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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

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

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 fea●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 A●my defeated near Lisbonne at Alcantara expecting the Enemy in the Year One thousand five hundred and fourscore where they were put to rout chased to Lisbonne Walls and the Suburbs sacked a thousand Portugals being slain in Fight partly in their Trenches and partly at Years of CHRIST 1580 the defence of a Bridge where they made a valiant resistance ANTHONY fled to Viana whither he was so sharply pursued by Zanches d'Avila Marescal of the Field that in the habit of a Mariner he hardly escaped in a small Boat both Captivity from his Pursuers and drowning through the violence of the wind and waves The year following viz. One thousand five hundred fourscore and one he escaped into France from Setuval in a Flemmish Ship which he did hire by the aid of a woman and a Religious person where he incited the Duke of Alenzon to annoy the Catholick King in Brabant and the Queen Mother who seemed discontented with the Spaniard for interrupting the course of Justice by the violence of Armes to assist him with Men and Munition for the recovery of Portugal and the Defence of the Terceraes which stood out in his Cause and had vanquished Peter de la Baldes with the loss of Four hundred of his men who had been sent thither to reduce those Islands to the obedience of the King of Spain Portugal was now peaceably enjoyed by the Catholick King who had made his Magnificent entry into Lisbonne granted a General Pardon to all ANTHONY's Faction excepting the Religious and some few particulars and received the Oath of Allegiance to himself and Dom Diego his son from the States of the Kingdom At this time ANTHONY was armed by the Queen Mother with Sixty Sail and Seven thousand men for the assurance of the Islands and the surprising of the Indian Fleet under the leading of Philip Strozzi Collonel of the French Infantry and Monsieur Brisack against whom they sent the Marquess of St. Croix with a formidable Army who engaged with the French near the Island of St. Michael in a bloody fight wherein Strozzi Strozzi and the Count of Vimioso slain and the Count of Vimioso were slain much blood spilt on both sides but the French received the Foil and yet not so weakned but that ANTHONY retained the Island in his hands from whence he after Sailed into France leaving Emanuel de Silva Governour behind After the Report of this Victory the Catholick King imagining his assurance of Portugal to be good departed into Castille leaving Cardinal Albert Arch-duke of Austria Vice-roy in his stead having first received a new Oath to his Son Dom Philip because Dom Diego his eldest Son was deceased Conestaggio But because he meant to make his Conquest entire the year following 1583. he sent the Marquess of St. Croix with a greater Navy than Years of CHRIST 1583 before to the Islands where Twelve hundred French under the Conduct of Monsieur de Chattes being joyned with those Portuguesses which were under Emanuel de Silva made a valiant resistance but being oppressed with so great a number of Enemies being Ten thousand trained Souldiers at least the French yielded upon Composition and Emanuel de Silva was taken and beheaded After which Victory Faiole was reduced to obedience after some small resistance Portugal wholly subjected to the Catholick King and thus was the Conquest of the Kingdom of Portugal wholly compleated and subjected to the Catholick King ANTHONY being returned into France the Sanctuary of afflicted Princes from thence he writ a long Letter to Pope Gregory XIII representing the Right he had to the Kingdom of Portugal adding That he had been justly Elected King That the Marriage of Prince Lewis his Father had been declared lawful by the Sentence of the Bishop of Angra the Popes Legate That King Henry his Uncle had unjustly Sentenc'd him in his own Defence for his Legitimation having been proved the Crown had in Justice fallen upon him the said ANTHONY before Henry himself as being the Son of his elder Brother whose Sentence was revoked and annihilated by Pope Gregory To whom Pope Sixtus the Fifth succeeding the same King ANTHONY