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Genealogical Hiftory 
 
 OF THE 
 
 KINGS 
 
 O F 
 
 PORTUGAL. 
 
 And of all thole Illuftrious Houles that in Malculine 
 
 Line are branched from that Royal Family. 
 
 CONTAINING 
 
 A DISCOURSE 
 
 Of their leveral Lives, Marriages, and J flues, Times 
 
 of Birth, Death, and Places of Burial. 
 
 With their Armes and Emblazons according to their 
 
 feveral alterations , as alfo their Sy mboles and Mottoes. 
 
 All Engraven in Copper-Plates. 
 
 Written in French by 
 
 Scevole and LovisDe Saincte-Marthe, 
 
 Brethren " and Advocates in the Court of Parliament 
 of PARIS , 
 
 Unto the Year, M. DC. XXIII. 
 
 Rendred into Englijh, and continued unto this pre- 
 
 fent Year, M. DC. LX 1 1. 
 
 ByF ran c is S an dford , Kouge-Dr agon , 
 Purfuiuant of Armes. 
 
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TO THE MOST 
 
 Glorious Monarch, 
 
 CHARLES II; 
 
 KIN G of GREAT BR1TAIN 3 FRANCE, 
 and IRELAND , &c. 
 
 Royal SIR! 
 
 Hofe Prefents which in themfelves are rich and 
 beautiful., cannot lofe any thing of their efteem, 
 though tendred by the meaneft hand ; the Dia- 
 mond falls not under its true value, when found 
 among the low-prized Pebbles : Nor will (I hope} this Hi- 
 flory ( which with all due Reverence I prefume to lay at 
 Your Majeflies Feet) be thought worthlefs , although 
 prefented to the greateft of Kings, by the leaft and loweft of 
 his Sub; efts. 
 
 Y et my prefumption bears with it a more exten- 
 five Modefty, than to poffefs me with a belief, that what 
 I now bring, can, as far as it is any thing of mine,be worthy 
 the leaft regards of Majefty. For it’s Worth Con- 
 fifts in it felf * and being a Genealogical Hiflory of a Royal 
 Hotofe Indubitably Defcended from our Englifh Kings, 
 cannot I hope find a lefs Gracious Acceptance from our 
 Great Monarch , than it hath formerly done from His 
 moil Chriftian Majefty, in Favour of thole who but dilpu- 
 tably have maintained it to be a Branch of the Royal Stem 
 of France 3 but it may much more engage Your acceptance, 
 when Your Majejly conftders , that out of this Re- 
 
 A n owned 
 
The Epftle Dedicatory 
 
 nowncd Stock Your Majefly hath made choice of Y our 
 moft Excellent Queen. 
 
 For from Philippa the daughter of the great L uke of 
 Lancafter , John of Gaunt , descended that numerous blue., 
 which hath fince fupplyed F o rt u g al for above Three 
 hundred years with a Succdfton of Heroick and Valiant 
 Kings, and was notdilcontinued,but by thePower of thzCa- 
 flilliansjULiulci Philip 11 3 111,1V' • Kings of Spain, and hath 
 been as miraculoufly reftored in the Perfon o IK. John IV .fo 
 that as King John l. much augmented the Glory of that 
 Nation by allyinghimfelfwith England, another King John 
 hath no Ids renewed it , not more by redeeming his K ing- 
 domoutof the hands of Ambitious Seifers, than in being 
 Father to that Daughter, by whom in the Perfons of Your 
 Royal Majefly, and our Gracious Queen Katherine, 
 a fecond and much firmer union is contracted between thefe 
 two fo antiently allied Crowns. 
 
 But here. Dread SIR, Ido conclude ( left I fhould too 
 long difturb Your R oyal thoughts , ) with thofe Prayers 
 which all good Subjects are bound to make ; That as 
 the Portu^uejfes have acknowledged that Match with 
 England , to be the moft happy and fortunate that ever 
 any of their Kings contraded,both for the ftrength,and glo- 
 ry of that Kingdom ; So that Heaven would likewifegive 
 Y our Majefly as numerous, and as glorious an iflue by this 
 fecond Match, that Generations to come may have caufe to 
 Bids that Day wherein a Monarch of Great Britain did 
 Efpoufe an Infanta of P o r t u g a l. Thus prayes, 
 
 7 OU R MAJESTIES mfl Faithful, 
 
 and moft obedient, Subjetl and Servant ", 
 Francis Sandford. 
 Rouge-Dragon, Purfuiuant at Arms', 
 
The TRANSLATOR to the READER.' 
 
 Need not a better Authority for the Reputation of this Hifto- 
 ry, then to inform you, That the firft Part thereof from Hen- 
 ry Count of Portugal, to Anthony Prior of Crato, with 
 the Second Book , containing the Pedigrees of the Royal Houfe 
 of Braganza, and other Princes of the Blood of Portugal, A 
 Tranflated out of the Genealogical Hiftory of the Royal Houle of 
 France, written by Scevole, and Lovis de Sain&e-Marthe, Perfons 
 Eminent for their Knowledge in Antiquity , andmofl exaSf in theDefcents 
 of the Kings of France, and no lefs curious in.this of Portugal, as being a 
 Branch of that Royal Stem. 
 
 The later P art , continued from Anthony , to the Sixth Tear of the 
 Reign of King Alphonfo VI. being this prefent Tear, One thou land 
 fix hundred threefcore and two • is takenout of the Letters of Francilco 
 LorcdanOjd Noble Venetian, and an Able Statefman , employed Antbaffador 
 from that Republic l^, to mM of the Princes and Potentates of Europe j 
 Englifhed by an Ingenious young Gentleman, not longfmce. 
 
 To thefe French and Italian Authors, I have made fever al Additi- 
 ons out of Don Antonio de Soufa de Macedo, a Portuguelle, concern- 
 ing the fever al Changes of the Arms of that Kingdom ■ The Ceremonies ufed 
 at the Coronations and Burials of the Kings of Portugal, from Coneftag- 
 gio an Italian ; And the Modern Additions to the Defcents of the Youn- 
 ger Houfes, either out of Nicholaus Ritterfhufus, a Germain, or from 
 the faithful Re port of fo me of the Nobility of the Portugal Nation « 
 
 Having chofen rather to make ufe of Authors that were flrangers , and 
 unbiajfed with IntereCl, than Natives of that Kingdom, both for theSath- 
 faSlionof my Reader, and alfo becaufe the Exploits of that Warlike and 
 Induflrious People , would fee m from their own Relations almofl incredible ‘ 
 For if we on fader the fmall Beginnings out of which they have gained fuch 
 vail Territories,we cannot but con fefs, That they have out-done mojl of the 
 greatett Conquerors-, for thofe with mighty Armies fubjeSted the Old World \ 
 but thefe with fmall Numbers, have not only carried, Vi&ory to the Eaft, 
 but found out New Worlds to Conquer : So that the Dominions of Alphonfo 
 thefirfi King of Portugal , are not tbcTentb part of thofe Kingdoms pof- 
 fejfed by King Alphonfo VI. 
 
 If lhave too much made ufe of the French Idiome in this Translation , 
 mojl Gentlemen will (Iprefume) pafs by that Errour , it being al- 
 mojl impoffible to meddle with that Language, and not to receive fome Impref- 
 fions thereby. Toe Erroursof the Prefs, Ibaveentred on the other fide of 
 the. Leaf in the Errata, which Iw>uld intreat you to CorreSl ; and then I 
 h ope y ou will find the Satisfaction expelled in the perufal of this Hiftory. 
 Farewel , . F. S. 
 
W E having perufed this Book , which is for 
 the mol part aTranflation out o ' French 
 of a Genealogical Hiflory of the Kings of 
 PorlHgal.do not find that the lame doth 
 materially vary from the Senfeof the Authors-, nor t at 
 there is in it any thing contrary to the Rules ot Ar- 
 mory. 
 
 EDWARD WALKER Garter, 
 Principal King of Arms. 
 
 WILLIAM W GD ALE 
 Norroy, King of Anns. 
 
 Ape . line ,1 for Idolatrous read Idolaters. p. ibid. 1. for Hiftorics, r. Hiflorians. p. a. In. for 
 P Flhcr.r. Brother, p. 3. 1. 43.’ after tobebuik ( add ) in thatCafoedral. p. ibid. 1. 44. to, an Epitaph 
 
 (add) inLatine. p. 5 . 1 , ft. to, Confine this PrinceS (add J fos Mother. p. 7 . 1 . 31. for 1186. r. 1185 p. 
 
 !7. to.whodyed (add) without iffue. P . 19. 1 . 43 - to/ome Hiflorians (add) of CafiiUe. p. * 7 . 1 - 33 ; 
 for Alphonfo yi. r. Menhir. p. ]6. L 16. foreracinated. r.itradicatcd. p.js. 1 . lO.ior Forty.r. Threeand 
 Forty, p. 61. 1 . ? 4 . for Calecur , r. Cult cat. p. ibid. 1 . 55. for fo named, r. of that Denomination, p. 81. J. 3 * 
 blot out Elefled. p. 94. 1. 18. for 1,10. r. 1580. p. 305.I. 4. for Mitfal, r. Mijjcl. 
 
 This Book is to be fold by the Author , Francis Sandford , 
 at his Lodgings next door to the Heraulds-Office , upon 
 St. Bennets-hill ; Or by Edward Motterlhed, Printer, 
 living upon the afore (aid Hill, over again fl I)o&ors 
 Commons. 
 
The 
 
 Genealogy of tii 
 
 i. HENRY OF BOURGONGNE Count of PORTUGAL, 5 
 before his Father, and Grand-fon of ROBERT OF FRANCE Duke of 
 and Grand-child of HUGH CAPET, both Kings of FRANC E. Fled 
 
 2. URACCA Countefs 
 of Triftamare. 
 
 A 
 
 of the 
 
 ALPHONSO I. 
 of PORTUGAL, dyed 
 
 ISRACCA Queen of 
 Leon and Galicia. 
 
 ALPHONSO II. of the name, 
 third King of PORTUGAL. 
 He died A 1 1233. 
 
 FERDINAND of 
 Portugal , Count 
 of Flanders. 
 
 SANCEO L of the nam 
 of PORTUGAL, hedyt 
 
 PETER- HENi 
 King of of ] 
 
 Majorca. tttgai 
 
 SANCEO II. of the name, fourth King 
 of PORTUGAL , dyed Anno 1246. 
 without iffue. 
 
 ALPHONSO III. of tl 
 King of P O R T U G 
 Amo 1279. 
 
 <5. DIONYSIUS or DENIS, fixthKingof 
 PORTUGAL, dyed oAnno 1-325 
 
 . -A..„ 
 
 . CONSTANCE 
 Queen of Ca- 
 
 flille. 
 
 — i r 
 
 ALPHONSO of Portugal 
 Lord of Portalegre. 
 
 _ A 
 
 ALPHONSO IV. of the 
 name , feventh King of 
 PORTUGAL,dyed 1357. 
 A. 
 
 ALPHONSO of ISABELLA 
 Portugal, dyed Lady of 
 Without iffue. Fife ay. 
 
 ALPHONSO , DIONYSIO 
 and JOHN , dyed all young. 
 
 PETER, eighth King of POR- 
 TUGAL , deceafed Anno 13 68. 
 
 FERDINAND , ninth King of 
 PORTUGAL,dyfed Amo 1383. 
 
 DIONYSIO of Portugal, 
 eldeft Son, dyed young. 
 
 MARI 
 dy Ma; 
 
 jo. BEATRIX of 
 
 Portugal , Q^ 
 of Cajlille. 
 
 ALPHONSO 
 dyed , aged 
 Ten years. 
 
 ALPHONSO V. of the 
 name , twelfth King of 
 PORTUGAL, oA 148 1 
 
 LEONOR Wife 
 to the Emperour 
 Frederick^ III. 
 
 EDWARD , eleventh 
 Kmg of PORTUGAL, 
 dyed Amo 1438. 
 
 A — ^ 
 
 PETER HENRY 
 
 Duke of Vifco, and 
 
 Ccr.imbra. the Order 
 
 A. 
 
 JANE 
 Queen of 
 Cajlille. 
 
 FERDI- 
 NAND D. 
 of Vifco. 
 
 PETER eie- JOHN 
 cledKingof Duke of 
 Arragrn. Conimbra 
 
 JOHN Prince 
 of Portugal , 
 dyed young. 
 
 *2. JOHN II. of the name, 
 thirteenth King of POR- 
 TUGAL,dyed An. 1495. 
 
 f~ n , , 
 
 ALPHONSO Prince ISABELLA wife 
 of Portugal , dyed of the Emperour 
 young, Without iffue. Charles V. 
 
 JANE took up- 
 on her Religi- 
 ous Habit. 
 
 JOHN Duke of 
 Vifco, dsjtd -young 
 without ifliie. 
 
 JAMES Duke- 
 flair, by King 
 his Brother-in 
 
 13 
 
 EEATRIX 
 Dutchefs 
 of Savoy. 
 
 MICHAEL Prince 
 of Portugal & Ca- 
 ftille, dyed young. 
 
 14. PHILIP II. King of Spain, feized 
 upon the Kingdom of PORTU- 
 GAL, and was Nineteenth King. 
 
 JOHN Prince 
 of Portugal, 
 died^fB.1554 
 
 MARY 
 princefs 
 of Spain. 
 
 JOFINIUof the Bin 
 fifteenth K,of PORT 
 GAL,dyed Anno 155 
 
 ISABELLA ANTHONY 1 
 
 & BEATRIX eighteenth Kir 
 
 dyed young, TllGAL. He 
 
 15- PHILIP III. of the name King of Spain , 
 was twentieth King of PORTUGAL. 
 
 SEBASTIAN fixteenth King ofPORTU- 
 GAL.was (lain in Africa. S. prole. 1578. 
 
 16. PHILIP IV. of the name, Kingof Spain, now Reigning.1662.who 
 poffeffed the Kingdom of PORTUGAL until the Year , 1640. 
 
 17. KATHERINE of Portu- 
 gal, dyed in her Infancy. 
 
 JOHN II. of that name, Duke of Bragaixa, bytheuniv. 
 ftates.was Crowned King of PORTUGAL, uAr.no 1640. 
 
 18. THEODOSIUS Prince of Por- 
 tugal , dyed in his youth. 
 
 ALPHONSO VI- of the name, Three and twentieth King 
 of PORTUGAL, who Reigneth at prefent , 1662. 
 
te Kings of Portugal. 
 
 was fecond Son of HENRY OF BOU R GO N GNE that dyed 
 BOURGONGNE, whichROBERT wasSonof RO BERT, 
 lyed in the Year, One thoufand one hundred and twelve. 
 
 name. King THERESA Wife of 
 
 i° 1186. 
 
 Ferdinando Mendez. 
 
 e, fecond King 
 td^° 12 is. 
 
 THERESA Countefs 
 of Flanders. 
 
 RY 
 
 p or - 
 
 THERESA 
 Queen of 
 Leon. 
 
 MAUD 
 Queen of 
 Cafiide. 
 
 SANCE 
 an Abbefs. 
 
 BLANCHE. 
 
 BERENGA- 
 
 RIA. 
 
 be name, fifth 
 A L , dyed 
 
 FERDINAND of 
 Portugal , Infant 
 of Serpe. 
 
 FERDINAND of Per- 
 tugal, dyed young. 
 
 LEONORA 
 Queen of 
 Denmark > 
 
 BLANCH of Portugal, 
 Abbefs of Loruano. 
 
 CONSTANCE marri- MARY wife of Tel- 
 ed to Nounez Gon- lez fon of / ilphonfo 
 [aha de Lara. Infant of Moline. 
 
 ISABELLA the younger 
 rmmedxofohn-Alphon- 
 fo Lord of Albuejuerque. 
 
 MARY Queen 
 of Cafliile. 
 
