corps were healed Mafalda was espoused to Henry the first King of Castile although allied to him in a forbidden degree wherefore this marriage was likewise declared void and she emulating her sister built a Monastery of the Cistercian Order and is reported likewise to have done many Miracles particularly in the year 1627. when her Tomb was opened Sancha the third daughter became a Nun of the Order of St. Francis who lived about this time Bianca and Beringella died young and were buried in Conimbria right against their fathers Tombe though some write otherwise After the death of the Queen Aldonsa which happened in the year 1138. King Sancho gave himself over to the love of diverse Ladies amongst whom he had many children who proved most of them his greatest vexation and disquiet for the pleasures of the senses do not terminate but in the sence of grief At last arrived at the age of 57. years in the 26. year of his reign oppressed in Conimbria by an incurable disease he took leave of this world He was buried in the Church of the Holy Cross on the left side of the Altar in the great Chappel where King Emanuel built him a Sepulchre like to that of his father he left infinite riches which by his Will he divided amongst all his children making no difference between the legitimate and the illegitimate he by his Will supplicated Pope Innocentius the fourth to be his Executor for which he left in Legacy a hundred weight of Gold a gift without doubt worth his pains King Sancho was for vertue and for goodness singular in his age a worthy son of so renowned a father he proved fortunate in the utmost events of War and then did his triumphs flow in upon him when he dispaired of Victory he left it yet in doubt whether he were more wise or more valiant he always snowed himself so great an enemy to sloth and idleness that to avoid it he would not disdain sometimes to throw down the Scepter and hold the plow Fortune who was his friend in War was his foe in Peace for then besides the vexation that he could not vex his enemies he was likewise enforced to bear the injuries of the Land Sea and Skies in sum he was a King worthy the greatest Incomiums if he had not too much drowned all his other vertues in illicite Loves ALFONSO the II. Third King of Portugal ALfonsâ— the second succeeded to Sancho the first he was born in Conimbria on St. Georges day anno 1185. At 27. years old he was Crowned King with the envy of his brothers who little younger then he could hardly confine themselves within the bounds of Allegiance and to their discontents did the Legacies left by Sancho give new motives for Alphonso either out of avaritious desire of riches or out of obstinacy detained from them a great part of what was left them by their father These sinister thoughts of the then Prince Alphonso were discerned by his father before his death which made him leave to the brothers beside some Cities and Castles five hundred thousand Crowns in gold But scarce was his father dead but he began to contend with his brothers and sisters about their inheritance and because his brothers were retired into Elginera and Alenquar Fortresses given them by their father he under pretence that they could not be allienated from the Crown gathered together an Army to possess himself of them which he easily performed his brothers wanting money to hire soldiers and so not being able to make the least resistance His brothers thus driven out of the kingdom fled to the Pope for redress then in great veneration because he then pursued no other interest but justice who commanded Alfonso to remit the difference to indifferent Judges who necessitated to obey chose rather to accommodate the business with indifferent Judges then to run the hazard of a sentence He employed himself afterwards by the advice of Matthew Bishop of Lisbone to fight against the Moors and though these came assisted with ninety five thousand men yet were they forced to yield the Victory to him with the loss of thirty thousand soldiers and four Kings who were slain in the battel Alfonso for some years prosecuted this War but in time he grew so extream fat that he was unable to perform not only those great exercises incumbent on a soldier but every simple motion of the body yet for all that he ceased not to apply himself with extream diligence to prosecute the greatest affairs of State and where he could not in person he present to send such commands as shewed him to be both of great experience and wisdom He married with Uracca daughter to Alfonso the eighth or as others say the ninth King of Castile and Leonora or Elinor daughter to Henry the second King of England by her he had divers children the first was Sancho who succeeded his father in the kingdom Alfonso the second son whom by right of his wife was chosen Duke of Bologna and afterwards came to be King of Portugal The third son was called Ferdinand who obtained the principality of Serpa and married Sancia Fernandez daughter of Ferdinand Count of Castile The fourth died a childe called Vincenzo The last was a daughter called Leonora and was married to the King of Dacia Alfonso arrived to the eight and fortieth year of his age and one and twentieth of his kingdom when in the year 1233. he was constrained to pay the last debt to nature He was buried in Alobaccia in a little Church built by himself more for devotion then magnificence But after many years the Abbot Giorgio di Melo causing that little Church to be demolished carried his bones to that of St. Vincenzo where they now repose in a most sumptuous sepulcher Under this King as many affirm lived for certain time St. Antonio Protector of the City of Padona a Saint held in great veneration among the Roman Catholiques he was a native of Lisbon not so much esteemed for the Nobility of his birth as for his holy life Alfonso taking away his extream fatness was a man of a very comely presence and of singular eloquence his nature did make him pleasant with all but onely those of his own blood which fault in him did much diminish his subjects love and that general respect was due to him though he was a man noted for covetousness yet he oftentimes gave great gifts to his friends and always consumed the greatest part of the revenue of the kingdom The Portugueses while his father was alive did extreamly desire him for their King but did not at all now lament his death either because new things always please the people or else because he after his fathers death shewed himself indifferent from himself or from what they thought him whereupon not being wholly like his Progenitors he renewed in his subjects their grief for their loss SANCHO the II. Fourth KING of PORTVGAL SAncho the second who
