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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

Virtues with which he was adorned Children of SANCEO I. King of PORTUGAL and of DOULCE OF ARRAGON his Wife ALPHONSO II. King of PORTUGAL succeeded his father King Sanceo His Birth FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL Count of FLANDERS PORTUGAL Escartelle de FLANDERS born in the Year One thousand one hundred fourscore and Years of CHRIST 1186 six The Queen Teresa called Maud of Portugal Countess of Flanders his Aunt by the Fathers side His Marriage D'or au Lyon Rampant de sable procured his Marriage with JANE Countess of FLANDERS eldest Daughter and Co-heir of Count Baldwin Years of CHRIST 1211 who was also Emperour of Constantinople In the right of which Marriage contracted in the Year One thousand two hundred and eleven the Prince FERDINAND stiled himself Count of Flanders PORTUGAL This Marriage was made also at the instance and perswasion of Philip Augustus King of France supposing thereby to make a Friend of this Prince Party de FLANDRE who promised to remit and render into the possession of Lewis Count of Arto● the Kings eldest Son the Towns of Aire and St. Omer But FERDINAND being in possession of the County of Flanders it repented him that his promises should deprive him of the right which he pretended to have to those Towns that he had quitted This caused him to be more easily induced by the Princes and Barons of his Countrey to alienate himself from the affection of the King of France and to adhere to the pernitious designs of his enemies So it was that this Great Monarch having put to Sea with a confiderable force to pass into England all the Princes and Barons of France shewed themselves ready and willing to accompany him except the Count of Flanders who freely declared that he would not move except the King would first restore to him the Towns he had from him And although he had recompence offered him for the same Towns yet he returned home with the demonstration of ill-will against France Rigord G. Brito in Philippo This caused the King who would not suffer so rash a boldness from his Vassal to set Sail streight for Flanders with that Army he had prepared for England and had so happy success in this Action as to subdue the Count to his obedience and in a small time to gain a notable Victory upon his Army By this means the Cities of Cassel Ypre Bruges and Gaum and the rest of Flanders was reduced into the hands of the King where he left his Garisons But he had no sooner turned his back but the Count FERDINAND re-entred with a fresh Army at the sight of which all the same Cities were again surrendred Sometime after the Flemmings continuing in their disaffection Mejeri Marchant resolved to revenge themselves upon the King and to that purpose joyned their power with the Emperour Otho IV. King John of England and other Years of CHRIST 1214 Princes enemies of the same King Philip But at their Rencounter which was near unto Bonines the French behaved themselves with so much resolution that they carried a glorious Victory by so much the more signal because several Princes and Grandees were there made Prisoners Rigord F. Aemile among others this Count of Flanders who was conducted to the Castle of the Louure at Paris in Triumph and had the unhappiness to see the Parisians rejoyce at his mis-fortune and at his arrival to entertain him with scorn and dirision He was a Prisoner until the beginning of the Year One thousand two hundred seven and twenty when Queen Blanch of Castille his Couzin and Mother Years of CHRIST 1227 of St. LEWIS having for that purpose made use of all occasions that presented themselves during her Regency restored him to his liberty History of France and sent him back into his own Countrey with intention to oblige him hers Nunez in opposition to the Revolted Princes So that those Authors misapprehend who have written that FERDINAND dyed a Prisoner His death For six years after his release his death hapned in the City of Noyon in the Year One thousand two hundred thirty and three being seven and forty Years of CHRIST 1233 years old his body was deposited at Marquettes near unto the City of Lisle an Abbey of Monks of the Cistertian Order and his heart intombed in the Church of our Lady in the same City of Lisle where you may read this Epitaph FERNANDI proavos Hispania Flandria Corpus Cor cum viceribus continet iste locus Mejer Marchantius Sueyro Pingonius The Countess JANE of FLANDERS his Widow espoused for her second Husband in the Year One thousand two hundred two and thirty Years of CHRIST 1232 Thomas second of the name Count of Maurienne and Piedmont son of Thomas Count of Savoye which Thomas in the right of the Princess his Wife used also the Title and appellation of Earl of Flanders and Henault She finished her dayes in the Year One thousand two hundred four and Years of CHRIST 1244 forty having Founded several Hospitals Churches and Religious Houses in the Cities of Bruges Gaunt Ipre and Lisle the Church of