 LEONORA Queen 
 of Arragon. 
 
 of Portugal, La- 
 (J lie Is of Fortofa. 
 
 JOHN I. of the name , tenth King of POR- 
 TUGAL, a Natural Son, deceafed Anno 143;. 
 
 Duke of 
 Mailer of 
 of Chrifi. 
 
 JOHN Grand Ma- 
 iler of the Order 
 of St. fames. 
 
 . \ 
 
 FERDINAND ISABEL 
 
 'great Mailer of Dutchefsof 
 
 the Order d' Avis. Bourgongnt 
 
 ALPHONSO Firft 
 Duke of Braganza , 
 a Natural Son. 
 
 . A _ 
 
 JAMES 
 Card, of 
 Portugal 
 
 ISABEL’ JAMES,G.M. ISABEL 
 Queen of of the Order Queen of 
 Portugal, of St. fames. CaUille. 
 
 BEATRIX Dutchefs’ 
 of Hi [to. Mother of 
 King Emanuel. 
 
 FERDINAND I. of 
 the name , fecond 
 Duke of Braganza. 
 
 tfVifcOj 
 }ohn II. 
 -law. 
 
 EMANUEL fourteenth 
 King of PORTUGAL, 
 dyed Anno 1521. 
 
 LEONOR wife 
 offobnll. King 
 of Portugal. 
 
 ' '1 
 
 ISABEL married to 
 TW.L/.ofthe name 
 Duke of Braganza. 
 
 FERDINAND II. of 
 the name i third 
 Duke of Braganza. 
 
 r~ — ^ 
 
 ie, LEWIS of 
 U- Portugal , 
 7. D.of. Beta. 
 
 iieBaftard, 
 got POR- 
 dyed 1595. 
 
 EMANUEL 
 of Portugal. 
 
 FERDINAND 
 of Portugal ,dy- feventeenth K.of POR- 
 ed A. prole. TUGAL ,ob.S.p. 1580. 
 
 EDWARD 
 Infante of 
 Portugal. 
 
 EDWARD D. 
 of Uimarana, 
 dyed young. 
 
 MARY marri- 
 ed to AlexD. 
 of Parma. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER 
 of Portugal. 
 
 KATHERINE wife of 
 John I. of the name , 
 Duke of Braganza. 
 
 PHILIPPA^ 
 
 LOUISA. 
 
 JAMES fourth 
 Duke of Braganza. 
 
 e~ ^ — , 
 
 THEODOSIUS I. of 
 the name , fifth 
 Duke of Braganza. 
 
 JOHN I. of the name, 
 fixth Duke of Braganza. 
 
 trfalcOnfcnt of the three E- 
 by the name of JOHN IV. 
 
 EDWARD of Portugal, 
 dyed in Prifon at Millan. 
 
 THEODOSIUS II. of the name, 
 feventh Duke of Braganza. 
 
 ALEXANDER 
 of Portugal. 
 
 PETER Infante 
 of Portugal. 
 
 JANE of Portu- 
 gal, dyed young; 
 
 KATHERINE of Portu- 
 gal, Queen of England 
 
Yeso of 
 CKMST. 
 
 iopo. 
 
 ■ HENRY 
 
 PORTU- 
 
 GAL. 
 
 Of Bourgohgne Count of Portugal., u 
 
 Qoix d'ji-xurt; 
 
 CHAP. I. 
 
 r ORTU- 
 GAL. 
 
 Mong fo many Kings 
 and Princes, who castille; 
 draw their Source oeptaou a 
 and Original from “ Ci *fl c, ' n > 
 the Houfe of 
 F RA N C E , and that have in 
 feveral parts of the World si- Dom.Anro De 
 ven teltimony ot their Pietie , Liberat. foi. 
 joyned with apparent Valour , in 767. A PP e n . 
 their Wa r s againft the Sarazens, a^icmpmas 
 Moors, Turks, and other Infidels , vit Cmcem iit 
 the generous Prince HENRY msllK - 
 O F B O U RG O NONE Son ZXifZ 
 of Henry, and grandfon of Robert Freitas defuji. 
 of France, Duke of Bourgmgne, 
 whole Father was King Robert , & c . quinotavie 
 hathrendred his memory fo much Crme m f‘‘lf e 
 the more illuftrions and famous, TonfxdT- 
 as being a worthy Son , an imi- «# vu.cum tur- 
 tator of his Fathers virtues , and fZ'r ’.if K! ~ 
 the Eftablifher and Founder of % 
 the Kingdom of PORTUGAL. froCedebat.Cru - 
 He was the firft that fwayed the 
 Scepter, and who hath given Original to twenty Kings, who have there m pitmt^a 
 fince reigned for the fpace of neer five hundred years , with fuch power, that Z°l'«VuZm 
 they have by the force of their own Armes, Conquered and Subjected to pro infignibw 
 their Dominion feveral Kingdoms and ftrong holds in Affrick , Perfia, Eaft- fi^aPtponm 
 ' ' which hath facilitated the means to Civilize thole peo- 
 
 and of Idolatrous and Mahume- h ; . « 
 
 India, and America , 
 
 pie that were heretofore wholly barbarous , 
 tans, to convert them to Chriftianity. So that we muft acknowledge, that 
 thefe Princes (originally of the mod auguft Family of the French Kings) dial, a c. 3 . 
 
 have very much merited from the Chi iftian Religion. poftra*Sj 
 
 Several Hiftories of France,Portup;al,CaJHlle, and other Nations have very Monarch ' l*. 
 much laboured to finde out and difcover from what Countrey , anu what at. .j.ub s. 
 
 B Houfe C.ZX. 
 
* 3 
 
 a HENRY »/ BO URGONGNE 
 
 Houfe this Prince HENRY deduced his Original . His extraction ha- Yens of 
 ving been unknown for a long time , and concerning which there hath been CHR:ST - 
 almoft as many Opinions as Writers. Some have written that he defeended 
 from an Emperour of Conflantinople, others from a King of Hungary , fomc 
 from William Courn ot Bourgongne, brother of Raymond Count of Outre- 
 Soane , and others alfo from Guy Count of Vernccil in Normandy , brother of 
 
 . : this William. Furthermore there are that report, that he was fon of Henry, 
 
 ur icUGmle Duke and Earl of Limbourg,md Duke of Lorraine. Laftly, others (which 
 5 '/.;¥'o have followed the Error of Richard of Fajfebourgz Modem Hiftorian ) are 
 of Opinion that William was his Father, who was called Baron of foinviHe, 
 whom they make to be Governor of Lorraine in the abfence of his Father 
 the great Godfrey of Bullion eledled King of ferufalem. 
 
 But all thefe Opinions, and Imaginary defeents , have been worthily re- 
 futed by Theodore Godefroy Advocate in the Court of Parliament of Pans, in 
 a Treatife which he hath publiflied of the Original of the Kings of P OR* 
 TUGAL; having firft revived this Opinion, and clearly juftified by 
 proofs and undeniable reafons , that they are defeended in Line Mafculine 
 from the Royal Houfe of F R A N C E by this HENRY the chief of his 
 Branch. 
 
 And he groundeth principally upon the Authority of the Fragment 
 (which yet remaioeth)of an old Latin Hiftory of France,which beginsatthe 
 deceafe of King Robert , and is continued to the Reign of Philip the firft ; 
 
 An Hiftory compofed by a Monk of the Abbey of Saint BenediH Lez,Fleury 
 upon the Loir in the Diocefs of Orleancc, who lived in the time of the fame 
 HENRY; This Fragment (with other Hiftorians) hath been publifhed 
 at the end of the laft Age by the Learned Peter Pithou. 
 
 Note here the terms of this Ancient Author which hath been tranflated : 
 mp. i Our defign is not here to mention how many times the King Andefonfe (he is cal- 
 4 Roberto led alfo Alphonfo the VI. King of Caftille and Leon) generou fly behaved him- 
 ■-d Philipp. I. jiff againjl the Sarazins , nor the number of the Battels in which he hath van- 
 quifhed them. It's he which wrefied from them , and [ubjeffed to his Empire 
 the ftrong City of Toledo. He efpoufed Conftance daughter e/Robert Duke 
 of Bourgongne, and had a daughter by her which he gave in marriage to Ray- 
 mond Count of Outre-Soane. As for his other daughter begotten out of mar- 
 riage , He ejfoufed her to FI E N R Y one of the fons of the fons of the fame 
 Luke of B O U RG ONGNE, and upon the Confines of Spain, oppofed then* 
 both againft the Agarenes. He nameth alfo the Infidels under wnofe yoke 
 Spain at that time mourned, and of which they poffefled a good part. 
 
 T his is the more to be credited, for that the Hiftorian who wrote it,was 
 co- temporary with the Prince of whom we fpeak, as may be gathered by o- 
 ther Paftages of his Hiftory. 
 
 sfo. Mdii&na. Several give unto H E N R Y the Title and Quality of Count of POR- 
 Ajimp. m. TUGAL, and agree in this Point,that he was eftablilhed Earl thereof in the 
 
 year One thoufand four f core and ten, by the King of Caftille his Father in Law, toyo. 
 who gave him this County in Dower , in hope (as this King did verily be- 
 lieve) he would war upon the Moors in Portugal, as Hugh the firft of the name 
 Duke of Bourgongne his elder brother had done in Arragon ; in which he was 
 not deceived •, for he ferved as a Rampire to check the courfe of thofe Bar- 
 barians. But it is otherwife to be prefumed, and that the fame Queen of Ca- 
 n, Gdf‘L fit He Conftance, who was Aunt by the Fathers fide of this HEN R Y , and 
 lived in the time of the marriage , might have contributed her recommenda- 
 tion for the attainment of this Province of Portugal in Dower : and Note 
 
 alfo 
 
 I. 
 
Years of 
 CHRIST. 
 
 io8p. 
 
 io$7. 
 
 HisDeathi 
 
 1112. 
 
 Count of PORTUGAL. 5 
 
 alfo that the Count of Outre- Soon , who efpoufed the other lawfully begot- 
 ten Daughter of the fame King, as we have faid , had in Marriage with her 
 only a fumme of money. 
 
 Godefroy is not only of this opinion, for it was alfo followed by ftaques 
 Auguflm de Thou Prefideht in the Court of Parliament,, in the Hiftory of 
 his time 5 by Prudencio de Sandoval Bilhop of Pampelona in Navarre, and 
 Hiftoriographer of Philip the III. King of Spain in the Hiftory of Ferdi- 
 nand I. and other Kings of C aft tile ; by Andrew du Chefne the Kings Geo- 
 grapher in the Hiftories of Bourgongne and Vergy •, as alfo by Antonio de 
 Fafconcellos a Portugues, of the Older of -fefus , and Reft or of the Uni- 
 vevfity of Evora, in the Latine Hiftory of the Kings of Portugal , which he 
 bath written in a moft elegant Stile. 
 
 This natural Daughter of King Alphenfo , and of Xitnena de Gufman 
 wifeof HENRY OF BO UR.G O N G N E, was named TERESA 
 OFCASTILLE. He left France in the Year One thoufand fourfeore 
 and nine, accompanied with a good number of Lords for the fuccour of the 
 King of C aft i lie, among which there are named feven Counts 5 the princi- 
 pal of which were Raymond the fon of William Count of Bourgongne, Ray- 
 mond of St. G tiles, and Touloufe, thisHENRY (who by miftake is fir- 
 named of Lorraine in the Hiftory ) Rotrou de Perche , and William Vifcount 
 of Melun-, they are allfaid to be at the fame Battel-, for which caufe fome 
 fuppofe it had the appellation of the Seven Counts : But the Hiftories of 
 Spain fpeak otherwife. 
 
 The Count HENRY Ordered the City of Conimbra for his principal 
 refidence and that of his Court; and the City of Braga for Metropolitane 
 of the other Churches. He vanquished and put to flight fome Moorifh 
 Kings at Fifco and Lamego , and feized alfo upon Lisbonne ( it hath fince 
 been the Capital City of the Kingdom) which not long after they recovered 
 again. 
 
 But this great Prince being impatient of repofe without honour (if we 
 credit fome Authors) undertook the Croffiade with Godfrey of Bullion and 
 other Princes for the recovery of the Holy Land, where he performed won- 
 ders. Being upon his return from this Voyage ( of which fome make a 
 doubt) he vigoroufly continued his War againft the c JMoors , nor did his 
 great age caufe him to difeontinue the performance of his Martial Affairs. 
 Andlaftly, he dyed at the Siege of the City of Afturia in the Year One 
 thousand one hundred and twelve ; being then aged about Threescore and 
 ten years , yet there be fome that extend the Courfe of his Life to a longer 
 period. He was inhumed in the Cathedral Church of the City of Braga, 
 which is one of the chief of the Kingdom of Portugal. In the Year one 
 thoufand five hundred and thirteen, Diego de Sw/a being then Bifliop (who 
 was defeended from Prince HENRY) caufed a Chappel to be built , in 
 which he repofed the bones of this Prince , and wrote an Epitaph, which 
 declared him to be Son of a King of Hungary. But Edward Nunez , a judi- 
 cious and learned perfon , hath with reafon refuted the error of this Origi- 
 nal. He often nameth TERESA, Queen, as being a Kings Daughter. 
 She deceafed about the Year one thoufand one hundred and thirty. Her bo- 
 dy liethnear unto that of her Husband Count HENRY- Although 
 the greater number of Writers give her the Qualification of a Natural 
 Daughter; there is an Authorof thisTime, famous, and well read in the 
 knowledge of the Portugal Antiquities, who affures us that in the Ancient 
 Chronicles in Manufcript, flie is called the Daughter of the Queen Ximena 
 
 B s de 
 
 Duarte Ami 
 eit cbm. dt's 
 Reis de Pin. 
 
 CbroniqueMsl 
 de S. Denys. 
 
 FaftmceUitis 
 An acephalteofi 
 
 Duarte Amerp 
 
 Fafmcelliiu. 
 
 Duarte Amc^. 
 
 In his Chrot 
 nick of Portll- 
 gal. 
 
 Aadr.Tfifatdi- 
 
 Anti- 
 
 HuitJ-ufit, 
 
♦ 
 
 HENRY of BOURGON GNE, &c. 
 
 de Gufman lawful Wife of King Alphonfo, and al- 
 fo Nunez and Vafoncelles feem to be of the fame 
 opinion, which is confirmed by the quality of 
 Ximena , who was defcended from one of the mod 
 Illuftrious Houfes of Spam. The Hiftory of Por- 
 tugal hath been written by feveral Authors , and 
 in' feveral Languages , among others , by Edward 
 Galvan ; Stephen Garihay-, the fame Nune\ or Noni- 
 us Leo , a Portugal Lawyer ; John de Maris ; John 
 de Barros ; Lopez, de Cajlagncda , Damiano deGoez, 
 
 T)om. Anton, dc Soufa denieth 
 that Terefa was a Baftard , and 
 alfo writeth that her younger 
 Sifter Uracca ufurped thcKing- 
 dom of CaftiOe agajnft her. 
 Thefe are his words ; 
 
 Tharafia mater Alphonfi primi 
 K r gis lit ft anise , flia cr.it Lcgi- 
 tima , & natn major Alphonft 
 6- Regis Leqionk & Caftellas 
 cumjj pater mortuus fuerit fine 
 filio mafculo, ut efi notnnum , ip- 
 fa ext abut h ceres Legitima Reg- 
 
 fter inter utramdf orta fmt 
 bella. Aopen-ad LuftuLib Cap. 
 4. A&io Prima. 
 
 the fame yafconcellos ; Hiero[me Francchi Cone flag - 
 gio •, Jofeph Texera , Theodore Godefroy , and 0- 
 thers , who have conjointly treated of the Hi- 
 dory of S P A I N E. 
 
 Children of HENRY OF BOURGONGNE 
 
 Count of PORTUGAL , and of TERESA OF 
 CAST1LLE his Wife. 
 
