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 Artoâ— 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
River of Monda Her body lieth near unto that of Sanceo I. her Father 4 ALPHONSO II. Of the Name KING of PORTUGAL CHAP. IV. PORTUGAL Comme cy devant PORTUGAL Party de CASTILLE De gueulles au Chasteau d'or Following the steps of his Ancestors he behaved himself Valiantly in several Conflicts against the Moors By the assistance of a Naval Army consisting of those of the Belgique Nations he recovered out of the hands of the Infidels the City of Alcassere de Sal which was performed at the instance Years of CHRIST 1217 of Matthew Bishop of Lisbonne a man of an holy life Vasconcellius In pursuance of which ALPHONSO vanquished the Kings of Seville and of Jean who came to lay Siege to the City of Juica But if he was plausable in his Military and publick Affairs he could not avoid the reproach which Posterity hath cast upon him in his History Nunez in what concerned his Domestick having ill treated his Brothers and Sisters and his Brother-in-law the King of Leon not suffering them to enjoy the portions and inheritance which belonged unto them nor performing the Testament and last Will of the King their Father By reason of which there ensued great Divisions untill that the Pope unto whom the younger Princes made their recourse used his Censures and Interdictions against ALPHONSO and constrained him to submit to Arbitration for the Determination of their Differences and to undergo the Execution of that Judgement which should be given He was tall of stature of an able body and so corpulent that his subjects sirnamed him Vasconcellius The Gross which it may be shortned his life for he lived only Eight and forty years And after he had Reigned One and twenty years His Death he expired Anno One thousand two hundred three and thirty Years of CHRIST 1233 as Edwardo Nunez and Antonio Vasconcellos do note and not in the Year One thousand two hundred twenty and four as others have written He was inhumed in a Chappel Mariana which he Ordered to be made in the Abbey of Alcobace near unto the Sepulchre of URACCA OF CASTILLE his Wife Daughter of Alphonso VIII others say IX of that name King of Castille and of Elianor of England his Wife and Sister of Blanche of Bastille Queen of France Nunez Mother of the King St. LEWIS Some years after George de Mello Abbot of the Monastery caused the Corps of King ALPHONSO and of the Queen his wife to be transported to the Chappel of St. Vincent Children of ALPHONSO II. King of PORTUGAL and of URACCA OF CASTILLE his Wife SANCEO II. of the name King of PORTUGAL whose Elogie followeth ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL III. of the name first Count of Bolongne in France then King of Portugal after his Elder Brother continued the Posterity PORTUGAL-SERPE FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL called the Infant of SERPE PORTUGAL-SERPE because he was Lord of this place in the Kingdom of Castille espoused SANCE-FERNANDINE DE LARA Daughter of the Count Ferdinando de Lara Party de LARA Gueulles a deux chaudieres d'or lune sur l'autre chacune chargee de trois traits de sable courbez en facâ— auec sept Serpenteaux d'or sortant de chaque costé des orcilles des ances trois en dedans quatre en dehors Erpold Lindenbruch in Hist Daniae Regum This Prince of SERPE is intombed at Alcobace and from them came one only Daughter who followeth 6. LEONOR OF PORTUGAL who is said to have been married to a Prince Heir apparent to the Kingdom of DENMARK He was as some say VALDEMAR Son of another Valdemar second of the name King of Denmark who out-lived his Son deceasing in the Year One thousand two hundred one Years of CHRIST 1231 and thirty The Father was also allied to this House of Portugal as you shall see hereafter Erpold Lindenbruch in his History of the Kings of Denmark maketh mention of these two Marriages he corrupteth the name of the Princess LEONOR whom he calleth Bormegera adding also by mistake That she was Sister of the Count of Flanders He notes her death to happen in the Year Years of CHRIST 1220 One thousand two hundred and twenty VINCENT OF PORTUGAL fourth Son of King Alphonso II. died young His Marriage LEONOR OF PORTUGAL their Sister was according to some Historians of Allmaine third wife of VALDEMAR II. DENMARK D'or a trois Leopards d'azure couronnez armez lampâ—ssez de gueulles lescu seme de coeurs aussi de gueulles Years of CHRIST 1241 of that name King of DENMARK who died in the Year One thousand two hundred and forty one Hierosme Henninges reports her to be Sister of Ferdinando of Portugal Count of Flanders but it may be that he meaneth Lord of Serpe He addeth that she had by this Danish Prince seven Sons and three Daughters three of which Sons viz. Eric VII Christopher I. and Abel Party de PORTUGAL were successively Kings of Denmark From Christopher descended Eric VIII Father of Eric IX and of Christopher II. all also Kings of Denmark Valdemar IV. Son of this last King was Father of Margaret Queen of the Potent Kingdoms of Denmark Sweden and Norwey Natural Sons of King ALPHONSO II. JOHN-ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL finished his dayes in the Year of our Salvation One thousand two hundred foure and thirty and lieth in the Monastery of Alcobace Those that have written that this King ALPHONSO II. had another Natural Son named Martin-Alphonso are mistaken for he was Son of King Alphonso III. as shall appear hereafter in his place 5. SANCEO II. Of the Name KING of PORTUGAL CHAP. V. PORTUGAL D'argent au cinq Escussons d'Azure chacun charge de cinq besans d'argent PORTUGAL Party de HARO D'argent a l' Abre de Granica de Synople a deux Leups de fable traversez au pied de cost Abre vest a dire l'au devant lautre d'erriere l' Abre laquelle est entre ces deux loups a l'Orle de gueulles charge de sept Croix en saâ—â—ir d'or Who brought with him from the womb such mortal infirmities as made most believe he would sooner arrive at the grave than the Scepter the Queen his Mother having tryed all humane remedies applyed herself to Divine making a Vow to God that if he lived past his adolescency she would make him pass the Hood of Canons Regular of the Order of St. Augustine which she inviolably performed and from which habit this King was sirnamed CAPELLO Nunez Vasconcellius Mariana Also he appeared more apt and proper for a monastick and quiet life than to the exercise of War and the Government of his Kingdom to which he succeeded at the age of Six and twenty years Also the Queen of Castille Berengaria his Cousin who had the Government of this Prince observing him to be of a weak Judgement endeavoured to match him to some Lady of an Illustrious House that in defect
if a man fallen from heaven had come to visit them He was by the Portugues so affectionately beloved that after the Death of King Edward his elder brother the Government of the Kingdom was committed unto him during the Minority of Alphonso V. his Nephew which he managed for the space of Ten years with great Fidelity and Prudence Nunez Vignier when Alphonso Count of Barcellos his Natural Brother a Prince both Ambitious and Envious and who by the means of this PETER had been before exalted to the Dukedome of Braganca most ingratefully opposed him rendred him a dangerous and obnoxious person unto the King their Nephew and also charged him with a scandalous accusation the heads of which were That he had performed the Office of Regent much to the prejudice of the Kings interest had got into his own hands the whole treasure of the Kingdom and that also he designed to ascend the Throne by the Deposition of the King his Nephew To these Articles the Duke would have answered and cleared himself but the King who was willing and apt to believe any thing that might secure him his Crown being possessed with a prejudicate opinion would not hear of his Answer but on the contrary Resolved to take him off The Duke had timely intelligence thereof who to avoid the effects of the Kings Anger and to secure his person shut himself up in his Town of Conimbra and there finding that he could not be upon the Defensive part without the Offensive forgetful of his Duty put himself into the head of a considerable Army with which he marched towards Lisbonne resolving to make himself Master thereof but he fell into the hands of the Ambushes prepared for him by the Kings party where His Death after a hot dispute near unto the River Alfaruberie Mariana Vasconcellius Duke PETER was killed upon the Field being shot through the Years of CHRIST 1449 Heart with an empoysoned Arrow which fell out to be in the Year One thousand four hundred forty and nine and on the Twentieth day of May. His loss nevertheless was much lamented as being a Prince worthy of a longer life and better Fortune He lived unto the age of Seven and fifty years His body lay the space of three dayes without Burial until that by the supplication of the Queen of Portugal his Daughter Wife of Alphonso it was brought and interred in the Monastery of Battel the Sepulchre of the Kings his Predecessors This Duke was so much the more Praise-worthy following the footsteps of some Princes of his House because he joyned the use of his Pen with that of his Sword he writ several Books both in Prose and Verse and Translated some Latine Authors into his own Language There is yet to be seen of his Verses in Portugal which Treat of Morality and are replenished with Learning and Precepts of Wisdom In the Month of September Anno Mariana lib. 20. c. 16. One thousand four hundred eight and twenty His Marriage Duke PETER married ISABEL OF ARRAGON Years of CHRIST 1428 Daughter of James of Arragon Count of Urgel and of Isabel the Daughter of Peter IV. King of Arragon by which Princess he had Six Children here underneath mentioned Children of PETER OF PORTUGAL Duke of CONIMBRA by ISABEL OF ARRAGON his Wife PETER OF PORTUGAL elected King of ARRAGON ARRAGON Years of CHRIST 1450 and Count of Barcelona Escartelé de PORTUGAL was eldest Son of Peter of Portugal Duke of Conimbra and of Isabel of Arragon his Wife and was established Constable of the Kingdom of Portugal by the Regent his Father after the decease of his Uncle by the Fathers side Prince John Years of CHRIST 1445 In the Year One thousand four hundred five and forty he had the Command of an Army committed to him for the succour of the King of Castille and for the Reduction of some of his Subjects that had rebelled Afterwards the Catalonians and some of the Grandees of Arragon having revolted from the King of Arragon and Navarre John II. They caused this Prince PETER to return out of Affrick where he fought against the Moors and acknowledged him for King of Arragon and Count of Barcelona Years of CHRIST 1464 in September in the Year One thousand four hundred threescore and four maintaining that these Estates did lawfully belong unto him as being Son of the eldest Daughter of the Count of Urgel descended from the King of Arragon so that PETER was Proclaimed King And notwithstanding he had assistance from his Cousin Philip Duke of Bourgongne yet he could not maintain himself in his Estate for after the loss of a Field disputed betwixt him and the Prince Ferdinand Son of King John he was constrained to retire to Mauresa But nevertheless he carried still the Royal Title And on his journey to Barcelona he fell sick at Granolie and there deceased the Thirtieth day of June His Death in the Year Mariana Lib. 23. C. 20. One thousand four Years of CHRIST 1466 hundred threescore and six some say in the precedent year His body was inhumed at Barcelona in the Church of our Lady near unto the Sea It 's believed he was poysoned but some think that being over-much wearied and troubled at the evil success of his affairs he dyed with grief without leaving any Children His Device was an Haulk with these words MOLESTIA PRO LAETITIA signifying thereby That the honour of the Kingdom which he had accepted of had been accompanied with more vexation and trouble than satisfaction and contentment PORTUGAL CONIMBRA Escartelē Aupremier de Jerusalem Au 2. contre escartelē de PORTUGAL D'ANGLETERRE Au 3. d'or au lyon de gueulles Au 4. d'argent au lyon aussy de gueulles a la queve fourche Sur le tout burelle d'argent d'Azure au lyon de gueulles brochant sur le tout qui est CYPRE JOHN OF PORTUGAL Duke of CONIMBRA and Years of CHRIST 1447 Regent of the Kingdom of Cyprus second Son of Peter Duke of Conimbra succeeded his Father in this Dutch hoping to advance his Fortunes by his Marriage he espoused CHARLOTE OF CYPRUS His Marriage Daughter of John II. King of Cyprus of the House of Lusignan and of Helene Palealogus his Wife which CHARLOTE was Heir apparent to the Kingdoms of Cyprus and Jerusalem But the Prince JOHN her Husband dyed without issue before the King his Father-in-law Therefore Mariana and other Authors are mistaken that give him the qualification of King of Cyprus For he was only Regent of this Kingdom a Title which he had when in the Year One thousand four hundred threescore Years of CHRIST 1466 and six he was admitted into the Order of Knights of the Golden Fleece by Philip the Good Duke of Burgundy in the Chapter held at the Hague in Holland His Widow married for her second Husband Lewis of Savoy Count of Geneva Brother of Amides Duke of Savoy and Son of
he dyed in the Abbey of Tomar whither he had retired Years of CHRIST 1438 to avoid the danger the Eighteenth day of September His Death in the Year One thousand four hundred eight and thirty which was the Seven and thirtieth Year of his age and the Fifth of his reign He had his Burial in the Abbey of Battel His Marriage In the Year One thousand four hundred eight and twenty this King EDWARD Despoused ELEANOR OF ARRAGON L. Marin siculus Mariana Lib. 20. Cap. 16. Lib. 21. Cap. 13. Years of CHRIST 1428 second Daughter of Ferdinand of Castille King of Arragon and Sicilie and of Eleanor of Albuquerque his Wife the Princess had in Marriage Two hundred thousand Florins She was then aged Twenty seven years and not Six and thirty as writeth Mariana for the Portugal Historians note her Birth to be in the Year Her Birth One thousand four hundred and one Years of CHRIST 1401 By his Testament he ordained his Wife Regent of the Kingdom during the minority of his eldest Son and Successor to the great dissatisfaction of the Princes his younger Brothers and also of the people who would not submit to the Command of a Woman and more especially of a Stranger this gave occasion to the Estates of the Kingdom to reject this his Will and on the contrary to nominate for Regent Peter Duke of Conimbra Brother to the Defunct at which the Queen conceived so great a displeasure that she made her complaint to her Brothers and the King of Castille but in vain so that leaving Portugal she retired to Toledo where she dyed a sudden death in the Year Her death One thousand four hundred five and forty the Years of CHRIST 1445 Eighteenth day of February not without suspition of poyson Her body was first inhumed in the Abbey of Religious of the Order of St. Dominique founded in the place where she chose her abode but afterwards transported to that of Aljubarot by the care of the King her Son King EDWARD had for his Device a Lance environed with a Serpent the one is the Symbole of Warre and the other of Wisdom with this Inscription LOCO ET TEMPORE to represent that War must be prosecuted in time and place and in such occasions to use Prudence and Discretion Children of EDWARD King OF PORTUGAL and of LEONOR OF ARRAGON his Wife 11. ALPHONSO King of PORTUGAL continued the Line FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL Duke of VISCO Years of CHRIST 1438 grand Master of the Orders of Christ PORTUGAL-VISCO and of St. James and Constable of Portugal he accompanied King Alphonso V. his Brother in his Warres of Affrick D'argent a cinq Escussons d'azure peris en Croix chacun chargé de cinq besants d'argent posez en sautoir a la bordure de gueulles aussi chargeé de huict chafleaux d'er at what time he took the Fort of Alcacer a Maritime Port. Afterwards he was again sent into Affrick where he performed several acts of Hostility against the Mahumetans among others the prize of the Town of Anafe and then returned Triumphant and Glorious into his own Countrey He married his Cousin Beatrice of Portugal His Marriage a younger Daughter of his Uncle John of Portugal Grand Master of the Order of St. James and Constable of the Kingdom She was a Princess prudent and deliberate it was she that finished the Peace betwixt the two Kings Ferdinand of Arragon Escartelé d' ARRAGON and Alphonso of Portugal upon the difference they had concerning the Kingdom of Castille as we have told you before Some Historians write That the King of Portugal D'or-a quatre pals de gueulles John II. Nephew of FERDINAND His Death put to death this Prince his Father-in-law But others better informed Years of CHRIST 1470 say That he dyed at Cetobriga above ten years before John came to the Crown of Portugal PORTUGAL-VISCO viz. the Eighth day of September Anno One thousand four hundred threescore and ten being only Seven and thirty years old Party de PORTUGAL which was the Flower of his age His Corps was interred at Badaios within the Church of the Conception which had been founded by the Dutchess Beatrice his Wife who there placed a Convent of Nunnes Children of FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL Duke of VISCO and of BEATRICE OF PORTUGAL his Wife PORTUGAL-VISCO 12. JOHN OF PORTUGAL Duke of VISCO after his Father dyed without issue PORTUGAL-VISCO qui est Escartelé de PORTUGAL d' ARRAGON 12. JAMES OF PORTUGAL also Duke of VISCO succeeded in the Dutchy after the decease of Prince John his eldest brother But because he maliciously conspired against King John II. his brother-in-law he came to a mournful and tragique end For in the Year One thousand four hundred fourscore and three this young Prince being but in the Twentieth year of his age was killed by the Kings own hand Mariana Lib. 24. C. 23. Vasconcellius which some Authors believe was done to the intent that way might be made to the Crown for his Bastard-son George Duke of Aviero after his decease But this design took not effect for the King better counselled gave the Estate of the Defunct unto his Brother Emanuel and furthermore appointed him Heir of the Kingdom by his Testament which he enjoyed accordingly Natural Children of JAMES OF PORTUGAL Duke of VISCO 13. ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL was highly advanced PORTUGAL for King Emanuel gave him the Dutchy of Visco and Dignified him with the Office of Constable of Portugal which he had in the Year One thousand five hundred Comme cy devant but he dyed four years after leaving no Children but one only Daughter named 14. MARY OF PORTUGAL who was espoused to the Marquess of VILLE-REAL 12. EDWARD OF PORTUGAL all Children of Ferdinand of Portugal PORTUGAL-VISCO Duke of Visco by Beatrice of Portugal his wife and died in their minority 12. DIONYSIO OF PORTUGAL all Children of Ferdinand of Portugal PORTUGAL-VISCO Duke of Visco by Beatrice of Portugal his wife and died in their minority 12. SIMON OF PORTUGAL all Children of Ferdinand of Portugal PORTUGAL-VISCO Duke of Visco by Beatrice of Portugal his wife and died in their minority 12. EMANUEL King OF PORTUGAL youngest son of Ferdinand of Portugal Duke of Visco and of Beatrix of Portugal his Wife succeeded King John II. and continued the Posterity Her Marriage 12. LEONORA was Queen of Portugal PORTUGAL as you may observe in the History of John II. King of Portugal her Husband by whom she had one only Son which was Prince Alphonso Party de PORTUGAL-VISCO deceasing before his Father as shall be discoursed hereafter Her Marriage 12. ISABEL OF PORTUGAL PORTUGAL-BRAGANZA was Dutchess of BRAGANZA There shall be more ample mention made of this Princess in the Story of Ferdinand II. of the name Duke of Braganza her Husband
from this Marriage came three Sons Party de PORTUGAL-VISCO and one Daughter viz. James of Portugal fourth Duke of Braganza who continued the Line Philip and Denys of Portugal Margaret their Sister dyed young without having been married 12. KATHERINE OF PORTUGAL dyed young Here are continued Children of EDWARD King of PORTUGAL and of LEONOR OF ARRAGON his Wife PHILIP OF PORTUGAL being twelve years old dyed of the Plague at Lisbonne LEONORA OF PORTUGAL the Empress Her Marriage was in the Sixteenth year of her age espoused Ao One thousand four hundred and fifty AUSTRIA De gueulles a la Face d'argent and in the City of Rome unto the Emperour Frederick III. Years of CHRIST 1450 Arch-Duke of Austria who was eldest Son of Arch-Duke Ernest and of Zimburge of Massovia his Wife Party de PORTUGAL Aneas Sylvius afterwards Pope under the name of Pius II. being at that time principal Secretary to Frederick negotiated this Marriage The Princess was in the Year following Crowned Empress by Pope Nicholas V. Her death She dyed in the City of Neustat in Austria in the Year One thousand four hundred threescore and seven being Years of CHRIST 1467 aged Three and thirty years and was entombed in the Monastery of the Trinity by her founded in the same place As concerning the Emperour her Husband he had undergone a tedious War against the Arch-duke Albert his brother for Austria and also against Mathias Coruin elected King of Hungary for that Kingdom to which he pretended a Right of succession Onuphrius He departed this life in the City of I Lints Years of CHRIST 1493 in Austria the Ninteenth day of August Ao One thousand four hundred fourscore and thirteen which was the Four and fiftieth of his Empire and the Threescore and eighteenth of his age From this Marriage issued one Son and a Daughter viz. The Emperour Maximilian first of the name Grand-father by his Son Philip also first of that name King of Spain to the Emperours Charles V. Hier. Hâ—nninges in Theatr. Geneal and Ferdinand I. Cunegonde of Austria Maximilian's Sister was married to Albert IV. of the name Duke of Bauaria and from them those other Dukes draw their original KATHERINE OF PORTUGAL was promised in Marriage Nunâ—us first to Charles of Nauarre Prince of Viana eldest Son of John King of Nauarre and Arragon Mariana then to Edward the Fourth King of England But she espoused neither the one nor the other Her death and at last died unmarried at Lisbonne in the Abbey of St. Clare Ao One thousand four hundred Years of CHRIST 1463 threescore and three the Twelfth day of June She had the honour of Burial within the Church of St. Eloy JANE OF PORTUGAL Queen of Castille was conjoyned in Marriage the Twentieth day of May CASTILLE Escartelé au 1. 4. de gueulles au Chasteau d'or au 2. 3. d'argent au Lyon de pourpre qui est LEON in the Year Her Marriage One thousand four hundred five and fifty at Cordona to HENRY IV. King of Castille eldest Son of King John II. and of Mary of Arragon his Wife Years of CHRIST 1455 This Marriage was made by the procuration of the King of France Charles VII at that time confederate with the King of Castille who for this purpose sent to the Castillian his Embassadour the Arch-bishop of Tours But this Marriage being Celebrated in a time of War and great trouble men presaged nothing from the effects thereof but evil events Party de PORTUGAL which accordingly fell out HENRY and JANE had issue one Daughter which was Jane of Castille some erroneously call her Elizabeth affianced unto Charles of France Mariana lib. 22. c. 17. Duke of Berry then of Guyenne younger Brother to Lewis XI King of France But this Duke being variable and inconstant abandoned her and applyed himself to Mary of Bourgongne only daughter of Charles the Hardy Duke of Bourgongne whom he likewise married not So that the Princess of Castille had for Husband her Nephew Alphonso V. of the name King of Portugal who challenged the Kingdom of Castill in the Right of this his Wife as you shall see more fully hereafter in his History King Henry was reputed in the opinion of the world uncapable of Children which gave suspition to many to doubt whether this Princess were really his Daughter or supposed to be so nevertheless he owned her by his Testament made before his death which hapned to be at Madrid Years of CHRIST 1474 Ao One thousand four hundred threescore and fourteen in the month of December and in him finished the direct Line of the Kings of Castille descended from Henry the Bastard from whom being of a couragious and high-flown spirit this Prince did much degenerate who was a person of a weak judgement and of little Merit Two years after Queen JANE OF PORTUGAL Idem Lib. 23. Cap. 11. Lib. 24. Cap. 4. 9. his Widow Her death dyed at Madrid in the month of January others more truly report Years of CHRIST 1475 her Death to be in June One thousand four hundred threescore and fifteen She was interred in the Church of St. Francis It 's doubted likewise whether she dyed in Child-bed or whether her life was shortned by Poyson caused to be given her by the King of Portugal her Brother which last is rather to be believed because she is taxed to be incontinent and to suffer her self to be transported to unwarrantable affections A Natural Son of EDWARD King of PORTUGAL JOHN-EMANUEL OF PORTUGAL was base Son of King Edward by Jane Manuel Cousin of Eleanor of Arragon Vasconcellius He was educated with great care and brought up unto Virtue by Nonio Alvarez Pereira Lord of Braganca After he had approved his Valour in that War against the Infidels and Moors of Affrica being inspired with devotion aand contempt of earthly things He forsook the world and took â—n him a Religious habit in the Convent of the Carmelite Friers of Lisbonne which he founded and where he lived most Religiously Yet afterwards he had given him the Bishoprick of Septe in Affrick and then that of Ingonte In fine King Alphonso V. invited him to Court where he gave him the charge of Master of his Chappel of whose Wisdom and good Counsel this King was a strict observer 11. ALPHONSO V. Of the Name KING of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES Sirnamed The Affrican CHAP. XIII PORTUGAL D'argent a cinq Escussons d'azure peris en Croix chacun charge de cinq besants d'argent posez en sautoir a la bordure de gueulles chargeé de huict chasteaux d'er PORTUGAL Party de CONIMBRA Escartelé Au 1. 4. de PORTUGAL au 2. 3. d' ANGLETERRE PORTUGAL Party de CASTILLE De gueulles au Chasteau d'or Escartele de LEON qui est d'argent au lyon de pourpre He was but six years old when he