writ him also another Letter as well to Congratulate with him in his Election offering him the Vowes of an obedient Son as to implore his help towards his Establishment in his Ancient Possession and Royal Dignity Camdenus ANTHONY not long after obtained Letters of Recommendation from Queen Katharine to Elizabeth Queen of England in which ANTHONY entertained in England she forewarned her and other Princes to beware of the Spanish Greatness who now enriched with the Addition of Portugal East-India and many Islands in the Atlantique Sea might in time over shadow all his Neighbouring Princes Queen Elizabeth alwayes Provident of her own and her Subjects Safety easily listned to this Councel and bountifully relieved ANTHONY which she thought she might do without Offence considering that she acknowledged him her Kinsman descended of the Blood Royal of England nor was there any League made betwixt the Spaniards and English that the Portugals might not be received into England Here then ANTHONY resided till that fatal Blow was given to their as they called it Invincible Armado when Queen Elizabeth judged it more Honourable to attaque her Enemy than again to be assailed by him suffered a Fleet to be set forth against Spain commanded by Sir John Norris and Sir Francis Drake and some

that 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

Luciadum Regnum cujus vide stemmata Christi Mittit enim rebus stemmata quisque suis. A Genealogical History OF THE KINGS OF PORTUGAL And of all those Illustrious Houses that in Masculine Line are branched from that Royal Family CONTAINING A DISCOURSE Of their several Lives Marriages and Issues Times of Birth Death and Places of Burial With their Armes and Emblazons according to their several alterations as also their Symboles and Mottoes All Engraven in Copper-Plates Written in French by SCEVOLE and LOVIS DE SAINCTE-MARTHE Brethren and Advocates in the Court of Parliament of PARIS Unto the Year M.DC.XXIII Rendred into English and continued unto this present Year M.DC.LXII By FRANCIS SANDFORD Rouge-Dragon Pursuiuant of Armes LONDON Printed by E. M. for the Author ANNO 1662. TO THE MOST Glorious Monarch CHARLES II. KING of GREAT BRITAIN FRANCE and IRELAND c. Royal SIR THose Presents which in themselves are rich and beautiful cannot lose any thing of their esteem though tendred by the meanest hand the Diamond falls not under its true value when found among the low-prized Pebbles Nor will I hope this History which with all due Reverence I presume to lay at Your Majesties Feet be thought worthless although presented to the greatest of Kings by the least and lowest of his Subjects Yet my presumption bears with it a more extentive Modesty than to possess me with a belief that what I now bring can as far as it is any thing of mine be worthy the least regards of Majesty For it's Worth Consists in it self and being a Genealogical History of a Royal House Indubitably Descended from our English Kings cannot I hope find a less Gracious Acceptance from our Great Monarch than it hath formerly done from His most Christian Majesty in Favour of those who but disputably have maintained it to be a Branch of the Royal Stem of France but it may much more engage Your acceptance when Your Majesty considers that out of this Renowned Stock Your Majesty hath made choice of Your most Excellent Queen For from Philippa the daughter of the great Duke of Lancaster John of Gaunt descended that numerous issue which hath since supplyed PORTUGAL for above Three hundred years with a Succession of Heroick and Valiant Kings and was not discontinued but by the Power of the Castillians under Philip II III IV. Kings of Spain and hath been as miraculously restored in the Person of K. John IV. so that as King John I. much augmented the Glory of that Nation by allying himself with England another King John hath no less renewed it not more by redeeming his Kingdom out of the hands of Ambitious Seisers than in being Father to that Daughter by whom in the Persons of Your Royal Majesty and our Gracious Queen KATHERINE a second and much firmer union is contracted between these two so antiently allied Crowns But here Dread SIR I do conclude lest I should too long disturb Your Royal thoughts with those Prayers which all good Subjects are bound to make That as the Portuguesses have