 2. A LPHONSO, Count, afterwards firft King of PORTUGAL 
 Jtx. continued the Pofterity. » 
 
 JJ«w$ 
 TtfconctUw. 
 
 3 . T TRACCA OF PORTUGAL, Wife to Veremond Paatz de Trava 
 VJL Count of TRASTEMARE. 
 
 i. 'T’ERESA, othersnameher SANCE OF PORTUGAL, married H « m«. 
 I to FERDINAND MENDEZ a Puiffant Lord in Gallici a. mge. 
 
 Natural Children of HENRY OF BOURGONGNE 
 fount of PORTUGAL. 
 
 a. T)ETER Baftard of PORTUGAL , made a Journey into France in 
 X the Year One theufand one hundred [even and forty and reported unto 1 147, 
 King Alphonfo his Brother , the Miracles performed by St. Bernard Abbot 
 of Clervaux. He incited this King to Found the rich Monaftry of Alcohace , 
 into which this PETER retired , and there paffed the reft of his dayes in 
 great humility, where he was alfo entombed. 
 
 ALPHONSO. 
 
Yean <f 
 Gkmsi. 
 
 III*. 
 
 Ib'sKnb. 
 
 *0P4^ 
 
 y 
 
 
 = ALPHONSO I. 
 
 U G A L; & argent a cisf 
 
 efctfoHs d’A- 
 ^ prefer is en 
 Croix , Chautft 
 charge de cin$ 
 befans d‘ argent 
 
 'Portugal , Henry 
 
 of Bourgongnc , ii fable, 
 and the Coun- 
 tefs T ere fa of Ca- p or.TU- 
 ftille his wife * fucceeaed this gal. 
 Prince their Son 5 and was 
 born at Cuimareans in the r<ity & 
 Month of ffuly , in the Year mauri- 
 One thou! and four [core and en N E 
 fourteen , who did more and ‘ v,,c ‘ 
 more augment the glory of p>#r< ^ 
 this Family. * /Hit a- a- 
 
 Being only Eighteen years He & fwvi 
 old at the death of his Father, dc l HtuilS! ’ 
 hewas,byfome of the P or- : 
 tugals, judged too young to 
 undergo and manage thofe 
 grand Wanes, begun as well 
 againft the Moors , as thofe of f , 
 
 Leon ; and therefore they en- 
 deavoured to marry Therefa 
 Widow of the defunft, to tne 
 Count of Traftamarc ; who 
 Upon this occafion fliould undertake the Government of Portugal. But 
 the young Prince ALPHONSO not fuffering it , oppofed him with 
 fo much courage , that having Vanquilhedthe Count, he was conftrained 
 towith-draw. And neverthelefs by the Agreement afterwards fetled be- 
 twixt them, hecaufed him to marry his Sifter Uracca of Portugal,, as we 
 have faid before , by which we may prefume , that the Marriage of Terefa 
 with the Count of T raflamare was only propofed. It’s true, which we add. 
 
 That ALPHONSO fo ill refented his intended Deprivation from the tr, gnier 
 Government, that it urged him to confine this Princefs to aPrifon,inwhich i‘»n. 1147. 
 fhefinilhed her life. Whereupon not long after began that cruel Wane 
 with Alphonfo VII. King of C a ft tile and Leon , hisCoufin-, from which 
 neverthelefs he ever came off with honour ; and, according to fome, woun- 
 ded this King in a Battel, put the flower of his Nobility to the Sword , to rtfcnuMi 
 the number of feven Earls that accompanied him , and took the Queen of 
 Caftille his wife prifener. Whom fome believe to be , ('as it’s probable fhe 
 was) the Motherof A L P H O N S O. 
 
 Afterwards the Count of Portugal dire&ed the courfe of his War againft 
 ifntar and four other Infidel Kings, whom he defeated at ourique in a pitch* 
 
 G ed 
 
sp an 
 
 ALPHONSO 7. King 0 / PORTUGAL. 
 
 The Arms of 
 Vartugal arc 
 •hanged. 
 
 2tu*% 
 
 Piquet. 
 
 Xibt.de Umt, 
 
 ed field, and alfo that Puiffant Army by them railed, Tome Hiftorian$ ¥ew*«f 
 write, that upon the day of battel our Lord JefusChnft appeared in the Cf * R!3T ' 
 Aire in that form he was Crucified, who bowing his body downward, and 
 carting his eyes on the ground , exprefied thefe words , ALP HONS 0 gthon 
 {halt overcome in this (ign 5 which carae to pals, for the five Saracen Kings 
 were kill’d upon the place, in memory of which fignalVidory , to the end 
 there mightremairr a perpetual mark thereof to Pefterity , ALPHONSO 
 changed the Azure-Croft, which he did before bear in a filver field (or his 
 Armes , into five Epoch eons alfo Azure , every one of them charged with 
 five fence of filver •, and this in commemoration of the thirty pieces of fil- 
 wr for which our Lord was fold by the fie tvs. In the fame Year of our 
 Salvation, One thou ftnd one hundred and nine and thirty, in purfuit of the II 5 ?. 
 fame Victory, thofe of the Army of ALPHONSO, acknowledged and fa- 
 luted him for King at Conimbra , leaving the name of Duke , which he had 
 before changed into that of Count. 
 
 In the mean time an Army 
 compofed of divers Nations, 
 viz. EnftLifi,V lemmings, Nor- 
 mans and Z«rM»»<w,being em- 
 barqued in England , and 
 bound for fieruftlem , to give 
 fuccour to the Chriftians un- 
 der the Condudtof William 
 Longefipe Duke of Normandy 
 ( ray Author meaneth Earl of 
 Salisbury) parted by thecoaft 114.7^ 
 of Spain, where making fome 
 ftay, at theinftance of King 
 ALPHONSO, theybefie- 
 ged and took the City of 
 
 J ad. F ovine. -Lib. 4.C. 1 8. Alphonfo Hcmique^ firft King of 
 VoYtugfttl , having conquered ’frosn the Monrs the City of E- 
 r vora Anno 1147. there placed a Garifon , or number of 
 brave-fpirited Knights to defend it 5 who made thcmfclves 
 know© under the name of Filiorv-Brcthrcn of St. Mary of 
 Ever a. 
 
 The fame King.Alphpnfe) Yiot long after gave them the 
 ftrong Caftle cC Avis , and thereforethe Knights of this 
 Order were called. Brethren Avis , who preferred the 
 memory thereof in their Armes, which they took thus. 
 
 D'or a la. Croix Fleur deli fee de Synirple ,- & en point e deux 
 Ofieaux ainfi. que desCorbeattx dc fable. 
 
 LcOrdende Avis tuuo fiftpr'incifto tit el anno de 1147. en 
 tempo del ReyDom Alonfo primer § Key du. Portugal, L'l intefe. 
 al prindpioU Cavallcrinde Ebera, porque tuuo fu Convent 0 
 en la Ciudad d’eftc dombre , Su primer Maeflre fellamo Dom 
 Ferdihando Monteiro ; defpues fueedio en el ■ Maefirado Dm 
 pern ami, Tamtei a qui el'Rei Dom Alonftr de Portugal dio cl 
 CkfliMo fc Avis anno j f£i. y fiends alii fans la. dado el Con- 
 'Wtttojrimerp , feUomo D£ Gfo por fegnal uni 
 
 Cruxcofflo lade Alcamardy ypor Armas la mifma Cru\ cn , 
 
 C'antpo d* Ope, y al piedellaxdos Avis ultras por alufion del LisboitftC which the MOOTS pof- 
 nomhre Ac A V I : S. Tjtus muchout of Dm Dmimc, < Go- f € fl~ e d . t h e Siege having COn- 
 ts ; Rader de Atpdrada and the Count of Lanfaretc , in • ■ , *» 0 1 
 
 bis Nobility of Andalusia. tinued five months 5 They 
 
 VaftencsUos. 
 
 lanyXawswhiChthcy w 
 
 juftly account their Fundamentals , as unalterable ashhbfe thlS'C.jty lfltf) the h^nds 
 of the Meads and Peifians, made Sacred by the obfervation power of -ALP HO NSOil 
 of tbem } both by Prince and People $ among which it was l . 1 n i* * 
 
 enaftedj Firft:, That the faidKing Alphonfo* s fon, Grand- he <lllo C.QB<^Uered frOfftthCfB 
 fon, and fp Forward, ftiould reign after him; for ever, Btic if- -the Cities of LciTiA 5 Saif 1 4- 
 the King have only daughters, the ddeft frould be.Quf&n Win* a Vlarna Una 
 
 after her fatherjupon condition flic be married toaNativeof j * MW* > 
 
 PDrf«gd/jand that he be a Noble-man 3 whofliall not takeup- Snd iever^l Other TOWRS 3Ild 
 •nhim the naine of aKing,uncilhchach a fon born,nor wear FoitreflcS , which make 3t 
 a C.rown on his head,, nor take the right-hand of his Wife. r , , c , 
 
 But the lafl daufe is rhoflto beconfidered, which my A&- pfClent tJlC OCtter p21t OI tfl# 
 thor hath faithfully tranferibed out of the faid Laws. Kingdom of Portugal 5 which 
 
 Sit-ilia lex in fempiteritum quod primFili a Regis aec'tpiat , l,_ ® -t . 1 * 
 
 maritum de Vortugale,ut non venidt Regnu ad Extraneos j &‘fi *J e Annexed tO the PlOVinCC 
 gafaverit c/tmPrihcipeextraneo,non fit Regina,: quia minqud iltUAte between the RivCCS <rf 
 
 stes&ssmnss&si& ¥#***9* 
 
 lurtmm, & cum faoguin* ftu. Of Tar jilt MOntCS , 48 alfo t 
 
 This Law was put in execution after the death of Cedi, part of Eflrcmddura ( where 
 
 nando the ^thKing of chat race; tmDomiBeatrice his daueh- i- ■ i T .V. i 
 
 ter being manriedto tytm the fitft of the name, King of Cn- Bragt,Cottttnbrt, VlfcOiiXSO. 
 pile a Forrein Frince, was excluded, and Jf ohn the firft King Other Cities) PlOvillCCS Wilich 
 4»f Perfwgeljthough iliegitimate,was advanced to the Throne, defoendcd tO him byfoCCefii- 
 
 «n from his Mother the Countefs Ter eft. Nov; 
 
Ye*r* of 
 t MR 1ST. 
 
 1 179 . 
 
 nSi. 
 
 HisDMth. 
 
 1 1 86. 
 
 His Mar 
 riage. 
 
 ii4«. 
 
 1178. 
 
 ALPHONSO I. Kingof PORTUGAL. 7 
 
 Now fell out the difpute betwixt Ferdinando King of Cafiille and Leon, 
 and his Father-in-law King ALPHONSO, about the City of Badg- 
 es , which the Caftillian urged belonged unto him, as being enterptifed 
 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 Cafiille his Enemy , but afterward a peace being concluded betwixt 
 them , the Portugues remitted unto Ferdinand part of the Province of 
 Galicia. 
 
 His fuccefs was more propitious in the Enterprife he undertook againft rafcmnlUQ 
 Alhoiac King of Seville , whom healfofubdued, and after the Vidtory obtain- 
 ed , inftituted a Military Order , called, of the Eagle 5 The device was 
 An Eafle Purple enfermed within a Circle Or. 
 
 After all thefe Warres ALPHONSO had attained to a very great 
 age, neverthelefs he ceafed not to exercife himfelf in his Martial affairs, 
 with his Valiant Son, who feconded him in his high and generous Enter- 
 prifes. 
 
 But that hindr-ednot his inclination to Piety, and the eredlion of feveral 
 Churches and Monafteries, among others he Founded that of St. Croix at 
 Conimbra , which be fo richly endowed, and with fo ftupendious a revenue , Id:n * 
 that the famous IMverfity of. this City hatha fenfible apprehenfion there- 
 of, and that it isatthis day themoft Famous and Flourifhing of all Spaine. 
 ALPHONSO alfo Founded the Monafteries of St, Bernard of Alco- 
 hace, and of St. Vincent near Ltshonne , in the fame place where he en- 
 camped at the Siege thereof. In fhort , the Portugal Hiftorians give him 
 the reputation of Having Built and Founded an hundred and fifty Churches 
 and Religious Houfes. 
 
 In fine, this great Prince being aged Fourfcore and eleven years, andaf- Hunt® 
 ter he had Reigned Six and forty, departed out of this life into a better, in 
 the fame City of Conimbra, theNinthdayof December , in the Year One 
 thou [and one hundred fourfcore and fix , ( and not two years before, as fome 
 believe) and lieth in this Church of St. Croix. King Emanuel, one of his 
 aioft Illuftrious Succeffors , ere&ed for him (a long time after ) a moft Mag- 
 nificent TomN 
 
 There aredivets opinions among Authors, about the Houfefrom which nu>u$ 
 
 Queen MAUD wife of ALP H © N S O did defeend , whom he mar- «. 
 
 riedin the Year One thoufand one hundred and fix and forty ( and not two °. * ^ 
 
 years before, as fome are of opinion. ) 'For thofe which write the Hiftory of m, ‘ x 
 Portugal and Savof, fay that fhe was Daughter of Amides the fecona of Eafcmetllu. 
 the name, Count of Savoy (ox Uaurienne , and of Maud Daughter of the 
 Count of Alien ( they would fay viennok ) his fecond Wife. But Hie- i„ the Hill. «f 
 rofme Surita writes ? that (be was Sifter of Prffr, Count of Lara and Moli- Arrays 
 pa , ami Daughter of Henry, Count of Lara , and of Ermtnfinda Vicoun- 
 tefsof Narhonnay Ah opinion which is reproved by Nunez. And neverthe- 
 lefs it may -be that he married both the one, and the other; certain it is, that 
 Queen CMaud dyed in Anno One thoufand one hundred three [core and eigh- 
 teen , and was interred with her Husband. 
 
 wbiOsfh jdr.hiT < , Children 
 
 brr: <■; Y: ;:''.l to hnj 3 : JSSB t ■ lO.tiljfj JinpStti 1 (1 tido*»bUU 
 
S ALPHONSO J. 0/ PORTUGAL. 
 
 Children of ALPHONSO I. KING OF PORTUGAL, 
 and of MAUD OF SAVOY bis Wife. 
 
 ?. TTENRY PRINCE OF PORTUGAL dyed young , There is men- 
 JL I .tion made of him in a Letter which the King his Father wrote to St. 
 Bernard, Abbot of clerveaux in Bourgongne, 
 
 3- C ANCEO firft of the name, fucceeded his Father, and was King of 
 O Portugal. 
 
 Years 
 
 Christ. 
 
 V RACCA OF PORTUGAL, Queen of LEON, was married un- Her Ms* 
 to Ferdinand II. of the name. King of LEON and Galicia-, And na “ e ' 
 notwithftanding (he had a fon by him which carried the name of Jlphonfo , 
 
 Leon. 
 
 D’argm auly- 
 bh de pwpre. 
 
 Portugal, and was King of Leon after his Father, yet this Marriage was diffolved by 
 ctmmejie. thePope, becaufeof the proximity of blood betwixt them. 
 
 3- 
 
 Flanders'. 
 
 T) 'or *u lyon de 
 fable. 
 
 Tarty de 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 J* geft. Philippi 
 
 Ma'ir. 
 Miftory of 
 
 Tlatders. 
 
 Em.Sucyro. 
 
 Mm. 
 
 ERESA -OF PORTUGAL, Countefs of FLANDERS, whom 
 the Flemmijh Hiftorians call MAUD , and this name was given her 
 when in the Year One thoujand one hundred four fore and four , fhewas e- 
 fpoufed to Philip of Al[ace Count of Flanders , who dyed at the Siege of 
 Ftolemau or Acre in Syria , in the War againft the Infidels in the Year One 
 theufand one hundred and nintyone. During his abfence the Queen Coun- 
 tefs MAUD ( for fo is (lie called by Rigord and other Hiftorians, as being 
 the Daughter of a King, and the Wife of a Count) did with great pru- 
 dence govern his Eftates and Seigneuries. 
 