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A Short and Compendious HISTORY Of the KINGDOM Of PORTUGAL THe Spaniards have a Proverb very vulgar amongst them terming the Portugueses Pocos y Locos few and fools spoken I suppose rather out of derision and disdain of that Nation then that its people and inhabitants really are so for whosoever shall read their actions will judge them to be managed with as much prudence as the Spaniards can boast of nor will any one believe that they could bring to perfection so great Atchievements as they have done with onely a simple valor 'T is true I believe them to be less numerous then the Castilians and yet I am not of the opinion that they are so few or their Kingdom so inconsiderable as the Spanish Proverb seems to make them which one may easily imagine when one considers that the Romans accounted Lusitania that is Portugal by it self when its bounds did not extend so far as now they do and without the addition of Algarve or Regnum Algarbiorum to be one third part of Spain much less can we think it so now when not onely its proper bounds are enlarged but likewise the Kingdom of Algarve added besides the Island in the Atlantick sea and their great conquests in Asia Africa and America But to return to the Kingdom it self and its original various fortunes after the decay and declension of the Roman Empire was it subject unto before it was setled under a Prince of its own The Alani were the first that preyed upon it and endeavored to plant in it but had scarce begun to do so but themselves were driven out by the Swemans and constrained to go seek another habitation these for some time enjoyed it peaceably making Braga their Imperial City till in the general Inundation of the overflowing Gothes and Vandals they with the rest of that part of the continent which is circumscribed by the sea and the Pyrenean Mountains became vassals to these irresistable Conquerors who living a long time in quiet enjoyed their conquest and were the first that in these parts entertained the Christian Religion till the Moors like a more violent flood fell in upon them and with the greatest part of Spain possessed themselves likewise of that Kingdom But some parts of Spain after many years slavery strugling for their liberty this Kingdom was in part recovered by the King of Castile and by them enjoyed till at length it gained a King of its own the maner thus Henry the second Duke of Lorrain whom some affirm to be Nephew to Godfrey of Bolloigne though others differ both in the person and his alliance to him flying from the fury of Henry the fifth Emperor came into Spain where moved with a generous emulation of his Uncle who was gone to the conquest of Ierusalem offered his service the subjection of the Moors and in short time arrived by his valorous atchievements against those enemies of the Christian Religion grew into so much repute with Alfonso the 6. King of Castile that he gave him his base daughter Teresia in marriage with his whole acquists in Portugal for her dower though with no other title then that of Counte or Earl some further addition he made to his Dominions and in the year 1094. had a son who after his grandfather was named Alphonso at last overborn with the burden of seventy seven years he died in the year 1112. ALFONSO the I. First King of Portugal ALfonso his son who from his very childhood had been bred up under his father in Military excercise after his death valorously prosecuted his victories against the Moors and against the
and that as he had in a moment gained that kingdom so he should as soon loose it if he should but give them the least opportunity For that the people were highly discontented might easily appear by their attentive listning after old prophesies among which was one of an old Hermit who told Alphonso the first King of Portugal of the great victory that he should obtain over the five Kings of the Moors that he and his posterity should reign happily King of Portugal but that in the sixteenth generation his line should fail but that God at length should have mercy again upon them and restore them Others had respect to a Letter written by St. Bernard to the same King Alphonso the original of which is reported to have been given to the Portugal Embassadors by Lewis the Thirteenth King of France Anno 1641. the substance of which was to this effect That he rendred thanks to him for the Lands bestowed upon him that in recompence thereof God had declared unto him that there should not fail a Native of Portugal to sit upon that Throne unless for the greatness of their sins God would chastise them for a time but that this time of Chastisement should not last above sixty years Other Prophesies there were of this nature and to this effect which put the people in hopes of a Deliverance and many of them flattered themselves that Don Sebastian was yet alive and would come and deliver them nay so foolish were some of them that though they believed him slain at the battel of Alcazar in Barbary yet they thought he should live again and miraculously come to redeem them But that which most of all expressed the peoples Discontents was what was publickly spoken by the mouthes of their Orators the Priests in their Pulpits who would ordinarily in their Sermons utter speeches much in prejudice of the Spaniards Title and in favor of the Dutchess of Braganza nor were they sparing to do so in the presence of the King himself who would therefore often say That the Portuguez Clergy had made the sharpest war with him Father Lewis Alvarez a Jesuite preaching one day before the Vice-Roy took his Text Surge tolle Grabatum tuum ambula and turning himself to the Duke said Sir the meaning of that is Arise take up your pack and be gone home But above all this might the Discontents be perceived in the Noblemens Chappels especially in the Duke of Braganza's where they were wont to sing the Lamentations of Ieremy applying all the scorn and reproach