Duke of Braganza and of Jane de Mendoza his Wife Children of FRANCIS DE MELO Marquess of Ferreira RODERICK DE MELO second of the name slain at the Battel of Alcacer in Affrick with King Sebastian in the Year One thousand Years of CHRIST 1578 five hundred threescore and eighteen and left no Children by his Wife KATHERINE DEC'A daughter of Alphonso de Norogna NUGNO ALVAREZ DE MELO Count of Tentugal continued the descent JOHN DE BRAGANZA Bishop of Visco CONSTANTINE DE BRAGANZA espoused MARY DE MENDOZA daughter of Ferdinand de Meneses by Philippa de Mendoza his Wife They had these Children following 16. FRANCIS DE MELO Servant to the Catholick King Marquess de la Tour de Laguna and Count of Alcumer married ANTONIA DE VILLENA daughter of Henry de Sousa Count of Miranda by whom he had issue N. DE MELO BEATRIX and MENTIA 16. JOHN DE MELO a Carmelite Fryer 16. ALVARO DE MELO Knight of the Order of St. John 16. FERDINAND DE MELO JANE DE MENDOZA Abbess of Villa-viciosa JOSEPH DE MELO a Natural Son of Francis Marquess of Ferreira was Arch-bishop of Evora FRANCIS d'ALMEIDA also a Natural Son 15. NUGNO ALVAREZ DE MELO Count of TENTUGAL FRancis de Melo Marquess of Ferreira and Count of Tentugal and Eugenia of Braganza or Portugal his Wife were Father and Mother of this Count who married with MARIANA DE CASTRO daughter of Roderick de Moscoso Earl of Altamira and of the Countess Isabel de Castro his Wife Children of NUGNO ALVAREZ DE MELO FRANCIS DE MELO second of the name Marquess of Ferreira continued the Posterity RODERICK DE MELO Arch-deacon of Evora LEONOR DE MELO Wife of MANUEL DE MOURA CORTEREAL second Marquess of Castelrodrigo Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to the Catholique King and great Master of Alcantara JANE OF PORTUGAL espoused to MANRIQUEZ DE SILVA Count of Portalegre also Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to the King of Spain and his grand Master of the Houshold in Portugal 16. FRANCIS DE MELO II. of the name Marquess of FERREIRA and Count of Tentugal General of the Melitia to King John IV. HE was eldest Son of Nugno Alvarez de Melo Count of Tentugal by the Countess Mariana de Castro His Death He dyed in the Year One thousand Years of CHRIST 1645 six hundred forty and five And left no issue by his first Wife MARY DE SANDOVAL his Cosin Germaine daughter of Lopez Osorio de Moscoso Count of Altamira and of the Countess Leonor de Sandoval his Wife His second Wife was JANE PIMENTEL daughter of Anthony Pimentel Marquess of Tabara by her he had these Children NUNIUS DE MELO Duke of Cadaval Marquess of Ferreira and Count of Tentugal now living 1662. THEODOSIUS DE MELO second Son COUNTS OF GELVES AND DUKES OF VERAGUA 13. GEORGE OF PORTUGAL I. of the name first Count of GELVES and Alcaide of Alcacer and Seville PORTUGAL-GELVES OF the two Sons of Alvaro of Portugal who was President of the Councel Royal of Castille and of his Wife Philippa de Melo Countess of Olivenca Roderick of Portugal first Marquess of Ferreira and Count of Tentugal D'argent au sautoir de gueulles charge de cinq Escussons de Portugal dount l'un est au melicu du sautoir les autres aux quatre bouts d'iceluy was the elder and this GEORGE the younger who performed so many good and faithful Services for the Emperour Charles V. that he honoured him with the Title of Count of GELVES The first Wife he espoused was GUIMARE d'ATAIDA and SILVA daughter of John de Vasconcellos second Count of Penela and of the Countess Mary de Sousa by her he had no Children His second Wife was ISABEL DE TOLEDO COLOMBO daughter of James Colombo first Duke of Veragua and second Admiral of the Indies and of the Dutchess Mary de Toledo his Wife which James was issued from that famous Christopher Colombus the Genevis which made discovery of the West-Indies under the Reigns of the King and Queen of Castille and Arragon Ferdinand and Isabel Children of GEORGE OF PORTUGAL Count of GELVES and of ISABEL DE TOLEDO COLOMBO his second Wife ALVARO OF PORTUGAL second Count of GELVES continued the Line ANTHONY OF PORTUGAL a Monk of the Order of St. Dominique GEORGE OF PORTUGAL one of the Four and twenty Magistrates of Seville whose descent shall be mentioned hereafter JAMES OF PORTUGAL as his elder Brother exercised the Charge of one of the Four and twenty of Seville and had to his Wife ISABEL BOTTI daughter of James Botti a Florentine by Anne-Frances Fonti his Wife and by her had these Children following 15. JAMES OF PORTUGAL 15. ISABEL OF PORTUGAL Wife of JOHN GUTIERREZ TELLO DE SANDOVAL Knight of the Order of St. James 15. ANNE-FRANCES OF PORTUGAL conjoyned in Marriage with FRANCIS TELLO DE GUZMAN LEWIS OF PORTUGAL fifth Son of George Count of Gelves dyed not having been married MENCIA DE TOLEDO by some Records named MARY PHILIPPA and ISABEL her Sisters 14. ALVARO OF PORTUGAL Second Count of GELVES AMong the Children of George of Portugal First of the Name and First Count of Gelves and of Isabel de Toledo his Wife this was the Eldest who had two Sons by his Wife LEONOR DE CORDOUA and ARRAGON Daughter of Alvaro de Cordova grand Chevalier to the Catholick King Philip II. which Alvaro espoused Mary of Arragon Children of ALVARO OF PORTUGAL Count of GELVES GEORGE OF PORTUGAL Second of the Name Count of GELVES NUGNO DE PORTUGAL Duke of VERAGUA whose Descent is mentioned after that of his elder Brother 15. GEORGE OF PORTUGAL II. of the Name and Third Count of GELVES HE was eldest Son of Alvaro of Portugal Second Count of Gelves and of the Countess Leonor of Cordova and Arragon his Wife and espoused BERNARDINE VINCENTELO She was Daughter of John-Anthony Corso Vincentelo by Bridget Corso his Wife from which Marriage came only one Daughter following LEONOR OF PORTUGAL Countess of GELVES twice married first to FERDINAND DE CASTRO her Cosin Third Son of Ferdinand-Roderick de Castro Count of Lemos by whom she had her Daughter Katherine of Portugal also Countess of Gelves For her Second Husband LEONOR OF PORTUGAL espoused JAMES PIMENTEL Viceroy of Arragon Son of the Marquess of Tauara from this last Marriage there came no Children 15. NVGNO OF PORTVGAL COLOMBO Duke of VERAGVA and Admiral of the Indies ALvaro of Portugal Count of Gelves and Leonor de Cordova and Arragon his Wife were Father and Mother of this Duke of Veragua who was Heir to his great Grandfather James Colombo first Duke of Veragua he married with ALDONCE PORTOCARRERO Daughter of James de la Bastide and had by her Two Sons and Three Daughters Children of NVGNO COLOMBO Duke of VERAGVA ALVARO OF PORTUGAL COLOMBO Third Duke of VERAGUA continued the Descent CHRISTOPHER OF PORTUGAL Second Son LEONOR OF PORTUGAL one of the Ladies of Honour to the Catholick Queen
del â—ombre de AVIS Thus much out of Dom Damiano a Goas Radeâ— de Andrada and the Count of Lansarote in his Nobility of Aâ—daluâ—ia Memorable was that Assembly Convened by this King Alphonso in the City of Lamogo consisting of the three Estates of the Kingdom where were made many Laws which they justly account their Fundamentals Nunez Vasconcellos as unalterable as those of the Meâ—ds and Persians made Sacred by the observation of them both by Prince and People among which it was enacted First That the said King Alphonso's son Grandson and so forward should reign after him for ever But if the King have only daughters the eldest should be Queen after her father upon condition she be married to a Native of Portugal and that he be a Noble-man who shall not take upon him the name of a King until he hath a son born nor wear a Crown on his head nor take the right hand of his Wife But the last clause is most to be considered which my Author hath faithfully transcribed out of the said Laws Sit istadex in sempiterâ—um quod Prima Filia Regis â—â—â—piat maritum de Portugale ut non veniat RegnuÌ„ ad Extraâ—â—s si â—asaverit cum Principe extranto non sit Regina quia 〈◊〉 volumâ—â— nostrum Regnum ire de Portugalâ—â— sibus qui nos sua fortitudine Reges fecerunt sine Adjutorio alienâ— per suam fortitudinem cum sanguine suó This Law was put in execution after the death of Ferdinando the 9th King of that race for Donna Beatrice his daughter being married to John the first of the name King of Castille a Forrein Prince was excluded and John the first King of Portugal though illegitimate was advanced to the Throne In the mean time an Army composed of divers Nations viz. English Flemmings Normans and Lorrainois being embarqued in England and bound for Jerusalem Robt. de Monte. to give succour to the Christians under the Conduct of William Longespe Duke of Normandy my Author meaneth Earl of Salisbury passed by the coast Years of CHRIST 1147 of Spain where making some stay at the instance of King ALPHONSO they besieged and took the City of Lisbonne which the Moors possessed the Siege having continued five months They were at length defeated by the Christians who delivered this City into the hands and power of ALPHONSO he also Conquered from them the Cities of Leirta Santarem Evora Elvas Beja and several other Towns and Fortresses which make at present the better part of the Kingdom of Portugal which he annexed to the Province situate between the Rivers of Dourho and Minho and that of Tarsâ—s Moâ—tes as also a part of Estremaduru where are Brâ—ga Conimbra Visco and other Cities Provinces which descended to him by succession from his Mother the Countess Teresa Now fell out the dispute betwixt Ferdinando King of Castille and Leon Idem Years of CHRIST 1179 and his Father-in-law King ALPHONSO about the City of Badaios which the Castillian urged belonged unto him as being enterprised upon the Moors being come to blows the King of Portugal having by an accident been hurt before the fight fell within the power of the King of Castille his Enemy but afterward a peace being concluded betwixt them the Portugues remitted unto Ferdinand part of the Provinces of Galicia Years of CHRIST 1181 His success was more propitious in the Enterprise he undertook against Alboias King of Seville whom he also subdued Vasconcellos and after the Victory obtained instituted a Military Order called Of the Eagle The device was An Eagle Purple enfermed within a Circle Or. After all these Warres ALPHONSO had attained to a very great age nevertheless he ceased not to exercise himself in his Martial affairs with his Valiant Son who seconded him in his high and generous Enterprises But that hindred not his inclination to Piety and the erection of several Churches and Monasteries Idem among others he Founded that of St. Croix at Conimbra which he so richly endowed and with so stupendious a revenue that the famous University of this City hath a sensible apprehension thereof and that it is at this day the most Famous and Flourishing of all Spaine ALPHONSO also Founded the Monasteries of St. Bernard of Alcobace and of St. Vincent near Lisbonne in the same place where he encamped at the Siege thereof In short the Portugal Historians give him the reputation of having Built and Founded an hundred and fifty Churches and Religious Houses In fine this great Prince being aged Fourscore and eleven years Nunez and after he had Reigned Six and forty His Death departed out of this life into a better in Years of CHRIST 1186 the same City of Conimbra the Ninth day of December in the Year One thousand one hundred fourscore and six and not two years before as some believe and lieth in this Church of St. Croix King Emanuel one of his most Illustrious Successors erected for him a long time after a most Magnificent Tomb. There are divers opinions among Authors Nunez about the House from which Queen MAUD wife of ALPHONSO did descend His Marriage Pingonius whom he married in the Year One thousand one hundred and six and forty and not two Years of CHRIST 1146 years before as some are of opinion Dami. a Gotz For those which write the History of Portugal and Savoy Vasconcellos say that she was Daughter of Amides the second of the name Count of Savoy or Maurienne and of Maud Daughter of the Count of Albon they would say Viennois his second Wife In the Hist of Arragon But Hierosme Surita writes that she was Sister of Peter Count of Lara and Molona and Daughter of Henry Count of Lara and of Ermensiâ—dâ— Vicountess of Narbonna An opinion which is reproved by Nunez And nevertheless it may be that he married both the one and the other certain it is that Queen Maud dyed in Anno One thousand one hundred threescore and eighteen Years of CHRIST 1178 and was interred with her Husband Children of ALPHONSO I. KING OF PORTUGAL and of MAUD OF SAVOY his Wife HENRY PRINCE OF PORTUGAL dyed young There is mention made of him in a Letter which the King his Father wrote to St. Bernard Abbot of Clerveaux in Bourgongne SANCEO first of the name succeeded his Father and was King of Portugal LEON D'argent au lyon de pourpre Party de PORTUGAL Comme cy devant VRACCA OF PORTUGAL Queen of LEON Her Marriage was married unto Ferdinand II. of the name King of LEON and Galicia And notwithstanding she had a son by him which carried the name of Alphonso and was King of Leon after his Father yet this Marriage was dissolved by the Pope because of the proximity of blood betwixt them FLANDERS D'or an lyon de sable TERESA OF PORTUGAL Countess of FLANDERS whom the Flemmish Historians call MAUD Her Marriage
Arms of Portugal Now MAUD understanding the design of the King her Husband to take another wife From France she undertook a journey into Portugal and there made her protestations and opposition against this unlawful Marriage which ALPHONSO regarded not but slightly passed over When this would not move him to Justice the Princess and her kindred of the number of which was the King St. Lewis made their appeal to Pope Alexander IV. with whom their complaint and the Princesses tears took such effect Mariana that he first mildly admonished ALPHONSO to receive again his lawful wife and forsake BEATRIX but continuing refractory and stubborn the same Pope thundred out his Excommunications against him and his Kingdom prohibiting Divine Service throughout all his Dominions under which Interdiction he lay the space of two years and to the death of MAUD happening in the Year Nunez One thousand two hundred Years of CHRIST 1262 threescore and two when the Prelates of the Kingdom so carried the matter to Pope Urban IV. that he not only removed this Excommunication but also approved the Marriage this proceeded principally from the Relation of kindred the said Pope had to the King ALPHONSO and for the peace and welfare of the Kingdom MAUD having made her last Will and Testament in the Year One thousand two hundred forty and one bequeathed unto her Husband King ALPHONSO the Summe of Twenty thousand Livets Idem beside the right she had to another Summe of Four thousand l. due unto her by the Count and Countess of Flanders Also to others she left many pious Legacies and ordered for the Executors of this her last Testament Robert Bishop of Beauùais her Cousin Matthew de Trie and others Gifts which were approved by Gaucher de Chastillon sieur de Monjay her Kinsman who had espoused Jane her daughter Mariana descended from her first Marriage Nunez Lastly His Death King ALPHONSO having lived Threescore and nine years Vasconcellius and Reigned Three and thirty finished his dayes at Lisbonne the Capital City of his Estate in the Year One thousand two hundred threescore Years of CHRIST 1279 and nineteen He received the honour of Sepulture within the Church of St. Dominick in the same place and from thence ten years after his body was transported to the Chappel dedicated to St. Vincent in the Abbey of Alcobace where lieth also Queen Beatrix of Castille his Wife Tâ—aâ—té du droit de succession sur la Portugal de la Royne Catherine de Medicis Some are of opinion that he had by the Countess of Bolongne two sons the elder of which named after him Alphonso dyed young the younger called Robert lived in France and was Count of Bolongne from whom are descended the other Earls unto Jane de la Tour who exchanged this County for that of Lauregais and had issue her daughter Magdelene de la Tour Mother of Queen Katherine de Medicis wife of Henry II. King of France The same Queen as being descended from Robert pretended a right to the Kingdom of Portugal after the death of the Kings Sebastian and Henry And at what time the Estates were assembled to Advise of a Successor to the Crown she sent her Embassadors also thither to represent her Right and Pretentions as also did several other Princes upon the same account At the same time there was published in France a Treatise which is reputed to have for Author Peter Beloy afterwards the Kings Advocate in the Court of Parliament of Toulouse concerning the right and lawful succession of the Kingdom of Portugal appertaining to this Queen Katherine Mother of the most Christian King Henry III. En Chronica des Reis de Portugal But the Castillian and Portugal Historians among others Edward Nunez will not admit of this descent of the House of Bolongne nor that ALPHONSO III. had any children by Queen MAUD his first Wife But to confound this extraction and to prove it only imaginary he grounds upon divers Circumstances and pregnant Conjectures which he particularly toucheth upon in the Chronicle of the Kings of Portugal by him published in his own Language Conjectures drawn from the time as also from the consideration of the Age of the Princess and the words of her last Testament in which there is mention made only of her daughter by the first Bed And lastly from the Contents of that Supplication Years of CHRIST 1262 presented by the Prelates to the Pope intreating his Holiness to give Absolution to their King and a Dispensation to the end that he and Beatrix might lawfully continue and live together and that their Children after them might be capable of the possession of their Estates Children of ALPHONSO III. King OF PORTUGAL and of BEATRIX OF CASTILLE his second Wife DIONYSIO OR DENIS King OF PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES continued the Posterity ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL Lord of Portalegre PORTUGAL-PORTALEGRE Chasteauvieux His Marriage Marvau and of Arouce was joyned in Marriage with YOLAND OF CASTILLE daughter of the Infant Emanuel son of Ferdinando III. King of Castille Party de CASTILLE and of Constance of Arragon his Wife And because that ALPHONSO married his daughters to Castillian Lords De gueulles au Chastean d'or and would have given them those places of his appennage in Portugal his brother King DIONYSIO opposed him But this difference was at last appeased by exchange made betwixt the King and this Lord of Portalegre who consented to part with places upon the Frontire of Castille for those that were situate within the middle of Portugal He was inhumed in the Church of St. Dominick at Lisbonne and left issue a Son and four Daughters which follow 7. ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL Seigneur of Leiria dyed without Children 7. ISABEL OF PORTUGAL BISCAY Comme cy devant Wife of JOHN Lord of BISCAY sirnamed the Purblind 7. CONSTANCE OF PORTUGAL Party de PORTUGAL espoused to GONCALE-NUNEZ DE LARA LARA Party de PORTUGAL son of John Nunez de Lara called the Good 7. MARY OF PORTUGAL was conjoyned in Marriage with TELLEZ son of Alphonso Infant OF MOLINA 7. ISABEL OF PORTUGAL sirnamed the Young to difference her from her elder Sister of the same name was married unto JOHN-ALPHONSO Lord of Albuquerque son of Alphonso-Sanceo who was Nephew of Dionysio King of Portugal Here follow the Children of King ALPHONSO III. and of BEATRIX OF CASTILLE FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL dyed young in the City of Lisbonne BLANCHE OF PORTUCAL Abbess of Loruano then of that Das Holgas at Burgos This Princess was exceeding rich For the King of Castille her Grand-father by the Mother and King Dionysio her Brother gave her the Seigneuries of Monmor le Vicil and Campo-Major CONSTANCE OF PORTUGAL having been with Queen Beatrix her Mother in Castille for to visit the King her Grand-father she there dyed in the City of Seville being young Her body was brought home and buried in the Abbey of
Alcobace Natural Children of ALPHONSO III. King OF PORTUGAL FERDINAND-ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL Knight of the Order of the Templars lieth at Lisbonne in the Church of St. Blaise GILLES-ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL was father of Lawrence-Gilles Baily of the Commandrie of the same Church of St. Blaise ALPHONSO-DIONYSIO OF PORTUGAL espoused MARY DE RIBEIRA by whom he had Pedro-Alphonso Roderick and Diego-Alphonso and Garsia Mendez Prior of Alcaceua of Sautarem Diego-Alphonso son of Alphonso Dionysio married Yoland Lopez daughter of Lopo Fernandez Lord of Ferreira and of Mary Gomez Tauiera and had issue Alvaro and Lopo Dia from which Lopo descend those of Sousa which at present are called Diabos MARTIN-ALPHONSO CHICORRO DE PORTUGAL another natural son of King Alphonso III. by a Moorish Woman hath given original to the Lords so called some but erroneously suppose this MARTIN was son of King Alphonso II. LEONOR OF PORTUGAL Wife of Count GARSIA DE SOUSA a Nobly qualified Lord whom his Father-in-law King Alphonso honoured with the Title of a Count. 6. DIONYSIO KING of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES sirnamed Father of his Countrey CHAP. VII PORTUGAL D'argent a cinq Escussons d'Azure chacun charge de cinq besans d'argent peris en saltoir a la Bordure de gueulles chargee de huict Chasteaux d'or PORTUGAL Party de ARARGON D'or a quatre pals de gueulles He was a Prince both Pious Just and Liberal and moreover so singular an Admirer of Truth of which he was so Grand and Religious an observer that he was never known to make breach of his promise often saying That Nothing was more offensive than an Untruth He had arrived at the Eighteenth year of his age at the death of his father at what time he took the reins of the Government into his own hand when the Queen his Mother fearing that by his too prodigal Liberality and profuseness he would exhaust the Treasure of the Kingdom desired to take a part with him in the administration of his affairs But this King DIONYSIO would not consent unto which so much incensed the Queen Nunez that she retired into Castille under pretext of a Religious desire she had to give assistance to the King her father and being gray with age she there finished her mortal life before which nevertheless King DIONYSIO went into Castille where he obtained a reconciliation and had the happiness to comfort her at her last gasp But King Sanceo of Castille making little reckoning of performance of the agreements of Marriage made betwixt his Children Mariana and those of King DIONYSIO gave ground to that Warre set on foot betwixt them in the beginning of which Sanceo deceasing his Son and Successor continued it who was so Canvased by the Portuguesses that he was constrained to Demand the Peace Vasconcellius which not long after he violated and so again to his great prejudice drew upon himself the just Armes of King DIONYSIO But their discords ended in another agreement sealed and confirmed by the knot of other alliances of Marriage reciprocally contracted between their Houses of Castille and Portugal Nunez The differences between the Kings of Castille and Arragon and Alfonso de la Cerda who pretended to the Kingdom of Castille being put to the Arbiterment of this King DIONYSIO he shewed the admirable effects of his wisdom in composing their discords and left them to the enjoyment of a most happy peace But the Divisions and Civil Warre happening betwixt him and his son and Successor the Prince Alphonso jealous and envious of the affection which the King did bear to Alphonso-Sanceo his natural brother gave him some trouble in his declining years for though the Bastard had fled into Castille Mariana Nunez Vasconcellius yet this young Prince ceased not to continue discontents towards his father who having held the Scepter six and forty years and lived threescore and four dyed at Santarem in the Year His Death One thousand three hundred twenty and five the seventh day of January His body was brought and Years of CHRIST 1325 interred in the Monastery of St. Dionysius called Odiuelles Religious of the Order of the Cistertians by him founded and situate three Leagues from Lisbonne Nor was this the only Foundation of his raising For the Monastery of Nunns of the Order of St. Clare at Conimbra which Queen ISABEL OF ARRAGON his Wife Founded and where she was inhumed oweth much to his Liberality Aub. Miraus Hil. de Costo Marin Siculus He espoused this Princess in the Year His Marriage One thousand two hundred fourscore and two who was daughter of Peter III. King of Arragon and of Years of CHRIST 1282 Constance who had for father Manfroy King of Sicelie and for Grand-father by the Mothers side Vasconcellius Perpinian the Emperour Frederick II. ISABEL was born Years of CHRIST 1271 in the Year One thousand two hundred threescore and eleven In the whole course of her life especially in her younger years she wholly dedicated her self to Piety and Devotion exercising several works of Charity principally towards the poor and indigent and was the instrument of the accord and reconciliation betwixt the Princes her kindred She vailed her self a Nun of the third Order of St. Francis In fine as she made a journey into Castille to endeavour an Agreement betwixt her Son the King of Portugal Alphonso IV. and the King of Castille Alphonso IX her Nephew she found out her heavenly rest at Estremos in the Year One thousand Years of CHRIST 1336 three hundred six and thirty being aged Threescore and five years And because there had been several Miracles wrought at her Tomb it was first beautified by Pope Leo X. then in our dayes and in the Year of Jubile Years of CHRIST 1625 One thousand six hundred and twenty five Pope Urban VIII Canonized her and entred her in the Catalogue of Saints the Five and twentieth day of May being the Feast of the Trinity this was performed at the intreaty of Philip IV. King of Spain and of Queen Elizabeth of France his Wife Several famous men have written the Life and Actions of this good and Pious Princess among others John-Peter Perpinian and Antonio Vasconcellos Jesuites and Aubert le Mire grand Dean of the Church of our Lady at Anuers but more particularly than all the rest P. Hillarian de Coste a Frier Minor of the Order of St. Francis de Paula hath most ingeniously treated thereof This King DIONYSIO This Order of Chrâ—stus had CoÌ„mandries not only in Portugal and Algarue but in Affrica and the Indies also and especially in Brasille which made the Mastership thereof seem so wealthy that is amounted to the yearly rent of an Hundred thousand Ducates And this was the reason why it was annexed inseparably as well as that D'Avis to the Crown of Portugal The Kings thereof having taken the Title of Perpetual Administrators of the Orders D'Avis and of Christus And. Favine fol. 188.