the Beguinees in the same City of Bruges the Abbey of Marquettes above-mentioned and the Cordileires and Jocobines at Valenciennes which are so many famous Monuments of her Piety Daughters of FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL and of JANE COUNTESSE OF FLANDERS his Wife 5. MARY OF FLANDERS was promised to Robert Count of Artois In Theatro Genealog whom she never married Hierosme Henninges is mistaken saying That she was married to Thomas of Savoye son of Count Thomas For it was Jane her Mother as we have before expressed 5. SIBILLE OF FLANDERS whose Husband was Guiccard III. of the name BEAUJEU Lord of Beaujeu as writeth Claud Paradine in his Genealogical Alliances who reports Her Marriage That there is mention made of her in the Records of the Church of Beaujolois D'or au lyon de sable au lambel de gueules de trois pieces adding also Her Death That she dyed in the Year One thousand two hundred six and twenty But this Guiccard being deceased Ten years before as the same Author notes Party de FLANDRE qui est de mesme sans le Lambel it 's not to be credited that he had Children Years of CHRIST 1226 by SIBILLE as he would perswade us that he had three For the Marriage of Ferdinando father of the Princess was Consummated but five years before the decease of Guiccard and SIBILLE was at that time too young Indeed Andrew de Chesne seems to doubt whether she were the Daughter of Ferdinand saying That if she was of the House of Flanders she might be Sister of Philip of Alsace Count of Flanders Here follow the Children of SANCEO I. King of PORTUGAL PETER OF PORTUGAL King of MAJORCA PORTUGAL MAJORCA and Count of Urgel His Birth was born in the Year One thousand one hundred

the Voyage to Jerusalem where in his youth he had made a Vow to go fight the Turks which he had undertaken had not he been diverted by the King of France At his return into Portugal he found the Prince his young Years of CHRIST 1477 Son commanding in the Quality of King according to that charge which he had given him upon his journey into France Mariana reports that this was by Letters at his departure from Paris Idem Lib. 24. Cap. 20. So ALPHONSO constrained to submit to Time and adverse Fortune looked upon a Peace as the best expedient he could make use of with his enemies Nonius which was concluded at Alcantara in the Year One thousand Years of CHRIST 1479 four hundred threescore and nineteen by which he excluded himself from any farther Pretentions to that Kingdom This Peace was confirmed and Sealed by the agreement of several Marriages contracted betwixt the Children of the Adversary Kings It being remarkable that in the Treaty of this Peace it was particularly declared That it should continue the space of an hundred and one years those which effected it putting as it 's usual so to do Connostaggio au l ure de l'union de PORTUGAL au Royaume de CASTILLE the Incertain for the Infinite But this limited number proved Prophetical For the time an hundred and one years continued from the end of this War until that in the Year One thousand five hundred and fourscore this Kingdom was subdued by Philip II. King of Spain descended from Ferdinand and Elizabeth against King Anthony of Portugal when he rendred himself absolute Master thereof So that the words and Agreements of the Treaty of Peace did at last meet with the quality of the Event Now ALPHONSO transported with indignation that the Queen his Wife had been deprived of that Right which she had to the Kingdom of Castille and vexed with the sinister events that had hapned to his Estate but principally that his Wife had put on the habit of Religious in the Monastery of St. Clare which she had founded at Santarem Mariana was carried away with such an extream excess of Melancholly His Death that it cast him into a Years of CHRIST 1441 violent Disease and so finished the course of his life at Sintra being the place of his Birth Lib. 24. Cap. 21. His decease hapned the Eight Mariana writes the Last day of August Aº One thousand four hundred fourscore and one having held the Scepter Forty years and lived Fifty He lieth at the Royal Abbey of Battel with his Ancestors This Prince is commended for his Valour Sobriety Continence and Liberality as also to have been the first of the Kings of Portugal that placed a Liberary in the Royal Palace by which we may believe that in imitation of his Father he also was a lover of Learning Children of ALPHONSO V. King of PORTUGAL and of ELIZABETH OF CONIMBRA his first Wife JOHN Prince OF PORTUGAL dyed young JOHN II. of the name King OF PORTUGAL whose Story is comprehended in the Chapter following JANE OF PORTUGAL born in the Year One thousand four hundred fifty and two Her Birth was desired in Marriage by three great Monarchs Vasconcellius Years of CHRIST 1452 Maximilian King of the Romans afterwards Emperour first of the name Charles VIII King of France and Richard III. King of England But she refused all these matches and at what time her Father made his expedition Years of CHRIST 1470 into Affrica being