 After the death of Philip, ihe was re-married ( and was firft wife ) un- 
 to Eudes III. Duke of Bourgongne, but was divorced by the Authority of 
 the Church. TERESA lived toa great age, and afterwards dyed the fixth 
 dayof , inthe Year oneihoufand two hundred and eighteen, byanac- 
 ciderjt that hapned unto her near the City of Fumes. For her Coach Tai- 
 ling into a Fenne, ihe could not be drawn out until (he expired , fince which 
 time this place hath been called , The Queens Ditch. Her body was firft 
 inhumedjin the Monaftery of Dunes, and afterward removed to the Abbey 
 oi.Clervaux -, It’s probable it was fo ordered , becaufe ihe was iffued from 
 the Ancient Dukes of Burgundy by the King her Father. This PrinCefs is 
 much commended for her great Courage and Prudence), ihe made Adam, 
 Biihqp of T mrokinne the Executor of her laft Will and Teftament. She 
 alfq had the happinCfs to fee her Nephew Ferdinand of Portugal eftabliihed 
 in the Qounty or Flanders. . 
 
 Some write , that the eldeft Daughter of King ALPHONSO , was 
 Maud, who efpoufed Raymond the fon of Raymond , Count of Barcelona , 
 but the more judicious are of opinion, that this alliance is not creditable. . 
 
 Her Mas- 
 riage. 
 
 U84,’ 
 
 IIPI. 
 
 Her I . 
 Death*' 
 
 uiSj 
 
 ytftwceUim. 
 
 Bafiard Children of ALPHONSO firft of the natne t 
 King of PORTUGAL. 
 
 ?. A LPHONSO OF PORTUGAL, Knight of the Order of St. ?eh* 
 ,m - lx of Hicrufalem zi Rhodes, a man Couragious , witnefs feveral high en- 
 terprifes he undertook : but he quit this Order near the end of his life, and 
 
 returned 
 
S A N C E O I- of the name, &cc. 
 
 9 
 
 years of returned into Portugal, where he dyed in the Y ear one thoufand tm hundred 
 Chm st. j tven ^ f ome by miftake, name him Pedro Alphonfo. 
 
 H 'TERESA OF PORTUGAL, marriedunto SANCEO NUNEZ, 
 1 by whom he had iflue Uracca Sancez, marriedunto Goncalo de Sou fdy 
 created by King Sanceo the firft Count of MENDEZ, and from him is 
 defcendedtheJlluftriousFamilieof SOUSA in Portugal, 
 
 
 3 SANCEO I. 
 
 Of the Name, King of PORTUGAL. 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 Comme cy de- 
 nsnt. 
 
 CHAP. III. 
 
 Magnanimous i r or a quatre 
 King ? this his pal’s de 
 Son and Succef- fcj * 
 
 for did not degenerate; For 
 ( in the Judgement of many) 
 he feemed to be equal in Pie- 
 God , in Prudence 
 lity inthemanage- 
 > Eftate,and in Mar- 
 ffe , of which he 
 
 for did no 
 ( in the Juc 
 he feemed 
 
 gave a fufficient proof at the 
 famous Combat of Seville , 
 againft the Sara&ens, of whom 
 there fell fo great a number, 
 that the River of Bet is was for 
 fome fpace of time made red, 
 and tindfured with their Blood. 
 
 He took his firft Breath at nmu^: 
 
 His Birth! 
 
 IX54- 
 
 Conimhrit the Eleventh day 
 of November , in the Year 
 
 ‘ ff 1 One thousand one hundred and 
 
 four and fifty. 
 
 Before he came to the Crown , two Mahumetane Princes having befieged 
 the City of Badaios, he came to the relief thereof fo opportunely, that he 
 raifed the Siege, and afterwards gained a memorable V idtory . He perfor- y a fcmcUos. 
 med feveral other Noble adventures. But moft miraculous was that Tro- 
 phie he obtained upon the Puiftant King of Marocco , Miramolin. For nei- 
 ther the affiftance of thirteen other Kings, wherewith he was accompanied , 
 nor the infinite number of Sara&ens his followers , (and who had befieged 
 SANCEO in Scalube,) could hinder him the gaining a Victory upon 
 
 D 
 
ldtm. 
 
 Hiftory of 
 Handers. 
 
 VafmceWus. 
 
 Vafmtc U'w, 
 
 that f^-1 
 
 Sitritt- 
 
 VafctmUhs. 
 
 
 10 S A N C E O 1 . of the time, 
 
 fo many Enemies conjured totheRuine of him, and alfo of his Houfe. Years 
 
 Aftetfo many Warres, obferving Portugal to be aim oft Defert , and CHI ' :ST ' 
 the Land unmanured ; He favoured fo much labouring men , and rendred 
 himfelf fo great a Proficient in the Knowledge of Agriculture , that he was 
 ordinarily called THE L A B O U R E R , as if he had been the whole 
 courfe of his life exercifed in this Employment ; although indeed he was in- 
 tirely born a fon of Mars. A great lover he was of Architecture, and took 
 the care to re-build feveral Cities and Caftles ruined by thofe Warres. 
 
 It fell out, that a Fleet of Ships compofed of Dunes, Frsjons, and Hoi- Ii 8 y. 
 landers, having put to Sea ("as at other times) bound for the Holy Land to 
 Warre upon the Infidels , were by foul weather driven into the Port of Lip- 
 bonne ; And then S ANCEO taking this opportunity ( as his father had 
 done before him ) fo ordered it , that they aflifted him in the Redudiion of 
 the City of Silva in the Kingdom of the Alga/bies , a place at that time 
 mod flourilhing,and ftrongly Fortified ; which hath fince been made the 
 Metropolis of that Kingdom. 
 
 But as the Time and the A flairs of the World are often crofied by fini- 
 fter events, ithapned that another Miramolin, alfo King of Morocco, came 
 and afiaulted Portugal , committing feveral Ravages and Spoyles, and there 
 leaving the marks of a mod fad defolation , unfortunately followed with 
 Rain and Inundations, then with, extream Drouths, Famine, and other 
 contagious difeafes , which fwept away fo great a number of people, that 
 Portugal was reduced to a miferable eftate for the fpace of eight or ten 
 years: So that the Moors took advantage by thefe calamities to feizeupon 
 feveral Cities and places. Accidents which caufed King S A N C E O to 
 contrad a League with them for the fpace of five years, during which time 
 there fell out another Warre betwixt him and the King of Leon, all which 
 mif-fortunes hindred his Voyage beyond Sea , which he had refolved againft 
 the Infidels ; having only fent to the opprefled Chriftians fome pieces of 
 Money. This League being ended, the Sarazens began again their in- 
 curfions. 
 
 The laft memorable Adion of War performed by King S A N GEO, 1 200. 1 
 was the Prife of the City of Elva from the Moors , which they had pofief- 
 fed a long time , and not long after he dyed in the Year One thousand two Hi5Deat! fi 
 hundred and twelve, being aged eight and fifty years , and having Reigned I2I2 ‘ 
 feven and twenty. He was interred in the Church of St. Croix , where 
 King Emanuel raifed a T omb for him like unto that of his father. He left 
 behind him great Treafure, and remarkable fummes of money, of which 
 (by hisTeftament, which he had made two years before his death) he di- 
 fpofed for Legacies to his Children, and feveral Churches. 
 
 In the Year One thoufand one hundred fourfcore and one , the fame 
 King S A N C E O was conjoyned in Marriage with DOULCE, or His Mar- 
 ALDONSE OF ARR.AGON, daughter of Raymond Rtrenga- ria ? c - 
 r'tut , Earl of Barcelona, and of Perrenella daughter and Heir of Raymer II ^ 1 * 
 King of An agon. The which Queen DOULCE dyed in the Year one nog. 
 
 thoufand one hundred fourfcore and eighteen. After her Death the King her 
 Husband fuffered himfelf to be transported to unlawful Loves, and had feve- 
 ral Baftards. Which incontinence did fomewhat edips the luftre of thofe 
 Virtues with which he was adorned. 
 
 Children 
 
Years of 
 Christ. 
 
 4. 
 
 4. 
 
 His Birth. 
 
 1 18<5. 
 
 His Marri- 
 age. 
 
 I2II, 
 
 1214. 
 
 King of PORTUGAL. u 
 
 Children of SANCEO I. King of P OR T II G AL , and 
 of DOULCE OF ARRAGGN his Wife . 
 
 A LPHONSO II. King of PORTUGAL, fucceeded his father 
 King S anceo. 
 
 F erdinand of Portugal count of flan- tortugai. 
 
 D E R S , born in the Year One thousand one hundred four [core and M [ ctrtlSe dc 
 fix. The Queen Terefa , called Maud of Portugal Countefsof Flanders his fl ANDRES. 
 Aunt by the Fathers fide, procured his Marriage with J A N E Countefs 
 of FLANDERS, eldeft Daughter and Co-heir of Count Baldwin , r mfmfc 
 who was alfo Emperourof Constantinople 5 In the right of which Marriage A 4 *- 
 
 contradedin the Year One thoufand two hundred and eleven , the Prince _ 
 
 FERDINAND ftiled himfelf Count of Flanders ; This Marriage Portugal,: 
 was made alfo at the inftanceand perfwafion of Philip Auguftus King of Party to 
 
 France , fuppofing thereby to make a Friend of this Prince , who promi- FL ANDRE, 
 fed to remit and render into the poflelfion of Lewis Count of Artois , the 
 Kings eldeft Son, the Towns of Aire and St. Omer. Rut FERDI- 
 NAND being in pofteffionof the County of Flanders , it repented him , 
 that his promifes fhould deprive him of the right which he pretended to have 
 to thofe Towns that he had quitted ; T his caufed him to be more eafily in- 
 duced by the Princes and Barons of his Countrey to alienate himfelf from 
 theaffedionof the King of France , and to adhere to the pernitious defigns 
 of his enemies. 
 
 So it was , that this Great Monarch having put to Sea with a confidera- 
 ble force to pafs into England, all the Princes and Barons of France fhewed 
 themfelves ready and willing to accompany him, except the Count of Flan- 
 ders, who freely declared, that he would not move, except the King would 
 firft reftore to him the Towns he had from him. And although he had re- 
 compence offered him for the fame T owns , yet he returned home with the 
 demonftration of ill-will againft France, l' lis caufed the King (who would ^ ^ 
 not fuffer fo raili a boldnefs from his Vaffal , ) tofetSail ftreight for Flan- g. Britain 
 ders with that Army he had prepared for England , and had fo happy fuccefs pfe, 'Pf I - 
 inthisAdion, astofubdue theCount to his obedience , andinafmalltime 
 to gain a notable Vidory upon his Army. By this means the Cities of Caf- 
 fel, Tpre, Bruges , and Gaunt, and the reft of Flanders was reduced in- 
 to the hands of the King , where he left his Garifons, But he had no 
 fooner turned his back > but the Count FERDINAND re-entred 
 withafreih Army, at the fight of which all the fame Cities were again 
 furrendred. 
 
 Sometime after , the Flemmings continuing in their difaffedion, refol- Mejer. • 
 ved to revenge themfelves upon the King , and to that purpofe joyned their Mmbaxt; 
 power with the Emperour Otho IF. King John of England , and other 
 Princes, enemies of the fame King Philip But at their Rencounter, which 
 was near unto Bottines , the French behaved themfelves with fo much refo- 
 lution, that they carried a glorious Vidory, by fo much the more fignal, 
 becaufe feveral Princes and Grandees were there made Prifoqers, among o- 
 thers this Count of Flanders , 1 who was conduded to the C aftie of the Louure 
 at Paris, in T riumph, and had the unhappinefs to fee the Parifians rejoyce at 
 his mif-fortun«i and at his arrival to entertain him with {corn and dirifion. 
 
 Ct He 
 
u 
 
 Hiftory of 
 Trance. 
 
 
 Years of 
 C h R I ST. 
 
 1227. 
 
 SANCEO L of the name. 
 
 He was a Prifoner until the beginning of the Year One thou [and two hun- 
 dred [even and twenty, when Queen Blanch of Caflille his Coiizin, and Mo- 
 ther of St. LEWIS ( having for that purpofe madeufe of alloccalions 
 that prefented themfelves during her Regency ) reftored him to his liberty, 
 and fent him back into his own Countrey, with intention to oolige him 
 hers, in oppofition to the Revolted Princes. So that thole Authors mii- 
 apprehend, who have written that FERDINAND dyed a Prifoner. H; s dca;l 
 For fix years after his releafe, his death hapned in the City of Noyon, ,mthe 
 Year One thou [and two hundred thirty and three , being feven and ioity 
 years old , his body was depofited at Marquettes near unto the City of Life, 
 an Abbey of Monks of the Gifiertian Order , and his heart intombed in the 
 Church of our Lady in the fame City of Life , where you may read this 
 Epitaph. 
 
 FERNANDI proavos Hi(fania,Flandria Corpus, 
 
 Cor cum viceribus continet ijle locus. 
 
 Mejer. . The Countefs JANE of FLANDERS his Widow efpoufed for , 
 
 Mmbtntm. | ie r fecond Husband , in the Year One thoufand two hundred two and thir- I 2 3 2 * 
 rZmm. ty , Thomas fecond of the name , Count of Maurienne and Piedmont , fon 
 of Thomas Count of Savoye, which Thomas in the right of the Princefshis 
 Wife , ufed alfo the Title and appellation of Earl of Plunders and He- 
 vault. _ 
 
 She finilhed her dayes in the Year One thoufand two hundred four and I 2 44> 
 forty, having Founded feveral Hofpitals , Churches and Religious Houfes 
 in the Cities of Bruges , Gaunt, If re , and Life, the Church of the Be- 
 gumees in the fame City of Bruges , the Abbey of Marquettes above-menti- 
 oned, and the Cordileires and focobims at yalenciermes , which are fo many 
 famous Monuments of her Piety. 
 
 Daughters of FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL^ 
 Wo/ JANE, COUNTESSE OF 
 FLANDERS, hkWife. 
 
 5 . MARY OF FLANDERS was promifed to Robert , 
 in'fbeatro Ce. Count of Artois , whom file never married. Hierofme Henninges is 
 
 »«/«?. miftaken, faying, That jhe was married to Thomas of Savoye fon 
 
 of Count Thomas. For it was fane her Mother , as we have before 
 expreffed. 
 
 beaujeu- 
 
 Z> V au lyon de 
 fable? au lambel 
 de mules de 
 iron pieces. 
 
 "Party de 
 FLANDRE 
 qui eft de mef- 
 7ne fans le 
 Lambil . 
 
 5 , SIBILLE OF FLANDERS, whofe Husband was 
 Guiccard III. of the name , Lord of Beatijeu , as writeth Claud 
 Paradine in his Genealogical Alliances , who reports, That there is 
 mention made of her in the Records of the church of Btaujolois 9 ad- c Ml1 ' 
 ding alfo , That jhe dyed in the Tear One thoufand two hundred fix g 
 and twenty. But this Guiccard being deceafed Ten years before, as Death, 
 
 the fame Author notes 5 it’s not to be credited, that he hadChil- 1226, 
 dren by S I B I L L E , as he would perfwade us, that he had three-. 
 
 For the Marriage of Perdinando father of the Princefs , was Con- 
 fummatedbut five years before the deceafe of Guiccard, and SI- 
 
 BILLE 
 
King of PORTUGAL. 
 
 Years of 
 CHRIST. 
 
 B 1 LLE was at that time too young. Indeed Andrew de chefne 
 feemsto doubt whether fhe were the Daughter of Ferdinand , faying. 
 That ;/ ]hc was of the Houje of Flanders, jhe might he Sifier of Philip 
 of Alface Count of Flanders. 
 