A. Favin◠in the Year One thousand three hundred and eighteen others say twenty Instituted the Military ORDER OF CHRIST The Order of Christ instituted which is the chief of the three Orders of Portugal The Knights live according to the rule of the Cistercians wear a black Robe and upon that a Cross Pateé Red surmounted by a Plain Cross White This Order was Confirmed by Pope John XXII The King gave unto the Knights the Towns and Lands which the Templars but a little before abrogated had in Portugal and for their principal abode the City of Tomar This Prince was so great an Admirer of Learning that he established the Famous University of Conimbra in his Kingdom Vasconcellius He was a Lover of Poesie unto which he sometimes addicted himself And so much favoured Labouring men by the example of one of his Ancestors that he bestowed upon them several Immunities and Priviledges giving them the appellation of The Nerves of the Earth In Brief His excellent Government his Ordinances and Rules for the order of Justice and the Cities and Towns which he either built or restored did deservedly merit him the name of Father of his Countrey So that whatsoever his Illustrious Predecessors made themselves Renowned for in Martial Performances he commanded and acquired by those of Peace and Policy Children of DIONYSIO King of PORTUGAL and of St. ISABEL OF ARRAGON his Wife ALPHONSO VI. King of PORTUGAL continued the Posterity CONSTANCE OF PORTUGAL CASTILLE Queen of CASTILLE Her Marriage Escartele Au 1. 4. de gueulles au Chasteau d'or Au 2. 3. d'argent au lyon de pourpre was espoused to FERDINAND IV. King of Castille who dyed in the Year One thousand three hundred and ten He was son of King Sanceo IV. From this Marriage proceeded King Alphonso IX who by Mary of Portugal had issue Peter sirnamed the Cruel also King of Castille By a Love-Mistress he had several Bastards among others Henry Count of Tristemare who usurped the Kingdom of Castille by aide of the French Her death CONSTANCE deceased in the Year Party de PORTUGAL One thousand Years of CHRIST 1313 three hundred and thirteen in the Month of November Natural Children of DIONYSIO King of PORTUGAL ALPHONSO-SANCEO Count of Albuquerque was affectionately loved by the King his father Vasconcellius to the great displeasure and jealousie of his lawful Son who forced him to flie into Castille as we have said But returning into Portugal with a Force they had some disputes after which they came to an agreement PETER OF PORTUGAL Count of Barcellos wrote a Book of the Illustrious Houses of Portugal Nunez he received the honour of Burial in the Church of St. John de Tourouce 7. ALPHONSO IV. KING of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES CHAP. VIII PORTUGAL Comme cy devant Party de CASTILLE Escartelé Au 1. 4. de guuelles au Chasteau d'or 3 au 2. 3. d'argent au lyon de pourpre He still continued in that unwarrantable Hatred towards his brother Sanceo whom by his own Judgement he banished the Kingdom deprived of his Honours and Dignities seized upon his Lands and confiscated his Goods Sanceo was at that time in Castille who by Letters made his application to King ALPHONSO but his Prayers wrought little effect upon the hard and obstinate heart of his brother wherefore seeing intreaties would not soften him the Bastard resolves to force that with the reason and Justice of his Sword which his supplications could not obtain raises an Army enters Portugal takes several places and layes the Countrey waste The King also draws into the Field where he performs the like acts of Hostility but at length an agreement was made betwixt them The end of this Warre was the beginning of another Commotion betwixt the Father-in-law and the Son this King of Portugal and the King of Castille Alphonso XI Vasconcellius who being incensed for that the Portuguesses would marry the Princess Constance daughter of the Infant John-Emanuel descended from King Ferdinand of Castille called the Holy to his Son the Prince Pedro These Princes were upon the point of another Cruel Warre but that Pope Benedict XII and the King of France Philip IV. perfected a reconciliation betwixt them shewing these two Kings the danger that Spain at that time did undergo by reason of the progress the Moors had made and that their Armies would be better employed against the Enemies of their Faith the Infidels than in the ruine of themselves To whom the Holy Queen of Portugal Isabel of Arragon having joyned her prayers things were at last agreed So the two Kings of Enemies being made Friends Garibai Mariana Lib. 16. C. 7. joyned their Forces against their common adversaries the Moors conducted by Albohacen King of Fez and Joseph King of Granada who had laid a straight Siege to Tariffa The famous Battel of Tariffa or Salado 1340. which they resolved to raise maugre the almost numberless number and to be imagined invincible Troops of these Barbarians they gave them a Field near unto the River Salado in which famous Battel the two Christian Kings both ALPHONSO's engaged them with so indefatigable and undaunted Resolutions that they obtained a most Famous Victory and a Glorious Trophy which hapned in the Year One thousand three hundred and forty An incredible number of these Infidels were killed both upon the Field and in the pursuit And if we will believe the Castillian Historians there dyed of them Two hundred thousand the Portugal Histories say Four hundred thousand with the loss only of twenty of the Christians These two Kings by this wonderful Victory gained a grand reputation in the world and that reputation a security to their estates The King of Portugal took prisoner with his own hands the son of Albohali then King of Salamanque whom he brought Captive into Portugal Years of CHRIST 1355 Not long after his arrival Nunez at the instigation of some evil instruments of his Court he stained his reputation in the cruel Execution of Agnes de Castro of whom his son was most passionately enamoured taking her as his Wife after the death of the Princess Constance from this Original sprung that most Unnatural Warre betwixt the father and the son which was looked upon by Historians as a judgement from God who had permitted that ALPHONSO should suffer the same injuries from his son which he had done to his father His Death ALPHONSO IV. dyed at Lisbonne in the Month of May Mariana One Years of CHRIST 1357 thousand three hundred fifty and seven after he had performed the Kingly Office One and thirty years and five Months Nunez and lived Threescore and seven He lieth in the Cathedral Church with the Queen BEATRICE OF CASTILLE his Wife who was daughter of King Sanceo IV. and of Mary of Molina his Wife He was a Lover of Justice Magnanimous and resembled in many good
parts King Dionysio his father but was far inferior to him in the Virtue of Liberality he is blamed also for the immoderate love he had to the exercise of Hunting He took for his Device a Stone upon which stood an Eagle with his Wings expanded This was the Soul ALTIORA PETO to signifie that he aspired to High and Celestial things Children of ALPHONSO IV. King OF PORTUGAL and of BEATRIX OF CASTILLE his Wife ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL dyed young at Penelle and lieth in the Church of St. Dominick at Santarem Nunez DIONYSIO OF PORTUGAL deceased at a year old and was inhumed in the Church of the Abbey of Alcobace at the feet of King Alphonso III. his great Grand-father JOHN OF PORTUGAL dyed also in his youth and was ensepultured at Odiuelles a Monastery of Religious dedicated to St. Bernard near unto King Denis his Grand-father PETER succeeded his father in the Kingdom OF PORTUGAL and continued the Line MARY OF PORTUGAL Queen of CASTILLE was conjoyned in Marriage with Alphonso XI CASTILLE King OF CASTILLE AND LEON EscarteleÌ„ Au 1. 4. de gueulles au Chasteau d'or au 2. 3. d'argent au lyon de pourpre eldest son of King Ferdinand IV. Her Marriage She was espoused unto him in the Year One thousand three hundred eight and thirty and they had issue Peter the Cruel King of Castille MARY deceased Years of CHRIST 1338 at Evora and was interred in the Chappel Royal having in her life-time suffered many indignities For Alphonso her Husband forsook her and bestowed his affections upon Leonora de Gasman his Concubine An History of Spain tells us that she dyed in the Year Party de PORTUGAL One thousand three Years of CHRIST 1356 hundred six and fifty Her too much freedom and prodigal Carriage to Martin Tellez a Portugal Lord Mariana Lib. 16. C. 22. was the cause why she was poysoned by her brother nay some stick not to say by her own father Alphonso XI left this world in the Year One thousand three hundred and fifty after he Years of CHRIST 1350 had by the Aid of the King of Portugal his Father-in-law vanquished the Moors at Teriffa as we have before written LEONORA OF PORTUGAL Queen of ARRAGON had for her Spouse PETER IV. ARRAGON D'or a quatro pals de gueulles King of ARRAGON Her Marriage eldest Son of King Alphonso IV. and of Teresa Countess of Urgel This Marriage was consummated in the Year One thousand three hundred eight Years of CHRIST 1348 and forty Party de PORTUGAL Peter being at that time a Widower his first Wife was Mary of Navarre He deceased at Barcelona in the Year One thousand three hundred fourscore and seven aged Seventy five years By this Princess of Portugal he had only a daughter named Beatrix who dyed young and was entombed in the Cathedral Church of Lisbonne near unto the body of Beatrix of Castille her Grand-mother 8. PETER KING of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES CHAP. IX PORTUGAL Comme cy devant PORTUGAL Party de MANUEL De gueulles a un bras au naturel aile d'or mouuant du second party tenant une EspeeÌ„ d'argent garnia d'or EscarteleÌ„ d'Argent au lyon de pourpre couronne d'or His Birth He first saw the light of day in the Year One thousand three hundred and twenty the Nineteenth day of the Month of April and was also in the Years of CHRIST 1320 Seven and thirtieth year of his age when his fathers death made his way to the Crown the end of whose Reign was sad and mournful occasioned by the death of CONSTANCE MANUEL this his sons Wife who was Daughter of the Infant John Manuel Duke of Penastel Marquess of Vilena and Siegnour of Asâ—alona who was son of the Infant Emanuel issued from Ferdinand III. King of Castille as hath been said before Nâ—â—â—z PETER had been before married to Blanche the daughter of Peter King of Castille whom he repudiated This Princess CONSTANCE was Entombed in the Abbey of St. Francis at Santarem Among the Ladies of Honour which attended her at Court the principal was Agnes de Castro daughter of Pedro-Fernando de Castro the most Excellently qualified Lord of Galicia Ga ibay and nearly related both to the Kings of Castille Mariana and Portugal This Lady being adorned with many beauties both of body and mind attracted the Affection of Prince PETER in the life time of his Wife Constance and after whose decease he clandestinely married as he afterwards confirmed by his Solemn Oath But some Lords of the Court having conceived a secret envy against her supposing her to be instrumental to incite the young Prince to prefer and agrandize her relations and kindred perswaded the King Alphonso IV. to put her to death Nunez Vasconcellius which was accordingly executed But the young Prince PETER conceived so great a displeasure and indignation thereat that he not only took Arms against his father but put to cruel torments the Instruments of this wicked assassination During his whole Reign he deported himself so to the Kings his Neighbours that although they were continually infested with grand Warres and troubles with which the Kingdoms of Castille and Arragon were often afflicted his Estate on the contrary had the happiness to enjoy under him a blessed and happy Peace He raised two Proud and Magnificent Tombs in the Abbey of Alcobace one for himself the other for Agnes de Castro whose Effigies was to be seen upon this Monument adorned with a Royal Diadem to signifie that he owned her for his Queen and Wife Also he caused Royal Obsequies to be performed at her Burial In fine when he had ruled the Scepter of Portugal for the space of ten years seven months and eight dayes he expired at Estremos in January His death in the Year One thousand three hundred threescore and seventeen He had Years of CHRIST 1377 for his Device a Star with these words Mariana Nunez MONSTRAT ITER which he took in Memory of the three Kings who were conducted by the Star going to adore our Lord at his Nativity Children of PETER King OF PORTUGAL and of CONSTANCE MANUEL his Wife DIONYSIO OF PORTUGAL whom some by error name Lewis dyed in his infancy FERDINAND King OF PORTUGAL whose History is contained in the Chapter following MARY OF PORTUGAL was married unto FERDINAND OF ARRAGON ARRAGON D'or a quatre pâ—ls de gueulles Party de PORTUGAL Marquess of Tortosa and Lord of Albarazzin son of Alphonso IV. King of Arragon and of Leonora of Castille his Wife This Prince was slain in a place called Chastillon by the command of his Brother there having several quarrels fell out betwixt them and upon a suspicion that he had that this Prince would attempt the Crown This violent death hapned in the Year Mariana Lib. 17. C. 8. One thousand three hundred Years of CHRIST 1363 threescore and three Natural Children of
PETER King of PORTUGAL by Agnes de Castro ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL dyed young JOHN OF PORTUGAL was conjoyned in Marriage with MARY TELLEZ His Marriage daughter of Martin-Alphonso Tellez and sister to Elianor PORTUGAL TELLEZ Wife or rather Love-Mistress of King Ferdinando of Portugal his brother His Memory is worthy of blame for having imbrued his hands in the blood of his Wife Nunez whom he put to death under a false pretence that she had forfeited her honour and violated the Laws of Marriage An act so much the more mournful and Tragical as being committed by the Artifice and Machinations of Queen Elianor Maries Sister envious that she had married a Prince of so accomplished a Personage loved and honoured by all and into whose hands after the death of Ferdinando his Brother would fall the Government and Management of the Affairs of the Kingdom so that the Queen having charged him with no less a Crime than of Designs against the Life of the King he was forced to flie into Castille where he dyed being kept a Prisoner by King John I. from this Marriage came one Son Viz. 10. FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL D'AUALOS Seigneur of Eca in the Kingdom of Galicia was several times married but last of all unto ISABEL D'AVALOS daughter of Peter-Lopez d'Avalos son of the Constable of Castille Ruy Lopez by which Wife and others which he married and by several Concubines he â—â—d to the number of two and forty children from some of which are issued the Lords of Eca The second Wife of JOHN OF PORTUGAL CASTILLE Natural son of King Peter was CONSTANCE OF CASTILLE who was also a Bastard-daughter of Henry II. King of Castille by whom he had three daughters 10. MARY OF PORTUGAL CUNHA Wife of MARTIN-VASQUEZ DE CUNHA to whom she brought in Dower the County of Valence and from this Marriage according to some the Counts of Valence are descended 10. MARY OF PORTUGAL espoused to the Count MINHO PETER MINHO 10. N. OF PORTUGAL Wife of Lope-Vasquez de Cunha CUNHA The same Prince JOHN OF PORTUGAL had also these Bastards following 10. ALPHONSO DE CASCAES married BLANCH DE CUNHA CUNHA 10. PETER Seigneur de Guerra who hath left a long Posterity 10. FERDINAND Lord of Braganca DIONYSIO OF PORTUGAL another Natural Son of King Peter from whom are descended the Lords of Colmenercio and the Counts of Villar as you shall see hereafter in the Descents of the Bastards of the House of Portugal BEATRIX OF PORTUGAL also a Natural Daughter of King Peter and Agnes de Castro was espoused to SANCEO OF CASTILLE son of Sanceo Count of Albuquerque who was Bastard-Son of King Alphonso XI and of Leonora de Guzman his Paramore they had issue Vracca of Albuquerque afterwards named Leonora a very wealthy Lady married to the Infant Ferdinand of Castille called d'Antaguera he was King of Arragon by Election and they had two Sons Alphonso V. King of Arragon and Sicelie from whom are descended some Kings of Naples and John King of Navarre and Arragon who hath given original to Kings of these two Monarchies Another Natural Son of PETER King of PORTUGAL and of TERESA LAURENS JOHN King OF PORTUGAL first of the name continued the Posterity 9. FERDINAND KING of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES CHAP. X. PORTUGAL Comme cy devant PORTUGAL Party de TELLEZ His person was comely and his aspect pleasant and most accomplished he had been in all perfections had it not been that he was unstable and wavering in his Resolutions Mariana He pretended a right of Succession to the Crown of Castille after the death of King Peter as being Great Grandchild of King Sanceo IV. and in this end he contracted an alliance with the King of Arragon but to no purpose for having to do with so Valiant a Prince as was King Henry II. Bastard-brother of the same King Peter he discontinued his pretentions He gave his promise for the Marriage of Leonora daughter of the King of Arragon and contracted the same agreement with the King of Castille to espouse his Daughter also of the same name but being ill counselled and continuing in his Levity he abandoned these honourable and advantageous Marriages to contract an unlawful one with LEONORA TELLEZ Daughter of Martin-Alphonso Tellez Nunez Vasconcellius and of Aldouce de Vasconcellos notwithstanding she was before married to John-Laurens de Cugna under colour that her former Marriage was unlawful as being contracted without Dispensation and notwithstanding the propinquity of kindred betwixt the Parties This gave disgust to several of the Portugal Lords who retired into Castille as did also Cugna The King FERDINAND was yet so rash as to renew his former Claim and Pretentions to the Kingdom of Castille but Henry King of Castille being the more expert Souldier had much the advantage of him who entred into the Field marched into Portugal stormed several Towns laid waste the Countrey and at length begirt Lisbonne with a straight Siege But their differences were at last composed in the Conjugal Bed the ordinary way of reconciliation between the two Royal Houses of Portugal and Castille by several Marriages contracted betwixt them After the death of Henry History of Castille FERDINAND renewed his old quarrel against John King of Castille his Successor and called in the English to his succour who were in the end so burthensome that he was for the second time enforced to come to an agreement He begirt the Cities of Lisbonne and Evora with strong Walls The Dignities of Constable and Marshal first created in Portugal Nunez Vasconcellius Mariana and was the first that created the Dignities of Constable and Marshall in Portugal And dyed in the same City of Lisbonne His death the Nine and twentieth day of Years of CHRIST 1383 October Anno One thousand three hundred fourscore and three having Reigned Seventeen years and lived Three and forty He lieth in the Church of Santarem near unto his Mother Constance Manuel He took for his Symbole a Sword which transpierced two hearts with these words CUR NON UTRUNQUE by which he would have understood that by the sagacity of his Judgement he could penitrate into the most secret thoughts Children of FERDINAND King of PORTUGAL and of LEONORA TELLEZ N. OF PORTUGAL a Son born about the Year One thousand three hundred fourscore and two to the great joy of the King his father but that contentment lasted not long for he dyed within four dayes after his birth BEATRIX OF PORTUGAL Queen of CASTILLE CASTILLE born in the Year Her Birth One thousand three hundred threescore and twelve Escartelé Castille de Leon. She had been by King FERDINAND her Father promised in Years of CHRIST 1372 Marriage to several Princes among others to Edward of England Son of Edmond of Cambridge my Author meaneth I believe Party de PORTUGAL Edward Duke of York and Albemarle Son of
their Enemies Mariana The Principal of which was the King of Castille who incited by the Queen of Portugal Leonor his Wives Mother raised a considerable Army with which he laid a Siege to Lisbonne defended this City was with so much resolution that after the Castillians had sate down before it some months Vasconcellius they were constrained to raise their Camp Upon their retreat the Portugues animated by the presence of their generous Prince JOHN fell into the pursuit of them unto Aljuberot The Battel of Minberot where both Armies drew up and began the Fight and where the Castillians were worsted This notable Victory hapned to be in August Froisard Anno One thousand three hundred Years of CHRIST 1385 fourscore and five From which year some have computed the time of the Reign of JOHN and write that he was then Proclaimed King Nunez After this generous exploit gathering the fruit of this his Victory he conquered from his Enemy and reduced to his obedience those Cities and Towns which had been lost in the former Warre In the mean time the King of Castille being deceased Henry III. his Son and Successor having had the sad experience of his Fathers losses and the new King of Portugals successes was willing to let fall his Fathers pretentions to hearken to a peace at last concluded betwixt these two Kings and afterwards continued with King John II. Son of this Henry So that now King JOHN OF PORTUGAL seeing himself in the enjoyment of a happy peace and also in a good correspondence with his Neighbours Notwithstanding he was grown in years that checked not his resolution from aspiring unto high and pious designs He turned his Armes therefore against the Moors and Sarazens of Affrick and by the example of his Valiant Sons Godefroy subdued the strong Town of Septe which stood Years of CHRIST 1415 as a Rampire opposite to Spain to the great prejudice of the Christians And considering his Kingdom to be of too small an extendure Mariana lib. 20. c. 7. to Dignifie the numerous issue he had by his happy Marriage he projected to acquire them possessions by the force of his Armes in other Kingdoms Insomuch that he gave beginnings to those famous Conquests which have since been prosecuted and continued by the illustrious Kings his Successors The exercise of his Armes was no Remora to impede the progress of his Justice witness the Code of Justinian Vasconcellius which he caused to be translated into his own Language Nunez to the end his Subjects might observe it as his Royal Ordinance And for a Monument of his Piety he founded the Monastery of the Order of St. Dominick dedicated to the holy Virgin giving it the name of BATTEL in remembrance of that signal Victory there gained vpon the Castillians and caused it to be built in the same place where he was Conquerour And because the Cathedral Church of Lisbonne was first subject to the Arch-bishop of Merida and then to that of Braga he obtained the erection thereof into an Arch-bishoprick from Pope Boniface II. which was done in the Year One thousand three hundred fourscore and ten The Magnificence of this Prince yet appears in those superb Structures of several Palaces and Royal Mansions which he built in the City of Lisbonne and in those of Saintre Sanctareâ— Almerin and other places In fine after so many Hernick performances Vignier King JOHN whom Froissard by mistake calls Dionysius finished the course of his life at Lisbonne His death Years of CHRIST 1433 the Fourteenth day of August in the Year One thousand four hundred three and thirty after he had lived Threescore and sixteen years and Reigned Eight and forty years Four months and Nine dayes Vasconcellius His body was with Funeral Pomp at that time a thing unaccustomed conducted by men of all Estates in a Chariot of Triumph his Sons accompanying it and deposited in the same Monastery of BATTEL He was so lamented by his Subjects that they gave him these glorious Titles of With the good Memory and of Father of the Countrey In short he had in the course of his life several rencounters and conformities parallel with those of the Valiant French Prince Charles Martel This King JOHN OF PORTUGAL united his Forces and Designs against the Castillians with John of England Duke of Lancaster And du Chesne in his History of England one of the younger Sons of Edward III. King of England who pretended to the Kingdom of Castille in the right of his second Wife Constance daughter of King Peter the Cruel this English Prince assisted him with a Fleet well furnished with Souldiers and more firmly to contract this Alliance King JOHN after he had obtained Dispensation from the Pope for the Vow he had made as a Knight of the Order d'Avis espoused PHILIPPA OF LANCASTER his Daughter Nunez His Marriage this Marriage was Celebrated Years of CHRIST 1387 in the Year One thousand three hundred fourscore and seven The Duke of Lancaster promising himself Vasconcellius that by this course he should more easily make his way to the Kingdom of Castille The Queen PHILIPPA dyed a long time before the King her Husband about the Year One thousand Years of CHRIST 1415 four hundred and fifteen during that preparation of Warre which he made for his Voyage into Affrica leaving with the grief of her Death a Noble and Flourishing Progeny which did not degenerate from the Vertues and Excellencies of their Father His Device was a Rock the Chief of which was transpierced with a Sword held by an Arm issuing out of a Cloud with these words ACUIT UT PENITRET for to signifie that he exercised his Souldiers to things trouble some and difficult that they might the more easily perform the high and generous Enterprises Children of JOHN I. King OF PORTUGAL and of PHILIPPA OF LANCASTER his Wife ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL dyed being aged Ten years the Two and twentieth day of November Anno One thousand four hundred and was inhumed in the Cathedral Church of Braga EDWARD OF PORTUGAL Successor to the King his father continued the Posterity PETER OF PORTUGAL Duke of CONIMBRA Seigneur of Mount-Maiour le Vieil PORTUGAL-CONIMBRA and Regent of the Kingdom of Portugal was a Prince whose Travels had excellently qualified him having gained much experience by the frequentation of several people of Europe Asia Party de ARRAGON and Affrick he was in the Court of the Emperour Sigismond and left not unvisited that of the great and renowned Sythian Tamerlane after several dangerous adventures D'or a quatre pals de guculles he returned home in the Year One Years of CHRIST 1428 thousand four hundred twenty and eight when passing through Castille the Inhabitants left their houses to meet him in his journey Mariana lib. 24. cap. 16. lib. 22. cap. 7. reporting what they had seen with wonder as
Duke Lewis by Anne of Lusignan his Wife In her right he took the Title of King and possessed himself of the Kingdom of Cyprus but at last he was defeated by his Wives Bastard-brother PORTUGAL-CONIMBRA Party de CYPRE Comme cy dessus fo rs que culieu de 2. quartier doit estre mis l'escusson qui est sur le tout and since this Kingdom hath been usurped by the Turks 11. JAMES OF PORTUGAL third Son of PETER OF PORTUGAL Duke of CONIMBRA c. turned Souldier in his youth and was taken Prisoner in that Battel which his Father lost with his life in the Year One thousand four hundred forty and nine Years of CHRIST 1449 after he had obtained his liberty he went to visit his Aunt by the Fathers side Isabel of Portugal Dutchess of Bourgongne who sent him to Rome Years of CHRIST 1456 where the Pope Calixtus III. created him a Cardinal by the Title of St. Eustace PORTUGAL-CONIMBRA in the Year One thousand four hundred fifty and six being at that time but young He was Modest of a Pregnant Wit and a good Scholar Comme cy devant which foundations made men hope great things from him for those Virtues with which he was accomplished He is reported to be of a temper so chaste Onuphrius Fr. Ciatonus and continent that falling extream ill and being counselled by his Physitians to have the knowledge of a Woman for a remedy He refused saying That he would rather dye than be polluted He was Arch-bishop of Lisbonne and dyed at Florence the Sixteenth day of April His death 1459. Anno One thousand four hundred fifty and nine His body being interred Years of CHRIST 1459 in the Church of St. Miniat an Abbey of Monks of the Order of St. Benedict PORTUGAL Party de PORTUGAL ISABEL OF PORTUGAL espoused to the King of Portugal Alphonso V. her Cousin as you may read in his Story PHILIPPA OF PORTUGAL another Daughter of Peter Duke of Conimbra CONIMBRA and of Isabel of Arragon his Wife was a Nun in the Abbey of Odiuelles BEATRICE OF PORTUGAL was allied in Marriage to ADOLPHE OF CLEUES Her Marriage Seigneur of Ravenstein CLEUES-RAVENSTEIN a younger Son of Adolphe Duke of Cleues and of Mary of Bourgongne his Wife from which Marriage descended Philip of Cleues Seigneur of Ravenstein De gueulles au rais pommette Fleuronnē d'or de huict pieces percē d'argent Escartelé de BOURGONGNE qui est contre escartelé au 1. 4. d'azure a trois Fleurs de lis d'or a la Bordure componneé d'argent de gueulles Au 2. 3. bande d'or d'azure de six pieces a la Bordure de gueulles Sur le tout d'or au Lyon de sable qui est FLANDRES Party de PORTUGAL-CONIMBRA Lieutenant General in the City of Gennes for the King of France Lewis XII his Cousin afterwards General of a Fleet against the Turk He left no issue Here follow again Children of JOHN I. King of PORTUGAL and of PHILIPPA OF LANCASTER his Wife HENRY OF PORTUGAL PORTUGAL-VISCO Duke of VISCO fourth Son of King John and Grand Master of the Order of the Knights of Christ hath recommended his Name and Memory to Posterity for his high designs and generous performances for he had the Glory to have undertaken and happily accomplished many dangerous Navigations Step. Garibay After he had given testimony of his Valour in the Reduction of the strong City of Years of CHRIST 1415 Septe in Affrica he resolved to put himself to Sea for the Discovery of the unknown World Nunez Mariana And because he might attain to his design with the more facility he addressed himself earnestly to the study of the Mathematicks and of Astrology rejecting the enjoyment of Marriage as a thing that was altogether incongruous to the designs of a contemplative Life And that he might more easily apply himself to the Comtemplation of the Starres he bestowed a good part of his life upon the Cape of St. Vincent because the Aire was there serene and clear and seldom or never troubled or overcast with Clouds In fine being satisfied in his Judgment that there were Islands yet undiscovered in the Atlantique Ocean he was resolved to hazard the proof thereof upon his own proper costs expence So that first of all he discovered the Isle of Madera so called because of the Forrests wherewith it was replenished he peopled it with several Collonies it having been before a Desert the next discovery was the Canaries unknown for a long time in these Voyages he found out also several Ports in the Atlantique Sea Lastly He so well instructed the Portugues in the direction of their Navigations according to the Course of the Stars that with no less glory than utility they have made large Conquest in Affrick near unto Ethiopia and of several Isles in the main Ocean and the Indies And that he might more commodiously attend upon his affairs towards the end of his life this Generous Prince established his Habitation at Sagra in the Kingdom of the Algarves at the Cape called Sacra from which Port he might with ease send his Ships into the East His Death But being prevented by death in the Year Mariana Lib. 23. C. 3. One Years of CHRIST 1460 thousand four hundred and threescore at the age of Threescore and seven years Mariana adds Ten years more the progress of his glorious designs was interrupted He adopted for his Son Ferdinand of Portugal his Nephew one of the Children of King Edward his elder brother The Corps of Henry was interred within the Church of Aljuberot JOHN OF PORTUGAL Grand Master of the Order of St. James PORTUGAL and Constable of Portugal was fifth Son of John I. of the name Comme cy devant King of Portugal and of Philippa of Lancaster his Wife he followed the steps of his Illustrious Ancestors His Marriage is commended for his Piety and Prudence PORTUGAL and also to have affected the welfare of his Countrey He married ISABEL OF PORTUGAL Party de PORTUGAL-BRAGANCA Qui est d'argent au Sautoir de gueulles charge de cinq Escussons de PORTUGAL un au melieu les aultres aux quatre bouts du Sautoir Daughter of his Natural Brother Alphonso I. Duke of Braganca and of the Countess of Barcellos Beatrice who was Daughter of Avarez Pereira His Death His decease hapned at Alcacar de Sal about the end of the Month of October in the Year One Years of CHRIST 1442 thousand four hundred forty and two and in the Three and fortieth year of his age As for the Princess ISABEL his Wife she departed this life in the Year One thousand four hundred threescore and five in the Years of CHRIST 1465 place of Arceval where she was to visit her Daughter Queen Isabel of Castille Children of JOHN OF PORTUGAL c.