acknowledged that Match with England to be the most happy and fortunate that ever any of their Kings contracted both for the strength and glory of that Kingdom So that Heaven would likewise give Your Majesty as numerous and as glorious an issue by this second Match that Generations to come may have cause to Bless that Day wherein a Monarch of Great Britain did Espouse an Infanta of PORTUGAL Thus prayes YOUR MAJESTIES most Faithful and most Obedient Subject and Servant FRANCIS SANDFORD Rouge-Dragon Pursuiuant at Arms. The TRANSLATOR to the READER I Need not a better Authority for the Reputation of this History then to inform you That the first Part thereof from Henry Count of Portugal to Anthony Prior of Crato with the Second Book containing the Pedigrees of the Royal House of Braganza and other Princes of the Blood of Portugal is Translated out of the Genealogical History of the Royal House of France written by Scevole and Lovis de Saincte-Marthe Persons Eminent for their Knowledge in Antiquity and most exact in the Descents of the Kings of France and no less curious in this of Portugal as being a Branch of that Royal Stem The later Part continued from Anthony to the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Alphonso VI. being this present Year One thousand six hundred threescore and two is taken out of the Letters of Francisco Loredano a Noble Venetian and an Able Statesman employed Ambassador from that Republick to most of the Princes and Potentates of Europe Englished by an Ingenious young Gentleman not long since To these French and Italian Authors I have made several Additions out of Don Antonio de Sousa de Macedo a Portuguesse concerning the several Changes of the Arms of that Kingdom The Ceremonies used at the Coronations and Burials of the Kings of Portugal from Conestaggio an Italian And the Modern Additions to the Descents of the Younger Houses either out of Nicholaus Rittershusus a Germain or from the faithful Report of some of the Nobility of the Portugal Nation Having chosen rather to make use of Authors that were strangers and unbiassed with Interest than Natives of that Kingdom both for the Satisfaction of my Reader and also because the Exploits of that Warlike and Industrious People would seem from their own Relations almost incredible For if we consider the small Beginnings out of which they have gained such vast Territories we cannot but confess That they have out-done most of the greatest Conquerors for those with mighty Armies subjected the Old World but these with small Numbers have not only carried Victory to the East but found out New Worlds to Conquer So that the Dominions of Alphonso the first King of Portugal are not the Tenth part of those Kingdoms possessed by King Alphonso VI. If I have too much made use of the French Idiome in this Translation most Gentlemen will I presume pass by that Errour it being almost impossible to meddle with that Language and not to receive some Impressions thereby The Errours of the Press I have entred on the other side of the Leaf in the Errata which I would intreat you to Correct and then I hope you will find the Satisfaction expected in the perusal of this History Farewel F. S. WE having perused this Book which is for the most part a Translation out of French of a Genealogical History of the Kings of Portugal do not find that the same doth materially vary from the Sense of the Authors nor that there is in it any thing contrary to the Rules of Armory EDWARD WALKER Garter Principal King of Arms. WILLIAM DVGDALE Norroy King of Arms. ERRATA PAge 1. line 32. for Idolatrous read Idolators p. ibid. l. 36. for Histories r. Historians p. 2. l. 12. for Father r. Brother p. 3. l. 43. after to be built add in that Cathedral p. ibid. l. 44. to an Epitaph a●d in Latine p. 5. l. 36.