 Here follow the Children ofSANCEO L 
 
 King of PORTUGAL. 
 
 lETER OF PORTUGAL, KingofMAjOR G A, and 
 Count of Urge l , was born in the Year One thoufand one hundred four- Majorca. 
 
 1187. f core and [even, being come to age , whether it were for the difpleafure ngmcUe , 
 that hapned between him and the King of Portugal Alphonfo II. his elder a* 1. & 4. 
 Brother, or the defire he had to Travel, and to profit himfelf by the con- ffff 
 verfationof ftrangers,is not certainly known ; but depart the Kingdom he I’Efcti hrtfe 
 did, and was fometime in the Court of the Miramolin King of Morocco. 
 
 From thence he took his journey into An agon , where he cfpoufed A- jffffl. 
 
 His Marti- rem hurga Gountefsot Urgel , a rich Heirefs, in whofe right he was Lord Portugal 
 
 ag '' and Count of Urgel , and other rich Seigneuries. She dyed without iffue — — 
 
 ’ in the life-time of her Husband , and for teftimony of the conjugal love fire Majorca" 
 did bear to this Prince, lhe gave him her County , with the right fire had njt amUe «fe 
 in the City of Faledolit , and in fome other Lordfhips fire poffeffed in the u R G E u 
 Kingdom of Galicia . But becaufe that Ponce de Cervera pretended to the 
 County of Urgel, and thofe other Seigneuries, PETER parted with 
 them all to his Coufin fames King of An agon , Sirnamed the Conque- Zmain 
 rour, Son of King Peter , who had received him with affediion , andalfoin hisHift. of 
 recompence gave him fome Lands in An agon for his Portion and lawful Ap- Ana l on ‘ 
 pennage , which appertained unto him in the right of his Mother the Queen 
 of Portugal Doulce of Arragon. 
 
 Now , fames having a defire to appropriate to himfelf this County of 
 Urgel , came to a Treaty with Prince PETER OF PORTUGAL, 
 by which he made it over to this King of Arragon , with the other Lands in 
 Galicia , and in exchange this King gave him the Kingdom and Ifle of Ma- 
 jorca , and the others adjacent. But the Moors of this Countrey having 
 rebelled, and King P ET ER obferving that the King of Tunes was pre- Nun’-, 
 paring a powerful Army for their affiftance againft him , and finding himfelf 
 not capable to refill them , made another exchange with the King of Arra- a h cmuUm \ 
 
 f on For he having returned him the Kingdom of Majorca , fames remitted 
 im the Cities and Places of Segorhia, Morelia, and others. 
 
 HisDeitfc. T he fame Prince PETER gave affiftance to William Mongriu Arch- Hiftory of 
 
 1135. Bifhop of Saragoca , with which he fubdued the Ifle of fuica or Ebufe , l ’ ar “‘L‘ , h 
 in the Year One thoujand two hundred five and thirty , about which time hfc 
 likewife dyed. 
 
 ENRY OF PORTUGAL came into the World in the 
 
 His 
 Birth . 
 
 His ^ n Year One thoufand one hundred fourf core and nine , and died young 
 Birth. in the life-time of KingSanceoI. his Father. He lieth in the Abbey of St, 
 1 189. Croix ztConimhra, in the Sepulchre of his Fathers. 
 
 T eresa of Portugal, Queen of leon, was 
 
 married unto ALPHONSO King of L E O N her Coufin , 
 
 E Son 
 
 Son 
 
LEON. 
 
 D’ urgent auty- 
 on dc pourpre. 
 
 Party dc 
 
 PORTUGAL. 
 
 $o. Mariana de 
 leb. Hify' 
 
 VafcmtUiits. 
 
 4 . 
 
 CAST1LLE 
 
 Vegueules a m 
 cb aft can d’or. 
 Party de 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 Nune^. 
 
 Mariana, 
 
 4. 
 
 4 * 
 
 4 - 
 
 V a honceUins. 
 
 15 SANCEO /• of the name , 
 
 Son of King Ferdimndo II. which Marriage was Confummated without 
 Difpenfation. 
 
 After the accomplilhment of which, there fucceeded in Portugal ievQ'al 
 evils and mif- fortunes , the Plague, Famine , and T empefts 5 Calamities 
 which were attributed to this unlawlul Marriage , of which Pope Celeftwe 
 III, being informed, fent into Portugal, Wttluim Cardinal of St. Angelo 
 his Legate, who caufed the Prelates of this Kingdom , and thofeof Leon, 
 to meet at Salamanca, and there was refolved the Divorce and Diflolucion 
 of this Marriage ; which was done although they had three Children ; one 
 Son named Ferdinand , who died young, and two Daughters. 
 
 After this Diflolution the Princefs TERESA refolved toforfakethe 
 World, and to incloyfter her felf in the Nunnery of Lortto.no, which (he 
 reftored and enlarged with great Revenues. She there moft Pioufly pafled 
 the reft of herdayes, and in the reputation of great Holinefs. Alfo her 
 Tomb having been opened in the Year One thoufand fix hundred and fe- 161*1. 
 •venteen , by the Command of the King of Spain, Philip III. her body was 
 found entire, and her face fo ruddy, as if the Princefs had been alive , or had 
 departed but fomefew houres before. 
 
 M aud of Portugal, Queen of cast ille, was 
 
 Wife of H E N R Y firft of the name. King of C A S T I L L E, c Mlr ‘ 
 eldeftSonof Alphonfo VIII. But they were alfo feparated , becaufe of ^ 
 their proximity of Blood, and that by the fentence of Momin Bifhop of 
 Burgos , and of Telles Bifhop of Palencia , whom the Pope Innocent III. 
 had delegated for the Cognizance and decifion of this feparation. Henry 
 Reigned but a flaort time, and died by thehurtof aTile, which, ashewas 
 playing with fome Lords of his Court, fell with Violence upon his head, in 
 the Year One thoufand two hundred and fevemeen. And deceafing with- 111 7 - 
 out Children, hisCoufin Ferdinand III. fucceeded him in the Kingdom 
 of Cafii/le. After the Diflolution of this Marriage with Henry , the Prin- 
 cefs MAUD retired into the Monaftery of Arouce in her Countrey of 
 Portugal , which (he Founded , and is there interred. If (he deceafed the uazK 
 fecond day of May, in the Y ear One thoufand two hundred fourfeore and ten 1290 
 as wriceth Vafconcellos, (lie attained unto a very great age. 
 
 S ANCE OF PORTUGAL would never marry , but took up- 
 on her Religious Orders , and was Abbefs of Corvano. She Founded 
 the Monaftery of the Order of St. Francis at Alanquer Land which (he 
 had for her Portion.or appennage -,'Her body was enfepultured in the Church 
 of the fame place of Lorvano. 
 
 B LANCHE OF PORTUGAL, Lady of GMalmra in Ca- 
 
 flille , died in that Kingdom, her body was afterwards conveyed into \%v 
 Portugal to St. Croix fie Conimbra. 
 
 L? ERENGARIA OF P d*R I UG A L alfo was never mar- 
 I J ned,and was educated with her Sifter the Queen Terefaf in the Abbey 
 of Lorvano-, (helieth interred alfo in the Tune place of St. Croix de Conim- 
 
 bra , with her Ahceftors. •" ' 
 
 \ 
 
 . -r :(• 
 
 Bajfards 
 
of 
 
 1ST. 
 
 King ^/PORTUGAL. 
 
 1J 
 
 Baftards of King SANCEO I. 
 
 4, MARTIN OF PORTUGAL, Countof Tri/lemare in Ga- 
 licia , and two other Counties , was a Knight full of Valour and Courage; 
 Being employed by the King of Leon in his Wanes , he twice defeated the 
 Armies of the King Alphonjo II. his Brother. He lieth at Cofins of the 
 Order of St .ffohn, in the place of Campos. He and his Sifter Uracca were 
 begotten upon Mary Ane\_ de t'ornedes. 
 
 4. uracca of Portugal: 
 
 4. RODERICK OF PORTUGAL died in a Battel difputed 
 near Porto , fighting for the P or tuques ; He is interred in the Monaftery of 
 Grio ; He and his Brother and Sifters, had for their Mother, Mary Panes 
 de Ribera. 
 
 4 GILLES SANCEO died , not having been parried. 1 
 
 TERESA SANCEZ OF PORTUGAL; was efpoufed 
 onto ALPHONSO TELLEZ the Aged, who built the City of 
 Albuquerque. 
 
 '4. CONSTANCE OF PORTUGAL Foundedthe Mona- 
 * fiery of St. Francis of Conimbra, upon the River of Mottda, Her body 
 eth near unto that of Sanceo I. her Father. 
 
 S * ALPHON- 
 
 Rmi. 
 
\ 6 
 
 ALPHONSO II. of the name, 
 
 Years of 
 Christ. 
 
 4 ALPHONSO II. 
 
 Of the Name, King of P O RT U G A L. 
 
 CHAP. IV. 
 
 His Birth. 
 
 Il85. 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 dinme cy it- 
 vant. 
 
 AtriK in the Year, One thou- 
 
 Age of Seven and twenty 
 years. 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 Party de 
 
 castille. 
 
 Deg iteitUes an 
 Cbtfietus d'cr. 
 
 Following the fteps of his 
 
 Anceftors, he behaved himfelf 
 
 Valiantly in feveral Conduits 
 againft the CMoors, By the af- 
 fiftance of a Naval Army con- 
 
 fiding of thofe of the Belgique 
 Nations, he recovered out of 
 the hands of the Infidels the 
 City of Alcafferede Sal-, which 
 
 was performed at the inftance 12x7 
 
 of AtoriiwBifhopof Lisbonne , 
 a man of an holy life. 
 
 VifctmUiHt. 
 
 In purfuance of which 
 
 ALPHONSO vanquifhed the Kings of Seville , and of Jean, who came 
 to lay Siege to the City of ffuica. 
 
 But if he was plaufable in his Military andpublick Affairs , he could not 
 avoid the reproach which Pofterity hath caff upon him in hisHiftory, in 
 what concerned his Domeftick , having ill treated his Brothers and Si- 
 fters, and his Brother-in- law the King of Leon , not fuffering them to en- 
 joy the portions and inheritance which belonged unto them , nor per- 
 forming the Teftaraent and laft Will oftheKitag their Father. Byreafonof 
 which there enfued great Divifions, until that the Pope, unto whom the 
 younger Princes made their recourfe , ufed his Cenfures and Interdictions 
 againft ALPHONSO, and conftrained him to fubmit to Arbitration 
 for the Determination of their Differences , and to undergo the Execution 
 of that Judgement which fliould be given. 
 
 He was tall of ftature, of afiaBle body, and fo corpulent, that his fub- 
 
 StfmctUiits. jedts firnamedhira. The Crof , which, it may be, (hortned his life ; for he 
 
 . lived 
 
King of PORTUGAL. 17 
 
 Hem of lived only Eight and forty years. And after he had Reigned One and 
 Christ. tvvent y years, he expired, Anne, One thousand two hundred three andthir- 
 HisDeich. t y ) as Edwardo Nunez , and Antonia Vafconcellos do note; and not in the 
 ,2 33’ year, One thoufand trvo hundred twenty and four , as others have written. 
 
 He was inhumed in a Chappel, which he Ordered to be made in the Ab- Mariana, 
 bey of Alcohace , near unto the Sepulchre of URACCA OF CA- 
 ST I L L E his Wife , Daughter of Alfhonfo VIII. others fay IX. of 
 that name. King of Caflille , and of Elianor of England bis Wife-, and 
 Sifter of Blanche of Bafltlle , Queen of France , Mother of the King St. tat- 
 LEWIS. Some years after George de Mello Abbot of the Monaftery, 
 caufed the Corps of King A L P H O N S O , and of the Queen his wife, 
 to be tranfported to the Chappel of St. Vincent. 
 
 5 . 
 
 Children o/ALPHONSO II. Kingof PORTUGAL, 
 and of URACCA OF CASTILLE, 
 his Wife. 
 
 S ANCEO II. of the name, Kingof PORTUGAL, whofeE- 
 logie followeth. 
 
 5 . A LPHONSO OF PORTUGAL III. ofthename, firft 
 ' Count of Bolongne in France, then King of Portugal, after his Elder 
 
 Brother; continued the Pofterity. 
 
 5. r; ER-DINAND OF PORTUGAL, called the Infant of 
 Jl S E R P E , becaufe he was Lord of this place in the Kingdom of Ca- 
 flille , efpoufed SAN C E-F ERNANDINE DE LARA, 
 Daughterof the Count Ferdinando de Lara. This Prince of SERPE 
 is intombed at Alcohace , and from them came one only Daughter, who 
 followeth. 
 
 PORtll- 
 
 GAL-SERPE 
 
 6 . 
 
 I2JI. 
 
 12 a p. 
 
 LEONOR OF PORTUGAL, who is faid to have been 
 married to a Prince Heir apparent to the Kingdom of DEN- 
 MARK; He was fas fome fay; VALDEMAR, Son of 
 another Valdemar fecond of the name, Kingof Denmark, who out- 
 lived his Son, deceafingintheYear, one thoufand two hundred one 
 and thirty ; The Father was alfo allied to this Houfe of Portugal , as 
 you (hall fee hereafter. Erf old Lindenhruch in hisHiftoryof the 
 Kings of Denmark, maketh mention of thefe two Marriages ; he 
 corrupteth the name of the Princefs LEONOR , whom he 
 callech Bormegera, adding alfo by miftake, That Jhe was Sifier of 
 the Count of Flanders. He notes her death to happen in the Year, 
 One thoufand two hundred and twenty. 
 
 5 . TTINCENT OF PO R TUG A L , fourth Son of King Al- 
 yl fhont 
 
 PORTU- 
 
 GAL-SERPE 
 
 Party de 
 LARA. 
 Gueulles a de* 
 ux chaudieres 
 d’or tune fur 
 l’ autre chaane 
 charm de trots 
 traits de fable 
 comber^ cn. 
 fac'y auccfept 
 Serpcntcaux 
 d’or fortant de 
 chaquc coftS deg 
 (tret lies dcs ari- 
 ccsytrois aide, 
 dans, quatre at 
 dehors. 
 
 Erpold Linden* 
 bruch in Hift. 
 Danice Rcgum : 
 
 fhonfo II. died young 
 
 5 . T EONOR OF PORTUGAL theirSifter, was (accordingto 
 ha Marri- I , fome Hiftoriansof Allmaine ,) third wife ot VALDEMAR II. 
 a e e - of that name. King of D E N M A R K ~-.it.... 
 
 1241. 
 
 Denmark. 
 
 ”7 _ . D’or a t'rois 
 
 who died m the Year, one thou* Leopards d’a. 
 F [and \ure cmo'ui'f. 
 
 s 
 
1 8 S A N C E O IT. of the name , 
 
 itme.; & um- fad two hundred and forty one. Hierofme Hmrnngcs reports her to be Si- 
 k[7cfc/fcme' ^ er °f Eerdinando of Portugal Count of Flanders •, but it may be that he 
 di durl Mjji meaneth Lord of Serpe. He addeth that (lie had by this Vanijh Prince fe- 
 tkgueuUts. ven Sons , and three Daughters; three of which Sons , viz. Eric VII. 
 
 pmy de chrifiopher I. and Abel, Were fuccefllvely Kings of Denmark. From chrt- 
 rORTuGAL faher , defcended Eric VIII. Father of Eric IX. and of Chrifiopher It. 
 
 all alfo Kings of Denmark. Valaemar IV. Son of this laft King, was Father 
 of Margaret Queen of the Potent Kingdoms of Denmark fimdenfxa&Norwey. 
 
 Natural Sons of K ing ALPHON SO II. 
 
 j. JOHN-ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL, finiihed his 
 dayes in the Year of our Salvation , one thou fad two hundred fare and 
 thirty , andlieth in the Monaftery of Alcobace. 
 