Mariana 11. JAMES OF PORTUGAL dyed shortly after his Father some write that he succeeded him in his Honours and Dignities which others make a doubt of CASTILLE 11. ISABEL OF PORTUGAL Queen OF CASTILLE Her Marriage Anno Escurtelé de LEON One thousand four hundred seven and forty was conjoyned by Marriage unto JOHN second of the name King of CASTILLE Party de PORTUGAL Years of CHRIST 1447 Son of Henry III. and of Katherine of Lancaster his Wife He dyed at Valedolit the Nineteenth day of July in the Year One thousand four hundred fifty and four leaving among other Children a Daughter named Isabel of Castille Wife to the King of Arragon Alphonso V. She was a Magnanimous Princess PORTUGAL-VISCO 11. BEATRICE OF PORTUGAL Her Marriage was the Wife of her Cousin FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL Duke of Visco Party de PORTUGAL a younger Son of King Edward This Princess had for her Son among others King Emanuel of Portugal in the Year One Years of CHRIST 1479 thousand four hundred threescore and nineteen she effected the peace betwixt the Kings of Portugal Alphonso V. and of Castille Ferdinand V. and is much commended by Historians for her singular Prudence and grand Authority 11. PHILIPPA OF PORTUGAL never married FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL youngest Son of John I. King of Portugal Vasconcellius and of Philippa of Lancaster Grand Master of the Order d'Avis Seigneur of Atouguie and of Sanueterre was given in Hostage by his Brother King Edward to the General of the Sarazens Aben Sala until that the said King should deliver up into their Hands the Town of Septe according to the Composition made after the fatal Battel of Tangier In the mean time Edward's death procured his deliverance and although he had Ordered it so in his Will yet FERDINAND ceased not to continue in the hands of these Barbarians the space of six years where he suffered many hardships which he underwent with much constancy and incredible patience and was moreover of so holy a life that he deserved to be Registred in the Rubrick of Martyrs His Death He dyed Aº One thousand Years of CHRIST 1443 four hundred forty and three in the One and fortieth year of his age His bones were brought out of Affrick into Portugal and reposed in the Abbey of Battel BLANCHE OF PORTUGAL eldest Daughter of John I. King of Portugal and of Philippa of Lancaster dyed young Her Marriage ISABEL OF PORTUGAL second Daughter BOURGONGNE was espoused in the Year One thousand four hundred nine and twenty unto PHILIP Years of CHRIST 1429 sirnamed the Good Duke of BOURGONGNE Escartelē Au 1 4. de FRANCE a la bordure componneē d'argent de gueulles qui est BOURGONGNE moderne Au 2. bandê d'or d'azure de six pieces a la bordure de gueulles qui est BOURGONGNE l'ancien Party de sable au Lyon d'or qui est BRABANT Au 3 des mesmes Armes de BOURGONGNE l'ancien Party de LIMBOURG qui est d'argent au Lyon de gueulles couronnē d'or Sur le tout de FLANDRES qui est d'or au Lyon de sable Le tout party de PORTUGAL and dyed in the Year One thousand four hundred threescore and thirteen Natural Children of JOHN I. of the name King of PORTUGAL ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL Duke of BRAGANZA who hath given original to that illustrious House from which the two last Kings of Portugal John IV. Father of King Alphonso VI. now Reigning Aº 1662. are descended BEATRIX OF PORTUGAL was three times married in England first to Thomas Fitz-Allan Earl of Arundel secondly to Gilbert Lord Talbot but had issue by neither her third Husband was Thomas Fettiplace of Shefford in the County of Berks Esq by whom she had issue John Fettiplace servant to King Henry VI. from whom is descended Fettiplace of North-Denchworth Pusey and Letcombe in the same County Joseph Texera a Portugues hath committed a notorious errour as he hath often done in writing the Genealogies of his Kings when he reporteth That King John I. of the name beside Blanche and Isabel had three other lawfully begottten Daughters viz. Philippa whom he writeth to be Wife of Eric King of Denmark Jane of Henry III. King of Castille and Leonora of the King of Arragon Peter IV. For which this Texera is justly reproved by Edward Nunez in that Censure which he hath published against him 10. EDWARD KING of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES CHAP. XII PORTUGAL Comme cy devant PORTUGAL Party d' ARRAGON D'or a quatre pals de gueulles Nonius The beginning of his reign was employed in the War of Affrick Mariana at the Siege of Tangier which succeeded not according to his desire Vasconcellius so that for the accomplishment of a Treaty which he made with the Moors into whose hands he promised to render in a certain time the City of Septe he was constrained to give them in Hostage the Prince Ferdinand his Brother who dyed in their hands The Estates of Portugal thinking it not reasonable to quit unto those Infidels a place of so great importance It was also in the beginning of his reign that the Popes Martin V. then Eugenius IV. assembled the Council of Basil at which all the Christian Princes were exhorted to give their assistance King EDWARD resolved to go thither in person Idem But the grand affairs that at this time lay upon his hands impeaded his Journey For to supply which default he sent thither a Solemn Embassade of which Alphonso Bishop of Porte and the Count of Ouren were chief They obtained of the Pope That from that time forward the Knights of the Military Orders of St. James and St. John should be dispensed for Marriage As also that the Kings of Portugal might from that time be Anointed and Sacred as the Kings of England were The same King EDWARD was of a temper couragious and that which is rare in a Prince joyned the exercise of Armes with the knowledge of Letters and Sciences Mariana and so earnestly dedicated himself to the study of Philosophy that he composed many rare and excellent Works among others a Treatise of the Administration of Justice and the Duty of a Prince another of the Office of the Faithful Councellour and a third also of the Art of Riding and Managing of Horses His Eloquence and Piety History makes famous He was a favourer of Learned men and of all those that he observed to be excellent in any Art giving them access to his person and conferring familiarly with them for the advantage and information of his judgement Among those evils wherewith he was afflicted Vasconcellius that of the Plague was the most fatal which hapned in his Kingdom and from which his Royal person it self was not exempted For he was touched with a contagious Disease upon the opening of a Letter which one sent him from an infected place suddenly after which
this default was recompenced with several perfections of Body and Soul with which he was adorned He designed to prosecute the high and glorious designs of the King his Father for the Discovery and Conquests of strange Regions proposing a beginning by the Western Coast of Ethiopia History of Portugal and giving Commission to John Cane a Portugal Knight to search out a Countrey which is on the other side the Equator where being arrived he found it to be the Kingdom of Congo the inhabitants whereof were so humane and docile that some of them suffered themselves to be brought into Portugal and there with the Language they were instructed in the Principles of the Christian Religion and then Baptized At their return they perswaded their King and his Subjects also to be Baptized With this King and with others of Ethiopia JOHN entred into League and caused in this Countrey to be raised the Cittadel of St. George since called the Mine from which the Kings his Successors have extracted a good quantity of Gold In the beginning of this Voyage the Portuguesses having arrived at a Cape which by estimation is the greatest of the World they conceived so happy success in their enterprise by the advantage thereof that they gave it the appellation of The Cape of good Hope antiently being called the Front of Affrica it opened them the way to the knowledge of the Estate of the Indian Princes and to penetrate further into Ethiopia where they found reigning that Prince which we vulgarly call Prester John because he is named in his Language Belulgian which signifieth A Precious Stone of incomparable excellence a Title and old Sirname usurped by the Antient Emperours of Ethiopia who maintain themselves to be descended from the Blood of Solomon by the Queen of Saba Some time after the same King JOHN II. Nunâ—z sent a great Army into Affrica which landed in the Isle of Gesire which is the mouth of the River Luc where the Portuguesses endeavoured to raise a Fort against the impeachments of the King of Fez but this King after he had cut off their passage of retreat forced them to quit their prize and by composition to return into their own Countrey In the mean time King JOHN being advertised of the Donation made to the King of Castille Vignier Ferdinand by Pope Alexander VI. of those new Regions which had been discovered by his Subjects the Portugal being interessed therein as prejudicial to the discovery that for his part he had made upon the Coast of Ethiopia for this reason entred into a difference with the Castillian which caused the Pope on his own accord to give unto King Ferdinand the Indies newly found out and to the King of Portugal the Coast of Affrica But to the intent that the one might not attempt any thing upon the other he caused to be drawn upon the Globe a Line falling from North to South which passed towards the West above Four hundred miles distant from the Isles of Cape-verd that it might not touch upon Affrica This with other violent Actions of King JOHN drew upon him the odium of several persons Mariana in such manner that they were followed with conspiracies against his life His Death that at last he was found poysoned in the place of Alvor in his Kingdom of Algarvie Vasconcellius the Five and twentieth day of October in the Years of CHRIST 1495 Year One thousand four hundred fourscore and fifteen after he had lived Forty years and reigned Fourteen His body was first inhumed in the Cathedral Church of Silues until that in the Year One thousand four hundred fourscore and nineteen King Emanuel his Cousin and Successor and his Estates caused it to be brought to the Abbey of Battel He was very Pious and Charitable to the Poor for whose Retreat and Relief he founded and endowed a fair Hospital at Lisbonne His Prudence appeared in the government of his Kingdom and by the placing his favours upon persons of desert keeping a most exact Register of the names of those that had faithfully served him and who were capable and endued with qualities required in the administration of his affairs He had a spirit elated and ambitious of the greatest things About the Year One thousand four hundred threescore and ten not being above Fifteen years old Mariana His Marriage he married LEONORA OF PORTUGAL or OF VISCO his Cousin Daughter of his Uncle Ferdinand of Portugal Duke of Visco and Constable of the Kingdom by Years of CHRIST 1470 whom he had only one Son Heir apparent to his Estates but he had the unhappiness and regret to see him dye before him contrary to the common course of Nature Then endeavouring to legitimate his Natural Son George Duke of Aueiro with some intention to leave him the Crown The Queen his Wife opposed this design not willing that her Brother the Prince Emanuel should be deprived of the Right he had to the Kingdom by the decease of his Cousin Alphonso the young Prince and to which he succeeded after decease of King JOHN Who took in his Device a Pelican a Bird so Natural and affectionate to her young Idem Vasconcellius that she wounds her breast and feeds them with her own blood with this Inscription PRO LEGE ET GREGE witnessing thereby how much he both loved and cherished his people for whose defnce and Religion he had exposed his life to several hazards Some have noted that he was the first among the Kings of Portugal that adorned the Helmet of the Portugal Arms with a Sphere for Creast which he took as a presage of the new Discoveries which were made during his Reign and of some of the Kings his Successors under both the Poles Children of JOHN II. of the name King of PORTUGAL and of LEONOR OF VISCO his Wife ALPHONSO Prince OF PORTUGAL PORTUGAL There is remarkable in this young Prince Comme cy devant looked upon as the Hope and Prop of the Royal House of Portugal a notable example of the Inconstancy and frailty of humane things His Marriage For after that in sumpteous apparel and great magnificence he had in November PORTUGAL Ao One thousand four hundred fourscore and Years of CHRIST 1490 ten espoused the Princess ELIZABETH OF CASTILLE Party de CASTILLE eldest Daughter of Ferdinand V. and of Isabel King and Queen of Castille and Arragon in the City of Stremos this Marriage which it was thought would be one day the Earnest of a perpetual Concord betwixt the two Neighbouring Crowns continued not above seven months only for the young Prince finished his life at Sanctarem His Death by a sad and unhappy accident Years of CHRIST 1491 being a violent fall from his House as he was running a Gourser so that with the bruise thereof he died quickly after to the great affliction of the Kings and their people who had the unhappiness to see the
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
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
also thought that it would be agreeable to the Portuguesses to have a young King as was Rainucio that they might educate and instruct him after their own fashion and manners But King Philip of Spain having the power in his hand rendred himself peaceable possessor Years of CHRIST 1580 of this Kingdom Rainucio espoused Margaret Aldobrandin Pope Clement VIII his Neece and had issue Alexander Farnese second of the name Duke of Parma and Placentia who after the death of his Father remained under the Tutilage and Government of Edward Farnese the Cardinal his Uncle younger Son of Duke Alexander first of the name Margaret Farnese Sister of Rainucio and Edward was married to Vincent de Gonzaga first of that name Duke of Mantua but they were separated by the Authority of the Church KATHERINE OF PORTUGAL Her Marriage Dutchess of BRAGANZA PORTUGAL-BRAGANCE younger Daughter of Prince Edward was married to John of Portugal her Cosin sixth Duke of Braganza who was one of those Princes that were Competitors for the Kingdom of Portugal in the right of this Katherine his Wife D'argent au sautoir de gueulles chargé de cinq Escusson de Portugal alledging that she ought to precede the King of Spain Philip II. Son of the Empress Isabel of Portugal as being Daughter of Edward this Isabels Brother whom she did represent And caused to be written in the University of Conimbra divers reasons in her favour which they sent to several Kings and forrein Princes Katherine grounded principally upon these reasons a Party de PORTUGAL H. Franchi Conestaggio That in all Successions of Crowns the last possessor was to be succeeded jure hereditatis which allowed the benefit of representation that she representing the Infante Don Edward her Father Brother of Henry ought to precede all the other pretendants the Catholique King because issued from a Daughter the Prince Anthony for being Illegitimate Raynucio Farnese as being farther removed from Henry by the decease of Mary of Portugal his Mother the Law never allowing a Grand-child that benefit But especially by the prime and fundamental Laws of the Kingdom put in execution against Beatrix Daughter of Ferdinand King of Portugal who having married out of the Kingdom to the King of Castille as you may note page 35. See also a clause of the Law of Lamego Fol. 6. her right of succeeding was utterly lost and King John chosen in her stead she was to be preferred before all Claimers or Competitors whomsoever in regard of her being both born and married within the Kingdom They had issue Theodosius II. of the name seventh Duke of Braganza Father of John II. of that name eighth Duke of Braganza Crowned King of Portugal by the name of John IV. who by this just Title left the Kingdom to his Son King Alphonso VI. Reigning at present 1662. Here are continued Children of King EMANUEL by MARY OF CASTILLE his second Wife ANTHONY OF PORTUGAL dyed not long after his Birth in the Year One thousand five hundred and seventeen ISABEL OF PORTUGAL Empress and Queen of SPAIN AUSTRICHE-ESPAGNE Escartelé Au premier quartier aussi Escartele Au 1. 4. de CASTILLE Au 2. 3. de LEON Au 2. quaâ—tier D'ARRAGON Party de ARRAGON-SICILIE Au 3. de gueulles a la Fasse d'argent qui est AUSTRICHE Soustenu de l'ancienne BOURGONGNE Au 4. quartier de la second branche de BOURGONGNE Soustenu de BRABANT Sur les trois quatriesme quartiers de FLANDRES Party de Marquisate de St. Empire Le tout Party de PORTUGAL born at Lisbonne in the Year One thousand five hundred and three the Fourth day of October Her Birth and having arrived at the Three and twentieth year Years of CHRIST 1503 of her age was in the Year One thousand five hundred twenty and six espoused at Seville Her Marriage to CHARLES OF AUSTRIA fifth of that name Emperour and King of Spain eldest Son of Philip of Austria first Years of CHRIST 1526 of the name and of Joane Queen of Castille and Arragon his Wife This Empress ISABEL brought to her Husband the Summe of Nine hundred thousand Ducates in Dower They were married by the Cardinal Salviati Pope Clement V. his Legate Her death She dyed in the City of Toledo the first day of May in the Year One Years of CHRIST 1539 thousand five hundred nine and thirty aged only Six and thirty years and her body was transported to Granada The Emperour her Husband deceased the One and twentieth day of Years of CHRIST 1558 September Ao One thousand five hundred eight and fifty having carried the honour and reputation of one of the greatest and most virtuous Monarchs that have commanded since Charles the Great Having gained several signal Victories upon the Turks and Infidels he most of all shewed the grandure of his Courage in this that he which had so many times vanquished others remained now Victorious upon himself in quitting the Empire with the other Estates and Kingdoms which he possessed and all worldly pomp to retire into a place of Solitude and there to pass the remainder of his life that he might the better apply himself to the service of God which he did after he had held his Empire Six and thirty years and his Hereditary Kingdoms Forty He left one Son Philip II. King of Spain who in the right of his Mother was of the number of the pretenders to the Kingdom of Portugal and rendred himself Master thereof as you have heard before Charles V. had also two Daughters the elder of which Mary of Austria was espoused to the Emperour Maximilian II. and the younger was married to John Prince of Portugal Son of King John III. and had issue King Sebastian BEATRICE OF PORTUGAL Dutchess of SAVOYE SAVOYE Escartele Au 1. 4. de pourpre au cheval gay effrayé contourné d'argent qui est le HAUTESAXE Party de Fasse d'or d sable de six pieces a la couâ—onnâ— de sinople perie en bande brochant sur le tout qui est la BASSESAXE Anté en point en forme de tâ—iangle d'argent a trois houtâ—rolles d'Espee de gueull s 2. 1. qui est ANGRIE Au 2. quartier d'argent au Lyon de sable l'Escu sâ—n é de billettes de mesme qui est du Daché de CHABLAIS Au. 3. de sable au Lyon d'argent armé lampassé de gueulles qui est d'Aouste Sur le tout de gueulles a la Croix plaine d'argent qui est l'Escu de SAVOYE moderne Party de PORTUGAL born at Lisbonne the last day of December Her Birth in the Year One thousand Years of CHRIST 1504 five hundred and four Her Marriage was conjoyned by Marriage in March Anno One thousand five hundred twenty and one with Charles III. Duke of Savoye Years of CHRIST 1521 Son of Philip Duke of Savoye and of Claude of Bretagne his Wife This Dutchess dyed
publick Professors and rendred this Achademy one of the most famous of Europe He raised also several proud Structures at Evora and restored the Aquaeduct of this City which place he so much delighted in that he made it the most ordinary place of his dwelling Mariana In the Year One thousand five hundred twenty and five His Marriage and in the Month of February he espoused Katherine of Austria at Salamanca she Years of CHRIST 1525 was Sister of the Emperour Charles V. and fourth Daughter of Philip I. of the name King of Spain and of Queen Joane his Wife She dyed at Lisbonne Anno One thousand five hundred threescore and seventeen having Years of CHRIST 1577 lived to a very great age His Grand-son King Sebastian who succeeded this King JOHN for the respect and reverence which he did bear this Princess his Grand-mother did for some time bridle the impetuosity of his rash designs King JOHN III. her Husband deceased twenty years before her of an Apoplexie His Death in the City of Lisbonne the Eleventh day of June in Years of CHRIST 1557 the Year One thousand five hundred fifty and seven after he had lived Fifty and five years and reigned Five and thirty and an half His body was interred in the Church of the Monastery of Bethleem which being begun to be built by his Father was accomplished by him and the Queen his Wife The Symbole or Devise of this King was a Rock composed of five Collumnes upon which was exalted a Cross and for the Soul of the Device IN HOC SIGNO VINCES presenting thereby in imitation of Constantine the great and of one of his Ancestors that in this sign of the Redemption of Man-kind and of the Death of the Saviour of the world he vanquished the enemies of our Faith Children of JOHN III. King OF PORTUGAL and of KATHERINE OF AUSTRIA his Wife ALPHONSO Prince OF PORTUGAL born at Almerin Years of CHRIST 1526 the Four and twentieth day of February in the Year One thousand five hundred twenty and six dyed young EMANUEL OF PORTUGAL came into this world the Years of CHRIST 1531 first day of November being All Saints day Aº One thousand five hundred thirty and one and departed this world three years after PHILIP OF PORTUGAL first saw the light of day at Evora Years of CHRIST 1533 the Five and twentieth day of May in the Year One thousand five hundred thirty and three and deceased also in his infancy DIONYSIO or DENIS OF PORTUGAL born in Years of CHRIST 1535 the same City of Evora the Six and twentieth day of April Aº One thousand five hundred thirty and five dyed likewise in his youth JOHN Prince OF PORTUGAL out-lived his four Brothers PORTUGAL The place of his Birth was Evora His Birth upon the third day of June in the Year Comme cy devant Years of CHRIST 1537 One thousand five hundred thirty and seven About the sixteenth year of his age he espoused JOANE OF AUSTRIA His Marriage second daughter of the Emperour Charles V. and of Isabel of Portugal his Wife PORTUGAL Party d' AUSTRICHE who was Years of CHRIST 1553 Aunt by the Fathers side to this Prince He enjoyed her but seven months and then dyed the second day of January His Death Aº One thousand five hundred Years of CHRIST 1554 fifty and four not having arrived at the Seventeenth year of his age Comme cy devant He left this Princess JOANE with child who after delivery of her posthumus Son King Sebastian returned into Castille and in the absence of her Brother King Philip II. who was at that time in the Low-Countreys governed his Kingdoms with Prince Charles his Son her Nephew and then departed out of this life into a better Mariana in the Year of Salvation Years of CHRIST 1578 One thousand five hundred threescore and eighteen She founded a Nunnery for barefooted Sisters at Madrid and had this happiness not to see the loss and miserable death of her only Son hapning but few Months after her decease A Son of JOHN Prince OF PORTUGAL and JOANE OF AUSTRIA his Wife 15. SEBASTIAN the last King OF PORTUGAL in descent of this branch ANTHONY OF PORTUGAL sixth Son of King John III. born the ninth day of March in the Year One thousand five hundred Years of CHRIST 1539 thirty and nine finished his dayes in his infancy MARY OF PORTUGAL Princess of SPAIN eldest Daughter of King John III. first saw the light of day at Conimbra Her Birth the Fifth day of October AUTRICHE ou ESPAGNE Anno Her Marriage One thousand five hundred twenty and seven Years of CHRIST 1527 and was married at Salamanca in March Anno One thousand five hundred forty and three to Philip II. Escartelé Au premier quartier aussi escartele Au 1. 4. de CASTILLE Au 2. 3. de LEON Au 2. quaâ—tier d' ARRAGON Party d' ARRAGON-SICILIE Sur lesquels deux premiers quartiers est pose l'Escu de Portugal Au 3. d' AUSTRICHE Soustenu de BOURGONGNE de la premier branche Au 4. de BOURGONGNE de la second oranche soustenu de BRABANT Et sur ces deux derniers quartiers est un Escusson de FLANDRES Party du Marquisate du St. Empire Le tout Party de PORTUGAL at that time Prince and afterwards Years of CHRIST 1543 King of Spain She was the first of four wives that he had Her death and dyed at Validolit the Twelfth day of July in the Year One thousand five hundred Years of CHRIST 1545 forty and five four dayes after she was delivered of her only Son Prince Charles who dyed before the King his Father and had a sad and Tragical end The same King Philip II. deceased the Thirteenth day of September in the Year of Grace One thousand five hundred fourscore and eighteen Years of CHRIST 1598 aged Threescore and eleven years He reigned Forty years in Spain and Eighteen in Portugal The body of the Princess Mary his Wife was conveyed to Granada and there interred She never carried the Title of Queen for her Husband came to the Crown a long time after her decease ISABEL OF PORTUGAL born at Lisbonne the Eight and Years of CHRIST 1529 twentieth day of April One thousand five hundred twenty and nine was second Daughter of King John III. and dyed young BEATRIX OF PORTUGAL brought into this world also at Lisbonne the Fifteenth day of February in the Year of our Redemption One thousand five hundred and thirty dyed in the Cradle Years of CHRIST 1530 A Natural Son of JOHN III. King of PORTUGAL EDWARD OF PORTUGAL Arch-bishop of Bracara and Primate of Spain was a Prelate well read in Philosophy Divinity and other good Learning these excellent parts had laid a foundation for higher expectations Vasconcellius when Death surprised him in the flower of his years to the great affliction of King John