of the Israelites to themselves as Aquam nostram pecunia bibimus because of the Excize put by the Spaniards upon Wine and other necessaries And that Servi Dominati sunt in nos and that Cecidit Corona Capitis nostri most commonly ending with this Invocation Recordare Domine Quid acciderit nobis Intuere respice opprobrium nostrum Haereditas nostra versa est ad alienos Yet did king Phillip bear all these Affronts with an incomparable patience dissembling with an admirable prudence his passion if he had any for these Discontents for he knew the onely way to win this Nation to an obedience and complyance must be lenity at first what ever he intended to practice afterwards and that he had by his exact keeping of his Word and Oath won much upon this people appears in that during his whole Reign and the Reign of his Successor Philip the Third who followed his fathers foot-steps though not with that craft and dissimulation they made no attempts nor were inclinable to a Revolt which the ensuing Story will evidence Don Antonio Prior of Crato the base born son of Lewis the Infante who had by the tumultuary Rabble on the Death of King Henry been elected King being expulsed Lisbon by the Forces of the Duke D' Alva fled from thence into France to the protection of that Queen who in regard that her Claim was exploded both by the Spaniard and the Portugal as an outworn Title and injurious to all the kings of Portugal ever since as unjust Possessors had long endeavored to excite Queen Elizabeth of England against the Spaniard and to forewarn her and other Princes to beware of his increasing power who now enriched with the addition of Portugal East-India and many Isles in the Atlantique sea might in time overshadow all his neighboring Princes and therefore advising that it behooved them to think of some way to curb his Ambition betimes and restrain his too far extending Power into some reasonable limits Which advice of hers Queen Elizabeth easily listned too being always providently careful of her own and her Subjects safety fore-seeing how dangerous the over-swelling Power of that Prince would be both to Her and her Dominions and therefore though she then entred not into a present War with him yet when Don Antonio came over to her with Recommendations from the French Queen she bountifully relieved him which she then thought she might do without offence considering that she acknowledged him her Kinsman descended of the Blood Royal of England and of the House of Lancaster nor was there ever any promise made in any League between the English and Spaniard that the Portugals should not be received into England Here then Don Antonio resided till the Wars breaking forth between Spain and England after the Spaniard had received that notable Overthrow of his Invincible Armado to whose power and puissance the whole World thought England would have been but a morsel Queen Elizabeth judging it more honorable to assail her Enemy then again to be assailed by him suffered a Fleet to be set forth against Spain which Sir Iohn Norris and Sir Francis Drake with some other private persons to their eternal honor rigged and set out at their own charge requiring nothing of the Queen but some few Ships of War and she granted to them that the Ships and spoils taken should be divided amongst them The Hollanders likewise to this Fleet joyned some Ships so that the number of the whole Fleet was about eleven thousand Soldiers and fifteen hundred Mariners With this Fleet Don Antonio with some few Portugals set Sayl out of England having before loaden the English with great promises of the recovery of this kingdom assuring them that the Portugueses would be ready upon his appearance to revolt from the Spainiard and that Muley Hamet King of Morocco would assist him with twenty thousand men The first place that the English Fleet put into was the Groyne in Gallicia the base town of which they easily took but attempting the higher town were twice repulsed and forced to raise their siege upon advice that the Condy di Andrada had gathered Forces at Burges Bridge and that the Condy di Altamira was coming with more purposing to besiege them in the base town and so cut off their way to their ships which Norris resolved to prevent and therefore with a sufficient force marched against them overthrew them and had
three Millions of Gold for Her Portion and that the King of Portugal would for seven Years maintain eighteen Men of War at Sea for the defence and service of the French Crown Long was this business in negotiation and by many thought would have taken effect the Agent being very highly carressed both by the King and Queen mother of France but whether by reason of Cardinal Mazarine's dislike of it or other reasons of State it was prolonged by continual demurs till after the King of Portugals death and then wholly broken off For King Iohn being now arrived to about fifty years of Age in the sixteenth year of his Reign and in the year of our Lord 1656. on the 6. of November S. N. paid his last debt to nature having a long time been troubled with an obstruction in the kidneys occasioned by the stone and gravel which was so sharp all the time of his sickness that he seldom urined and when he did it was in so little quantity that it did scarce at all ease him this violent pain put him into a Burning-feaver which in ten days overpressed his vitals Before his death he appointed Donna Lucia his Queen to be Regent of the Kingdom during the minority of D. Alphonso her son recomâ—eâ—ding to her for-Assistants in the management of so great burden as a Crown the reverend D Emanuel Archbishop of Lisbon Don Runlio Marquess of Nisa the Earl of Canvandake and some others whose abilities love and fidelity he had experience of He had by his Queen Donna Lucia Daughter to the Duke of Medina Sidonia four Children onely two of which survived him to wit Alfonso who succeeded him in the Kingdom and is at present King of Portugal and the Infanta Catharina who was born the year before her Father came to the Crown a Princess in whom all vertues seem to flow that can make her the worthy Daughter of such renowned Parents her beauteous body being amply repleate with her generous Mothers spirit whose magnanimity and prudence all the world have admired his other two children were the Prince Theodosio who was