he not imitating the example of Lewis XII King of France who disdained to requite the wrongs done to him being Duke of Orleance who resolved to revenge the injuries done to him being Cardinal if they may be justly called injuries when as Princes be not respected of their inferiours as they ought For not being greatly favoured by the King his Predecessor the Ministers and Favourites of his Nephew did not use him with that Respect as was required conceiving that being so old and Sebastian so young that he would never have attained to the Crown By reason whereof he deprived almost all the Officers of the Court and some of them that did manage the Kings Treasure of their Offices and advanced his own Servants In the mean time the Estates of the Kingdom beseeching him to take care for the declaring of his Successor to the Crown he Convoked a Solemn Assembly of the same Estates in the City of Almerin to hear the Claims of those Princes which pretended to the Kingdom The number of whom was many viz. Antonio Bastard of Portugal King HENRY's Nephew the Catholick King Philip II. the Duke of Braganza in the Right of the Dutchess his Wife the Duke of Savoy the Prince of Parma the Queen of France Katherine de Medicis Mother of King Henry III. and Pope Gregory XIII His Death During this Assembly Conestaggio King HENRY left this World the last day of Years of CHRIST 1580 January in the Year One thousand five hundred and fourscore it being remarkable Thuanus That he began to die in the beginning of the Eclipse of the Moon and finished with it Vasconcellius as if that celestial Sign had wrought that Effect in him being a King of a weak body which it doth not in stronger Mariana or at least not so suddenly as Astrologers do write Neither is the houre to be neglected being the same wherein he was born Threescore and eight years before having Reigned Seventeen Months and eight dayes so that in him ended the Male Line of the Kings of Portugal of that Branch since derived from the Collateral of the Dukes of Braganza He was of a thin Body small of Stature and of a lean Face As for his Judgment it was indifferent indued besides the Latine Tongue with some Knowledge Alwayes held to be Chaste and did never blemish this Angelical Virtue but with the desire of Marriage in his later dayes He was acounted sparing giving rather than denying for he refused seldom but he gave sparingly Ambitious he was of all Jurisdiction as well Ecclesiastical as Civil zealous in Religion yet in the Reformation of religious persons more strict than was convenient He was Bishop Governour of the Realm Inquisitor Major Legate Apostolick and King But the more he soared the more he discovered his weakness suffering himself in his most important Affairs to be governed by his Ministers Conestaggio not being able to determine the Cause of the Succession Opinions were grafted in him with great obstinacy retaining a continual remembrance of wrongs so that Justice was in him but an unjust execution of his own Passions In Fine He was indued with great Virtues and with fewer and lesser Vices yet were they equal in this for he had the Virtues of an Ecclesiastical person and the defects of a Prince During his life he was feared of many and beloved of few so as none lamented his death only such as were well-affected desiring the Dispute of Succession had been determined before his death had a sensible apprehension of his loss His Body rested some time at Almerin until that Philip II. King of Spain caused it to be brought to the Monastery of our Lady at Bethleem notwithstanding that HENRY had Ordered his Sepulture at Evora where he had in his life-time erected a stately Marble Tomb. His Device was an Anchor and a Daulphin with this Inscription FESTINA LENTE for to denote That in the execution of all Actions Diligence with Diseretion and a Mediocrity was to be used 14. ANTHONY The Bastard Proclaimed King of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES c. CHAP. XIX THE Prince Lewis of Portugal Duke of Beia his father whose Years of CHRIST 1580 Natural and only Son he was educated him in good Learning but more particularly in the study of Divinity with intention to make him a Divine But being come to a riper age he was made Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and Prior of Crato He had embraced this Profession against his inclination so that Pope Gregory XIII was the more willing to dispence with the Vow he had made which Dispensation was obtained at the instance and pursuit of King Sebastian of Portugal who so highly esteemed this Prince ANTHONY his Years of CHRIST 1574 Cosin that upon his first Voyage into Affrick he made him his Lieutenant General notwithstanding that Prince Edward of Portugal the Constable was present Conestaggio At the second expedition that the same King Sebastian undertook for Years of CHRIST 1578 Affrica