III. his Father 15. SEBASTIAN KING of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES on this and the other side the Sea in Affrica Lord of Guineé and of the Conquest Navigations and Commerce of Ethiopia Arabia Persia and India CHAP. XVII PORTUGAL D'argent a cinq Escussons d'Azur peris en Croix chacun chargé de cinq besans aussi d'Argent posez en sautoir a la bordure de gueulles chargé de sept Chasteaux d'or trois en chef deux en fasse deux en poïnt This King SEBASTIAN was only Son of Prince John of Portugal and of Joane of Austria his Wife Noâ—ius born a posthumus in the Year One thousand five hundred fifty and four the Twentieth day of January His Birth on which day is celebrated the Feast of St. Sebastian Vasconcellius in memory of whom Years of CHRIST 1554 he had this name given him After the death of his Grand-father King John III. being but Three years old he succeeded to the Crown of Portugal and during his minority was under the Government of Queen Katherine of Austria But afterwards this Princess not being able to undergo so great a charge as that of the Regency transferred it by the Estates to Cardinal Henry great Uncle by the Fathers side to King SEBASTIAN who having attained to the Fourteenth year of his age began to take the Reins of Government into his own hand Vasconcellius The Moors taking advantage by the infirmity of his age thought it now a fit time to endeavour the reduction of some of his best Garisons in Affrica So that Mahomet King of Mauritania the Son of Cherif Abdala came Years of CHRIST 1562 with a considerable force and begirt Magazon with a strait Siege and had it not been by Roderick de Sosa nobly defended for the space of Three months they had carried it Thuanus No better was the Fortune of the Infidels Ten years after when they Years of CHRIST 1572 undertook the same design upon the Towns of Goa and Chiaule For Attaida and Mascaregna so resolutely opposed that after Six months Siege before the one and Nine before the other they were forced to retire with loss and shame Now was King SEBASTIAN in the Twentieth year of his age who being of an able Body and of a Couragious and Martial Soul not content with those Dominions which he possessed resolved to make Conquest of new not considering that this design was not to be effected without great hazard and in the alteration of that repose his Kingdom had so long enjoyed He had first designed a War against the Indians but that his Kinsmen and Subjects would not consent unto But as there was some difficulty wholly to withdraw the young Prince who had a Warlike spirit from this Enterprise such as were near him laboured to divert him by means of another which they laid before him turning all his Resolution upon Affrick to engage the Moors which live in that part called Mauritania Tingitana where the Portugals maintained to their great Charge upon the Coast of Barbary the three Fortresses of Septe Tangier and Magazon the In-let and Key of Spain by which the Moors have heretofore conquered it But this diversion whereunto they perswaded the King produced sad effects principally proceeding for want of Judgment for although it were difficult wholly to disswade him from the expedition of India and therefore convenient to represent unto him some other Action yet should they advisedly have foreseen not to divert him from one mischief to thrust him into a greater The young King stayed not long to put this design in execution For in the Year One thousand five hundred threescore and fourteen he assembled Years of CHRIST 1574 against the inclination of his best Friends certain of his Souldiers King Sebastian's first Voyage into Affrica and with four Gallies and some Ships and Carvels passed into Affrica under colour of visiting his Forts Coâ—â—staggio although he really desired to effect more than he made shew of There they came to some Skermishes with the Moors at which he was almost alwayes found in person where discovering his own weakness and vexing himself that he could not perform what he desired He returned back to Lisbonne still devising some new manner of War which so disquieted his conceit that he neither said nor did any thing to other end deliberating not as a King but as a private Souldier to accustom his body to labour intending thereby to habituate himself more to the hardships and miseries of War This inclination in which the heavens had some part was not contradicted by any of his Council For although these actions of the Kings were rash yet Ambition and fear of his displeasure were of such force That the Nobility Magistrates and other persons who might have forced him durst not open their mouths nor oppose themselves against his Will and if any did mutter or speak to the contrary they were men of base Quality and not admitted The Cardinal Henry his great Uncle Brother to John III. Conestaggio his Grandfather and Queen Katherine in whom Flattery should have found no place had small credit with the King neither did they use the Authority they might have had both fearing they should not prevail but lose with the Kings disgrace that small command was yet remaining in them So as by a fatal silence they suffered this young Prince for the second time to return into Affrica And the more to enflame King SEBASTIAN it fortuned that Muley Mahomet chased out of the Kingdom of Morocco by his Uncle Muley Moluc endeavoured his re-establishment by the aide of the Christians Errera and for this purpose entreated succours from SEBASTIAN perswading this King that by the advantage of those Friends that he could make in his own Kingdom he should be able to defeat Moluc and to open him a way to trace the whole Empire of Morocco SEBASTIAN drawn on by this vain hope Vasconcellius embraced the Moors offer and finding himself not able to perform this expedition without another Confederate endeavoured to draw into this Action his Uncle by the Mothers side the King of Spain Philip II. to which effect an Interview was appointed at Guadalupa There the Kings met Nonius and proposals were made of a match betwixt King Philips Daughter and King SEBASTIAN and as to the War of Affrica the Spanish King liked well of it so that it might be prosecuted by his Lieutenants but not that he should undertake it in person excusing himself that he could not assist him with a considerable force pretending he had occasion for Souldiers to resist the Turk in Italy so that from the Catholique King he could expect but small supplies Years of CHRIST 1578 So that now assisted only with some Regiments of Italians Germans and Irish after he had with great pomp caused the Royal Standerd to be hallowed in the Cathedral Church of Lisbonne SEBASTIAN set Sail
that Kingdom resides in the Kings of Spain An Errour springing either from their Ignorance in the Descent of those Princes An apprehension that Sixty years Possession by the Austrian Family could make a Title indubitable which was never warranted by the Right of Birod or by the Laws of Portugal Or that many being wilfully Ignorant would have others to be so too I have therefore thought it necessary to spend this Sheet for the Entrance of the Table of the Competitors their several pretentions and to clear the Title of King John IV. to that Crown I. The Pretention of the People THe People Claimed Jure Regni alledging That the Issue-Male of their Kings failing the Election belonged unto them fortifying this Reason by the Example of the Election which was made of their King John I. But against the People it was answered That they had no greater Priviledge of Election in this Kingdom than in the rest of Spain all which Realms fall by Succession when there is any lawfully descended of the Blood-Royal And that in Portugal they have less Liberty than the rest growing from the Gifts of the Kings of Castille and from the Conquest of the Kings of Portugal And forasmuch as the People did not give the Realm to their Primative Kings they could not since be invested with any Power to Choose one And for that which they alledged concerning the Election of King John I. it was answered That this Reason did so little serve their turn that it was rather an Argument against them to prove that the Kingdom in that Case was Successive having themselves secretly confessed That they had no Right to Choose whil'st there remained any one lawfully descended of the Royal Issue Inferring That Beatrice being married to a Stranger The Realm was in the same estate wherein according to the Law of Lamego they were to choose the next Prince of the Blood which Choice proceeded from Duty rather than any unlimited Power in the People But to put this Dispute out of doubt there had been Four several Examples put in Practice against the Peoples Election 1. Alphonso III. Successor to his Brother Sanceo II. left the Crown to his Son Dionysio by the Right of Inheritance 2. Emanuel in the same Right succeeded John II. his Fathers Brothers Son 3. Emanuel upon his journey into Castille declared That if he deceased without Children the Succession did belong to James Duke of Braganza his Sisters Son 4. And Henry the Cardinal in the same manner without Election succeeded Sebastian to whom he was great Uncle So that Consequently That Custom was to be observed in the Succession of a Kingdom which had been ever practised II. Of the POPE THe Popes Title was not forgot who Challenged to be Jure divino Arbitrator if not Donor in all Controversies for Crowns but especially in this because Alphonso the first King to obtain that Title became Tributary to the See of Rome But this was slighted and disregarded as not worthy an Answer III. Of Katherine de Medicis KAtherine de Medicis Widow of Henry the Second King of France was the Third Competitor for the Crown of Portugal as being descended legitimately from Alphonso III. King of Portugal vide pag. 22. charging all that Reigned since to be Usurpers and that the Kingdom ought to return by direct Line to the Heirs of the Lawful Children of Alphonso and the Countess of Buillon whom they said to be this Katherine Daughter of Lawrence de Medicis and of Magdalene of Buillon and de la Tour the only remainder in Direct Line of that House and Heir to the County the which although she did not then possess being incorporate by the Kings of France as a matter of importance seated upon the Limits of France and England yet they gave unto the Queen in Recompence the Earldom of Lauregais which she enjoyed But against the most Christian Queen it was pleaded That her Pretention was improbable and prescribed seeing that the Successors of the Earl of Buillon had never made any mention thereof neither is it credible that since this Pretention was incorporate to the Crown of so mighty a Realm such Wise and Potent Princes as were Francis I. and Henry II. would have forgotten to call it in question But the truth was the Countess Matilda left no Children as it appears in her Testament in the Publick Registers of Portugal making therein no mention to leave any by King Alphonso nor to have had any It was likewise proved That Matilda or Maud had no Children by a formal Request found in the same Registers by the which all the Prelates in the Realm did beseech Pope Urban That it would please him to disannul the Curse which he had laid upon the Realm and that he would approve the Marriage of Beatrix the second Wise of Alphonso that he would make their Children Legitimate that there might be no hindrance in the Succession of the Kingdom whereby it was concluded That if there had been any lawful Children of Maud they could not have perswaded the Pope to preferre the Bastards of Beatrice It was added That these Reasons were not unknown in France and that of late there had been a Book Printed of the Genealogie of the Houses of Medicis and Buillon continued unto Katherine the most Christian Queen whereby it did clearly appear That Maud left no Children by Alphonso her second Husband having been formerly married to Philip Son of Philip Augustus King of France by which Marriage she had one Daughter named Jane who did not succeed her Mother in the County dying before her without Issue So as Robert Son of Alix Sister to Matilda came to the Succession and this is that Robert from whom they would draw the descent of Queen Katherine being the Nephew and not the Son of Maud. So as not being at all proved that Alphonso III. had any Children by his first Bed but the contrary by many Reasons the Queen had no Reason they said to Pretend The Interest of the other Pretenders more nearly concerned this ensuing Table will make clear Emanuel Fourteenth King of Portugal Beatrice Dutchess of Savoye Defunct Emanuel Philibert D. of Savoy Competitor Isabel the Empress Defunct Philip II. King of Castille Competitor John III. Fifteenth K. of Portugal Def. John Prince of Portugal Defunct Sebastian 16th King of Portugal Defunct Lewis Duke of Beia Defunct Anthony Prior of Crato Competitor Henry Cardinal and Seventeenth K. of Portugal after whose death these several Princes laid Claim to that Kingdom Edward Duke of Vimerana Defunct Mary Dutchess of Parma Defunct Raynucius Duke of Parma Competit Katherine Dutchess of Braganza Competit IV. Of Emanuel Philebert Duke of Savoye THe Fourth that pretended to this Crown was Emanuel Philebert Duke of Savoye as Son to Beatrix younger Daughter to King Emanuel though it is to be supposed that he laid not his Claim out of any hopes to prevail whil'st he was descended of the younger Daughter and
other Persons of Quality which have spread not only in Portugal and Castille but also in Italy and more particularly in the Kingdom of Naples some of which have left the sirname of Portugal and taken the names of those Illustrious Houses into which they have matched which we find often practised in Spain ALPHONSO was first dignified with the title and quality of Count of Barcellos in the right of his first Wife BEATRICE PEREIRA Nonius Leo. she was daughter and heir of Nugno Alvarez Pereira second Constable of Portugal Count of Arrayalos Barcellos and Ourem Mariana As for the Dutchy of Braganza he was invested therein by the Infant Peter of Portugal Duke of Conimbra his Brother at what time he was Regent of Portugal during the minority of King Alphonso V. their Nephew in the Year One Years of CHRIST 1442 thousand four hundred forty and two Sometime after the same King Alphonso gave him the Seigneury of Vimarana For his second Wife he espoused CONSTANCE OF NOROGNA daughter of Alphonso of Castille Count of Gijon and of the Countess Isabel of Portugal But from this second Marriage there came no Children Mariana Lib. 21. Cap. 7. ALPHONSO is charged by Historians with extream ingratitude towards his Brother and Benefactor the Duke of Conimbra and to have been of the number of those that incited King Alphonso to pursue him with Armes unto the death as we have informed you before ALPHONSO dyed in the Year His Death One thousand four hundred threescore and one and was inhumed in the great Church at Chuues Years of CHRIST 1461 Children of ALPHONSO Duke of BRAGANZA and of BEATRICE PEREIRA his first Wife ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL Count of OUREM and Marquess of VALENCE gave original to the Counts of Vimioso whose Genealogy shall be deduced in its proper place FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL Duke of Braganza after his Father continued the Posterity ISABEL OF PORTUGAL or Braganza Espoused to JOHN OF PORTUGAL a younger Son of King John the first her Grand-father 11. FERDINAND I. of the name Duke of BRAGANZA Count of ARRAYALOS and Marquess of VILLA-VICIOSA HE was second Son of Alphonso of Portugal first Duke of Braganza and of Beatrice Pereira his first Wife and succeeded him in the Dutchy He was also Count of Arrayalos and Marquess of Valence by the gift of Alphonso V. and Governour of the City of Septe in Affrick His Wife JANE DE CASTRO was daughter and heir of John de Castro Seigneur of Cadaval and of Leonor of Acugna his Wife He received the Honour of Burial in the Church of St. Augustin at Villa-viciosa an Abbey which he had founded in that Seigneury Children of FERDINAND I. of the name Duke of BRAGANZA FERDINAND II. Duke of Braganza whose Story followeth in the next Page JOHN OF BRAGANZA Marquess of Mont-major was Constable of the Kingdom of Portugal but having a hand in the Conspiracy against King John II. forged by the Duke of Braganza his elder Brother he fled into the Kingdom of Castille where he dyed without leaving any issue by his Wife ISABEL OF NOROGNA daughter of Peter de Norogna Arch-bishop of Lisbonne ALVARO OF PORTUGAL hath given original to the Branch of the Marquesses of FERREIRA which shall be spoken of in their place ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL Count of FARO from whom the Counts of MIRA are issued as you may see hereafter KATHERINE OF PORTUGAL dyed having been affianced to JOHN COUTINHO Count of Marialva BEATRICE OF PORTUGAL Wife to PETER DE MENESES Marquess of Ville-real GUIOMARE DE CASTRO espoused to HENRY DE MENESES Count of Loullé 12. FERDINAND II. of the name Duke of BRAGANZA and VIMARANA AMong the Children of Ferdinand first of the name Duke of Braganza and of Jane de Castro his Wife this was the eldest PORTUGAL-BRAGANCE In the life-time of his Father he was established Count of Vimarana by the gift of King Alphonso V. And upon the point of his Marriage to his second Wife ISABEL OF PORTUGAL daughter of the Infant Ferdinand of Portugal he was created Duke of the same place of Vimarana The rigorous usage of this Prince and of other Grandees of the Kingdom by the Officers of King John II. gave ground to his unhappy Conspiracies against the State which Treason was thus discovered For when FERDINAND caused search to be made in his Evidences for certain Charters and Priviledges to get them confirmed his Secretary found the Letters of Intelligence and Conspiracy betwixt the Duke his Master and the Kings of Castille to the prejudice of the King his Soveraign into whose hands the Secretary delivered them in the Hope of a Recompence For some time the King dissembled the discovery and favourably received the Duke into his Court but one day having called him aside he charged him with his fault which the Duke would not confess but on the contrary protested his right intention and fidelity to his service But not ceasing to continue his Treasons the King resolved to bring him to a Tryal where being convicted and condemned to lose his life Mariana Lib. 24. Cap. 23. he was beheaded at Evora His Death the One and twentieth day of June in the Year One thousand four Years of CHRIST 1483 hundred fourscore and three and his Goods were Confiscated The Dutchess ISABEL his Widow the Queens Sister sent her three Children into Castille where they were favourably received by the Queen their Aunt The Body of the Duke was inhumed in the Church of St. Dominique of the same City of Evora and afterwards removed to the Convent of St. Augustine at Villa-viciosa The first Wife of this Duke Ferdinand was LEONOR DE MENESES daughter of Peter de Meneses first Count of Ville-real others say of Urana and of Margaret of Miranda his Wife by her he had no Children but he left issue by his second Wife before mentioned Children of FERDINAND II. Duke of BRAGANZA and of ISABEL OF PORTUGAL his second Wife JAMES Duke of BRAGANZA continued the Posterity PHILIP OF BRAGANZA was sent into Castille by his Mother when that fatal stroke fell upon his Father and there dyed without issue Some believe him to be the eldest Son DIONYSIO OF PORTUGAL or BRAGANZA espoused the Countess of Lemos and in her right was Earl thereof as we shall inform you in the Deduction of his branch MARGARET dyed not having been married 13. JAMES OF PORTUGAL Duke of BRAGANZA and Count of BARCELLOS PORTUGAL-BRAGANCE HE was eldest Son of Ferdinand II Duke of Braganza and of Isabel of Portugal his second Wife and was restored to all his Estates Years of CHRIST 1595 Honours and Lordships by King Emanuel his Uncle by the Mothers side immediately after he came to the Crown of Portugal Mariana He made him General of a Fleet which he sent for Affrica Aº One thousand five hundred and Years of CHRIST 1513 thirteen Vasconcellius where he reduced the City of Azamor which having been tributary to
the King of Portugal had thrown off their Yoke It was sacqued and pillaged by the Portuguesses which stroke so great a terrour into the Infidels that they abandoned to the Christians the Towns of Tite Almedina and other neighbouring places This Duke JAMES espoused two Wives His first Marriage his first was LEONOR DE MENDOZA daughter of John de Gusman Duke of Medina-Sidonia and of Isabel de Velasco his Wife Secondly He married JANE DE MENDOZA His second Marriage daughter of Diego de Mendoza Grand Alcaide of the City of Mouron and of Beatrice Suarez his Wife Children of JAMES Duke of BRAGANZA by LEONOR MENDOZA his first Wife THEODOSIUS OF PORTUGAL first of the name Duke of Braganza had issue ISABEL OF PORTUGAL was conjoyned in Marriage with the Infant EDWARD OF PORTUGAL youngest Son of King Emanuel who among other Children had Edward of Portugal Duke of Vimarana that dyed without issue Children of JAMES Duke of BRAGANZA and of JANE DE MENDOZA his second Wife JAMES OF PORTUGAL dyed without issue CONSTANTINE OF PORTUGAL was Great Chamberlain to King John III. And by him sent Embassadour into France A' Years of CHRIST 1549 One thousand five hundred forty and nine where he stood as his Proxy at the Baptizing of Lewis of France Duke of Orleans second Son of King Henry II. His Marriage He was also honoured with the Dignity of Vice-roy of the Indies and espoused MARY DE MENESES daughter of Roderick de Mello first Marquess of Ferreira and of Beatrice de Meneses his second Wife by whom he had no Children He dyed in the City of Estremos and was interred in the Church de las Hagas at Villa-viciosa FULGENCE OF PORTUGAL Prior of Vimarana had issue these Natural Children 15. FRANCIS OF BRAGANZA Canon at Evora Commissary of the Croissade of Portugal and of the Councel of Portugal residing in the Court of the Catholique King at Madrid 15. ANGELLICA Abbess of Villa-viciosa THEOTON OF PORTUGAL Archbishop of Evora was a Prelate of great Virtue He dyed at Validolit in the Year One thousand six hundred and two and his body was interred in the Monastery of St. Anthony at Evora JANE OF PORTUGAL Wife of BERNARDIN DE CARDENAS Marquess of Elche EUGENIA OF PORTUGAL espoused to FRANCIS DE MELLO Marquess of Ferreira her Cosin MARY and VINCENDA the one Abbess the other a Nun at Villa-viciosa 14. THEODOSIUS OF PORTUGAL first of the name Duke of BRAGANZA and BARCELLOS PORTUGAL-BRAGANCE JAmes Duke of Braganza and Leonor de Mendoza were father and mother of this Duke THEODOSIUS The King of Portugal John III. created him the first Duke of Barcellos a Title which hath ever since been affixed to the eldest Sons of this Royal House of Braganza His first Wife ISABEL DE CASTRO his Cosin was daughter of Dionysius of Braganza Count of Lemos and of Beatrice de Castro his Wife His second was BEATRICE DE LANCASTRO another of his Cosins daughter of Lewis de Lancastro and of Magdalene de Granada his Wife Children of THEODOSIUS Duke of BRAGANZA by ISABEL DE CASTRO his first Wife JOHN OF PORTUGAL Duke of Braganza succeeded his father in the Dutchy Children of THEODOSIUS I. Duke of BRAGANZA and of BEATRICE DE LANCASTRO his second Wife JAMES OF PORTUGAL having accompanied Sebastian King of Portugal at the second Voyage of Affrica against the Moors was at the fatal Battel of Alcacer where they were both slain the Fourth day of August in the Year One thousand five hundred threescore and eighteen without Years of CHRIST 1578 out having been married ISABEL OF PORTUGAL was espoused unto MICHAEL DE MENESES first Duke of Camigna and Marquess of Villa-real 15. JOHN OF PORTUGAL first of the name Duke of BRAGANZA and BARCELLOS Constable of PORTVGAL and Knight of the GOLDEN FLEECE THis Duke was eldest Son of Theodosius first of the name PORTUGAL-BRAGANCE Duke of Braganza by Isabel de Castro his first Wife At the time of the Ceremony performed in Portugal in the Month of August One thousand Years of CHRIST 1578 five hundred threescore and eighteen of the Recognition D'argent au sautoir de gueulles charge de cinq Escussons de Portugal un au melieu les autres au quatre bouts du sautoir Chargee sur le tout d'un Escu de PORTUGAL and Oath of Allegiance taken by the Portuguesses to Cardinal Henry in the Quality of King this same Duke of Braganza held the first place going before him and carrying the Sword as Constable During the life of this King who was much in years JOHN Duke of Braganza His Marriage was one of those Princes which were Competitors for the Crown of Portugal in the right of KATHERINE OF PORTUGAL his Wife daughter of the Infant Edward Son of Emanuel King of Portugal In her lay the only right of Succession page 68. warranted by the Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom page 6. so that from henceforward the Dukes of Braganza did justly wear the Royal Armes of Portugal without distinction the direct Male line being extinguished and the Kingdom falling to the Collateral of the Dukes of Braganza in the right of this Katherine And because that this Duke JOHN was the prime Grandee of the Kingdom and his Tenants the most Warlike and moreover confiding in the good-will which King Henry did bear him he thought himself half in possession of the Estate But in Fine he was forced to give place to King Philip II. whose best Title lay in the strength of a formidable Army with which he subdued Portugal as you have heard before who being come to the Crown continued him in his Estates gave him the Demonstrations of a high favour and associated him into the Order of the Knights of the Golden Years of CHRIST 1481 Fleece in the Year One thousand five hundred fourscore and one He lived not long after for he left this World in the Year One thousand five hundred fourscore and two His Death and was inhumed in the Church of St. Augustin Years of CHRIST 1582 of Villa-viciosa with his Predecessors Children of JOHN I. Duke of BRAGANZA and of KATHERINE OF PORTUGAL his Wife THEODOSIUS OF PORTUGAL second of the name Duke of Braganza mentioned in the Chapter following EDWARD OF PORTUGAL Marquess of Flechilla whose Pedegree is deduced next after this of Braganza ALEXANDER OF PORTUGAL was Arch-bishop of Evora and Inquisitor General of the Faith in Portugal PHILIP OF PORTUGAL fourth Son dyed young MARY OF PORTUGAL dyed without having been married SERAPHINE OF PORTUGAL espoused unto JOHN-FERNANDEZ PACHECO Duke of Ascalona and Marquess of Villena PORTUGAL 16. THEODOSIUS OF PORTUGAL PORTUGAL II. of the name Duke of BRAGANZA and Barcellos D'argent a cinq Escussons d'Azure peris en Croix chacun charge de cinq besans aussi d'argent posez en sautoir a la bordure de gueulles chargé de sept chasteaux d'or and Constable of