so unfortunate as to die some time before his Father and a Daughter who died young He was a person of a very comely presence his countenance pleasant but inclinning to swarthiness his body about a middle stature yet comely and well proportioned nor were the lineaments of his mind less becoming then those of his body though if ye believe common fame he was none of the wisest Kings that ever Portugal could boast of the reason that he left so much of the reins of the Government to his wife a woman of a masculine and politick spirit from whence perhaps that jesting Spaniard might take occasion to say That it was not the Portugal force but the Spanish policy that kept that kingdom from the Catholique King alluding to the Queens being a Spaniard He was buried in the great Church of St. Vincenza del Foro with all accustomed and becomming ceremonies lamented by those Kings who had been his Allies especially be the King of France who honored his memory with a most magnificent Funeral solemnity himself attended by most of the Nobles and Parliament of France gracing it with his presence at the Church of Nostre Dame where after the singing of Mass the Bishop of Vance pronounced a Funeral Oration suitable to so Royal a subject and occasion ALFONSO the VI. The Two and twentieth KING of PORTVGAL KIng Iohn the fourth being thus deceased his onely surviving Son Alphonso the 6th of that name succeeded being about the Age of fourteen years his Mother during his minority administring the affairs of the Kingdom and causing him to be Crowned on the 14 of November eight days after the death of his Father The whole Kingdom of Portugal was in a kind of amaze at the so sudden death of King Iohn especially considering the youth of their present King fearing lest their common enemies should now take advantage of them but the prudent management of the most important business of State by the Queen Regenâ— soon banished all those fancied fears The Queen being sensible that upon this occasion of the Kings death she should have most occasion to use the Souldiery by the advice of her Council ordered all the Infantry of the Kingdom should have half a years pay the better to incourage them who were of themselves ready enough to fight against their common and inveterate enemy the Castilians And because she knew that the King of Spain would loose no opportunity to oppress the Kingdom of Portugal she thought it imprudence to let any slip where any advantage might be gained upon him and therefore all the Spanish Forces being drawn out of Andaluzia to oppose the English in case they should attempt to land at Cadiz for they then blocked up that Port with a Potent Fleet she commanded four thousand Horse to make an inroad into that country who plundered and layed waste all before them bringing away between forty and fifty thousand head of Cattel and leaving the whole soil in a manner desolate This so exasperated the Spaniards that draining most of the Garisons of his Kingdom he raised a potent Army and with ten thousand Foot and five thousand Horse entred Portugal and laid Siege to the strong City of Olivenza which at length they reduced to that necessity that the defendants were willing to capitulate sounded a parly but when they came to treat the Spaniards would not admit the King of Portugal any other title then that of Dâ—ke of Braganza which made the Portugals renounce any farther treating But at length the Spaniards condescending to treat the Town was delivered upon Articles but so much did the Queen Regent and Councel of Portugal resent it that they immediately gave order to arrest the person of Don Mandiol de Saldagna the Governour who with several of his chief Officers was by the Count de St. Lorenze General of the Portuguese Forces in those parts sent prisoner to Lisbon there to answer their ill defending of that town it appearing that at the surrendring of it there marched our two thousand two hundred well Armed Foot and one hundred Horse nor were they reduced to that necessity that was pretended there remaining in the stores of Ammunition and provision sufficient to have defended the town a great while longer The loss of this place was a great blow to the Portugueses it being a strong Frontier town and giving the Spaniard absolute command a great way into the Country but this the King of Spain resolved should be but a beginning of his conquest if possible of this Kingdom for he still made all preparations he could to assault it with a greater force and not onely endeavoured this with might and main to oppress it himself but by his Ambassadors solicited the States General of the United Provinces to send their Vice-Admiral Opdam with the Fleet he then had before Dantzick into Portugal to demand
having reigned thirteen He was a man of a most noble aspect carrying in his face and in his eyes no ordinary Majesty his nose was somewhat of the biggest yet did not at all disfigure him he was very curious in trimming his beard which somewhat inclined to red his countenance was somewhat earthy his continual indispositions having made a paleness inherent to him His piety was his principal ornament nor was there any crime which did more incense his goodness than that which was dyed in blood There wanted nothing in him to render him worthy the greatest Encomiums but health and the counsel of prudent men by whom he might have been served without design and without self-interest Want of these two things were the occasion that a most just man wholly composed of goodness fell into those miscarriages which made him in the conceit of men impious and unjust He was buried in that Regal Chappel built by himself at Toledo True it is that most Writers disagree whereabouts his Tomb was placed because the Chappel being rebuilt and made greater the Sepulchres were over-turned and placed on the side of the wall without Elegies or Epitaphs so that you can have no other then mens opinions for that without any certain foundation ALFONSO the III. The Fifth KING of Portugal and Algarve ALfonso the Third who succeeded Sancho the Second was born in Conimbria the 5. of May An 1210. he was by his father by reason of his brothers uncertain health educated with great diligence in those studies which might adapt him to Command but Sancho's life deceiving the vulgar opinion he was called by the