only Eighteen years old yet had so great a confidence of her Wisdom that he left her Regent of his Estate in his absence where she governed his affairs with great care At his return being transported with a holy zeal and misprision of the World she made it her supplication to the King her Father that he would permit her to pass the Habit of a Nun and to encloyster her self her request he granted and so she went first to Aveiro then to Odivelles where she passed the rest of her life in great Humility Her death She died at Years of CHRIST 1490 the age of Eight and thirty years in the Month of May Anno One thousand four hundred fourscore and ten Vasconcellos is very large in the Story of her Life and worthy Actions 12. JOHN II. Of the Name KING of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES Lord of GUINEE Sirnamed THE GREAT CHAP. XIV PORTUGAL D'argent a cinq Escussons d'azur peris en Croix chacun charge de cinq besans d'argent posez en sautoir a la bordure de gueulles chargeé de sept chafleaux d'or PORTUGAL Party de PORTUGAL-VISCO Qui est PORTUGAL Escartelé d' ARRAGON In his younger years he behaved himself with so much Gallantry in the second expedition of Affrica but more particularly at the prize of Argesille from the Moors that the King his Father conferred upon him the Order of Knighthood Vasconcellius Afterwards also he gave testimony of a great Courage in the Warre of Castille And upon Alphonso's journey into France he commanded this young Prince to take upon him the Government of his Estate with the Title of King At his return his Father perswading him to retain this Title and Royal quality during his absence in Affrica as a good Son he refused this proffer and relinquished the Dignity of King saying That he received a much greater contentment to see his Father re-established in his Kingdom than that he himself had Command of the whole Earth Years of CHRIST 1481 The time of his Fathers death being come Mariana Lib. 24. C. 23. he succeeded him and took in hand the Scepter when he was of the age of Six and twenty years No sooner was he mounted upon the Throne but he caused Justice severely to be administred without exception permitting the Judges and other Ministers of State to seize upon the Malefactors wheresoever they were to be found not exempting the Houses of the Grandees it self notwithstanding that Priviledge and Antient Custom that might be alledged to the contrary This caused many of his own Relations wickedly to plot against him and to hold intelligence and contrive conspiracies with the Castillian to his ruine The Chief of these were Ferdinand Duke Years of CHRIST 1483 of Braganza and James Duke of Visco the contrivances and pernitious designs of the first having been manifestly discovered by his own Letters at his Indictment so that being convicted he was condemned Vasconcellius and then publickly executed and his Goods confiscated which so much amazed some of them that they fled into Castille But for all this the audacity of the Conspirators was such that they ceased not yet to contrive the death of the King of which he had information and not long after got the Duke of Visco into his power where he lost his life being assassinated by the Kings own hand The severity of which action hath by some been called Inhumanity Cruelty but

Emperours succour In this expedition the Duke of Beia gave proof of his Valour and experience in Deeds of War to which he joyned the knowledge of the Methamaticks and other liberal Sciences He had the choice of two wives offered him the first was Mary afterwards Queen of England the second the Princess Barbara of Poland Daughter of King Sigismond first of the name J. Texera but he would embrace neither because as some Historians write he had clandestinely espoused a Gentlewoman named YOLAND whom he took to Wife for her excellent beauty being much inferiour to this Prince both in Extraction and Riches It is added that he would not declare his Marriage observing King John his eldest Brother to have many male-children The same Prince LEWIS dyed in the Year His Death One thousand five hundred fifty and five aged Forty nine years and Nine Months and was inhumed Years of CHRIST 1555 in the Abbey of Bethleem By his Will he appointed the Prince Anthony his Heir to his whole Estate not giving him other appellation therein than His Son without adding Natural by which we may believe he took him for his lawful Son A base Son of LEWIS OF PORTUGAL Duke of BEIA 14. ANTHONY proclaimed King OF PORTUGAL at St. Arem whose Story followeth in his place FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL His Birth was born in the City of Abrantes the Fifth day of June PORTUGAL Anno One thousand five hundred Years of CHRIST 1507 and seven Escartelé de CASTILLE Comme cy dessus and was conjoyned in Marriage with Guiamare Coutinho daughter of Francis Coutinho Count of Marialua and of Beatrice Meneses by which Wife he had two Children that dyed in their infancy His death and being Seven and twenty years old dyed Anno One thousand