 Thofe that have written, that this King ALPHONSO II. had 
 another Natural Son , named Martin- ssflpbonfo , are miftaken , for he was 
 Son of King Alphonfo ill. as fliall appear hereafter in his place. 
 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 D' argent au 
 ihq Efcuffotts 
 d’Axjtre, cba- 
 tun charge de 
 eittq befaits d* { 
 urgent. 
 
 5- SANCEO II. 
 
 Of the Name, King of PORTUGAL, 
 CHAP. V. 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 Tarty de 
 HARO. 
 
 D’ argent ti‘ 
 Abre de gra- 
 wcadtSyucple, 
 « deux Leaps 
 de fable tra- 
 licrfe\ au pied 
 de cef Abre, 
 tefia dire I’m 
 devout, & lau- 
 tre d’erricrc l’ 
 Abre , lOfuiSe 
 elt pure ces 
 deux leaps a 
 tOrle He 
 gueulles charge 
 de fept Creix 
 n falttir d’tr, 
 
 Mong the Children 
 of Alphonfo II. 
 an <f of Uracca of 
 
 Prince who came 
 into the World in the Year, 
 One thou fad two hundred and 
 ( even , the Eighth day of Sep- 
 tember, wastheeldeft. 
 
 Who brought with him 
 from the womb fuch mortal in- 
 firmities , as made moil be- 
 lieve, he would fooner arrive 
 at the grave, than the Scepter, 
 the Queen his Mother having 
 tryed all humane remedies, ap- 
 plyedherfelf to Divine, ma- 
 king a Vow to God , that if he 
 lived paft his adolefcency, Ihe 
 would make him pafs the Hood 
 of Canons Regular of the Or- 
 der of St. Augufline, which Ihe 
 inviolably performed , and 
 from which habit this King 
 
 Years »f 
 Christ. 
 
 IJ33: 
 
 His 
 
 Birth* 
 
 I2C7.’ 
 
* 
 
 King o/PORTUQ^L. 19 
 
 years «£ was fimamed C A P E L L O. Alfo he appeared more apt and proper for 
 Christ. a rnonaftick and quiet life , than to the exercife of War, and the Govetti* 
 mentof his Kingdom , towhichhefucceededattheageof Six and twenty 
 years. 
 
 Alfo the queen of Cajtille Berettgaria, (hisCoufin ) who had the Go- 
 vernment of this Prince , obferving him to be of a weak Judgement , en- 
 deavoured to match him to feme Lady of an Illuftrious Houfe , that in de- 
 fed of her Husband , might be capable of the management of Rife affafts. 
 But fome Grandees of the Kingdom oppofed thisdefign, prevented her. 
 His Mar- and dandeftinely married him to S AN CE-MENT I E-LOPEZ 
 riagc. DE HARO, daughter of Viego-Lopez, de Haro , Lord of Bifcaj , and 
 of Uracca natural daughter of Alphonfi IX. King of Leon. After which 
 feveral of the Prelates having made Remonftrance to the Pope of the un- 
 lawfulnefs of the Marriage, which had been effected without the Difpenfa- 
 tionof the Holy See , which was required by reafon of' the proximity of 
 blood betwixt the parties , and for that the King alfo continued in the evil 
 Government of hisEftate, during which time feveral mifchiefs had been 
 committed, they fupplicatcd Pope Gregory IX. for a remedy. 
 
 Who fent therefore his Legate Apoftolick , the Bifhop of Sabine , into 
 Portugal, after whofe departure the oppreflion, diforders, and popular Se- 
 dition (till remained as before 5 thefe calamities caufed the Prelates and fome 
 of the Grandees to make their fecond application to Rome , at what time 
 Innocent IV. fate in the Holy Chair ; who Ordered (with a Salvo to the 
 Authority Royal , and the Children of King S A N C E O , if he fhould 
 have any ) that the Count of Bolongne,Alphonfo his younger Brother, fhould 
 take the Reins of the Government , and the adminiftration of affairs into 
 his hand as he did accordingly. 
 
 But SANCEO unwilling to quit his Kingdom and lawful inheri- 
 tance, made his recourfeforaffiftancetotheKingof Cajtille , who fent him 
 an Army, with which he entred the field, but with fo little fuccefs, that he 
 was forced to disband his Souldiers , and fecure himfelf by retiring to the 
 City of Toledo in Cafiille , from which time he addided himfelf wholly to 
 devotion and a private life , diftributing Alms to the poor of what he had 
 brought out of Portugal , living with great aufterity , and fupporting his 
 exile and other calamities , with an admired patience and conftancy. But 
 there were yet among his Subjects thofe who remained unfhaken in that du- 
 ty and fidelity which they had fworne , who made his re-eftablifhment 
 h- acth their endeavours; but their defign was interrupted by the news of his death 
 ii a 6 happening in the Year , One thoufand two hundred fix and fort y, in the 
 * * fame City of Toledo ; he lieth in the Cathedral Church, his body being in- 
 terred in a Sepulchre which he had prepared in his life-time. 
 
 Some Hiftorians, and among others Mariana in the thirteenth Book of 
 his Hiflory of Spain, extendeth his Life to fifty years, and his Reign to 
 three and thirty, John Vafce (nth fix and twenty, but they are both in an 
 errour, for Edward Httnez, hath made appear in his Chronicle of Portugal , 
 who tells us more certainly, thathelived only Nine and thirty years, and 
 Governed thirteen. And dying without iffue, he had for his Succeflor to 
 the Crown, his younger brother Prince Alphonfo , of whom we have fpo- 
 ken. 
 
 F z 
 
 
 ALPHON- 
 
Years of 
 
 PORTUGAL.' 
 
 Urgent a 
 liny Eftujfats 
 ftrit a Qreix 
 stature cbacua 
 ebargede exq 
 Be fans d * urgent 
 fife m faulteirx 
 a In bar dure de 
 gueuUes cbirgei 
 dedix CbaHe- 
 mix ei’er. 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 Ancina cam ms 
 ty devant,fans 
 U hrdne de 
 l ucuHas. 
 
 Tarty de 
 IOION- 
 GNE. 
 
 Vsr a trait 
 Terteaux de 
 
 incudes, a. t. 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 Can me n dc[- 
 fna , aujfefsltt 
 It bar dure. 
 
 Tarty de 
 CASTILLE. 
 
 20 A L P H O N S O 111 of the nmt t 
 
 c "“ 
 
 * ALPHONSO III. 
 
 Of the Namej King of P O 
 
 and the ALGARVE S. 
 
 ®» incudes a 
 •n Cbaftean 
 star. J 
 
 Year after this 1245. 
 Prince was efta- 
 blilhed Regent 
 of Portugal , he 
 afeended the 
 Throne by the deceafe ( with- 
 out iffue ) of his elder brother 
 King Sancee //. both fons of 
 King Alphonfo , alfo Second 
 of the name , and of Uracca 
 of CaSiille , being at that time 
 aged about Six and thirty 
 years. For he was born at H!s 
 Conimbra the Tenth day of 
 Flay, Anno, one thousand two iaio,' 
 hundred and ten. 
 
 The Queen of France , 
 
 Blanche of Caftille , his Aunt 
 by the Mothers fide, enter- 
 tained him in the Court of 
 her fonthe King St. Lewis, 
 and alfo procured his Marri- His Kl, ~ 
 age ( in the Year, One thou- jj g ', 
 (and two hundred and thirty SJ ' 
 
 jive (according to the Hiftorian of Portugal, Nunez, and not ten years af- 
 ter following the opinion of other W riters) with MAUD OF DAM- 
 MARTIN Countefs of BOLONGNE, eldeft daughter of Rai- 
 rtaud Count of Dammartin in his own right , and of Bolongne in the right 
 of the Countefs Ida his Wife, which MAUD was at that tjme Widow 
 to Philip of France , younger fon of King Philip Augufim. 
 
 This Prince ALPHONSO, after his Marriage , had the Title of 
 Count of Bolongne 5 And gave fuch notable teftimoniesof his Virtue, that 
 the Pope eledted him Captain of thofe Knights of the Cruciada , who were 
 judged worthy to carry their Valour into the Holy Land againft the Enemies 
 of our Faith, but he was diverted this Honour, by the neceflity of his re- 
 turn into Portugal , to put an end to thofe troubles which were moved by 
 the ambition of thofe who prefumed upon the plyable nature of King 
 SANCEO II. his brother. 
 
 After 
 
Years 
 
 CHRIST. 
 
 His 2^. 
 Marriage. 
 
 1260. 
 
 1262. 
 
 King of PORTUGAL and the ALGaRVES. aj 
 
 After he was come to the Crown, he found difficulty enough to eftablifh 
 himfelf, wherefore he was neceffitated to reduce fome Places by force, and 
 to carry himfelf feverely towards his Nobility. 
 
 Home-bred ftirs being quieted , he gave his mind to the Building of fe- NwJf - 
 veral Cities of his Kingdom , and alfo Founded two Monafteries of the 
 Order of the -f acohines , one at Los bonne, the other at Elvas , and the Ab- 
 bey of Nunnes of the Order of St Clare at Santarem ; and furthermore, he 
 inftituted feveral Fairs for the increafeof Commerce with his Neighbours, 
 delighting much in Traffique, and for the encouragement thereof, remit- 
 ting his Cuftoms. 
 
 But as all thefe generous Adfs acquired him a grand reputation , yet he Mirim*. 
 alfo underwent an unhappy fcandal , for notwithstanding his lawful Wife hmm. 
 the Princefs MAUD was then living , he endeavoured to violate the 
 holy Laws of Marriage ; For under pretext that this Princefs was too old, 
 and fo incapableof bringing him Children , he efpoufed another Wife, fa- 
 bout the Year, One thousand two hundred and threefcore, ) which was BEA- 
 TRICE OF CASTILLE, natural daughter of Alphonft IX. 
 
 King of Caflide , and of Mary Vilena , daughter of Peter de Gufman ; fome 
 write, that the King of Cafitlle gave in Dower to this BEATRICE his 
 daughter, the Kingdom of Algarues, a good part of which ALPHONSO 
 III. gained out of the hands of the Moors. 
 
 In confideration of this alliance , he added 
 to the Armes of Portugal , A Border Julies SKtrSMUft? 
 
 Luhtanio 
 
 eo Regno ad ipfis I*fidelibtcs rcca- , 
 
 perm, ctjfarunt CaHeU*-, moufi, , 
 ALPHONSUS Rex 5. u in- ^Cjritks 
 cum obtento , Ca&Bowm refit nit a £ c added c ® 
 circum. Vuit aurem mmertte Ci - * he ArI f s °* 
 fteRorum diverftu ' uffo ad tcmpm iortu &r* 
 Johannis a. qui reftrmms inom - 
 mbus Regium f cut urn fecundity rfi 
 
 charged with [even Cajiles Or: WhicK fome biorum unjli LuiScanio; e* pjimo 
 believe to be the Armes of the Kingdom of At- f°I M Slnciu . s 1. Rex 
 garvie , the Title of which King ALPHONSO V?.? M 
 
 alfo joyned with that of Portugal. 
 
 Now MAUD underftanding the defign 
 of the King her Husband, to take another wife; 
 
 From France fhe undertook a journey into Por- 
 tugal , and there made her proteftations and op- 
 
 pofition againft this unlawful Marriage , which t *ta», rtduxil c*m* *k "fpnm 
 ALPHONSO regarded not, but flightly paf- ZnJTsZ 
 
 ledover. When this would not move him to r». Lufic. Libem. appen. c>. i. 
 
 Juftice , the Princefs and her kindred, ( of the 
 number of which was the King St. Lewis ) made their appeal to Pope Alex- 
 ander iy. with whom their complaint and the Princefles tears took fuch 
 effedl , that he firft mildly admonifhed ALPHONSO to receive again Mirim*. 
 his lawful wife , and forfake BEATRIX, but continuing refradtory 
 andftubborn, the fame Pope thundred out his Excommunications againft 
 him and his Kingdom , prohibiting Divine Service throughout all his Do- 
 minions, under which Interdi&ion he lay thefpaceof twoyears, and to 
 the death of M A U D happening in the Year , one thoufand two hundred mwk*. 
 threescore and two , when'the Prelates of the Kingdom fo carried the mat- 
 ter to Pope Urban IV. that he not only removed this Excommunication, but 
 alfo approved the Marriage ; this proceeded principally from the Relation 
 of kindred the faid Pope had to the King ALPHONSO, and for the peace 
 and welfare of the Kingdom. 
 
 MAUD having made her laft Will and Teftament in theYear, one 
 thoujand two hundred forty and one , bequeathed unto her Husband King 
 ALPHONSO, theSummeof Twenty thoufand Livers, befide the Utm . 
 right (he had to another Summe of Four thoufand/. due unto her by the 
 
 G Count 
 
Mari . 
 
 Vaf conetttiw. 
 
 Trd'te du droit 
 de fuccefflon 
 fur la Portugal 
 de la Royne Ca- 
 therine dc Me- 
 dicie. 
 
 Eti Chronica 
 des Reis de 
 TortugaU 
 
 11 alphonso III. of the name, 
 
 Count and Countefs of Flanders. Alfo to others fhe left many pious Le- y «. of 
 eacies, and ordered for the Executors of this her laft Teftament , Robert sr > 
 Bifhopof Reauuais, herCoufin Matthew de Trie, and othe;S; Gifts which 
 were approved by Gaucher de Chafiillon fieur de Monjaf her Kinfman, 
 who had efpoufed Jane her daughter , defcended from her firft Mar- 
 riage. 
 
 Laftly , King ALPHONSO having lived Threefcore and nine 
 years, and Reigned Three and thirty, finifhed his dayes at Lubmne , tfte 
 Capital City of hisEftate, in the Year, One thoujand two hundred three- 1279, 
 fcore and nineteen. He received the honour of Sepulture within the 
 Church of St. Dominick in the fame place-, and from thence, ten years 
 after , his body was tranfported to the Chappel dedicated to St. V mcent in 
 the Abbey of Jlcobace, where lieth alfo Queen Beatrix of Cafitlle his 
 Wife. 
 
 Some are of opinion , that he had by the Countefs of Bolongne two fons, 
 the elder of which, named after him Alphonjo , dyed young 5 the youn- 
 ger called Robert , lived in Trance, and was Count of Bolongne, from whom 
 are defcended the other Earls unto Jane de la Tour , who exchanged this 
 County for that of Lauregais , and had iffue her daughter Magdelene de la 
 Tour , Mother of Queen Katherine de Media's , wife of Henry II. King of 
 France. The fame Queen, as being defcended from Robert , pretended a 
 right to the Kingdom of Portugal after the death of the Kings Sebaftian and 
 Henry. And at what time the Eftates were affembledto Advife of a Suc- 
 ceffor to the Crown , (he fent her Embaffadors alfo thitherto reprefenther 
 Right and Pretentions , as alfo did feveral other Princes upon the fame ac- 
 count. At the fame time there was publifhed in France a T reatife ( which is 
 reputed to have for Author Peter Beloy afterwards the Kings Advocate in 
 the Court of Parliament of Touloufe) concerning the right and lawful fuc- 
 ceffion of the Kingdom of Portugal appertaining to this Queen Katherine , 
 Mother of the moftChriftian King Henry III. 
 
 But the Cafiillian and Portugal Hiftorians , among others Edward Nu- 
 nez , will not admit of this defcent of the Houfe of Bolongne , nor that 
 A L P H O N S O III. had any children by Queen MAUD his firft 
 Wife. But to confound this extra&ion, and to prove it only imaginary , 
 he grounds upon divers Circumftances, and pregnant Conjectures , which 
 he particularly toucheth upon in the Chronicle of the Kings of Portugal , 
 by him publifhed in his own Language ; Conjectures drawn from the 
 time, as alfo from the confideration of the Age of the Princefs, and the 
 words of her laft Teftament ( in which there is mention made only of her 
 daughter by the firft Bed, ) Andlaftly, from the Contents of that Sup- 1262. 
 plication prefcnted by the Prelates to the Pope, intreating his Holinefs to 
 give Abfolution to their King, andaDifpenfation, to the end that he and 
 Beatrix might lawfully continue and live together , and that their Children 
 after them might be capable of the pofleflion of their Eftates. 
 