Queen of France thither who obliged him to marry Matilda Countess of Bologna then Widow of Fillippio Crispo and Daughter of Fillippio Augustino Alfonso was at the time of his marriage twenty seven years and being of stature great strong of body and of an invincible courage of minde he was by the Pope elected Captain of those Knights of the Cruciada who from France and other Provinces were thought worthy to carry their valor to the Holy War but he was diverted this Honor by the necessity of his return into Portugal to put an end to those Troubles which were moved by the ambition of some who presuming upon Sancho's pliable nature were to act a fell Tragedy upon the Stage of the kingdom At his first arrival he appeased those Tumults of the people raised against the wickedness of the evil Ministers who by reason of his brothers weakness did what they list and having after his death reduced all the Forâ—resses of the kingdom to his obedience he addicted himself by severity to purge away those vices which before ruled even in the most potent Personages This made him envied and maligned of many but the glory of his fame did divert all opponent Factions and made him triumph over the imprudence or obstinacy of the most disobedient Home-bred stiâ—s being quite pacified he gave his minde to the increasing and adorning of his kingdom many places destroyed by continual Wars with the Moors he peopled with noble Colonies re-edifying many decayed Towers and building many new Edifices He likewise with an extraordinary liberality erected most stately Temples and Monasteries He instituted for the increasing of Commerce with his Neighbor kingdoms several solemn Fairs delighting much in Traffick and for the encouragement of it remitting his Customs But these singular vertues of Alfonso were darkned by a thick shadow of lust not abstaining for to satisfie his sense from seducing the most noble to his pleasures Interest of State making him afraid to repudiate his wife he contracted a most nefarious Marriage with Beatrice the illegitimate daughter of Alphonso the Ninth king of Castile and his Concubine Maria Villenia This Beatrice was brought up with greater love charge and attendance than any of Alfonso's children Alexander the fourth then Pope moved with the tears of the Countess of Bologna the complaints of her friends and the indignity of the action it self admonished him first by Letters to remember both his wife and his duty as a Christian but those saving documents prevailed nothing with the shut ears of deaf Alfonso whereupon the Pope fulminated forth an excommunication against him and his kingdom prohibiting divine service throughout all his Dominions hoping that these celestial arms might soften Alfonso's obdurate brest but it prevailed nothing till at length the death of the Dutchess procured his pardon which Urban the sixth granted rather to satisfie the clamors of the people then out of his own genius or that Alfonso desired it Beatrice now Crowned Queen and the succession confirmed by the birth of two children Alfonso had a desire to prosecute a War against the Moors but Lusitania having no confines upon Mauritania he procured to be invested King of the confining Countries still possessed by the Moors and that done he drave them from the Confines increasing his kingdoms glory and his own reputation Alfonso had by Beatrice three sons Dyonisio or Denys who succeeded in the kingdom Alfonso who married with Violanse daughter of Prince Emanuel son to Ferdinand the third King of Castile the third son called Ferdinand died in his infancy he increased the number of his children by his amorous conjunctions those thus begot were Egidius and Ferdinand made Knights Templars Alfonso Dionysio or Denys married to Maria Rivera and lastly Leonora wife to Count D. Gazzia de Souza a man no less potent by his great riches then friends Alfonso was blest with a most comely countenance sparkling eyes a most comely proportion of body but so large that it struck no small admiration into the King Sebastian when he made him be taken out of his Sepulchre yet was not his body more large then his soul was sublime he was extream profuse in gifts which made him beloved by those who found themselves benifited by them his prudence was by all admired and amongst his vertues there was nothing wanting but a more serious veneration of Religion greater gratitude towards his first wife Matilda and less dishonesty in his loves in his latter days he was extreamly troubled with the gout which so tormented him that impatient of his pain he permitted himself to be transported by excess of passion He died in Lisbon in the year 1279. at sixty nine years of age and in the two and thirtieth year of his reign not accounting till the death of his brother Sancho he was buried in the Church of St. Dominica from whence his body was removed to that of St. Vincenzo and laid in a great but no curious Tomb on the other part of the Church is to this day to be seen the Sepulchre of his Queen Beatrice whose body preserved by Balsoms is to be shown in the Chappel looking so firm as if it had but lately yielded to death DIONISIO The sixth KING of PORTVGAL DIonysio or Denys his son succeeded to Alphonso who was born in the year 1260. and called Dionysio because born on
wilde beasts that he was destined to hear govern and judge his people and â—hat whilest he did so they would not fear to suffer for him any danger nay they would encounter death it self for his sake that it would redound little to his glory to have killed thousands of Wild-Boars or to have taken ten thousand Stags but much to have administred Justice sustained his Scepter with reputation These advertisements more free then secure stirred up the fierce nature of Alphonso and ready he was to have ' chastised their freedom who would be governed by a King and not by a Huntsman but at length considering with himself the truths they had spoken he pardoned the liberty of their Speech and took them into the number of his dearest friends And that he did esteem them so appeared by his taking their counsel wholly leaving off his hunting and addressing all his endeavors to the government of the kingdom the first of his impresses were against those who had furiously armed themselves against his father Dionisio and because those affections good or