Portugal THis Prince eldest Son of Duke John by the Dutchess Katherine of Portugal his Wife was not past Nine or Ten years old when having the Title of Duke of Barcellos he accompanied King Sebastian his Cosin in the second Voyage he undertook into Affrica against the Moors Years of CHRIST 1578 where he was by them made Prisoner at the Battel of Alcacer The Cherif Muley-Hamet King of Morocco Party de VELASCO kept him in durance until that Philip II. King of Spain obtained his liberty who having passed the Straits to return into Portugal Conestaggio was detained at St. Lucar by the Duke of Medina-Sidonia upon the news of the Death of Henry King of Portugal conceiving it would be a matter of importance to the Catholick King his Master to keep this Prince in durance as being Son of the principal Pretendants to the Kingdom whereupon the Duke of Barcellos wrote a Letter to his Father the Duke of Braganza that he must not then expect him and that his detention should not any way prejudice the rights of the Realm preferring Justice before his own life This Letter being come into Portugal was by the Duke his Father sent unto the Assembly of Estates at Almerin shewing on the one side the grief for the detainment of this his dear Son and on the other side the contentment he received that in so tender years he was so great a Lover of the good of his Countrey that he offered if there were occasion to sacrifice his Life for the Service of the State But immediately this fear of the Duke of Braganza his Father ceased for the King of Spain commanded that he should have free liberty to depart which he did as well to avoid the indignation of the Portuguesses as to make a friend of the Duke of Braganza Not long after THEODOSIUS succeeded the Duke his Father and still continued the demonstration of his Magnanimity for when that the Catholick King Philip III. and second of the name King of Portugal made his solemn Entry into the City of Lisbonne who willing to shew how much he affected him above all the other Grandees of this Kingdom Vasconcellius and desirous to make him a participant of his Royal Favours promised that he would grant him whatsoever he would ask To which the Duke answered That the Kings of Portugal his Predecessors which were also his Majesties had so often and so freely conferred their Benefits upon his House that there was not any thing remained that he could demand and if there were acknowledged to have received a signal Favour from his Majesty if he would vouchsafe to honour and embrace his Subjects of Portugal with a fatherly affection but more especially the Grandees of the Kingdom This Duke THEODOSIUS who was seventh Duke of Braganza and twelfth Constable of Portugal espoused ANNE DE VELASCO daughter of the Constable of Castille John-Fernandez de Velasco and of the Dutchess of Frias Mary de Giron his first Wife Children of THEODOSIUS II. Duke of BRAGANZA by ANNE DE VELASCO his Wife JOHN II. of the name eighth Duke of BRAGANZA crowned King of Portugal by the name of John IV. and had issue Alphonso VI. King of Portugal now Reigning 1662. of whose Histories and Issue you may read in the First Book EDWARD OF PORTUGAL born the One and thirtieth day of March in the Year of our Salvation One thousand six hundred and five who coming unto Mans estate had served the Emperour in his Waâ—s with much gallantry and no less success long before his Brother Duke John had any thoughts of a Crown nor did he shew any endeavours to desert the Emperours service after the news arrived of the Revolt of Portugal but seemed resolved to continue there till he was betrayed by Francisco de Mello a Portugal at that time Ambassador to the Catholique King in the Emperial Court This Mello notwithstanding he was bound by many strong Obligations to the House of Braganza yet like an ungrateful Villain having opportunity offered now resolved to build his fortunes upon their ruine or at least displeasure he therefore earnestly sollicited the Emperour to seize upon the person of Don Duarte and deliver him up to the King of Spain alledging of what great concernment the securing of his person would be to the Catholique King that it much behoved his Imperial Majesty to shew his affection to his brother the Catholique King in this particular which would not only prove of Interest to Spain but the whole house of Austria That this Prince was the only Prop of the House of Braganza and this was the only means which God had left in the hands of the House of Austria to recover the Kingdom of Portugal that it would be a great errour both in prudence and policy to let slip so fair an occasion for that if he should scape out of their hands and get to the assistance of his brother both his personal valour and experience in Warlike affairs would very much infest the Catholique King The Emperour was not only not perswaded by this Discourse of Mello's but extreamly offended at it returning him in answer That he did abhorre and detest so great a breach of publick faith and violation of all Laws of Hospitality that it would be both against the liberty of the Empire and against his own Honour to imprison a Prince who had committed no fault to the Empire but rather had laid innumerable Obligations both upon it and himself Nor was the detestation of the Arch-duke Leopold to an act so soul and shameful less than that of his brothers the Emperour notwithstanding all which Mello was not at all discouraged but still prosecuted his villanous design by corrupting with great sums of money the Count of Tratsmandorf and several other Pensioners of the Crown of Spain but they were soon weary of so base and shameful an employment which made Mello think of a more cunning Artifice which was to perswade the Emperour to hearken to the allurements of one Diego di Quiroga who of a Souldier was turned Monk and was now Confessor to the Empress This Father who had often been called to give his judgement in Affairs of State endeavored by all means possible to perswade the Emperour that he might not only with a good conscience secure the Infante but that according to the best Rules of Interest of State he ought to do it His Imperial Majesty notwithstanding all these perswasions was very much unsatisfied in the action and once fully resolved not to do it but at length overcome by Mello's importunities and the Ghostly perswasions of Quiroga he was as it were constrained to alter his resolution and to give order to Don Lewis Gonzaga to go to the Princes quarters at Leipen and summon him to Ratisbone In the mean time to endeavor to prevent all ill impressions which an action so hainously wicked might strike into all bosoms that had either honor or honesty it was
given out abroad that the Infante Don Edward was secretly fled for some misdemeanor from Leipen when he confident of his own innocency was in his journey to Ratisbone according to the summons and thereupon proposal made of Sixteen thousand Crowns as a reward to any man could bring him either dead or alive so that the Prince being ignorant of any such thing very hardly escaped their hands Don Edward cast into the Common Goal at Ratisbone who out of hopes of the money had gone in search of him but missing them he came to Ratisbone where he was no sooner received but without any reason given he was cast into a Common Goal and all his Servants imprisoned Don Francisco de Mello having thus far brought his desires to effect stopped not here but afresh sollicited the Emperour that the Prince might be delivered into the Spaniards hands and sent prisoner to Millain but instead of assenting to this he sends a Messenger to the Infante assuring him upon his word that he would not deliver him into the hands of the Spaniards but would speedily procure his liberty and infranchisement Yet notwithstanding these fair promises of the Emperours Don Edward's ill usage in prison daily and hourly increased nor could he by any means possible get audience of the Emperour not without reason for No face is more terrible to the offendor than the face offended which made the Prince make his protestation calling God and man to witness of the injury done him by the Emperour to whom he was neither subject by Obligation nor Birth that when his brother was made King of Portugal he was in the Emperours service and wholly ignorant of any design of his brothers that if the King of Spain were offended he should revenge himself upon the person offending that that business no way concerned the Emperour c. All these Allegations the Emperour confessed to be true by a Messenger sent to the Infante in prison again assuring him that he would not deliver him up to his enemies but that he could not release him for some reason of State which made Don Francisco de Sosa Contigno Ambassadour extraordinary from Portugal to the King of Sweden in the name of the King his Master represent at large to the Diet at Ratisbone the whole proceedings requiring Justice and Liberty for the Infante But it is in vain to plead against Interest all the Manifesto's Protestations Petitions and Intercessions made produced no other effect than the removal of the Infante from place to place that still as he was the farther off he might have the harder usage But hitherto the Emperour seemed immoveable in his resolution of not delivering up the Infante into the hands of the Spaniards till tempted with what made Judas betray his Master and our blessed Saviour to death Money he consented to the breach of his resolve for upon the promise of Forty thousand Crowns contrary to the immunities of the Empire to the Priviledges of Free Princes to the Law of Nations and to his Word and Promise so often reiterated he consented that that Noble and Innocent Prince should be sent whither the Catholique King should think fit so away he was hurried towards the Castle of Millain there to remain a prisoner By the way as he entred into the Spanish Territories he was received by the Count de Sirnela Governour of that Dukedom where the Emperours Commissary took leave to return to whom D. Edward openly said Tell thy Master that I am more sorry I have served so unworthy a Prince than to see my self sold a Prisoner into the hands of my enemies but the just Judge of the world will one day suffer the like dealing towards his children who are no more priviledged for being of the house of Austria than my self that am of the Blood-Royal of Portugal and Posterity will judge of him and me The Emperour had given instruction to those that Convoyed the Infante that in case their prisoner made an attempt to escape they should kill him upon the place being arrived in Millain he was clapt in the Common gate with all the Rogues and Banditty having a Guard lodged with him in his Chamber so rude that they would scarce admit him to take his rest in which Prison he most miserably dyed His Death upon the Third day of September in Years of CHRIST 1649 the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty and nine Thus was this generous but unfortunate Prince rewarded for having left his Countrey Kindred Friends Interest for having at his own proper cost and charges served the Empire Eight years for having alwayes and upon all occasions ventured his life with the most daring and yet expecting no other pay but thanks nor other recompence but Honor. King John was extreamly perplexed at this inhumane barbarism used to his Brother which he vowed fully to revenge with Arms but he could for the present do it no otherwise than defensively by reason of the continual inroads the Castillians made into Portugal ALEXANDER OF PORTUGAL third Son of Theodosius II. Duke of Braganza born the Sixth of April in the Year One thousand six hundred and seven and left this World the One and thirtieth of May Aº One thousand six hundred thirty and seven KATHERINE OF PORTUGAL only daughter of Theodosius II. Duke of Braganza came into this World in the Year One thousand six hundred and six She dyed an Infant MARQUESSES of FLECHILLA And of XARANDILLA 16. EDWARD OF PORTUGAL Marquesse of FLECHILLA PORTUGAL-FLECHILLA HE was a younger sonne of John I. of the name Duke of Braganza and of the Princesse Katherine of Portugal his wife and obtained the honour to be a Grandee of Spain His first wife BEATRICE DE TOLEDO and DE MONROY Lady Marchionesse of Xarandilla was daughter and heir of John Alvarez de Toledo Count of Oropesa and Leitosa and of the Countesse Lovise Pimentel In second marriage EDWARD espoused GUIOMAR PARDO Marchionesse of Magalon daughter of Ares Pardo Lord of Magalon and of Lovise de la Cerda but had no issue by his last marriage Children of EDWARD of Portugal Marquesse of FLECHILLA and of BEATRIX DE TOLEDO his first wife JOHN of PORTUGAL died both young FRANCIS of PORTUGAL died both young FERDINAND ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO Marquess of XARANDILLA c. continued the Line 17. FERDINAND ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO Monroy and Ayala Marquesse of Xarandilla and Count of Oropesa HE was second son of Edward of Portugal Marquess of Flechilla and of Beatrice de Toledo his first wife He espoused MENCIA PIMENTEL the daughter of John-Alphonso Pimentel Count of Benevent by the Countess Mencia de Cuniga and Requesens He deceased in the flower of his age leaving by her two sonnes and a daughter In the year One thousand six Years of CHRIST 1619 hundred and nineteen his Grandmother by the Mothers side in his favour gave up her right and title to the County of Oropesa Children of
him President of the Councel-Royal for the Indies and Viceroy of Naples in the Year One thousand six hundred and ten As also established him President of the Councel of Italy His Wife was KATHERINE DE SANDOVAL his Cosin-Germane Daughter of Francis de Sandoval and Royas Duke of Lerme by the Dutchess Katherine de la Cerda his Wife by whom he had not any Children 17. FRANCIS DE CASTRO Duke of TAVRISANO Count of Castro and Viceroy of Naples and Sicilie HE was second Son of Ferdinand-Roderick de Castro Count of Lemos by Katherine de Zuniga and Sandoval his Wife and as his elder Brother was for his great Experience employed in important Affairs by the Catholick King For he not only established him his Viceroy of Naples after the death of his elder Brother but also of Sicily Afterwards the same King sent him Embassadour to the State of Venice to endeavour a Reconciliation betwixt that Republick and Pope Paul V. to whom FRANCIS DE CASTRO was also sent Embassadour in Ordinary He espoused LUCRECE GATINARA LEGNANA Countess de Castro in the Kingdom of Naples only Daughter of Alexander Gatinara Fifth Count of Castro and of Victoria Caracciol his Wife Children of FRANCIS DE CASTRO Duke of TAVRISANO c. FERDINAND DE CASTRO Duke of Taurisano c. continued the descent ALEXANDER DE CASTRO FRANCIS DE CASTRO KATHERINE and VICTORIA DE CASTRO CLARA-MARIA DE CASTRO a Nun. ELISE and MARIA DE CASTRO 18. FERDINAND DE CASTRO Duke of TAVRISANO Count of Castro and Lemos HE was eldest Son of Francis de Castro Duke of Taurisano and of Lucrece Gatinara Legnana his Wife His Wife was ANTONIA DE GIRON the daughter of Peter Giron Duke of Ossuna and Marquess of Pegnafiel Children of FERDINAND DE CASTRO Duke of TAVRISANO Count of Castro and Lemos PETER DE CASTRO Count of Antrada 14. ALPHONSO DE LANCASTRO DIonysius of Braganza or of Portugal PORTUGAL-LANCASTRO and Beatrix de Castro Countess of Lemos had several Children among whom this ALPHONSO was the second honoured with the Dignity of great Master of the Military Order of Christ in Portugal and grand Alcaide of Ovidos King John III. sent him Embassadour to Rome unto the Popes Julius III. and Paul IV. Afterwards he was also sent into France to King Charles IX during the Minority of King Sebastian in the beginning of his Reign The same ALPHONSO was interred in the Monastery of the Carmelites of Lisbon His Wife HIERONIMA DE NOROGNA was Daughter of James de Norogna great Master of the Order of Christ and of Philippa Attaida his Wife he had by her one Son and a Daughter which were DIONYSIUS DE LANCASTRO mentioned hereafter PHILIPPA DE LANCASTRO Wife to MICHAEL DE MENESES Marquess of Villa-real 15. DIONYSIVS DE LANCASTRO HE was as his father Alphonso grand Master of the Order of Christ and by the King of Portugal Sebastian also sent into France to King Year of CHRIST 1572 Charles IX about the Year One thousand five hundred threescore and twelve then into Spain to King Philip II. He was also nominated by the same King Sebastian his Embassadour for Rome to be sent to Pope Gregory XIII But upon the death of this King in Affrica his Embassade ceased and he Years of CHRIST 1598 dyed at Lisbon His Death Ao. One thousand five hundred fourscore and eighteen being very much in years He lieth inhumed in the Monastery of St. Augustine By his Wife ISABEL ENRIQUEZ Daughter of Francis Coutinho second Count of Redondo and of Mary de Guzman his Wife he had these Six Children following ALPHONSO DE LANCASTRO great Master of the Order of Christ and grand Alcaide of Ovidos He espoused MARY DE TAUORA daughter of Alvaro Perez de Tauora and of Isabel de Melo his Wife FRANCIS DE LANCASTRO Gentleman-Waiter at the Table to the Catholick Kings Philip III. and IV. JOHN DE LANCASTRO Bishop of Lamego and Chief Chaplain to the King of Spain Philip III. HIERONIMA DE NOROGNA was never married MARY DE LANCASTRO was espoused to FERDINAND-RODERICK DIEGO MARTINES MASCAREGNAS IOLAND ENRIQUEZ married to FRANCIS COUTINHO fourth Count of Redondo her Cosin MARQUESSES of FERREIRA AND COUNTS of TENTUGAL 12. ALVARO DE PORTVGAL Lord of FERREIRA PORTUGAL-FERREIRA AMong the Children of Ferdinand first of the name Duke of Braganza and of Jane de Castro his Wife this ALVARO was the third He was President of the Councel Royal in Castille and grand Alcaide of Seville and in Portugal also Lord Chief Justice and Chancellor He espoused PHILIPPA DE MELO Countess of Olivenca daughter and heir of Roderick de Melo Count of Olivenca by Isabel de Meneses Children of ALVARO DE PORTVGAL Lord of FERREIRA RODERICK DE MELO and Portugal first Marquess of FERREIRA continued the Line GEORGE OF PORTUGAL Count of GELUES gave original to the Branch of Gelves hereafter mentioned ISABEL DE CASTRO Wife of Alphonso de SOTO-MAJOR Count of Belalcacar BEATRIX DE MELO and Tentugal Dutchess of CONIMBRA Wife of GEORGE Bastard OF PORTUGAL Duke of CONIMBRA and Lord of Aveiro JANE DE VILLENA married to FRANCIS OF PORTUGAL Count of VIMIOSO MARY MANUEL Wife of JOHN DE SILVA second Earl of Portalegre 13. RODERICK DE MELO and Portugal Marquess of FERREIRA and Count of Tentugal HE was eldest Son of Alvaro of Portugal Lord of Ferreira and of Philippa de Melo his Wife and for his Memorable Services deserved well the Title of Marquess of Ferreira and Count of Tentugal into which Honours he was Created by the great Emanuel King of Portugal his Cosin He married two Wives His first Wife was LEONOR d'ALMEIDA Daughter of Francis d'Almeida Viceroy of the Indies by Jane Pereira his Wife His second Wife was BEATRIX DE MENESES Daughter of Anthony d'Almada Major General of Lisbonne and of Mary de Meneses his Wife He had issue by both Wives Children of RODERICK DE MELO Marquess of FERREIRA by his first wife ALVARO DE MELO dyed in the life-time of his Father having espoused MARY DE VILLENA daughter of John de Silva second Count of Portalegre and of Mary Manuel He had one Son bearing his name which followeth 15. ALVARO DE MELO had no Children by his Wife MARY d'ALCACOUA daughter of Peter Count of Ignana and of Katherine de Sousa This Alvaro was slain at the Battel of Alcacer FRANCIS DE MELO first of the name Marquess of Ferreira continued the Posterity PHILIPPA DE VILLENA Wife of ALVARO DE SYLVA Count of Partalegre JANE DE MELO was a Nun. Children of RODERICK DE MELO and of his second Wife ALVARO DE MELO MARY DE MENESES espoused to CONSTANTINE DE PORTUGAL or BRAGANZA her Cosin Of whom we have spoken 14. FRANCIS DE MELO first of the name Marquess of FERREIRA and Count of Tentugal TO the Marquess of Ferreira Roderick de Melo succeeded this his second Son the eldest dying before his Father He married EUGENIA OF BRAGANZA or PORTUGAL daughter of James
