-English sons of the bastard John I, of the House of Aviz and Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaunt. | | | It was deposited at the General Museum known as Beit al-Amãn (The House of Peace), built in 1925 during the heydays of the Omani Sultanate (1700-1964), that upon the request, liberated Zanzibar from the Portuguese Crusaders. | | | When Cauta fell on August 24, 1415, a celebration for their victory was held in Lisbon where Prince Henry was knighted for his bravity and meritorious Crusade. |
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| | Madeira Island : Forums and Discussions |
| | Like my grandfather my father was born on Madeira. | | | My first visit was when I was 13 when I arrived from Venezuela, leaving to England, London 6 month later and since then I have had both my parents houses renovated, and plan to leave England in the next 6 years for good. | | | Like the brave men who came before me in their mighty caravel's to discover new world's in the name of the House of Aviz. |
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| | TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Portuguese Primitives -- Sep. 02, 1940 |
| | Egged on by the tough little kings of the House of Aviz, her explorers (Pedro Alvares Cabral, Tristao da Cunha, Alfonso de Albuquerque, Vasco da Gama, Lourengo de Almeida, et al.) ranged the seas from Greenland to Japan, netted an empire second only to Spain's. | | | Like most nouveau riche nations, 15th-Century Portugal then began to take an interest in art. |
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| | The Spanish were ready for this, and in 1580, with the death of Henry, Phillip II of Spain claimed the throne of Portugal. | | | His advanced age and celibacy made it certain that there were would be no successors to the line of Aviz. | | | Spain would be probably might still try to take control of Portugal, but with the Portuguese crown firmly united they fail. |
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| | Articles - John II of Portugal |
| | The House of Braganza was outlawed, their lands confiscated and the duke executed in Évora. |
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