bad which have once had growth in the minde are very hardly rooted out the hatred that he bore to his brother Sancho whilest he was Prince now renewed whilest he was King For whilest his brother was absent he caused several wicked men who flattered the fortune of the King to testifie against his brother and charged him with all the imagined thoughts of soul as crimes committed during his fathers life upon which Sancho was by the Judges in complyance to the Royal will deprived of all his honors in Portugal banished the Country and all his goods confiscate Sancho was at Castile when hearing of this sentence he by Letters intreats his brother to restore him to his grace promising that he would serve him not onely as his brother but as his King But his prayers not at all softning his obstinate brother he getting assistance from the King of Castile takes Arms resolving to force that reason and justice with his sword which his supplications could not obtain In fine after a long continuance of War in which the subjects were made subject to infinite oppression he made with his brother a peace more necessary then secure About this time D. Iuan Emanuel son to the Prince Emanuel the Nephew of Ferdinando surnamed the Holy was famous among the Spanjards both for his great Nobility of birth and riches this Iuan Emanuel had a daughter called Constance who not yet marriagable was promised to King Alphonso the eleventh of Castile but this King offended by certain secret occasions broke his vow to her and espoused Mary daughter to Alphonso King of Portugal after a little time passed the King of Portugal thinking Constance to be a fit match for his son the Prince Pedro first writ to his son in Law Alphonso and soon after began to treat with Iuan Emanuel both the one and the other returned answer to his messages the King of Castile with dissimulation and Emanuel with sincerity offering his daughter The King of Castile either out of vexation that she whom he had repudiated should still be a Queen or envying to the Prince Pedro the possession of so worthy a woman after many artifices to hinder the marriage put himself in Arms to hinder the passage of Constance into Portugal From this War happened infinite destructions and murders which after the effusion of a sea of blood were ended by the Authority of Pope Benedict the XII and Constance was married to Prince Pedro. About the year 1340. Albâ—acen that potent Miramamolin of Morocco and Granata with a mighty Army of four hundred and seventy thousand men came against Alphonso King of Castile threatning indeed the ruine of all Spain when Alphonso by the advice of his Councel sent to desire assistance of his father in Law the King of Portugal and that he might the better speed he made his wife the daughter of Alphonso the messenger who willingly heard and listned to the Ambassie and not onely promised assistance of men to further this expedition but to go himself in person Being arrived according to his promise it was determined that they should on both sides assault the Moors which accordingly they did and that with so prosperous success to the Christians that after an innumerable slaughter of the Saracens they gained one of the most rich and most glorious Victories that has been in the memories of man so great quantities of silver and gold found they in the Moorish Tents that one would have imagined all the riches of Africa had been transported into Spain The reason of the Barbarians transporting over so great Treasure was supposed to be out of the assurance of Victory which they flattered themselves withall they had designed Spain for their Country and thereupon all those who had thoughts of planting there brought over all that could either better or conserve their fortune This Victory was gained nigh to the River of Saledo the two Kings gave part of their spoils to Pope Benedict who then resided in Avignion giving him likewise four and twenty Colours taken from the enemy among which was the proper Standard of Alboacen King of Marocco with many horses and many Moorish Princes taken prisoners in the battel For his own portion of the prey Alphonso King of Portugal brought home the son of King Iulinenza made prisoner with his proper hand he likewise with his own hand placed five Colours taken from the enemy in the Church of St. Vincenso that posterity might behold them as a memorial of his valor and glory Scarce was he returned into Portugal but he permitted himself to be overcome by certain evil Councellors and be perswaded unjustly to take away the life of Agnesa di Castro by whom his son Pedro had had divers children After the death of Coâ—stance the Prince kept her like his wife and it was publiquely believed that he would one day make her his Queen This accident was the occasion of cruel Tragedies in the kingdom for it stirred up a civil War betwixt the father and son but all ascribed it to a just judgement of God upon Alphonso who suffered the same injuries from his son which he had done to his father The Queen Beatrice bore Alphonso the fourth six children three sons died in their infancy and Pedro who was the fourth succeeded the other two were daughters to wit Maria who married Alphonso King of Castile and Eleanora who was espoused to Piedro the fourth King of Arragon King Alphonso the fourth of Portugal over-loaden with the burthen of seventy seven years in the month of May in the year 1356. departed this life after he had exercised the Kingly Office thirty years and a half he was buried at the going into the Cathedral at Lisbon together with his wife Beatrice having left to the Priests of that Church rich Revenues not onely for the expences of his sepulchre but for the celebrating continual Anniversary Masses for