Isabel of France LOVISE OF PORTUGAL a Nun. PHILIPPA OF PORTUGAL also a Nun. 16. ALVARO OF PORTVGAL COLOMBO Third Duke of VERAGVA Marquess of Jamaica And Admiral of the Indies HE was the eldest Son of Nugno of Portugal Colombo Duke of Veragua by Aldonce Portocarero his wife and espoused KATHERINE DE CASTRO by her he had Issue PETER-NUNIUS COLOMBUS Duke of VERAGUA now living Ao 1662. 14. GEORGE OF PORTVGAL One of the Four and twenty Magistrates of Sevile HE was Third Son of George of Portugal first of the name and first Count of Gelves and of his Wife the Countess Isabel de Toledo Colombo He was one of the Four and twenty of Sevile By his Wife GENIEURE BOTTI daughter of John Botti he left Four Sons and a Daughter viz. GEORGE OF PORTUGAL JAMES OF PORTUGAL of whom we shall speak in the next place ALVARO OF PORTUGAL followed the profession of the Church CHRISTOPHER OF PORTUGAL a Monk of the Order of St. Hierosme ISABEL OF PORTUGAL a Nun in the Abbey of our Lady at Seville 14. JAMES OF PORTVGAL first of the Name HE was second Son of George of Portugal one of the Four and twenty of Seville and had to Wife GUIOMAR-COLOMBO DE TOLEDO daughter of Licentio-Hierosme Ortegon and of Frances Colombo his Wife in whose Right he pretended to the Dutchy of Veragua against Nugno of Portugal his Cosin to whom by sentence it was adjudged The Children of JAMES OF PORTUGAL were JAMES OF PORTUGAL second of the name conjoyned by marriage with ISABEL DE MEDINA and DE GUZMAN ANTHONY OF PORTUGAL a Fryer LEWIS OF PORTUGAL FRANCES and ANNE-FRANCES MARY PHILIPPA and ISABEL COUNTS OF FARO AND OF ODEMIRA 12. ALPHONSO OF PORTVGAL first of the name Count of FARO and ODEMIRA PORTUGAL-ODEMIRA AFter having heretofore written of the Posterity of Ferdinand II. of the name third Duke of Braganza and Alvaro of Portugal his Brother from whom are issued the Marquesses of Ferreira and Counts of Gelves it rests now to deduce the Descent of ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL who was also their Brother all Three Sons of the Duke of Braganza Ferdinand I. of the name and of the Dutchess Jane de Castro his Wife The same ALPHONSO who was Lord of Faro in his own right was created first Count thereof by Alphonso V. King of Portugal and at what time the Duke of Braganza his Brother of whom we have written was punished for having conspired against King John II. he fled into Castille where he departed this World after he had espoused MARY DE NOROGNA Countess of Odemira Daughter and Heir of Sanceo de Norogna first Earl of Odemira Lord of Aveiro and Vimieiro grand Alcaide of Estremos and of the Countess Mencia de Sousa his Wife Children of ALPHONSO OF PORTVGAL Count of FARO and Odemira SANCEO OF NOROGNA first of the name Count of ODEMIRA continued the Line FRANCIS OF NOROGNA espoused LEONOR MANUEL daughter of James Manuel and Villena Lord of Cheles and of Major de Silva his Wife by whom he had one daughter here mentioned viz. 14. MARY MANUEL Wife of JAMES DE MELO DE FIGUEIREDO by him she had issue several children FREDERICK DE NOROGNA Bishop of Calaotra and Ciguenca Arch-bishop of Sarragoca and Viceroy of Catalonia ANTHONY also followed the profession of the Church FERDINAND DE FARO Lord of Vimiero hath given original to the other Lords and Earls of VIMIERO and FARO as you may read hereafter GUIOMARE DE NOROGNA Dutchess of SEGORBIA Wife of HENRY OF ARRAGON sirnamed the Child of Fortune who was Son of Henry of Arragon great Master of the Order of Knights of St. James by Beatrix Pimentel his second Wife which Grand Master was one of the younger Sons of Ferdinand of Castille King of Arragon and of Elianor d'Albuquerque MENCIA DE NOROGNO Dutchess of MEDINA CELI was married to JOHN DE LA CERDA Duke of Medina Celi KATHERINE DE NOROGNA Abbess of Semide 13. SANCEO OF NOROGNA first of the name Count of Odemira and Lord of Mortagoa TO the Count of Faro Alphonso of Portugal first of the name and to the Countess of Odemira Mary de Norogna his Wife succeeded the Earl SANCEO first of the name their eldest Son who was twice married First He married FRANCES DE SILVA daughter of James Gil Muniz and of Leonor de Silva his Wife By her he had issue Two Sons and a Daughter The second Wife of the same Count SANCEO was ANGELA FABRA daughter of Gaspar Fabra by whom he had also Two Sons and a Daughter Children of SANCEO I. of the Name Count of ODEMIRA by FRANCES DE SILVA his first Wife ALPHONSO OF NOROGNA continned the Posterity RODERICK DE NOROGNA was an Ecclesiastick MENCIA DE NOROGNA espoused to the Count of FRAQUEZ in Savoy Children of SANCEO I. Count of ODEMIRA and of ANGELA FABRA his second Wife JOHN DE FARO whose Branch shall be deduced after that of his elder Brother FREDERICK OF PORTUGAL married in Castille MARGARET DE BORGIA Daughter of John De Borgia third Duke of Gandie by the Dutchess Anne De Castro his Wife and had this only Daughter following viz. 15. ANNE OF PORTUGAL Wife of RODERICK DE SILVA Duke of Prastrana JANE MANUEL was conjoined in marriage with JOHN DE LA CERDA Marquess of Cogolludo and Fourth Duke of Medina Celi GUIOÌ„MARE DE NOROGNA Wife of JOHN BACA DE LIC ANA some Records mention that it was she that was espoused to the Duke of Medina Celi KATHERINE a Natural Daughter of the Count of ODEMIRA Sanceo I. was a Nun in the Monastery of Odivelles 14. ALPHONSO OF NOROGNA IN the life-time of the Count of Odemira Sanceo the first his Father he was slain by the Moors having before been married to Mary D'Attaide Daughter and Heir of Nugno-Ferdinand D'Attaide Lord of Pena Cova Captain of Cafin and of Jane De Faria his Wife from which Marriage came their only Son which was Count Sanceo II. mentioned next following 16. SANCEO DE NOROGNA II. of the Name Count of ODEMIRA HE succeeded his Grandfather Sanceo De Norogna first of the Name and was Fourth Count of ODEMIRA and grand Alcaide of Estremos Katherine of Austria Queen of Portugal Wife of King John III. honoured him with the Office of Steward of her Houshold He espoused MARGARET DE SILVA Daughter of John De Silva second Count of Portalegre from this marriage there came two Sons and a Daughter ALPHONSO DE NOROGNA third of the Name and second Count of ODEMIRA of that Name NUGNO DE NOROGNA Bishop of Visco and De La Guarde MARY DE NOROGNA Wife of LEWIS D'ATTAIDE Count of Atouguia 16. ALPHONSO DE NOROGNO III. of the Name and second Count of ODEMIRA of that Name Lord of Mortaga and grand Alcaide of Estremos ALPHONSO eldest Son of Count Sanceo II. was of the Number of those Lords of Portugal that accompanied King Sebastian in his second Voyage for Affrica and was slain with him at the
fatal Battel of Alcacer in which besides the King there dyed Eight or Ten Princes and Lords of the Blood-Royal The same ALPHONSO had three Wives the first was JANE DE VILENA Daughter of Manuel Telles Lord of Ugnon by Margaret De Vilena his Wife by whom he had no Children His second was JANE DE GUZMAN Daughter of Peter De Meneses Captain of Septe and of Constance De Guzman his Wife neither had he Issue by her But by YOLAND DE CASTRO his third Wife Daughter of Alvaro De Castro and of Anne D'Attaide his Wife he had one Son following SANCEO DE NOROGNA third of the Name Count of ODEMIRA Lord of Mortagoa who was also grand Alcaide of Estremos and espoused JULIANA DE LARA Daughter of Manuel De Meneses Duke of Ville-real and of Mary De Silva his Wife by her he had a Daughter which dyed young The same SANCEO deceased in Ao One thousand six hundred forty and two 14. JOHN DE FARO HE was eldest Son descended from the marriage of Sanceo De Norogna first of that Name Count of Odemira and Lord of Mortagoa and of the Countess Angela Fabra his second Wife and took to Wife ISABEL FREIRE Daughter of Emanuel Freire by Grimanesa de Melo his Wife by her he had his only Son viz. JOHN DE FARO second of the Name who was conjoined in marriage with MARGARET DE NOROGNA Daughter of John D'Almeida by Lucia D'Ornelas by her he had one only Daughter named 16. LUCIA DE FARO married to HIEROSME COUTINHO of the Council of State to the Catholick King Philip III. in the Kingdom of Portugal They had Issue PHILIPPA DE COUTINHO married to LEWIS D'ATTAIDA Count of Attougia and Viceroy of the Indies LORDS AND COUNTS OF VIMIERO AND OF FARO 13. FERDINAND DE FARO Lord of VIMIERO PORTUGAL-VIMIERO OF the Children of Alphonso of Portugal first of the Name Count of Faro and of Mary De Norogna Countess of Odemira his Wife he was the fifth Catherine of Austria Queen of Portugal Wife of King John the Third honoured him with the Office of Steward of her Houshold He left several Children by his Wife ISABEL DE MELO Daughter of Gomez De Figueiredo by Leonor De Melo viz. FRANCIS DE FARO who continued the Posterity DIONYSIUS DE FARO had also Issue as you shall see hereafter SANCEO DE FARO died being elected Bishop of Leiria ALPHONSO ENRIQUEZ Dean of the Chappel-Royal to Sebastian King of Portugal MARY DE NOROGNA Wife of JOHN DE MENESES Captain of Tangier MENCIA GUIOMAR and two other Daughters were Nuns 14. FRANCIS DE FARO Lord of VIMIERO HE was eldest Son of Ferdinand De Faro by Isabel de Melo his Wife and was President of the Council of Affairs to the King of Portugal Sebastian The first of his Wives MENCIA D'ALBUQUERQUE was Daughter of George D'Albuquerque and of Anne Enriquez The second GUIOMARE DE CASTRO was Daughter of Matthew D'Acugna Lord of Pombeiro by Leonor Coutigna The third was MARY DE MENDOZA the Daughter of Manuel Cort-real and of Beatrix De Mendoza his Wife by her he had no Children Children of FRANCIS DE FARO and of MENCIA D'ALBUQUERQUE his first Wife FERDINAND ENRIQUEZ whose story followeth in the next place GEORGE DE FARO was slain at the fatal Battel of Alcacer in the year One thousand five hundred threescore and eighteen MARY DE NOROGNA espoused to FERDINAND TELLEZ DE MENESES Governour of the Indies and the Algarves Children of FRANCIS DE FARO by GUIOMAR DE CASTRO his second Wife FRANCIS DE FARO first Count of VIMIERO of whom we shall speak more fully hereafter MARIANA DE LANCASTRO Wife of LEWIS DE SILVA President of the Council of Affairs to the King of Spain Philip IV. 15. FERDINAND HENRIQUEZ AMong the Children of Francis de Faro Lord of Vimiero and of Mencia d'Albuquerque his first Wife he was the eldest and dyed in the life-time of his Father having married JANE DE GUZMAN Daughter of Alvaro Caraallo by Mary de Guzman his Wife by her he had these Children following LEWIS DE FARO never married MARY DE FARO Wife of MANUEL COUTIGNO MENCIA DE FARO espoused to PETER ALVAREZ PEREIRA Counsellour of State to the Catholick King in the Council of Portugal resident in his Court. KATHERINE DE FARO Wife of BLAISE TELLEZ DE MENESES Captain of Mazagan 15. FRANCIS DE FARO Count of VIMIERO FRom the marriage of Francis de Faro Lord of Vimiero and of Guiomar De Castro his second Wife descended this Count who was raised to this Dignity by the King of Spain Philip III. He had to Wife MARIANA DE LA GUERRA Daughter of Peter Lopez De Sousa by Anne De La Guerra his Wife by whom he had Issue Three Sons and a Daughter viz. FERDINAND DE FARO Lord of Vimiero LEWIS DE FARO a Monk of the Order of St. Augustin ALPHONSO DE FARO was also an Ecclesiastick MARY DE FARO Wife of RODERICK DE LA CAMARA Captain of the Isle of St. Michael 14. DIONYSIUS DE FARO HE was second Son of Ferdinand de Faro Lord of Vimiero and of Isabel de Melo his Wife And was conjoyned in Marriage with LORISE CABRAL Daughter of John-Alvarez Camnigna by whom he had these two Sons following JOHN DE FARO dyed unmarried STEPHEN Count of FARO and St. Lewis mentioned in the next place 15. STEPHEN Count of FARO and of St. Lewis WAS second Son of Dionysius de Faro by Lorisa Cabral his Wife He was of the Council of Estate to the Catholick King and also President of the Council of Affairs Vasconcellos writeth that the King of Spain Philip III. Created him Count of St. Lewis He espoused GUIOMAR DE CASTRO Daughter of John Lobo Baron of Alvito by Leonor Mascaregnas his Wife Children of STEPHEN Count of FARO and of LORISA CABRAL his Wife DIONYSIUS DE FARO married MAGDALENE DE LANCASTRO the Daughter of Alvaro de Lancastro Duke of Aveiro and Tourneuf by her he had issue one Daughter viz. 17. JULIANA DE FARO was Wife of MICHAEL DE MENESES Marquess of Villa-real and Duke of Camigne FRANCIS JOHN SANCEO FRANCIS-LEWIS LUCIA DE FARO Wife of EDWARD DE MENESES Count of Tarouca LEONOR espoused to BERNARDINE DE TAUORA COUNTS OF VIMIOSO 11. ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL Count of OUREM Marquess of Valence and Lord of Porto de-Mos ALphonso of Portugal first Duke of Braganza PORTUGAL-VIMIOSO Son of King John I. and Beatrix de Pereira Countess of Barcellos and Ourem his Wife had two Sons of which this was the elder But deceasing before his father he succeeded not to the Dutchee The King of Portugal Edward his Uncle sent him Ambassadour to the Senate of Florence The same Count ALPHONSO having been chosen to Conduct the Princess Leonor of Portugal to the Emperour Frederick III. her Husband was Created Count of OUREM and Marquess of Valence by Years of CHRIST 1450 King Alphonso V. in the Year One thousand four hundred and
fifty and Years of CHRIST 1460 Ten years after dyed at Tomar having had by his Love-Mistress BEATRIX DE SOUSA daughter of Martin-Alphonso de Sousa and of Yoland Lopez de Tauora this his only Son viz. ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL was Bishop of Evora and before he followed the Profession of a Church-man had also by a Lady called DE MACEDON others say DE MELO these two Sons following 13. FRANCIS OF PORTUGAL first Count of VIMIOSO mentioned in the next place MARTIN OF PORTUGAL Arch-bishop of Fonchal afterwards Bishop of Algarvie and Patriarch of the Indies King John III. sent him Ambassadour to Pope Clement VII who made him his Nuncio to the Kingdom of Portugal He had two Bastard-Children by KATHERINE DE SOUSA a Bastard-daughter of Roderick de Sousa viz. 14. ELISHA OF PORTUGAL was of the Privy-Chamber to the Popes Pius IV. and Gregory XIII 14. MARY OF PORTUGAL second Wife to JAMES DE CASTRO 13. FRANCIS OF PORTUGAL first of the name Count of VIMIOSO and Lord of Aguiar THE King of Portugal Emanuel honoured him with the Dignity of Count of VIMIOSO and furthermore instituted him Super-intendant of his Affairs as did likewise King John III. afterward the Prince Portugal his Son made him his High Chamberlain He espoused for his first Wife BEATRIX DE VILLENA daughter of Roderick Tellez de Meneses Lord of Ugnon Steward of the Houshold to the Empress Isabel of Portugal Wife to the Emperor Charls V. His second Wife was JANE DE VILLENA daughter of Alvaro of Portugal of the House of Tentugal and of Philippa de Melo Countess of Olivenza A Daughter of FRANCIS OF PORTUGAL Count of Vimioso by his former Wife GUIOMAR DE VILLENA espoused to FRANCIS DE GAMA second Count of VEDIGUERA and Admiral of the Indies Children of FRANCIS OF PORTUGAL Count of Vimioso by his later Wife ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL Count of VIMIOSO continued the Posterity MANUEL OF PORTUGAL had also Children as you shall see after we have deduced the Branch of his elder Brother JOHN OF PORTUGAL Bishop of Guarda 14. ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL first of the name Count of VIMIOSO HE was eldest Son of Francis of Portugal first Earl of Vimioso by Jane de Villena his 2d Wife and was as his father before him Super-intendant of the Affairs of the Kings of Portugal John III. and Sebastian with whom he undertook the Expedition of Affrick The History notes thus much of him That having been this Kings Chamberlain and having Command in his first Voyage he deported himself so ill that those which emulated his Greatness took occasion to exclude him the Kings Favour He behaved himself no better in the second Expedition For being ambitious and desirous to regain that Reputation with the King which he had lost he seconded his will notwithstanding he knew it to be rash and prejudicial For the Army being landed in Affrick he perswaded them to make their passage by Land instead of that by Sea void of danger which he did principally out of complacency with the King whom he observed to be grounded in this opinion notwithstanding urged and disswaded by many more substantial reasons from several others So that he dyed with his Prince at the unfortunate Battel of Alcacer He was conjoyned by Marriage with LUCIA DE GUZMAN daughter of Francis de Guzman Great Steward of the Houshold to the Infanta Mary of Portugal youngest daughter of King Emanuel Children of ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL first of the name Count of Vimioso FRANCIS OF PORTUGAL second of the name Count of VIMIOSO whose Story followeth in the next place JOHN OF PORTUGAL a Monk of the Order of St. Dominick a Learned man was of the Council general of the Inquisition LEWIS OF PORTUGAL succeeded his eldest Brother in the County of VIMIOSO ALVARO OF PORTUGAL dyed in Sicilie NUGNO-ALVAREZ OF PORTUGAL was President of the Chamber of Lisbonne and had been One of the Three Governours of Portugal By his Wife and Cosin JANE OF PORTUGAL daughter of Manuel of Portugal and of Margaret de Mendoza his second Wife he had besides some Children that dyed young Four Sons and Two Daughters 16. LEWIS OF PORTUGAL 16. JOHN ALPHONSO ANTHONY 16. MARY and MARGARET CONSTANCE DE GUZMAN Abbess of the Monastery of our Lady at Lisbonne BEATRIX DE GUZMAN also Abbess of the same place PHILIPPA DE GUZMAN Prioress of the Monastery of the Holy Sacrament at Lisbonne MENCIA and JANE also Nuns in the Monasteries of d'Esperanza at Lisbonne and of St. Catherine at Evora 15. FRANCIS OF PORTUGAL second of the name Count of VIMIOSO and Constable of Portugal THis Count accompanied King Sebastian of Portugal to the Battel of Years of CHRIST 1578 Alcacer and was there made a Prisoner but afterwards finding means to recover his Liberty and being upon his return into Portugal he there followed the Fortune of Prince Anthony who being declared King honored Years of CHRIST 1580 him with the Dignity of Constable of Portugal He followed this Prince in his Voyage for France Afterwards being at the Naval fight in Ao One thousand five hundred Years of CHRIST 1582 fourscore and two near unto the Azores betwixt the French Army Commanded by the Collonel Philip Strozzi and the Spanish Conducted by the Marquess of St. Croix Lieutenant General to the King of Spain Philip II. This Count of Vimioso was so grievously hurt that he lived but two dayes after the Fight The Marquess for all he was his Enemy did much lament and deplore his Fortune as being his Kinsman His end was more honorable than that of any of the other Lords that had followed Anthony He was young adorned with good parts both of body and mind and was one that joyned Learning to the Military profession 15. LEWIS OF PORTUGAL Count of VIMIOSO HIs eldest Brother the Count Francis II. not having been married and leaving no Children this Count succeeded him and espoused JANE DE MENDOZA daughter of Ferdinand de Castro first Count of Basto by the Countess Philippa de Mendoza his Wife This Count and Countess being touched with a singular Piety took a holy resolution to forsake the World and with mutual consent took upon them the Habit of Religious He entred himself into the Order of St. Dominick and the Countess JANE his Wife Cloystered her self in the Monastery of the Holy Sacrament at Lisbonne with the Barefoot Sisters an Abbey which she and her Husband had founded Children of LEWIS OF PORTVGAL Count of Vimioso ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL second of the name Count of VIMIOSO continued the Posterity MICHAEL OF PORTUGAL Bishop of Lamego Archbishop of Lisbonne Ambassadour from the King of Portugal John IV. to Pope Urban VIII Anno 1641. He departed this world in the Year 1644. FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL was a Souldier in Flanders where he dyed LUCIA DE GUZMAN PHILIPPA DE CASTRO a Nun with her Mother in the Abbey of the Holy Sacrament at Lisbon 16. ALPHONSO OF PORTVGAL second of the name Count of VIMIOSO HE was
eldest Son of Lewis Count of Vimioso and of Jane de Mendoza his Wife And espoused MARY DE MENDOZA daughter of Christopher de Mora first Marquess of Castle-Rodrigo and of the Marchioness Margaret Corte-real by whom he had these Children following LEWIS OF PORTUGAL II. of the name Count of VIMIOSA was Created Marquess of Aguiar by the King of Portugal John IV. He dyed without lawful issue CHRISTOPHER OF PORTUGAL dyed also not having been married MICHAEL OF PORTUGAL Count of VIMIOSO now living 1662. JANE MARGARET LUCIA BEATRIX 14. MANVEL OF PORTVGAL HE was second Son of Francis of Portugal first Count of Vimioso by Jane de Villena his second Wife King John III. of the name sent him to the Emperour Charles V. to Congratulate with him for his success in the Enterprise of Algier and afterwards King Henry sent him also to the King of Spain Philip II. to Condole with him for the deplorable Death of King Sebastian his Nephews Son Some time after this MANUEL OF PORTUGAL as did Francis second of the name Count of Vimioso his Nephew followed the Designs and Party of King Anthony of Portugal against the same King Philip II. He married two Wives first MARY DE VILLENA daughter of Henry de Meneses by Beatrix de Villena his Wife In second Marriage he took to Wife MARGARET DE MENDOZA daughter of Manuel Corte-real and of Beatrix de Mendoza his Wife Children of MANVEL OF PORTVGAL and of MARY DE VILLENA his first Wife HENRY OF PORTUGAL continued the Posterity JOHN OF PORTUGAL dyed at the Battel of Alcacer after he had married MAGDALENE DE VILLENA daughter of Francis de Sousa Tavares Captain of Diu and of Mary de Silva his Wife by her he had a Son and two Daughters following 16. LEWIS OF PORTUGAL dyed at Septe with a fall from his Horse 16. MARY OF PORTUGAL Wife of PETER DE MENESES Grand Alcaide of Visco 16. JANE OF PORTUGAL Wife of LOPEZ d'ALMEIDA Grand Alcaide of Alcobace ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL was slain in the Battel of Alcantara in the service of Anthony King of Portugal A Daughter of MANVEL OF PORTVGAL by MARGARET DE MENDOZA his second Wife JANE OF PORTUGAL Wife of her Cosin Germain NUGNO ALVAREZ DE PORTUGAL as you have read before 15. HENRY OF PORTVGAL HE was eldest Son of Manuel of Portugal by Mary de Villena his first Wife and espoused ANNE ATAIDE daughter of Anthony Ataide Count of Chastaigneraye by Mary de Villena his Wife by whom he had issue Four Sons and Two Daughters The King of Portugal Sebastian sent him to visit the Emperour Rodolph II. to Condole with him for the Death of his father Maximilian II. His Children were MANUEL OF PORTUGAL II. of the name dyed young in the life-time of his father having married LUCIA DE VILLENA daughter of Manuel de Castro by his Wife Beatrix de Villena by her he had two Sons the elder of which called by his Grandfathers name dyed young the other was 17. ALVARO OF PORTUGAL FRANCIS MANUEL JOHN OF PORTUGAL deceased also in the life-time of his father having espoused ANTONIETTA DE VILLENA daughter of Anthony Corea Batareno MARY OF PORTUGAL Wife of LEWIS d'ALMEIDA GUIOMAR OF PORTUGAL was espoused to MANUEL ATAIDE third Count of Castaigneraye her Uncle DUKES OF CONIMBRA AVEIRO AND TOURSNEUUES 13. GEORGE Bastard of PORTVGAL Duke of CONIMBRA Lord of Toursneuues Aveiro and Mont-Major le Vieil Grand Master of the Order of Christus and d'Avis His Birth THE King of Portugal John II. of the name PORTUGAL-AVEIRO had by his Years of CHRIST 1481 Queen Beatrix of Portugal the Prince Alphonso their only Son who dyed before them in the flower of his age The same King also begat by Anne de Mendoza his Paramore this Prince GEORGE who was born about the Year One thousand four hundred fourscore and one Mariana Lib. 26. Cap. 2. 33. He was affectionately beloved by the King his father insomuch that having no lawful issue he intended after his death to leave him the Crown which the Grandees of the Kingdom did vigorously oppose Vasconcellos as also the Queen his wife as we have informed you before The Princess who was transported with a natural Love towards her Friend would not permit that the Duke of Beia Nonius Leo. Emanuel of Portugal her Brother who was Heir apparent to the Crown by the right of Blood and Proximity should be deprived of his Succession by a Bastard-Son Nevertheless King John having appointed the Prince Emanuel for his Successor recommended this GEORGE to his care whom he caused to be carefully educated After the Death of his father and that Emanuel had taken in hand the Scepter the young Prince being but Fourteen years old came and offered him his obedience where he received a favourable Entertain from this Years of CHRIST 1495 Great King who promised to be to him a Father and for a Testimony of his Love Confirmed to him the Titles and Seigneuries with which the late King had honoured him This Duke of Conimbra was conjoyned in Marriage with BEATRIX DE MELO AND PORTUGAL who was Daughter of the great Alvaro of Portugal branched from the House of Braganza and of Philippa de Melo Countess of Olivenza his Wife by her he had several Children which took the Sir-name of Lancastro Children of GEORGE OF PORTVGAL Duke of Conimbra JOHN DE LANCASTRO Duke of AVEIRO continued the Posterity ALPHONSO DE LANCASTRO Great Commander of St. James had also issue LEWIS DE LANCASTRO Grand Commander d'Avis had likewise Children JAMES DE LANCASTRO Bishop of Septe HELEN DE LANCASTRO Commandress of the Monastery of the Order of St. James PHILIPPA DE LANCASTRO Nuns at St. John of Setuval MARY DE LANCASTRO Nuns at St. John of Setuval ISABEL DE LANCASTRO Nuns at St. John of Setuval Natural Children of GEORGE Duke of Conimbra GEORGE DE LANCASTRO Grand Prior d'Avis GEORGE DE St. MARY a Monk of the Order of St. Hierosme ANTHONY DE St. MARY a Monk of the Order of St. Augustine and Bishop of Leiria 14. JOHN DE LANCASTRO Duke of AVEIRO Marquess of Toursneuues and Lord of Montmor HE was eldest Son of George Duke of Conimbra and of Beatrix de Melo his Wife The Title of Duke of Conimbra was not continued in his Person But the King of Portugal Emanuel shewed his affection towards this illustrious Family which was so near to him that he Created him Marquess of Toursneuues and King John III. raised him to the Dignity of Duke of Aveiro By the Command of the same King he was to visit the Emperour Charles V. to Condole with him upon the Death of his Empress Isabel the Infanta of Portugal He took to Wife JULIANA DE MENESES daughter of Peter de Meneses third Marquess of Ville-real and of the Marchioness Beatrix de Lara his Wife Children of JOHN Duke of Aveiro GEORGE DE LANCASTRO second of the name and second Duke of Aveiro