Jac. Augustus Thuanus he also accompanied him and assisted him at the Fatal Battel of Alcacer in which he was made a Prisoner and reduced to a miserable Captivity for the space of Forty dayes After which by an especial Providence he found means to recover his liberty Being upon his return he had intelligence that his Uncle the Cardinal Henry after the Death of King Sebastian was Elected King of Portugal During whose Reign as you have read the Estates having been assembled to advise of a Successor to the Crown ANTHONY was of the Number of the Competitors urging That he ought to be preferred as only Male-child of the Posterity of King Emanuel In pursuit of which after the Decease of Henry he was by the consent of the Three Estates also Elected King the Nineteenth day of June in the Year One thousand five Years of CHRIST 1580 hundred and fourscore Conestaggio in the City of Sanctarem then afterwards Confirmed in that of Lisbon Texera Metropolis of the Kingdom then received in the Quality of King at Setubal and acknowledged for such by all the Towns and Fortresses of Affrica and Isles subject to the Dominion of Portugal as also by the famous University of Conimbra But the King of Spain Philip II. H. F. Conestaggio pretending on the contrary to be lawful Successor to the Crown in the Right of the Empress Isabel of Portugal his Mother incontimently raised a considerable Army Thuanus Texera under the Conduct of his Martial favourite that famous Captain Ferdinand de Toledo Duke of Alva who entred the Frontiers and seized upon divers Towns by accord which the Popula●s hearing of which were with ANTHONY at St. Arem Proclaimed him King that so they might have a head to their confused body After which ANTHONY repaired to Lisbonne and there was sworne sent the Count of Vimioso to Setaval whence he expelled the Governours who there

the other Two since the late Defeats given them have been in no Capacity of doing the least Injury Portugal being now free from the Noise of the Castillians both by Sea and Land Don John was lately at Badayos having for a while laid all thoughts of farther Action aside where he mustered all the Forces and drew them into their Winter-quarters In the mean time the King of Spain sent Orders to several Places to make great preparation against the next Spring so that marching in with more Force they may give a better Account than they have of this years Expedition King ALPHONSO VI. entring now upon the Twentieth year of His Age lately took the Reins of the Government into His own Hand and hath sate for the Administration of Justice in Criminal Causes where a Judge and Secretary of the Court of Orphans were brought before Him and Accused for having dealt unjustly in the managery of their Trust His MAJESTY was pleased with much Patience to attend the whole Tryal where it being fully proved That according to the Charge exhibited against them they had wronged several Orphans and dealt unjustly in the Disposal of their Goods Sentence was pronounced upon them both the Judge to be beheaded and the Secretary to be hanged I mention this only to let the Reader know how much this Action of the Kings hath encreased the Esteem and Affection which His MAJESTIES Subjects had for Him That at His first sitting in the Administration of Justice He should so far encourage the Causes of His weaker People as not to spare Offenders though of the greatest Quality but to see Sentence of Condemnation passed against those that injure them Thus have you an Account of the Lives and Issues of the KINGS of PORTUGAL from the Foundation of that Monarchy to the Sixth year of the Reign of KING ALPHONSO VI. being this present year 1662. leaving that KINGDOM in an assured Confidence That ENGLAND will prove as it hath ever been a better Bulwark to them than any other their Confederates AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE Containing the Principal NAMES in this HISTORY A. ALPHONSO I. King of Portugal Chap. II. ALPHONSO II. King of Portugal Chap. IV. ALPHONSO III. King of Portugal Chap. VI. ALPHONSO IV. King of Portugal Chap. VIII ALPHONSO V. King of Portugal Chap. XIII ANTHONY Prior of Crato proclaimed King of Portugal Chap. XIX ALPHONSO VI. King of Portugal Chap. XXII Alphonso of Portugal Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem Pag. 8 Alphonso of Portugal