their souls He was equally strong and valiant nor was it ever known that the greatest danger 〈◊〉 strike terror into his undaunted minde he observed with a strict punctuality the rules of hoâ—nesty and justice and towards God he with 〈◊〉 ordinary piety was both zealous and reverâ—â—â— he made several Laws for the benefit 〈…〉 kingdom which are still continued among the Statutes of that Realm If he had not taken Arms against his father or if he had moderated his hatred to his 〈◊〉 or if he had not imbrued his hands in the 〈◊〉 blood of Agnesa envy it self coul◠〈◊〉 have found out any subject of blame in the 〈◊〉 course of his life he resembled his 〈…〉 many vertues but was much inferior to him in liberality his death happened to him in that condition when he had little reason to desire longer life for it was when he saw his actions of glory forgotten though he was yet alive for his subjects began onely to remember his faults which being fresh in memory made his loss the less lamented PEDRO The Eighth KING of PORTVGAL PEdro the first of that Name who succeeded his father Alfonso in the kingdom of Portugal was born at Lisbon in the year 1325. two years before his father came to sit at the heâ—m of government at the time of his being Crowned he was about the age of three and thirty years He was the onely male-childe that lived of four and some danger there was of him in his youth he being very sickly till he arrived to about eighteen years of age which made his father to be assured of a Successor for his Crown to defer the marriage of Leonora his youngest daughter to Pedro King of Arragon till he perceived him in a perfect measure of health He was about the age of one and twenty years married to Constance daughter to D. Iuan Emanuel by whom he had onely one son named Ferdinand who succeeded him in the kingdom and she as if she had onely come into the world to bear him and having performed that task died After the death of the Infante D. Pedro fell in love with Agnesa de Castro a most beautiful woman and descended of the blood Royal by her he had many children amongst whom one was Iohn who afterward was the first of that name King of Portugal this Lady being accused to King Alphonso at his return from his great Victory over the Moors nigh the River Saledo was by him for what crimes is unknown put to death which so incensed Pedro that he took up those Arms against his father which he laid not down till his death As soon as he was come to the Crown he brought to condigne punishment those who had wrongfully accused and counselled the Lady Agnesas death he afterwards renewed the old War betwixt his father and the King of Castile about the stopping of his espoused wife Constance But because the Pope had before made up this breach he by his Letters commands Piedro to desist from further prosecuting the War which he for the present obeys but soon after upon a slight pretence again enters into Castile with his Army whereupon an excommunication was thundred out against him which forced him to retire and to gain his Pardon turn his Army upon the Moors from whom he took the strong Port Town of Pharo in the kingdom of Algarve At his return home he fell sick and in the tenth year of his kingdom and about the three and fortieth of his age in September 1367. he died he was buried in the Cathedral of Lisbon not far distant from his father having caused before his death three Tombs to be erected on each side he caused the bodies of his wife Constance and the Lady Agnesa to be laid reserving the middle one for himself where he was accordingly buried He was a man of as comely a personage as any whatsoever of the Kings of Portugal of a sweet and affable disposition nor did he want any of his fathers vertues but one vice they both had which overshadowed all their vertues warring against their fathers FERDINAND The ninth KING of PORTVGAL FErdinand the first of that Name succeeded his father Pedro in the kingdoms of Portugal and Algarve he was born at Lisbon in the year one thousand three hundred forty seven and was the onely childe of Constance daughter of D. Iuan Emanuel He arrived at the Crown at the age of about two and twenty years in the year 1369. as soon as he had fininished the Ceremonies of his Coronation he prosecuted the War his father had begun against the Moors and in several battels drove them quite out of Algarve he built a Monastery upon a Promontory of Land called Cape St. Vincent now by us the Southern Cape which stretcheth it self out into the Atlantique sea He addicted himself to the planting and peopling of that kingdom distributing the waste Lands among the Inhabitants he repaired many Cities Towns and Castles which had been destroyed by the fury of the War he built several Churches and Monasteries in that kingdom all which he enriched with great Revenues but particularly a Monastery for Franciscan Friers erected in Silva the chief City of that Territory About this time it was that Pedro son of Alphonso the eleventh king of Castile having committed several tyrannical outrages intollerable to his subjects oppressing and destroying his subjects putting away and after murdering his wife daughter to Peter Duke of Burbon was by his bastard brother Henry chased out of his kingdom and forced to live an exile He at first seeks for aid to Ferdinand King of Portugal but in vain he next addresses himself to Edward the black Prince of Wales who was then at Burdeaux with an Army of thirty thousand men he consents to assist him and encountring Henry on the borders of Castile with near one hundred thousand men utterly discomfits him and establisht Pedro in the Throne who shortly after falling again to his former tyrannical courses is deserted by his subjects taken by his brother Henry and put to death Ferdinand had but one only daughter that survived named Beatrice who was married to Henry King of Castile and thereby excluded from the right of succession according to the Law made in the first Assembly Estates held at Lamâ—go in the reign of Alfonso the first King so that in this King ended the legitimate Line of Henry Duke of Lorrein This King had now reigned 18. years and lived forty when seized by a violent sickness he gave up the ghost in the year of our Lord God 1387. and was buried by his Ancestors in the Cathedral Church of Lisbon JOHN the 1. Tenth KING OF PORTVGAL JOhn the first bastard son to Pedro the first by Agnesa de Castro who succeeded Ferdinand in the kingdom was born in Lisbon in the year 1356. he was in his minority educated in the famous Conimbricense University where he addicted himself to all those studies which became a Prince