 Children of ALPHONSO III. King O F 
 PORTUGAL, Wo/BEATRIX OF 
 CASTILLE, his fecond Wife. 
 
 D lONYSIO OR DENIS King OF PORTUGAL, 
 and theALGARVES, continued the Pofterity. 
 
 ALPHON- 
 
King of PORTUGAL and the AL GARVES, 25 
 
 A LPHONSO OF PORTUGAL, Lord of Portalegrefiba- 
 fteauvieux , Marvau, and of Arouce , was joyned in Marriage with 
 YOLAND OF CASTlLLE, daughter of the Infant Emanuel , 
 fon of Ferdinands 111 . King of Caftilk , and of Conflance of Arragon his 
 Wife. And becaufe that A L P H O N S 0 married his daughters to 
 Gaftillian Lords, and would have given them thofe places of his appennage 
 in Portugal , his brother King DIONYSIO oppofed him. But this 
 difference was at laft appeafed , by exchange made betwixt the King and 
 this Lord of Portalegre , who contented to part with places upon the Fron- 
 tire of Caflide , for thofe that were fituate within tne middle of Portugal. 
 Hewas inhumed in the Church of St. Dominick at Lisbonne , and left iflue a 
 Son, and four Daughters, which follow. 
 
 7. ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL, Seigneur of Lei- 
 ria, dyed without Children, 
 
 * 
 
 7. ISABEL OF PORTUGAL, Wife of J O H N Lord 
 of BISCAY, firnamedthe Purblind. 
 
 7. CONSTANCE OF PORTUGAL, efpoufed to 
 GONC ALE-NUNEZ DE LARA, fon of John 
 Nunez, de Lara, called the Good. 
 
 7, MARY OF PORTUGAL was conjoyned in Marriage 
 with TELLEZ fon of Alfhonfo, Infant OF MOLINA. 
 
 7. ISABEL OF PORTUGAL, firnamed the to 
 difference her from her elder Sifter of the fame name, was marri- 
 ed unto JOHN-ALPHONSO, Lord of Albuquerque , fon 
 of Alphenfo-Sanceo , who was Nephew of Dionyfto King of Por- 
 tugal. 
 
 Here follow the Children of King ALP HON SO Iff, 
 
 and a/ BEATRIX OF CASTlLLE. 
 
 F erdinand of Portugal dyed young in thecity 
 
 of Lisbonne. 
 
 B lanche of Portugal, Abbefs of Loruam, then 
 
 of that Holgas at B urges. This Princefs was exceeding rich: 
 For the King of CafiiHe , her Grand-father by the Mother , and King Dio- 
 nyfio her Brother, gave her the Seigneuries of Monmor le Vtetl , and Cam- 
 po- Major. 
 
 C onstance of Portugal , having been with 
 
 Queen Beatrix her Mother in Caftille , for to vifit the King her Grand- 
 father, file there dyed in the City of Seville , being young. Her body was 
 brought home , and buried in the Abbey of Alcobace. 
 
 G 2 
 
 PORTU- 
 GAL-1 OR- 
 TALEGRE. 
 
 Tarty de 
 CASTlLLE. 
 
 D e % ueiiUcs 
 au Cballea* 
 
 d'sr. 
 
 BISCAY. 
 
 Comme cy (Le- 
 vant, 
 
 Fatty de 
 
 PORTUGAL. 
 
 LARA. 
 
 Party de 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 Natural 
 
M 
 
 ALPHONSO IH. of tbs Hams , &-c. 
 
 Y;ars of, 
 C HR UT. 
 
 Natural Qbildren of ALPHONSO III. King 
 OF PORTUGAL. 
 
 5. FERDIN AND-ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL, Knight of the 
 Order of the Templars, Iieth at Lubonne in the Church of St .Blaife. 
 
 6. GILLES-ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL, was father of LaVcrence- 
 GUles , Baily of the Commandrie of the fame Church of St. BUife. 
 
 6. ALPHONS O-D I O N Y S I O OF PORTUGAL, efpoufedMARY 
 
 DE RIBEIRA, by whom he had Pedro-Alphonfo , Roderick, and Diego- Al- 
 phcnfo-, and Gar pa Mendez, Prior of Alcaceua of bantarem. 
 
 Diego- Alphonfo fon of Alphonfo Dionyfio ; married Poland Zopez daughter of 
 Zepo Fernandez Lord of Ferreira, and of Mary Gomez Tamer a , and> had 
 ifiue Alvaro and Zopo Dia, from which Lope defcend thofe of Sonfa, which at 
 prefent are called DUbos. 
 
 g' MARTIN-ALPHONSO CHICORRO DE PORTUGAL, ano- 
 ther natural fon of King Alphonfo III. by aMoorifh Woman, hath given original to 
 the Lords fo called; feme (but erroneoufly ) fuppofe this MA RTIN was fon of 
 King Alphonfo II. 
 
 €, LEONOR of PO RTUGal, Wifeof Count GARSIA DE SOUSA," 
 a Nobly qualified Lord , whom his Father-in-law King Alphonfo honoured with the Ti- 
 rieofaCount. - 
 
 DI ONY; 
 
 / 
 
Ycmtf 
 
 Chkiit. 
 
 I»79. 
 
 Hfc 
 
 Birth*' 
 
 1261. 
 
 D IO N Y S IO King of PO RT U GA L, cfr-r. a* 
 
 : 6 . DION YS IO 
 
 King of PORTUGAL and the AL- 
 GARVE S, firnamed, Father of bk Gomtrey* 
 
 CHAP. VII. 
 
 O King Abhonfo - > 
 
 III. fucceeded PORTuGAL 
 this his eldeft . * 
 
 fon. 
 
 whom he Ta^cIZ 
 
 had by Beatrix cun chares de 
 of CaJHlle his fecond Wife. 
 
 The time of his Birth was in , « « 
 the Year, One thousand wo oordure dt 
 hundred threefcore and one , ^“Zehwdt 
 Upon the Ninth day of Oclo- chaSteaux d’er. 
 her, being the Feaft of St. 
 
 Diony lists , wherefore he was - » , ■ 
 called by the name of that p RTuGA 
 great Areopagite. ar argon' 
 
 He was a Prince both Pi- 
 ous, Juft, and Liberal , and D '° f f im -, e 
 j > r ’ p a i s degueuUes. 
 
 moreover, fo lingular an Ad- 
 mirer of Truth, of which he 
 was fo Grand and Religious 
 an obferver , that he was ne- 
 ver known to make breach of 
 his promife , often faying , 
 
 That, Nothing was more of- 
 fenfive , 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 fear- 
 ing that by his too prodigal Liberality and profufenefs, he would exhauft 
 the Treafure of the Kingdom , defired to take a part with him in the ad- 
 miniftration of his affairs. But this. King DIONYSIO would not 
 confentunto, which fomuchincenfed the Queen, that (lie retired intoCrf- 
 Hille , under pretext of a Religious defire flie had to give affiftance to the 
 King her father , and being gray with age , flie there fimfhed her mortal 
 life, before which neverthelefi King DIONYSIO went into Cafiille , where 
 he obtained a reconciliation, and had the happinefs to co mfort her at her latt 
 gafp. H But 
 

 Mariana, 
 
 V ifioncclliiM. 
 
 Nuiu\. 
 
 Mm urn, 
 Nunc^. 
 
 V aft conult'uis. 
 
 nb. Mir ms, 
 '-l- dc Cosle. 
 Mmn.Sicidm, 
 
 VafconccUius. 
 
 tcpnian. 
 
 26 D I O N Y S I O King of PORTUGAL 
 
 But King Zanceo of Cafiille making little reckoning of performance of Y-.m of 
 the agreements of Marriage made betwixt his Children, andthofeof King CftK - IST - 
 DIONYSIO, gave ground to that Warre fet on foot betwixt them , 
 in the beginning of which Sanceo deceafing, his Son and Succeilor continu- 
 ed it , who was fo Canvafed by the Portuguefjes , that he was conftrained 
 to Demand the Peace which not long after he violated 4 and fo again , to 
 his great prejudice, drew upon himfelf thejuftArmes of King DION Y- 
 SI O. But their difcords ended in another agreement fealed and confirmed 
 by the knot of other alliances of Marriage reciprocally contracted between 
 their Houfes of Cafiille and Portugal. 
 
 The differences between the Kings of Cafiille and Arragm , and Alf on- 
 to de la Cerda , who pretended to the Kingdom of Cafiille , being put to 
 the Arbiterment of this King DIONYSIO, he (hewed the admirable 
 effects of his wifdom in compofing their difcords , and left them to the en- 
 joyment of a mod happy peace. 
 
 But the Divifions and Civil Warre happening betwixt him and his fon 
 and Succeffor the Prince Alphonfo , jailousand envious of the affedfion 
 which the King did bear to Alphenfo-Sanceo his natural brother , gave him 
 fome trouble in his declining years, for though the Baftard had fled into 
 Cafiille , yet this young Prince ceafed not to continue difcontents towards 
 his father , who having held the Scepter fix and forty years, and lived three- 
 fcore and four , dyed at Santarem in the Year, One thou [and three hundred 
 twenty and five , the feventh day of January. His body was brought and ” 
 interredin the Monaftery of St. Dionyfius , called Odiuelles , Religious of 3 5 ‘ 
 the Order of the Ciflertians , by him founded, and fituate three Leagues 
 irom Lisbonnc. Nor was this the only Foundation of his raifing r For the 
 Monaftery of Nunns of the Order of St. Clare at Conimhra ( which Queen 
 ISABEL OF ARRAGON his Wife Founded , and where fhe 
 was inhumed , ) oweth much to his Liberality. 
 
 Heefpoufed this Princefs in the Year , One thoufand two hundred four- H:s Marti ' 
 fcore and two , who was daughter of Peter III. King of Arra^on , and of 
 Confiance, who had for father Manfioy King of S ic die, and for Grand-father 12 ° 2 ‘ 
 by the Mothers fide, the Emperour Frederick II. ISABEL was born 
 in the Year, One thoufand two hundred threefcore and eleven. Inthewhole ^ - 7 ^ * 
 courfeof her life, efpecially in her younger years , (he wholly dedicated her 
 felf to Piety and Devotion , exercifing feveral works of Charity , princi- 
 pally towards the poor and indigene , and was the inftrument of the accord 
 and reconciliation betwixt the Princes her kindred. She vailed her felf a 
 Nunot the third Order of St. Francis. Infine, as (he made a journey in- 
 to Ca/AY/r, to endeavour an Agreement betwixt her Son the King of Portu- 
 gal, Alphonfo ir. and the King of Cafiille , Alphonfo IX. her Nephew , 
 fhe found out her heavenly reft at Ejlremos , in the Year , One thoufand 
 three hundred fix and thirty , being aged Threefcore and five years. And l - 
 
 becaufe there had been feveral Miracles wrought at her Tomb, it was firft 
 
 beautified by Pope Leo X. then in our dayes , and in the Year of fubile. 
 
 One thoufand fix hundred and twenty five , Pope Urban VIII. Canonized l6z f 
 her, and entred her in the Catalogue of Saints, the Five and twentieth 
 day ol May, being the Feaft of the Trinity, this was performed at thein- 
 
 hSml^ lV ‘ KW§ ° f ^ ’ 3nd ° f El, ~ abeth of France 
 
 Several famous men have written the Life and Addons of this good 
 and Pious Princefs, among others fohn Peter Per pim an > and Ant onto paf- 
 
 concellos , 
 
 I 33 6. 
 
Years of 
 CHRIST 
 
 mi the ALGARVES. ' if 
 
 conccllos, Jefuites, and Aubert le Mire, grand Dean of the Church of our 
 Lady at A niters ; but more particularly than all the reft, P. Hillman de Cofte , 
 a Frier Minor of the Order of St. Francis de Paula , hath moft ingenioully 
 treated thereof. 
 
 This King DIONYSIO, This Order of , had C Smanclries not only A.Vavine. 1 
 
 in the Year, One thottfxnd three hun- in Portugal, and Mg.irue-, but in Africa and the 
 
 JyfJ and eighteen ( nrhprc fnr rwen- alfo/ and efpeciallv m JSw/p , which made The Order of 
 area ana eighteen ( otners lay twen theMafterfllip thereof feemfo wealthy, that it a- chrifl inftitu- 
 
 ty ) Inltltuced the Military OK- mounted to the yearly rent of an Hundred thou- ce d, 
 
 D E K OF CHRIST which knd Ducates, And this was the reafon why it was 
 
 is the chief of the three Orders of 
 
 Portugal, The Knights live accor- ving taken the Title of Perpetual Adminiftiators 
 ding to the rule of the Ciftercians , ° l che 9 riters D ’ Avis > and ch'riftiu. And. 
 wear a black Kobe , and upon that a 
 
 Croft Patee Red , furmounted by a Plain Croft 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 T omar. 
 
 This Prince was fo great an Admirer of Learning , that he eftablifhed 
 the Famous Uni verfity of Conimbra in his Kingdom. He was a Lover of nfmceWus: 
 Poefte , unto which he fometimes addi&ed himfelf. And fo much favoured 
 Labouring men ( by the example of one of his Anceftors ) that he beftovv- 
 ed upon them feveral Immunities and Priviledges, giving them the appella- 
 tion of The Nerves of the Barth. In Brief, His excellent Government, 
 his Ordinances and Rules for the order of Juftice, and the Cities and Towns 
 which he either built or reftored; did defervedly merit him the name of 
 Bather of his Countrey. So that whatfoever his Illuftrious PredecefTors 
 madethemfelves Renowned for , in Martial Performances , he commanded 
 and acquired by thofe of Peace, and Policy. 
 
 Children of DIONYSIO King of POR- 
 TUGAL, and of <S' t . I S ABEL OF AR- 
 RAGON his Wife. 
 
 7. a LPFJONSO VI. 
 
 '•A 
 
 Pofterity. 
 
 King of PORTUGAL, continued the 
 
 Her toai 
 riage. 
 
 7. f 'ONSTANCE O F PORTUGAL , Queen of C A- ca st Il l I: 
 
 C 
 
 S T I L L E , was efpoufed to F E R D I N A N D IV. King of Ef - cmele 
 Caftille , who dyed in the Year , One thousand three hundred and tern He a«i.& 4. de 
 was fon of King Sanceo IV. From this Marriage proceeded King Alphonfo “ft 
 IX. who by Mary of Portugal had iflue Peter , firnamed the Cruel , alfo f'd- 
 King of CaHtlle. By a Love-Miftrefs he had feveral Baftards, among 0- organ m iym 
 thers Henry Count of Triftemare , who ufurped the Kingdom of Caflilleby de t mr t n - 
 Hn dcith. ^ide of the B tench. CONSTANCE deceafed in the Year, One thoufand _ Tmt i ge 
 1313 . three hundred and thirteen, in the Month of November. 
 
 PORTUGAL. 
 
 Hz 
 
 Natural 
 
7 - 
 
 VefctwKuu. 
 
 7 . 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 Comme cj de- 
 vent. 
 
 Tarty dt 
 
 CASTILLI. 
 
 J Ifurttlg 
 ■*x i. & 4. 
 de lunettes ax 
 Cbajlttx d’cri 
 *x i.&$. d’ 
 
 argent an lyes 
 dt fwrfrt , 
 
 a8 DI ON YSIO King of PORTUGAL 
 
 Tears of 
 
 Christ. • 
 
 Natural Children of DIONYSIO King 
 of PORTUGAL. 
 