five hundred four and Years of CHRIST 1534 thirty PORTUGAL in the same place of Abrantes where he was born there his body rested Escartelé de CASTILLE Party de PORTUGAL until the Year One thousand five hundred fourscore and two when Philip II. King of Spain his Nephew caused it to be removed and interred in the Church of the Monastery of Bethleem near unto Lisbonne ALPHONSO Cardinal OF PORTUGAL Arch-bishop of Lisbonne PORTUGAL Bishop of Evora and Abbot of Alcobace born in the same City of Evora Comme cy devant Anno One thousand five hundred and nine His Birth He had attained but the Eighth year of his age when Pope Leo X. associated him Years of CHRIST 1509 to the Colledge of Cardinals Nonius and gave him the Title of St. Blaise in the Year One thousand five hundred and seventeen He expressed himself to Years of CHRIST 1517 be Magnanimous Vasconcellius Liberal and Humane and very diligent in his Episcopal function administring the Holy Sacraments of the Church in person To these Virtues he added an extraordinary Piety towards God Charity in behalf of the Poor and much affection to those which made profession of Learning In fine having only arrived at the Eight and twentieth year of his age he deceased Anno His Death One thousand five hundred seven and thirty and was Years of CHRIST 1537 deposited in the Abbey of Bethleem near Lisbonne Onufrius and Ciacon make mention of this Prelate in their Works which treat of the Popes and Cardinals HENRY also Cardinal OF PORTUGAL then elected King of Portugal and the Algarves shall have his Story hereafter EDWARD Prince OF PORTUGAL PORTUGAL Sixth Son of Emanuel King of Portugal His Birth Escartelé de CASTILLE and of Queen Mary of Castille his second Years of CHRIST 1515 Wife was born the Seventh day of September in the Year One thousand five hundred and fifteen and being but Fifteen years old Party de BRAGANCE finished the course of his life at Lisbonne the Twentieth day of October His death Anno One thousand Years of CHRIST 1540 five hundred and forty D'Argent au sautoir de gueulles chargé de cinq Escussons de Portugal He received the honour of Burial in the Monastery of our Lady at Bethleem with several Kings and Princes of the House of Portugal and from this Prince are descended the two last Kings of Portugal viz. John IV. and his Son King Alphonso VI. who Reigneth at present 1662. His Marriage The Princess ISABEL OF PORTUGAL his Wife Nonius was Daughter of James of Portugal fourth Duke of Braganza Vasconcellius and of Eleanor of Mendoza his Wife Children of EDWARD OF PORTUGAL and ISABEL OF BRAGANZA his Wife EDWARD OF PORTUGAL second of the name PORTUGAL-GUIMARENS Duke of Vimerana His Birth and Constable of Portugal was the only and posthumus Years of CHRIST 1540 Son of Prince Edward and not being above Fifteen years old King John III. his Uncle Anno Nonius One thousand five hundred fifty and five qualified him with the Dignity of Constable of the Kingdom of Portugal Vasconcellius after the decease of his Uncle Prince Lewis Duke of Beia younger Son of King Emanuel The same King John created him also Duke of Vimerana This Prince EDWARD which some esteem to be but little favoured by King Sebastian his Cosin was never married He had attained the Six and thirtieth year of his age His death when he departed this world at Evora Years of CHRIST 1576 Anno One thousand five hundred threescore and sixteen not in the Year following as writeth Hierosme Heninges in his Theatre of Kings and Princes leaving his Cosin John of Portugal Duke of Braganza his Successor in the Dignity of Constable MARY OF PORTUGAL Princess of PARMA FARNESE PARMA D'or a six Fleurs de Lis d'Azure 3. 2. 1. Party de PORTUGAL was Espoused in the Year Her Marriage One thousand five hundred threescore and Years of CHRIST 1566 six to ALEXANDER FARNESE first of the name Duke of Parma and of Placentia Dukes of Parma eldest Son of Prince Octavio and of Margaret of Austria his Wife and Grand-son of Peter Lewis first Duke of Parma of the House of Farnese This Princess MARY dyed at Parma in July Anno Her death One thousand five hundred threescore and seventeen and the Prince ALEXANDER Years of CHRIST 1577 her Husband who carried the reputation of one of the Greatest and most Renowned Captains of his age deceased the second day of December in the Year One thousand five hundred fourscore and twelve He lieth Years of CHRIST 1592 in the Abbey of St. Vaast at Arras From their Marriage issued among others two Children the elder of which was Rainucio Farnese who succeeded to his Fathers Estates and as being Heir to his Mother was of the number of those that pretended a right to the Crown of Portugal after the decease of King Henry And notwithstanding that his Dominions were remote yet besides the Favour of the Church which it was believed he had sufficiently it was