Kings of Leon which Wars he managed with so much courage as was admirable in a Prince so young The Count of Trastamarense despising his youth took to wife his mother Teresia and from that marriage drew occasion to wage War with him Alfonso to vindicate his sleightings cheerfully encountred him and after the diverse accidents of several battels took him prisoner and forced him to regain his liberty to give him to wife his sister Uracca with that part of the land for her Dower which had been the occasion of the War Yet some there be that differ both in the occasion of the marriage and the contest Alfonso likewise fought several battels with his Grand-father Alfonso the 6. King of Castile and in one battel took him prisoner near one of his Castles called Arcos del val de vez upon whose release he had conferred upon him the title of Duke of Portugal he afterwards imployed his forces against the Saracens from whom he took Leirida Torre Naova and several other places Whereupon the King Ismaurus who was the most powerful amongst all the Mauritamans calling to his assistance four other Kings with an Army of four hundred thousand men invaded Portugal but his fortune corresponded not with his numbers for Alfonso encountring this great power with a small Army overthrew them and slew or took prisoners all the five Kings in memory or which â—ignal Victory Alphonso bore five Escutchions in his Arms though others are pleased to affirm it was in memory of the five wounds of our Savior seen by him in a Vision just before the fight The soldiers made proud with this exâ—raordinary success thinking the title of Duke too low for their Commander saluted Alphonso with the tile of King which Alphonso accepted and returning home enriched with spoils addicted himself to the exercise of his Regal power by calling a general Council of the three Estates to wit the Clergy Nobility and Commons for the better establishing by the consent of the whole people that Crown upon his head which the Soldiers love had conferred upon his merit This general Assembly being met in the City of Lamego and in the Church of St. Almacave the King came thither and seating himself upon the Royal Throne but as yet unadorned with his Ensigns of Majesty according to appointment the King Deputy Don Lorenzo Venegas spake to the Estates as followeth You are here assembled by the Authority of King Alphonso to see the Popes Letters and Resolve to confirm him for your King Whereat the whole Estates with one voice cried We will that he shall be our King Upon which the Deputy demanded shall he only be your King and not his sons after him They all answered he so long as he lives shall be our King and after his death his sons shall succeed Give him then the Royal Ensigns said the Deputy They answered we give them in the name of God and therewithall the Arch-Bishop of Braga placed the Crown upon the Kings head and gave him the Scepter in his hand with all accustomed Ceremonies which done his Majesty rose up and drawing his sword spake to this effect Blessed be God that hath been my helper with this sword I have delivered you and overcome our enemies and now that you have made me your King let us make Laws for the government of the Kingdom They answered so we will dread Soveraign we will make such Laws as shall seem good and convenient to you and we and all our children and posterity will be wholly at your command And accordingly several Laws were then and there immediately made the sum of which were 1. That King Alfonso should be Master of the Kingdom and that after him there might be no troubles in the choosing of a King his Son should reign after him his Grand-childe and so from Father to Son in secula seculorum 2. That if the eldest Son should dye during the life of the Father the next brother should be King and so forward 3. That if the King should dye without issue having a brother he should succeed but not his sons without consent of the Estates 4. That if the King should have onely daughters the eldest should be Queen after her father upon condition that she be married to a native of the Kingdom and that he be a Nobleman who should not have the power to take upon him the name of King until he had a son born nor should he till then wear a Crown on his head or take the right hand of his wife 5. That it should be for ever held for a Law among the Portugals that the Kings eldest daughter should marry a Native of the Country that so the Crown might never descend to Forreigners and that in case she should marry a Forreign Prince she should be excluded from her right of succession for they would not have that Kingdom which themselves by their own valor and by the effusion of their own blood without the aid or assistance of any strangers had made so go out of the race of the Portugals The Crown by these Laws and Statutes confirmed Alfonso as he was advanced in Title so he addicted himself to higher and greater enterprizes in five moneths siege he added the great and populous City of Lisbone to his Crown not without the loss of thousands of valiant soldiers and as many hazards of his own life some affirm that in this War the number of the slain amounted to no less then two hundred thousand men This magnanimous King likewise made innumerable acquists both of one side and the other of the Tagus he slew both the Kings of Leon and Castile but at length wounded in a battel he was no longer able to follow the Wars in person for what with his wound and what with age being now sixty six years old he had not strength enough to mount on horseback he therefore bequeathed his command over his Armies to his eldest son Sanctius or Sancho but still reserving to himself the superintendency of all Having thus relinquished the Wars he addicted himself wholly to works of piety and to endeavor the flourishing of the Christian Religion he built within his Kingdom one hundred and fifty Churches and Monasteries all which he enriched with great revenues Amongst the rest he built that at Conimbria from whence that famous University called Academia Conimbricense had its Original In this Monastery called that of the Holy Cross he died at ninety one years of age on the 9. of December Anno 1185. and here he remained buried in a little Tomb scituated in an Angle of that Church till such time as King Emanuel affected with the Fame of his Sanctity erected for him a most stately Monument which is at this day to be seen By Uracca his first wife daughter to the Count Trastamarense he had no children whereupon at fifty two years of age and in the seventh year of his reign he took to wife Mafalda sister to Amadeo