Lord of Portalegre Pag. 23 Alphonso of Portugal Seigneur of Leiria ibid. Alphonso of Portugal Pag. 30 Alphonso of Portugal dyed young Pag. 30 Aremburga Countess of Vrgel Pag. 13 Adolphe of Cleves Seigneur of Ravenstein Pag. 43 Alphonso Prince of Portugal Pag. 59 Alphonso Cardinal of Portugal Pag. 66 Anthony of Portugal Pag. 69 Alphonso Prince of Portugal Pag. 73 Anthony of Portugal Pag. 74 Alphonso-Dionysio B. of Portugal Pag. 24 Alphonso-Sanceo B. of Portugal Count of Albuquerque Pag. 28 Alphonso B. of Portugal Pag. 33 Alphonso de Cascaes B. of Portugal ibid. Alphonso B. of Portugal Duke of Braganza Pag. 45 Alphonso B. of Portugal Duke of Visco Pag. 49 B. BLanche of Portugal Lady of Guadaliara pag. 14 Berengaria of Portugal ibid. Beatrice of Castillo Queen of Portugal Pag. 21 Beatrix of Castille Queen of Portugal Pag. 30 Beatrix of Portugal Queen of Castille Pag. 31 Beatrice of Portugal Lady of Ravenstein Pag. 43 Beatrice of Portugal Dutchess of Visco Pag. 44 Blanche of Portugal died young Pag. 45 Beatrice of Portugal Dutchess of Visco Pag. 47 Blanche of Portugal Abbess of Loruano Pag. 23 Beatrix of Portugal Dutchess of Savoy Pag. 69 Beatrix of Portugal ibid. Beatrix B. of Portugal Pag. 34 Beatrice B. of Portugal Countess of Arundel Pag. 45 C. COnstance of Portugal Wife of Goncalo-Nunez De Lara pag. 23 Constance of Portugal ibid. Constance of Portugal Queen of Castille pag. 27 Constance Manuel Queen of Portugal pag. 32 Charlote of Cyprus Dutchess of Conimbra pag. 42 Charles of Portugal pag. 70 Christopher of Portugal pag. 89 Constance B. of Portugal pag. 15 Constance B. of Castille pag. 33 D. DIONYSIO King of Portugal Chap VII Doulce of Arragon Queen of Portugal pag. 10 Dionysio of Portugal pag. 30 Dionysio of Portugal pag. 32 Dionysio of Portugal pag. 49 Diego-Alphonso of Portugal pag. 24 Dionysio of Portugal pag. 73 Dionysio B. of Portugal pag. 33 E. EDWARD King of Portugal Chap XII EMANUEL King of Portugal Chap. XV. Eleanor of Arragon Queen of Portugal pag. 47 Edward of Portugal pag. 49 Elizabeth or Isabel of Conimbra Queen of Portugal pag. 52 Edward Prince of Portugal pag. 67 Edward of Portugal Duke of Vimerana ibid. Emanuel of Portugal pag. 73 Emanuel of Portugal pag. 88 Emilia of Nassau ibid. Edward B. of Portugal Archbishop of Bracara pag. 74 F. FERDINAND King of Portugal Chap. X. Ferdinand of Portugal Duke of Visco pag. 47 Ferdinand of Portugal Count of Flanders pag. 11 Ferdinand of Portugal Infant of S●erpe pag. 17 Ferdinand of Portugal pag. 23 Ferdinand of Portugal Seigneur of Ecae pag. 33 Ferdinand of Portugal Duke of Visco pag. 48 Ferdinand of Portugal Grand Master of the Order D'Avis pag. 44 Ferdinand of Portugal pag. 66 Ferdinand-Alphonso B. of Portugal Knight of the Order of the Templars pag. 24 Ferdinand B. of Portugal Lord of Braganza pag. 33 G. GIlles-Sanceo B. of Portugal pag. 15 Gilles-Alphonso B. of Portugal pag. 24 George B. of Portugal Duke of Conimbra pag. 59 H. HENRY of Bourgongne Count of Portugal Chap. I. HENRY the Cardinal King of Portugal Chap. XVIII Henry Prince of Portugal pag. 8 Henry of Portugal pag. 13 Henry of Portugal Duke of Visco pag. 43 I. JOHN I. King of Portugal Chap. XI JOHN II. King of Portugal Chap. XIV JOHN III. King of Portugal Chap. XVI JOHN IV. King of Portugal Chap. XXI Jane Countess of Flanders pag. 11 Isabel of Portugal Lady of Biscay pag. 23 Isabel of Portugal Lady of Albuquerque ibid. Isabel of Arragon Queen of Portugal pag. 26 John of Portugal pag. 30 Isabel of Arragon Dutchess of Conimbra pag. 41 John of Portugal Duke of Conimbra pag. 42 James of Portugal Cardinal and Archbishop of Lisbon ibid. Isabel D'Avalos pag. 33 Isabel of Conimbra Queen of Portugal pag. 42 John of Portugal Grand Master of the Order of St. James pag. 44 Isabel of Braganza ibid. James of Portugal ibid. Isabel of Portugal Queen of Castille ibid. Isabel of Portugal Dutchess of Bourgongne pag. 45 John of Portugal Duke of Visco pag. 48 James of Portugal Duke of Visco ibid. Isabel of Visco Dutchess of Braganza pag. 49 Jane of Portugal Queen of Castille pag. 50 John Prince of Portugal died young pag. 55 Jane of Portugal a Nun at Odivelles ibid. Isabel of Castille Queen of Portugal pag. 64 Isabel of Braganza Princess of Portugal pag. 67 John Prince of Portugal pag. 73 Joane of Austria ibid. Isabel of Portugal pag. 74 Jane Infanta of Portugal