Don Henry de Sousa Count of Miranda to negotiate an Accomodation with the Netherland States yet he prevailed little for the pertinacious Hollanders were still resolute in their unreasonable demands computing their losses in Brazil where they had no right to be to amount to no less than thirty millions The Spaniards in the mean time were forced to give the Portugals some respite in the summer One thousand six hundred and fifty nine but preparations were made to assault them with the whole power of that Monarchy in the Spring One thousand six hundred and sixty Don John D'Austria being called out of Flanders to be Generalissimo of the Spanish Forces and having Orders given him in April One thousand six hundred and sixty to march directly to Merida on the Frontiers of Portugal though he went not that Summer But the Portuguesses resolved not to be behind-hand with their Enemies and therefore made several in-roads into the Spanish Territories depopulating all before them which made the Spaniards to be revenged resolve to do the like to them Order was therefore given to fall into the Kingdom on all sides the Marquess of Viana Governor of Gallicia marching in that way with Eight thousand Foot and eight hundred Horse and the Governor of Camara invading that part which was adjacent to his government In this condition was the Kingdom of Portugal when His Majesty Charles the Second King of England was restored to his Crowns and Kingdoms welcomed by his Subjects with all gratulatory and submissive Obedience the News of which was no sooner by advice from D. Francisco de Melo Ambassador for the King of Portugal in England conveyed to the ears of his Master but he caused all the Guns of the Town Castle and Ships in the Road to be fired and for three days and nights kept solemn and magnificent Rejoycings the Portuguess Nation as well as by this their joy at the Restoration of King Charles the Second as by their sorrow and general mourning at the Death of King Charles the First expressing their great affection for the English Nation But because their joy should be somewhat for their own as well as our sakes there at the same time arrived News at Lisbon that Don Alphonso Turtudo General of the Horse on the frontiers of Alentejo meeting with a Brigade of the Enemies Horse nigh to Bajadox had fought and defeated them killed and took four hundred of them amongst whom were four Captains of Horse prisoners The Spaniards still continued their Leavies against Portugal being resolved to employ an Army of four thousand Horse and twelve thousand Foot constantly recruited about the Frontiers of Estramadura and another of three thousand Horse and ten thousand Foot about Gallicia and a third of twelve thousand men to serve as a Reserve to the two former In this manner were they resolved to assault them by Land while the Prince of Montesarchio with ten men of War was appointed to coast up and down before their Ports and do them what mischief he could by Sea Thus did this Kingdom struggle with Spain for her Liberty by the prudent management of Affairs by that sage and industrious Queen-Regent until this present year One thousand six hundred threescore and two when upon the Ninteenth of August the Castillian Army marched towards the Towns of Barbeisus and Chosaes whereupon the General of the said Province the Earle of Prado and the Earle of St. John General of the Horse with all the Force they could make did set forth to oppose the Enemy who being surprized by the Care of the said General did engage with the Approbation of the chief Commander Don Balthasar Pontaju who immediately commanded them to fall on but the Earle of Prado did as well receive them he desiring nothing else but to shew the Castillians how little they did value them The Fight began with a great deal of Resolution on the Enemies side who for many houres hotly disputed the Quarrel till wearied by the unwearied Courage of the Portuguesses their whole Army was forced to flie in great Disorder A considerable number of the Enemies were slain and many taken Prisoners by which the said Province was freed from the Enemy with great Satisfaction to the Crown and great Honour to the Count of Prado whose Prudence and Valour in the management of this Business was much commended In the Province of Beira no less Success smiled upon the Portuguesses by the Count of Villaflor Governour thereof and the General of the Horse Manuel Treire D'Andrada who having intelligence that the Duke of Ossana had made himself Master of Escalas and raised a considerable Fort upon it with several Guns and placed Four hundred men to defend it went out and giving Battel to the Duke put him to Flight killing about Six hundred men and taking the greatest part of his Baggage with all his Ordnance and then falling upon the said Fort in few houres took it at mercy to the astonishment of the Castillians who fully perceived that they were not able to Act any thing against the same Provinces being so nobly defended by the same Governour and the People so unanimous to oppose them Nor had the Castillians gained those Advantages in Alentejo had it not been for the Civil Dissentions and Animosities among the Portugal Colonels which since have been sufficiently provided against by the Care of