PETER-DIONYSIUS DE LANCASTRO had to Wife PHILIPPA DE SILVA daughter of John de Silva heiress of the House of Portalegre and of Margaret de Silva his Wife from which Marriage descended their only daughter JULIANA who dyed young JOHN DE LANCASTRO a Natural Son was a Monk of the Order of St. Dominick 15. GEORGE DE LANCASTRO second of the name and second Duke of AVEIRO and Marquess of Toursneuues OF the two Children of John de Lancastro Duke of Aveiro by his Wife Juliana de Meneses he was the elder He accompanied King Sebastian in the Voyage of Affrica His Death and was slain at the Battel of Alcacer Years of CHRIST 1578 with many more Princes and Lords of the Blood-Royal of Portugal His Wife MAGDALENE GIRON was daughter of John Tellez Giron Count of Urena and of Mary de la Cueua his Wife An only Daughter of GEORGE second Duke of Aveiro JULIANA DE LANCASTRO Dutchess of Aveiro was married to her Cosin ALVARO DE LANCASTRO as we shall shew you more at large hereafter 14. ALPHONSO DE LANCASTRO Great Commander of St. James HE was second Son of George Bastard of Portugal Duke of Conimbra and of Beatrix de Melo his Wife He espoused YOLAND HENRIQUEZ daughter of John Coutinho Earl of Redondo and of the Countess Isabel Henriquez his Wife by her he had four Sons and six daughters Children of ALPHONSO DE LANCASTRO LEWIS DE LANCASTRO dyed young GEORGE DE LANCASTRO was slain at the Battel of Alcacer in Affrick in the Year One thousand five hundred threescore and Years of CHRIST 1578 eighteen ALVARO DE LANCASTRO Duke of AVEIRO mentioned in the next place MANUEL DE LANCASTRO Great Master of the Order of St. James and Governour of the Algarvies had a Natural Son which was 16. JOHN DE LANCASTRO a Monk of the Order of St. Augustine ISABEL 15. MARY Nuns BEATRIX 15. PHILIPPA Nuns HELENE 15. ANNE Nuns HIEROSME DE LANCASTRO a bastard-Bastard-Son was Prior of Toursneuues and had issue CONSTANTINE ALVARO and other Natural Children 15. ALVARO DE LANCASTRO Duke of AVEIRO THis Duke was fourth Son of Alphonso de Lancastro Great Master of St. James and of Yoland Henriquez his Wife He took to Wife JULIANA Dutchess of AVEIRO only daughter and sole heir of Duke George II. by Magdalene Giron his Wife So that the Dutchy went not out of the Family From this Marriage did descend several Children Children of ALVARO DE LANCASTRO and of the Dutchess JVLIANA d'AVIERO his Wife GEORGE DE LANCASTRO Duke of TOURSNEUUES espoused ANNE DORIACOLOMNA daughter of Andrew Doria Prince of Melphi and of Jane Colomna his Wife But this Dutchess ANNE dyed without issue ALPHONSO DE LANCASTRO Grand Commander of St. James JOHN DE LANCASTRO was a Monk of the Order of St. Dominick MARIANA DE LANCASTRO a Nun of the Order of St. Francis in the Monastery of our Lady at Lisbonne BEATRIX a Nun of the Order of St. Dominick in the Abbey of St. John at Setubal 14. LEWIS DE LANCASTRO first of the name Great Master of the Order d'Avis OF the four Sons of George Bastard of Portugal Duke of Conimbra by the Dutchess Beatrix de Melo his Wife he was the third He was Years of CHRIST 1559 sent by King Sebastian to the King of Spain Philip II. for to Condole with him upon the death of Prince Charles his eldest Son and also for the decease of his third Wife Queen Isabel of France He married MAGDALENE OF GRANADA daughter of the Infant John de Granada by Beatrix de Sandoval his Wife which Infant was issued from the Blood of the antient Kings of Granada Children of LEWIS DE LANCASTRO first of the name LEWIS DE LANCASTRO second of the name continued the Posterity JOHN DE LANCASTRO had also Children hereafter mentioned BEATRIX DE LANCASTRO second Wife of THEODOSIUS OF PORTUGAL Duke of Braganza ANNE Commandress of Sanctus of the Order of St. James MAGDALENE Wife of JOHN DE SILVEIRA MARY espoused JOHN GONCALEZ DE CAMARA Count of Callera 15. LEWIS DE LANCASTRO II. of the name Great Master d'Avis HE was the eldest Son of Lewis de Lancastro first of the name by the Infanta Magdalene de Granada his Wife and was of the Council of Estate to the Kings of Spain Philip II. and III. and Super-intendant of their Affairs He dyed in the Year One thousand six hundred and thirteen and was interred in the great Chappel of the Monastery of Nuns of St. John at Setubal PHILIPPA DE MENESES his Wife was daughter of James de Silveira second Count of Sortella by Mary de Meneses his Wife Children of LEWIS DE LANCASTRO second of the name FRANCIS-LEWIS DE LANCASTRO whose Story followeth in the next place MAGDALENE DE LANCASTRO Wife of JOHN LOBO sixth Baron of Alvito 16. FRANCIS-LEWIS DE LANCASTRO HE succeeded his father and Grand-father Lewis II. and Lewis I. in the Dignity of Grand Master d'Avis and married PHILIPPA DE MENDOZA daughter of Manuel de Vasconcellos by Lucia de Mendoza his Wife Children of FRANCIS-LEWIS DE LANCASTRO LEWIS and MANUEL PETER and VERISSIME 15. JOHN DE LANCASTRO AMong the Children of Lewis de Lancastro first of the name great Master d'Avis and of Magdelene de Grenada his Wife he was the second and had two Wives His first Wife was PAULA DE TAUORA daughter of Lawrence Perez de Tauora by Katherine de Tauora his Wife His second Wife was PHILIPPA DE CASTRO daughter of Alphonso de Castelblanco Merino Major of Portugal and of Isabel de Castro by her he had no issue and dyed in the Year One thousand six hundred and fourteen He lieth buried in the Monastery of St. Anthony of the Order of St. Francis in the Province of Rabida Children of JOHN DE LANCASTRO by his first Wife LAWRENCE DE LANCASTRO espoused AGNES DE MENESES daughter of Roderick Tellez de Meneses Lord of Ugnon By her he had issue 17. JOHN DE LANCASTRO GEORGE DE LANCASTRO was slain by the Infidels at Mosambique KATHERINE DE LANCASTRO second Wife of JOHN-MARTINEZ MASCAREGNAS grand Alcaide of Mont-Major the new LORDS AND COUNTS OF VILLAR 9. DIONYSIUS OF PORTUGAL Lord of CIFUENTES Ascalona and Alva de Tormes AMong the natural Children of Peter King of Portugal one PORTUGAL-VILLAR which was King John the First came to an Absolute Fortune being chosen King of Portugal after the Death of King Ferdinand and another which was this DENIS whom he begat by Agnes de Castro made his Fortunes in Castille where he was Lord of CIFUENTES and the other Seigneuries here above-mentioned He took to Wife JANE OF CASTILLE natural daughter of Henry II. King of Castille and Leon. Children of DIONYSIO OF PORTUGAL Lord of Cifuentes and of JANE OF CASTILLE his Wife FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL Knight of the Order of St. James Commander of Oreia continued the Posterity PETER OF PORTUGAL Lord of Colmeneraio had also Children BEATRIX OF PORTUGAL founded the Hospital of
Tordesillas 10. FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL Knight of St. James and Commander of Oreia HE was eldest Son of Denis of Portugal Lord of Cifuentes and lived in Castille during the Reign of King John the second He was twice married his first Wife being MARY DE TORRES daughter of Ferdinand Roderick de Torres Lord of Villar and Escagnella by Agnes Sollier his Wife For his second Wife FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL espoused ALDARA OSORIO A Son of FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL and of MARY DE TORRES his first Wife DENIS OF PORTUGAL Lord of Torres continued the Posterity Children of FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL and of ALDARA OSORIO his second Wife JAMES OF PORTUGAL espoused MARY DE VILLENAS by whom he had several Children 12. FERDINAND RAMIRO and JOHN dyed all without issue 12. ALDARA OF PORTUGAL Wife of LEWIS DE CALA-TAIUD Lord of Prouencio 12. JANE OF PORTUGAL espoused to ALPHONSO-SANCHEZ DE CARUAIAL Lord of Jodar and Touarnela 11. DENIS or DIONYSIO OF PORTUGAL Lord of TORRES HE succeeded not in the Lordship of Villar for he dyed in the life-time of Theresa de Torres his Cosin German she was daughter of Charles Lord of Villar brother to Mary Mother of this DENIS OF PORTUGAL who espoused ISABEL FAXARDO MANUEL daughter of John Manuel and of Mencia Faxardo from which Marriage came one only Son mentioned in the next place 12. FERDINAND DE TORRES and PORTUGAL Lord of VILLAR Donpardo and Ecamella HE was only Son of Denis of Portugal Lord of Torres and of Isabel Faxardo Manuel his Wife and was twice married His first Wife was MAGDALENE VILLEGAS by her he had one daughter named MARY MANUEL OF PORTUGAL Wife of ANTHONY DE LA MOTHE in Mexico The second Wife of FERDINAND DE TORRES was BEATRIX DE LUXAN by her he had these Children following BERNARDINE DE TORRES and PORTUGAL Lord of VILLAR continued the Posterity ISABEL DE TORRES Wife of JOHN DE VILLE-REAL 13. BERNARDINE DE TORRES and PORTUGAL first of the name Lord of VILLAR and Donpardo AMong the Children of Ferdinand de Torres and Beatrix de Luxan his second Wife this BERNARDINE was the eldest He espoused MARY DE MEXIA daughter of Roderick Mexia Lord de la Guarde and St. Fimia by Mary de Ponce Lean his Wife Children of BERNARDINE DE TORRES Lord of Villar FERDINAND DE TORRES and PORTUGAL third of the name and first Count of VILLAR had issue 15. BEATRIX DE TORRES espoused to LEWIS DE CARUAIAL Lord de las Velas Jodar and Touarnela 14. FERDINAND DE TORRES and PORTVGAL third of the name first Count of VILLAR and Donpardo and Viceroy of Peru. HE was Successor of Bernardine de Torres Lord of Villar his father and was employed by the King of Spain Philip II. who created him first Count of Villar Donpardo He was Viceroy of Peru and was twice married He espoused for his first Wife FRANCES DE CARUAIAL daughter of Diego de Caruaial by Isabel Osorio His second Marriage was with MARY DE CARILLO DE CORDOUA daughter of Fernandez de Cordoua by Isabel Cabeca his Wife Children of FERDINAND DE TORRES Count of Villar and of FRANCES DE CARVAIAL his first Wife BERNARDIN DE TORRES and PORTUGAL continued the Descent JAMES DE TORRES and PORTUGAL Knight of St. James LEWIS DE TORRES GONC ALO MEXIA DE PORTUGAL FERDINAND DE TORRES and PORTUGAL of whom we shall speak more amply hereafter Children of FERDINAND DE TORRES Count of Villar by MARY CARILLO his second Wife HIEROSME DE TORRES and PORTUGAL Knight of St. James JOHN DE TORRES and CORDOUA Canon of Jaen MANUEL DE TORRES and PORTUGAL JAMES DE TORRES 15. BERNARDIN DE TORRES and PORTVGAL FErdinand de Torres and Portugal first Count of Villar and Frances de Caruaial his first Wife had for their eldest Son this BERNARDIN who dyed in the life-time of his father having married AGNES MANRIQUE daughter of Goncalo Mexia Marquess de la Guarde and of Anne Manrique his Wife and from their Marriage came these Children following viz. JOHN DE TORRES and PORTUGAL Count of VILLAR whose Story followeth in the next place BERNARDIN MANRIQUE OF PORTUGAL FERDINAND DE TORRES and PORTUGAL Three Daughters Vailed Nuns 16. JOHN DE TORRES and PORTVGAL Count of VILLAR DON PARDO HE succeeded his Grand-father Count Ferdinand in the Earldom of Villar being eldest Son of Bernardin de Torres by Agnes Manriques his Wife and was made Knight of the Order of Calatraua Of the two Wives he espoused the first was ISABEL CARUAIAL daughter of Alphonso Caruaial and of Catharine Mexia Lady of Jodar and Touarnela his Wife His second Wife was MARY DE MENDOZA daughter of Bernardin Suarez de Mendoza fifth Count of Corugua and of his Wife Mariana de Bacan Children of JOHN DE TORRES and PORTVGAL Count of Villar by ISABEL CARVAIAL his first Wife BERNARDIN DE TORRES and PORTUGAL dyed young AGNES MANRIQUE DE TORRES and PORTUGAL espoused to ANTHONY DE CALATAIUD eldest Son of the Count of Real Children of JOHN DE TORRES and PORTVGAL Count of Villar by MARY DE MENDOZA his second Wife JOHN-ANTHONY DE TORRES and PORTUGAL FERDINAND JANE MARY 15. FERDINAND DE TORRES and PORTVGAL OF the Five Children of Ferdinand de Torres and Portugal first Count of Villar and of the Countess Frances de Caruaial his first Wife this FERDINAND which was the fifth was made a Knight of the Order of St. James and married GUIOMAR DE TORRES CONTRERAS daughter of Ruy Dias Torres by Aldonce de Gontreras his Wife from which Marriage came two Sons and a daughter RODERICK DE TORRES and PORTUGAL was as his father had been before him Knight of the Order of St. James LEWIS DE TORRES and PORTUGAL was one of the Four and twenty Magistrates of Jaen FRANCES DE TORRES and PORTUGAL was espoused to JOHN PALOMINO HURTADO DE MENDOZA 10. PETER OF PORTVGAL Lord of COLMENERAIO DEnis bastard-Bastard-Son of Peter King of Portugal left two Sons by his Wife Jane of Castille the elder of which was Ferdinand of Portugal from whom the Lords and Earls of Villar are descended and the younger this PETER OF PORTUGAL which some nevertheless suppose to be born before his brother But however it was he espoused ISABEL HENRIQUEZ by whom had a Son and a daughter Viz. JOHN OF PORTUGAL Lord of COLMENERAIO whose Posterity is mentioned in the next place JANE OF PORTUGAL Wife of VASCO GONCALES DE CONTRERAS Lord de la Puebla and Orcaiada 11. JOHN OF PORTVGAL Lord of COLMENERAIO HE was the only Son of Peter of Portugal also Lord of Colmeneraio by Isabel Henriquez his Wife and took to Wife BEATRIX DE LAURENCANA she was descended from the Kingdom of Leon. They had issue three Sons and a daughter Viz. FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL married N. DE QUIADA and had by her his only daughter 13. TERESA HENRIQUEZ OF PORTUGAL espoused to PETER GONCALES DE MENDOZA DENIS OF PORTUGAL a younger Son of John Lord of Colmeneraio was an Ecclesiastick BERNARDIN OF PORTUGAL married ELUIRA DE MENDOZA daughter of the Count of Priego and had no issue by her ISABEL HENRIQUEZ espoused to FRANCIS Duke DE GUZMAN so named by Alphonso Lopez de Haro in his Book of the Nobility of Spain Chap. IV. FINIS
at Nice Her death in the Year One thousand five hundred seven and Years of CHRIST 1537 thirty the Eighth day of January at the same age with the Empress her Sister which was Three and thirty years As for Duke Charles her Husband he departed this life at Verceil Anno One thousand five hundred fifty and three the Seventeenth day of August being aged Threescore and Years of CHRIST 1553 seven years From this his Marriage with the Princess BEATRICE OF PORTUGAL came the Duke Emanuel-Philibert his Successor who by Margaret of France had his only Son Charles-Emanuel Duke of Savoye This Duke Emanuel was of the number of those Princes Competitors for the Kingdom of Portugal although he was Son of the younger Daughter of King Emanuel An Historian writes that among the pretenders that were strangers the Portuguesses were more inclined to him than to any other and this inclination proceeded from the opinion they had that in regard of the quality of his person he was fitter than any other to defend them from their enemies and if need were he might vigorously resist King Philip if he should stirre both by reason of his Valour and for the means he had to molest him in his Dutchy of Millain joyning unto Piedmont using chiefly the Alliance and Neighbourhood he had with the French who laid claim to that Dukedom But his pretentions succeeded not according to his desire for he dyed immediately after this overture was made MARY OF PORTUGAL the Elder dyed in her Cradle Children of EMANUEL King of PORTUGAL and of ELEONOR OF AUSTRIA his third Wife Nunius CHARLES OF PORTUGAL born at Evora in the Year His Birth One thousand five hundred and twenty the Eighteenth day of February Years of CHRIST 1520 and deceased at Lisbonne the Fifteenth of April Anno One thousand five hundred twenty and one MARY OF PORTUGAL the younger Her Birth came into the world at the end of the Year Vasconcellius One thousand five hundred twenty and Years of CHRIST 1521 one Notwithstanding this Princess was adorned with singular Beauty both of body and soul and had been courted by several Princes yet would she never be brought to marry any but lived with the honour and pudicity required in Princesses of her Quality then being aged Seven and fifty years she payed her last debt to Nature at Lisbonne Anno Her death One thousand five hundred threescore and Eighteen Her body was inhumed in the Monastery of our Years of CHRIST 1578 Lady of the Light of the Order of the Warfare of Christ which she caused to be built near unto Lisbonne 13. JOHN III. Of the Name KING of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES on this and the other side the Affrican Sea Lord of Guineé c. CHAP. XVI PORTUGAL Comme cy devant PORTUGAL Party de AUTRICHEESPAGNE Escartelé Au premier quartier aussi escartele Au 1. 4. de CASTILLE Au 2. 3. de LEON Au 2. quartier d' ARRAGON Party d' ARRAGON-SICILIE Au 3. d' AUSTRICHE Soustenu de BOURGONGNE de la premier branch Au 4. de BOURGONGNE de la second branche soustenu de BRABANT Et sâ—r ces deux derniers quartiers est un Escusson de FLANDRES Party de L'Escu du Marquisate du St. Empire At the age of Twenty years he succeeded to the Crown of his Father and wanted no courage to continue his high designs as well to maintain himself in those memorable Conquests that he had so happily accomplished as for the gaining of other Isles Kingdoms Cities and Countries To this effect Nonio Acuna his Viceroy in the Indies took and ruined the Isle of Bethleem then subjected Bacin and Daman two famous Indian Cities slew Sultan Baduc the puissant King of Cambaie and subjected the City of Dium where he built a Cittadelle The success the Christians had in these parts so perplexed the Turk that he sent a powerful Fleet commanded by the Bassa of Egypt to drive the Portugals from Dium and other places which they had in that Countrey This Army joyned with that of Cambaie but at the rencounter they received so sharp a welcome from the Defendants commanded by Antonio Silueria Vasconcellius that a great number of them were kill'd upon the place Years of CHRIST 1538 Andrade Nine years after this the second Siege of Dium was with much resolution Years of CHRIST 1547 maintained by John Mascaregna against the Sultan Mamudin not less notorious than the other being that then also the Turk assisted the Indian with his Forces The like success smiled for a time upon the Christians at Safin in Africa where they valiantly endured Six months Siege by the Cherifs Army consisting of an hundred thousand Souldiers but not long after the Cherif or King of Suez worsted the Portuguesses which so much cooled their resolutions that King JOHN deliberated to abandon all his Forts of Affrica the more firmly to settle and establish himself in the Indies Guineé and Brasille but this councel was not followed for only quitting and dismantling the Inland Forts he retained and fortified the Port Towns of Septe Tangier and Mazagan with all things necessary for a resistance Vasconcellius This King JOHN obtained from the Pope That the City of Evora should be erected into an Arch-bishoprick the Cities of Portalegre Leiria and Miranda in Portugal into Bishopricks as also of Cochin and Malaca in Asia of Baia in Brasille of Cape Asinaire in Guineé and in Ethiopia he established John Bermudes for first Patriarch of the Latine Church Andrada Following the steps of the King his Father to him was attributed the honour of having planted the Gospel in the Eastern parts of Asia in Ethiopia the Higher and other remote Provinces as also in the Molucco Islands and Japon where he sent that famous Jesuite Francis Xauier afterwards Canonized the fruit of whose labours appeared in the conversion of many Infidels to the faith Insomuch that it 's remarkable that under the happy Reign of this Prince JOHN there were twelve Pagan Kings baptized with the greater part of their people He performed many other profitable works for the advancement of Piety caused several Monasteries to be reformed according to their Antient Rules and was one of the first Kings that favoured and greatly encreased the Order of the Society of Jesus for whom he erected several Colledges in Portugal and his other Dominions Nunius He was a devout Prince and naturally so benigne and clement that he even shewed himself slow in Ordering punishment to the Malefactors and when Judgment was given against such which he did in person once a week he rather inclined to Forgiveness than Condemnation A Lover he was of Peace and Tranquility a favourer of persons of merit and parts having given entertainment in his Kingdom to strangers of divers professions He transferred the University of Lisbonne to Conimbra Vâ—sconcellius and richly endowed it augmented the Salaries of the
FERDINAND ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO Count of Oropesa and of MENCIA PIMENTEL his wife JOHN DE TOLEDO died young EDWARD ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO Count of Oropesa and Viceroy of Navarre married ANNE daughter of Modica de Cordova Count of Alcaudere MARIANA DE TOLEDO espoused to PEDRO FAXARDO Marquess de les Veles and Molina COUNTS OF LEMOS AND MARQUESSES OF SARRIA 13. DIONYSIUS OF PORTUGAL Count of LEMOS Years of CHRIST 1495 AFter that the Duke of Braganza Ferdinand II. of that name PORTUGAL-LEMOS his Father had been beheaded the Dutchess Isabel his Widow sent this Prince DIONYSIUS OF PORTUGAL their third Son into Castille where he established his Fortune For the Queen of Castille Isabel his Aunt about the Year One thousand five hundred procured his Marriage with a rich Heir His Marriage whose name was BEATRICE DE CASTRO Countess of LEMOS daughter of Roderick de Castro and of Teresa Osorio his Years of CHRIST 1500 Wife by whom he had a numerous Issue she had among other things in Dower the Lordships of SARRIA Castro and Ottero which had been given by the Kings Lib. 27. Cap. 10. Mariana mistakes in making this DIONYSIUS Son of James of Braganza contrary to the Evidences and Records of this House which exactly prove their descent Their Children took the name of CASTRO upon the account of their Mother as is observed often in Spain Children of DIONYSIUS OF PORTUGAL Count of LEMOS FERDINAND DE CASTRO first of the name Count of LEMOS and Marquess of SARRIA continued the Posterity ALPHONSO DE LANCASTRO Grand Commander of the Order of Christ had also issue mentioned in his place PETER DE CASTRO Bishop of Cuenca LEONOR DE CASTRO Wife of JAMES-SARMIENTO DE MENDOZA Count of Ribadauia ISABEL DE CASTRO first Wife of THEODOSIUS OF PORTUGAL first of the name Duke of BRAGANZA her Cosin ANTONIETTA DE LANCASTRO married to ALVARO COUTINHO Marescal of Portugal MENCIA DE LANCASTRO first Wife of RENE Count of CHALANT in Savoye who had issue Elizabeth de Chalant Wife of Frederick Madruce Count of Aue and Arbe and Lord of Beaufremont TERESA DE CASTRO dyed before Marriage CONSTANCE DE CASTRO a Nun in the Monastery of our Lady at Lisbonne 14. FERDINAND DE CASTRO Count of LEMOS and Marquess of SARRIA PORTUGAL-LEMOS TO Dionysius Count of Lemos and the Countess Beatrix de Castro his Wife succeeded this FERDINAND their eldest Son who was sent Embassadour to Rome during the Pontificalty of Paul III. by the Emperour Charles V. who created him Marquess of SARRIA and the King of Spain Philip II. also sent him Embassadour to the Court of Rome where he resided in the time of the Popes Julius III. and Paul IV. The Princess Jane of Portugal Mother of King Sebastian honoured him with the Office of Steward of her Houshold He espoused TERESA d'ANDRADA daughter and heir of Ferdinand d'Andrada Count of Vilalua and Andrada and of Frances de Ulloa and Zuniga his Wife Children of FERDINAND DE CASTRO Count of LEMOS and of TERESA d'ANDRADA his Wife PETER-FERDINAND DE CASTRO first of that name Count of LEMOS of whom we shall speak hereafter ISABEL DE CASTRO Wife of RODERICK DE MOSCOSO Count of Altamira 15. PETER FERDINAND DE CASTRO I. of the name Count of LEMOS Andrada and Vilalua and Marquess of Sarria HE was Son of Ferdinand de Castro Count of Lemos PORTUGAL-LEMOS and of Teresa Years of CHRIST 1580 d'Andrada and served the King of Spain Philip II. at the Conquest of the Kingdom of Portugal He was twise Married first to LEONOR DE LA CUEUA daughter of Bertrand de la Cueua Duke of Albequerque and of Isabel Giron his Wife Secondly To TERESA DE BOBADILLA de LA CERDA daughter of Peter de Bobadilla Count of Chinchon and of Menecia de la Cerda Children of PETER-FERDINAND DE CASTRO Count of LEMOS and of LEONOR DE LA CUEUA his first Wife FERDINAND-RODERICK DE CASTRO Count of LEMOS whose Story followeth in the next place BERTRAND DE CASTRO was never married but had issue three Natural Children He served the King of Spain in Italy the Indies and Spain 17. JOHN DE CASTRO dyed at Naples 17. FRANCIS DE CASTRO 17. BERTRAND DE CASTRO TERESA DE CASTRO Wife to GARCIA-HURTADO DE MENDOZA Marquess of Cagneta ISABEL DE CASTRO dyed young Children of PETER-FERDINAND DE CASTRO Count of LEMOS and of TERESA DE BOBADILLA his second Wife PETER DE CASTRO Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to King Philip III. married HIERONIMA DE CORDOUA Lady of Honour to Queen Margaret of Austria and daughter of Roderick de Cordoua Lord of Palma and of Menecia de Mendoza his Wife from which Marriage came no Children RODERICK DE CASTRO Canon of Toledo Arch-deacon of Alcaraz and Inquisitor left three Natural Children Viz. 17. FELIX DE CASTRO 17. TERESA DE CASTRO 17. ANGELA DE CASTRO ANDREW DE CASTRO never married but left a Bastard Son named 17. RODERICK DE CASTRO JAMES DE CASTRO Bastard-Children of PETER-FERDINAND DE CASTRO Count of LEMOS ANTHONY a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict Abbot of St. Benet at Madrid and General of his Order JOHN DE CASTRO a Monk also of the same Order Arch-bishop of Otrante dyed being elected Bishop of Cordoua 16. FERDINAND-RODERICK DE CASTRO Count of LEMOS and Viceroy of Naples PORTUGAL-LEMOS AMong the Children of Peter-Ferdinand de Castro Count of Lemos and of Leonor de la Cueua his first Wife he was the eldest After that King Philip III. was come to the Crown of Spain he sent this Count his Embassadour to Rome to Pope Clement VIII for to make tender of his obedience and to have a new investiture in the Kingdom of Naples where this same Earl was also sent Viceroy and where he deceased in the Year One thousand six hundred and one He had to Wife KATHERINE DE ZUNIGA DE SANDOVAL who was daughter of Francis Royas de Sandoval Marquess of Denia and of Isabel Borgia his Wife which Katherine Countess of Lemos was one of the principal Ladies of Honour to the Catholique Queen Margaret Wife of King Philip III. Children of FERDINAND-RODERICK DE CASTRO Count of LEMOS PETER-FERDINAND DE CASTRO second of the name Count of LEMOS mentioned in the next place FRANCIS DE CASTRO Duke of Taurisana of whom we shall speak after his Elder Brother continued the Posterity FERDINAND DE CASTRO espoused LEONOR DE PORTUGAL Countess of Gelves Daughter and Heir of George of Portugal Count of Gelves and of Bernardine de Vincentelo his Wife in whose right he was Count of Gelves They had issue one only Child 18. KATHERINE OF PORTUGAL Countesse of Gelves 17. PETER-FERDINAND DE CASTRO second of the name Count of LEMOS and Andrada Marquess of Sarria and Viceroy of Naples THE King of Spain Philip III. bestowed several Charges and Dignities upon him for he not only honoured him with the Quality of Gentleman of his Bed-Chamber but also made