the Ministers of State and especially by the Prudence of Don Antonio De Sousa of Macedo now principal Secretary of State heretofore Resident from the King of Portugal in England If that the Portuguesses have thus long and so valiantly defended themselves by their own proper Valour without a Forreign Assistance against so potent a Monarch as the King of Spain then how much more now will they be able since they have renewed the old League with England whose Forces being united may defie all those that shall oppose them both Kingdoms being most formidable at Sea and Masters of a potent Army Nor was the King of Great Britain unmindful of returning the King of Portugal an Acknowledgment for the Happiness His Majesty received from Him in the Person of His Sister that Royal Lady the Princess KATHERINE when He sent Supplies into that Kingdom under the Command of that Valiant Lord the Earle of Inchequeen almost as soon as His Majesty had the Assurance of receiving His Beautiful Queen into His own Arms such was His MAJESTIES Care of the Welfare of that Monarchy the Knot of a perpetual Alliance being now so firmly tied That maugre all the Opposition of the most malignant Opposers They are resolved to link their Concerns together ever hereafter Since the Arrival of the English Forces in Portugal there hath been little Action they having been disposed of into Three several Squadrons so that now in September last the Generals all returned to Lisbon to refresh themselves there being no further Occasion for the Field Don John's Army had Orders sent them not to march and

as the Magnificent Church of Bethleem dedicated to the holy Virgin upon the River Tagus near unto Lisbonne and the Monastery of St. Jerosme in the same place another stately Church at Tomar and the Convent of the Cordeliers at Evora as also a House at Lisbonne called De Misericordia for the Relief of poor Gentlemen He also Founded the Royal Palace in the same City and another at Conimbra Idem After so many notable Victories he sent a stately Ambassade to Pope Years of CHRIST 1513 Leo X. with several rich presents besides a Rinocere and an Elephant which was according to a Portugal Historian the first that Rome had ever seen come from the Eastern parts In fine His Death EMANUEL departed this life at Lisbonne the Thirteenth day of December in the Year One thousand five hundred twenty and one Years of CHRIST 1521 aged Fifty and two years Mariana having Reigned Six and twenty He was inhumed in the same Church of Bethleem Vasconcellius which he left unfinished But Queen Katherine King John III. his Sons Wife built the High Altar and also erected two stately Monuments for this King and Queen a place since designed for the Mortuary of their Kings Osorius Besides the works of Piety which we have observed in this King he had also the care to convert unto the Christian faith a good number of Jews and to exterminate the Sarazens his Kingdom He remitted to the Ecclesiastiques the tenths which they payed to his Demain for Sales and Acquisitions caused several profitable Laws to be digested into better Order and Administred Justice with all Integrity Also by his Wisdom and by so many signal Acts and prosperous Voyages he rendered his Kingdom Rich and Flourishing abounding in Gold Silver Pearl pretious stones Spices and other excellent Commodities so that the Portuguesses called his Reign The Golden Age. He was furthermore admired for his Sobriety and to have abstained from Wine the whole course of his life He was a great Lover of Hunting Hawlking and Musick His Device was a Sphere and a terrestial Globe environed with the Sea with this Circumscription PRIMUS CIRCUNDEDISTI ME. To signifie that His Fleets had compassed the whole Circle of the Earth Idem This great King was thrice married His first Marriage First Aº One thousand four hundred fourscore and seventeen Mariana in the Month of October and in the City of Alcantara Vasconcellius to the Princess ISABEL OF CASTILLE eldest Years of CHRIST 1497 Daughter of Ferdinand and Elizabeth King and Queen of Castille and Arragon and Widow to the Prince of Portugal Alphonso Son of King John II. his Cosin and Predecessor Not long after this Marriage the young Prince John of Castille Isabels brother deceased so that she became heir apparent to the Kingdoms of her Father and Mother of which King EMANUEL and she were declared Princes But a little while after the Three and twentieth day of August Aº One thousand four hundred fourscore Years of CHRIST 1498 and eighteen this young Queen dyed in Child-bed at Saragoca in Arragon her Body was transported to Toledo and interred in the Nunnery of St. Isabel which King Ferdinand her Father had founded Idem Two years after the Thirtieth day of October His secōd Marriage Aº One thousand five hundred King EMANUEL espoused after Dispensation granted by Pope Alexander VI. his second Wife at Setubal not at Valence as some Years of CHRIST 1500 write being the Princess MARY OF CASTILLE Sister of Isabel his first Wife She also dyed in Child-bed at Lisbonne in the Year Years of CHRIST 1517 One thousand five hundred and seventeen aged Five and thirty years and was buried in the Monastery of our Lady His third Marriage The third and last Wife of King EMANUEL was LEONOR OF AUSTRIA Sister to the Emperour Charles V. and Daughter of Years of CHRIST 1519 Philip I. of the name and of Joane King and Queen of Castille This Marriage was Celebrated in the Year One thousand five hundred and nineteen and lasted but two years Leonor espoused for her second Husband Francis I. of that name King of France who had before married Queen Claude a former Wife She deceased at Validolit Mariana others say at Badaios where Years of CHRIST 1558 she was buried in March Anno One thousand five hundred eight ond fifty in the Sixtieth year of her age The History of King EMANUEL hath been most elegantly written in the Latin Tongue by Hierosme Osorio Bishop of Silve in the Algarvies by Damian Goez a Portugal Knight in his Language who was employed in several important Voyages and other affairs His Conquests also have been recorded by Lopez de Castagneda and Anthony de St. Romain in their Histories of East-India by Alphonso d'Albuquerque in his Commentaries John de Baros in the History of Asia Peter de Maris in his Dialogues John-Pedro Maffeé of the Order of Jesus in the History of the Indies in a most eloquent stile but incomparably well worded by John Mariana and Antonio Vasconcellos of the same Order Children of EMANUEL King OF PORTUGAL and of ISABEL OF CASTILLE his first Wife MICHAEL Prince OF PORTUGAL Castille and Gironne PORTUGAL born in the Year His Birth One thousand four hundred fourscore and eighteen Escartele Au 1. 4. de PORTUGAL Au 2. 3. contre-escartele Au 1. 4. de CASTILLE Au 2. 3. de LEON Years of CHRIST 1498 and in the Month of August was acknowledged for the Prince and Heir apparent of the Kingdoms of Castille and Arragon but he lived only two years His Death and dyed Anno One thousand five hundred at Granada where Years of CHRIST 1500 he lieth in the Chappel of the Kings By his decease the Infanta Donna Joane his Aunt by the Mothers side came to the Succession of the Estates of Castille Arragon Sicilie and several others which she transmitted to the Emperour Charles V. her Son Children of EMANUEL King OF PORTUGAL and of MARY OF CASTILLE his second Wife JOHN III. of the name King OF PORTUGAL continued the Succession LEWIS OF PORTUGAL Duke of BEIA PORTUGAL-BEIA Escartele de PORTUGAL de CASTILLE Seigneur of Septe Maure Couillan and Almade and Constable of Portugal second Son of King EMANUEL by his second Wife MARY OF CASTILLE was born in the City of Abrantes the third day of March in the Year Nonius One thousand five hundred and six At what time the Emperour Charles V. Sandoval His Birth his Brother-in-law undertook the Voyage of Affrick for the Conquest of the City of Thunes from the Moors and the protection of Years of CHRIST 1506 Muleasses Mariana who had made his application to this great Emperour for assistance Years of CHRIST 1535 LEWIS accompanied him in that glorious expedition and had the command of the Ships which King John III. his Brother had sent to the

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

the most Christian King his Master but that he would disburse himself for the service of the King of Portugal promising that he would presently send thither a Fleet of Twenty Sail with his Nephew Admiral and Ambassador Extraordinary This Treatment thus ended the Ambassadors took their leaves his Eminence waiting upon them as far as the Stairs which when they endeavored to hinder he replied That the Ambassadors of the King of Portugal were to be Treated with as much Respect as those of the Emperor or Pope Few dayes after a Juncto of the King of France his Council were appointed to Treat with the Ambassadors in the House of the Lord High Chancellor of the Kingdom where a Peace was fully concluded between the two Kingdoms of France and Portugal Other Ambassadors were about the same time that the afore-mentioned were sent into France dispatched into England for it very much concerned the Kingdom of Portugal to maintain a good Correspondence with the Crown of England both in regard of the Navigation and Commerce of both States and also the better to break that Amity and good Understanding which was now held between the Crown of Spain and that State Hither therefore were sent Don Antonio D'Almado and Don Francisco D'Averado Leilon both persons of exquisite parts who notwithstanding that the Dunkirkers Chased them arrived safe in England And for all the sturdy endeavors of the Spanish Ambassadors they were received on shore with abundance of Respect yet His Majesty of England would not give them Audience or accept of the Ambassage from the King of Portugal so tender was He of His Honor and Conscience till Don Antonia de Sosa their Secretary had drawn up a Paper to satisfie Him of the Right and Title of the Duke of Braganza to the Crown of Portugal The sum of which was Upon the Death of King Henry the Cardinal without Issue many pretended together with the Infanta Donna Catherina Dutchess of Braganza and Grand-mother to this present King to the Crown of Portugal but all their pretences wanting foundation soon fell except that of Philip the Second King of Spain who propt up his with force King Henry was Uncle equally near to both but with this difference Catherine was the Daughter of a Son named Edward and Philip was the Son of a Daughter named Isabella Brother and Sister to King Henry King Philip pleaded That he being in equal degree with Catherine was to be preferred for his Sex Catherine replyed That the Constitution of that Kingdom allowing Females to succeed and withal the benefit of Representation in all Inheritances she representing Edward must exclude Philip by the very same right that her Father if he were living would exclude Philips Mother This Conclusion is infallible in Jure whereto Philip answered That Succession of Kingdoms descending Jure sanguinis there was allowed no Representation Catherine destroyed that foundation alledging That the Succession by the Death of the last King was derived Jure haereditatis non sanguinis because the Succession of Kingdoms was to be regulated by that Antient way whereby all things descended by Inheritance the other way of Succession being not known until later Ages nor ever practised either in Spain or Portugal in such Cases Briefly in behalf of Catherine it was urged which by the Castillians can never be denied or answered That she was no stranger but a Native of the Kingdom to whom alone according to the Laws of Lamego the Crown of Portugal can appertain The King having perused and deliberated upon this Paper gave immediately Order they should be presently conducted to London which was done with all convenient Solemnity and they lodged in a Palace ready prepared for them soon after with great Ceremony they received Audience of His Majesty in a fair and Stately Hall prepared for that purpose where His Majesty sate upon a Throne raised two steps and at the entrance of the Ambassador pulled off His Hat nor would be covered till they were so too To the Propositions made in the Speech of D. Antonia D'Almoda concerning a Peace between Portugal and England His Majesty replied That he should be very glad if an expedient might be found out to renew the Antient Leagues of Friendship between the two Crowns without the breaking with Spain Some few dayes after the Ambassadors were conducted to give a Visit to Mary Queen of England who sate in a Chair of Estate ready to entertain them when they came into the Presence She rose out of the Chair and came as far as the Carpetting making low reverence as the Ambassadors bowed when they came near Her Majesty made them be covered but afterwards they spoke with their Hats off In conclusion the Queen told them That she much desired to hold Correspondence with Her Majesty of Portugal In fine on the Thirteenth of June One thousand six hundred and forty one a Peace was absolutely concluded with the Portugal notwithstanding the earnest endeavors of Don Alonza Cardenas ●●ger Ambassador for Spain who by Gifts and Promises even as far as the restitutio● of the Palatinate endeavored to hinder it The Ambassadors that were sent 〈◊〉 the King of Denmark notwithstanding the great Traffick and Commerce that had formerly bin held between that Kingdom and Portugal were not by reason of the great interest the House of Austria had with those Kings received yet the King gave all possible Respect otherwise to them From thence they passed into Sweden and were Magnificently entertained at the young Queens Court at Stockholm where a League was soon concluded and the Ambassadors dismissed according to the Custom of that Nation with Gold Chains and the Queens Portraicture in a Meddal of Gold The Ambassador D. Tristano De Mendoza Hurtada that was sent to the States of the United Provinces was received with the like Magnificence and seeming affection and a Truce concluded with the Kingdom of Portugal for Ten years for a Peace the States would not assent to because they having Conquered many places in Brasil Angola c which belonged to the Crown and Kingdom of Portugal could not make restitution of them by reason they now belonged to the West-India Company nor could the King of Portugal allow the Conquest as things of right belonging to his Crown and depending on it But now we come to treat of a more solemn Embassie to wit that to the Pope Long was it debated in the Assembly of Estates whether an Ambassador should be sent to Rome immediately or a more opportune conjuncture of time be expected Some were of opinion that the sending an Ambassador without further delay would be a testification of their duty and incline the Popes Holiness to acknowledge DON JOHN the lawful Heir and rightful King of Portugal which would extreamly further and advance the Affairs of the Kingdom But others there were who conceived those things rather desirable than feasable and were of the opinion they should rather stay till a fitter opportunity alledging