 A L P H O N S O-S A N C E O Count of Albuquerque , was affedfionately lo- 
 ved by the King his father , to the great difpleature and jealoufie of his lawful Son, who 
 forced him to flie into Caftille , as we have faid But returning into Portugal with a 
 Force, they had fomcdifputes, after which they came to an agreement. 
 
 PETER OF PORTUGAL, Count of BarceUos , wrote a Book of the 
 Illuflrious Houfcs of Portugal j he received the honour of Burial in the Church of St, 
 
 John de Tourouet. 
 
 7 ALPHONSO IV. 
 
 King of Portugal and the Alga rves. 
 
 CHAP. VIII. 
 
 n He beginning of 1325, 
 
 thousand tivohm- His Bin!!. 
 dredfottrfcore and 1 290. 
 ten , was re- 
 markable in Portugal for the 
 Birth of this Prince, which 
 fell out to be at Conmbra in 
 the Month of February. He 
 came to the Crown at the 
 age of T hirty five years. And 
 either for the tartnefs of his 
 Difpofition , or the grandnre 
 of his Courage, was called the 
 Bold. 
 
 He ftill continued in that 
 unwarrantable Hatredtowards 
 his brother Sane to , whom by 
 his own Judgement he banish- 
 ed the Kingdom , deprived of 
 his Honours and Dignities, 
 feized upon his Lands , and 
 confifcated his Goods. Sanaa 
 was at that time in Ca/HUt^who 
 by Letters made his applica- 
 tion to King ALPHON- 
 S O , but his Prayers wrought 
 . . .. _ .... . . Ihtle effed upon the hard and 
 
 ooftmate heart of his brother , wherefore feeing intreaties would not foftea 
 
 him. 
 
Tears of 
 CHRIST. 
 
 1355. 
 
 HUDelth. 
 
 1357 - 
 
 and the ALGA R. V E S. 5 ? 
 
 him, the Baftard refolves to force that with the reafonand Juftice of his 
 Sword, which his Applications could not obtain, ran* an Army , enters 
 Tort tid'd, takes feveral places, and layes the Countrey watte ; The King al- 
 io draws into the Field, where he performs the like ads of hoftihty, 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 Cali tile Alphonfo XI. who being incenfed for thac the Portugueffes would / 
 marry the Princefs Conftance ( daughter of the Infant John- Emanuel, de- 
 fended from King Ferdinand oi Caflille , called the Holy) tohts Son the 
 Prince Pedro ■, Thefe Princes were upon the point of another Cruel Warre , 
 but that Pope Benedict XII. and the King of France, Philip IF. perfected 
 a reconciliation betwixt them, ihewing thefe two Kings the danger thac 
 Spain at that time did undergo , by reafon of the progrefs the Moors had 
 made , and that their Armies would be better employed againft the Enemies 
 of their Faith, the Infidels, than in the mine of themfelves * To whom the 
 Holy Queen of Portugal , ifabel of Arragon , having joyned her prayers, 
 
 things were at laft agreed. . 
 
 So the two Kings, of Enemies,being made Friends, joyned their Fo ces 2.:&. 
 
 againft their common adverfaries the Moors, conducted by Albohacen King of 
 Fez, and Jofeph King of Granada , who had laid a ftraight Siege to Tariff a, Thc fam0UJ 
 which they refolved to raife maugre thealmoft numberlefs number , and Battciofav- 
 (to be imagined) invincible Troops of thefe Barbarians they gave them a ’*£***• 
 Field near unto the River Salado , in which famous Battel , the two Chdfti- 
 an Kings (both AlPHONSO’sj engaged them with fo indefatigable 
 and undaunted Refolutions, that they obtained a raoft Famous ViClory,and 
 a Glorious Trophy, which hapned in the Year, One thou] and three hundred 
 and font. An incredible number of thefe Infidels were killed, both upon 
 the Field , andinthepurfuit. And if we will believe the Caflillian Hifto- 
 rians, there dyed of them Two hundred thoufand, the Portugal FMories 
 fay Four hundred thoufand , with the lofs only of twenty of the Chrifti- 
 ans Thefe two Kings by this wonderful Victory , gained a grand reputa- 
 tion in the world, and thac reputation a fecurity to their eftates The 
 King of Portugal took prifoner with his own hands, thefon of Atbohah, 
 then King of Salamanctue , whom he brought Captive into Portugal. 
 
 Not long after his arrival , at the inftigation of fome evil inftruments of Nmur. 
 his Court, he ftained hisreputation in the cruel Execution of Agnes de Ca- 
 (Iro of whom his fon was moftpaflionately enamoured , taking her as his 
 Wife after the death of the Princefs Conflance from this Original fprung 
 that moil Unnatural Warre betwixt the father and the fon, which was look- 
 ed upon by Hiftorians, as a judgement from God, who had permitted, that 
 ALPHONSO ihould fuffer the fame injuries from his fon , which he 
 
 haddone to his father. .... , r .. 
 
 ’ ALPHONSO IV dyed at Lishonnt m the Month of Map , one Mmm. 
 
 thoufand three hundred fifty and (even , after he had performed the Kingly _ 
 Office, One and thirty years, ana five Months-, and lived 
 feven. He lieth in the Cathedral Church with die Queen BE ATRICh 
 OF C A S T I L L E his Wife , who was daughter of King Sanceo Iff. 
 and of Mary of Molina his Wife. He was a Lover of Juftice Magnani- 
 mous •, and refembled in many good parts King Dtonyfio his father , but was 
 far inferior to him in the Virtue of Liberality ; he is blamed alfo tor the im- 
 moderate love he had to the exercife of Hunting, ^ 
 
He took for his Device , a Stone , upon which flood an Eagle with his c'a” ist. 
 Wings expanded 5 This was the Soul, ALTIORA PETO, to fig - 
 
 Children of ALPHONSO IV. King OF 
 PORTUGAL, andof BEATRIX OF 
 CASTILLE , his Wife. 
 
 LPHONSO OF PORTUGAL, dyed young at Pent lie, 
 i and lieth in the Church of St. Dominick at Smarm, 
 
 8. rriONYSlO OF PORTUGAL, deceafedatayearold, and 
 J_y was inhumed in the Church of the Abbey of Alcobace , at the feet of 
 King Alfhonfo III, his great Grand-lather. 
 
 J OHN OF P OR TU G AL , dyed alfo in his youth, and was en- 
 fepultured at odiuelles, ( a Monaftery of Religious, dedicated to St. Ber- 
 nard ) near unto King Denis his Grand-father. 
 
 8 OETER fucceeded his father in the Kingdom OF PORTUGAL, 
 ' 1 . and continued the Line. 
 
 M ary of Portugal, Queen of castille, 
 
 was conjoyned in Marriage with Alfhonfo XI. King OF CA- 
 STILLE AND LEON, eldeft fon of King Ferdinand if. She H 
 was efpoufed unto him in the Year, One thoufand three hundred eioht and Marriage. 
 thirty i and they had iflue Peter the Cruel King of Cajlille. MARYde- 1338. 
 ceafed at Evora , and was interred in the Chappel Royal , having in her 
 life-time fuffered many indignities. For Alfhonfo her Husband forfook 
 her , and bellowed his affections upon Leonora de Gufman his Concubine 
 An Hiftory of Sfain tells us that (he dyed in the Year , One thoufand three 1356. 
 hundred fix and fifty. Her too much freedom , and prodigal Carriage to 
 Martin Tellez, a Portugal Lord, wasthecaufewhylhewaspoyfonedby her 
 brother, nay, fome flick not to fay , by her own father. Alfhonfo XI 
 leftthis world in the Year, One thottfand three hundred and fifty, after he 
 had by the Aid of the King of Portugal his Father-in-law , vanquifhed the 3 5 " 
 Moors at Teriffa, as we have before written. 
 
 L ? 9 r^pRA OE PORTUGAL, Queenof ARRAGON 
 
 hadforherSpoufe PETER IV King of ARRAGON, d- Her Mu- 
 Son of King Alfhonfo IF and of Terefa Countefs of Ur gel. This 
 Marriage was confummated in the Year, one thoufand three hundred eirht 
 portogal a " d f° rt y> Pr^r being at that time a Widower , his firft Wife was Mary o{ 
 Navarre. He deceafed at Barcelona in the Year , one thoufand three hun- 
 dred fourfeore and (even , aged Seventy five years-. By this Princefs of 
 Portugal he had only a daughter named Beatrix , who dyed young, and was 
 entombed in the Cathedral Church of Lisbonne , nearunto the body of Sea- 
 tnx or CaJtiUc her Grand-mother, J 
 
 PETER 
 
 CASTILLE. 
 
 Sfcarteli 
 An 1. dr 4* 
 de gut idles au 
 Chafieau d’or ; 
 ait i. & 3 . d* 
 argent an lyoft 
 de pourpre. 
 
 Party de 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 Mariana. Lib • 
 it. C.a. 
 
 8 . 
 
Ye*rs«? 
 
 Christ. 
 
 
 ith 
 
 Birch. 
 
 1320. 
 
 PETERS^; s/PORTUGAL,^- }t 
 
 m$§a®Mmmmmmm§w3gs 
 
 & P E T E R 
 
 KiNsof PORTUGAL and theALGARVES. 
 
 CHAP. IX. 
 
 this King is a- Portugal 
 dored on the Cmme cj dc-j 
 one fidefor be- vanc - 
 
 ing a moft zea- 
 
 lous Defender Portugal, 
 of his Laws and Ordinances, rmy it 
 and an obferVer of Juft ice Manuel. 
 with fuch care, that he banifh- nc gucuiies x 
 ed his Kingdom, all thofe that mhr l as f i u ,!“ l ‘ 
 made breach thereof, and fo Z'ommt iJ"fel 
 acquiredthe excellent ap'pel- condpwty, «- 
 lation of The Officer : So ZXM 
 on the other fide he is repre- tor. 
 hendedalfo, and blamed, to E fiamte d ’ 
 have put them in execution a- ?2 
 
 gainft the Criminals with fuch r owe d’or. ■ 
 rigor and feverity , that he 
 was therefore called the Cruel. 
 
 It being remarkable, that at 
 this time there Reigned three 
 Kings in Spain that had this 
 fame firname; The othertwo 
 were Peter King of Cafiille , 
 and Charles II. King of Na- 
 varre. But PETER, of 
 whom we fpeak , was fo much 
 tranfported to the virtue of 
 Liberality ( in which he had 
 a community with King Dmyftus his Grand-father) that he often ufed this 
 expreflion , That a King that let Jlip one day without the difirihution of 
 fime Benefit, was not worthy of the Title of the Dignity Royal. 
 
 He firft faw the light of day in the Year , One thoufand three hundred 
 and twenty , the Nineteenth day of the Month of April •, and Was alfo in the 
 Seven and thirtieth year of hisage, whenhis fathers death made his way to 
 the Crown; the end of whofe Reign was fad and mournful , occafionedby 
 thedeathof CONSTANCE MANUEL this his fons Wife , 
 who was Daughter of the Iniant John Manuel Duke of Penafel, Marquefs 
 of Vilena , and Siegneur of Afcalona , who was fon of the Infant Emanuel, 
 iffued from Ferdinand III. King of Call illt , as hath been faid before. PE- .?«*% 
 
 la TER 
 
3 ! PETEPv King of PORTUGAL 
 
 TER had been before married to Blanche the daughter of Peter King of y ™ 
 Cafiille , whom he repudiated. This Princefs CONSTANCE was 
 Entombed in the Abbey of St. Francis nt Santarem. . 
 
 Amonu the Ladies of Honour which attended her at Court, the princi - 
 pal was Agnes de Cajlro , daughter of Pedro- Fernando dt Cafiro , the moft 
 eaibty. Excellently qualified Lord of Galicia , and nearly related both to the Kings 
 of Cafin Zf,and Formal. This Lady being adorned with many beauties 
 both of body and mind, attradfed the Affedtion of Prince PETER in 
 the life- time of his W ife Conjlance , and after whofe deceafe he clandeftine- 
 ly married, as he afterwards confirmed by his Solemn Oath. 
 
 But fome Lords of the Court having conceived a fecret envy againft 
 her, fuppofing her to be inftrumental to incite the young Prince to prefer 
 and agrandize her relations and kindred , perfwaded the King Alphonfo IF. 
 to put her to death; which was accordingly executed: But the young 
 rwtx prince PETER conceived fo great a difpleafure and indignation thereat, 
 raftnuUms. ^ j )£ not on j y took Arms againft his father , but put to cruel torments the 
 Inftruments of this wicked affaffination. 
 
 During his whole Reign he deported himfelf fo to the Kings his Neigh- 
 bours , that although they were continually infefted with grand Warresand 
 troubles, with which the Kingdoms of Cafiille and An agon were often affli- 
 cted; his Eftate on the contrary, had the happinefs to enjoy under him a 
 blefted and happy Peace. 
 
 He raifed two Proud and Magnificent Tombs in the Abbey of Alcohace , 
 one for himfelf , the other for ^sfgnes de Cajlro whofe Effigies was to be 
 feen upon this Monument , adorned with a Royal Diadem, to fignifie,that 
 he owned her for his Queen and Wife ; Alfo he caufed Royal Obfequies to 
 be performed at her Burial. 
 
 In fine , when he had ruled the Scepter of Portugal for the fpace of ten 
 years, feven months, and eight dayes, he expired at Eftremos in January, h; s death, 
 in the Year, One thoufand three hundred three (core and fe-venteen. Hehad 1377. 
 Mariana. for his Device a Star with thefe words , MONSTRAT ITER, 
 h’Mix- which he took in Memory of the three Kings , who were conduced by the 
 Star, going to adore our Lord, at his Nativity. 
 
 Children of PETER King OF POR- 
 TUGAL, and of CONSTANCE 
 MANUEL hu Wife. 
 
 0. l~\IONYSIO OF PORTUGAL, whom fome (byerror) 
 name Lewis, dyed in his infancy. 
 
 9 • F’ERDINAND King OF PORTUGAL , whofe Hiftory is 
 I contained in the Chapter following. 
 
 9. A /f ARY OF PORTUGAL, was married unto FERDI- 
 arracon ^ NAND OF A R R A G O N , Marquefs of Tortofa, and Lord 
 r )V a qmt ' re of Allaraz&in , fon of Alphonfo IF. King of Arragon , and of Leonora of 
 t is de gteniies. Ca/litle his Wife. This Prince was flain in a place called chafiillon, by the 
 tarty de command of his Brother, there having feveral quarrels fell out betwixt 
 smniQAL them, 
 
 / 
 
and the ALGARVE S. 
 
 Ye*™ of them, and upon a fufpicion that he had, that this Prince would attempt 
 christ. theQown. This violent death hapned in the Year, One thetfand three httn- 
 1 3 63 • dr eel threef :ore and three. 
 
 Natural Children of PETER King of POR- 
 TUGAL, by Jgnes de QaUro- 
 
 9. ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL, dyed young. 
 
 9 JOHN OFPORTUGAL was conjoyned in Marriage with 
 His Marri- MARY TELLEZ, daughter of Martin-Alphonfo Tellez , and filler to Elianor, 
 age. Wife ( or rather Love-Miftrels ) of King Ferdinando of Portugal his brother. His 
 Memory is worthy of blame, for having imbrued his hands in the blood of his Wife, 
 whom he put to death under a falfe pretence that file had forfeited her honour, and vio- 
 lated the Laws of Marriage ; An aftfo much the more mournful and Tragical , as be- 
 ing committed by the Artifice and Machinations of Queen Elianor , Maries Sifter, en- 
 vious that (he had married a Prince of fo accomplilhed a Perfonage, loved and ho- 
 noured by all, and into whofe hands ( after the death of Ferdinando his Brother ) 
 would fall the Government and Management of the Affairs of the Kingdom-, fo that 
 theQueenhavingchargedhimwithnoIefs a Crime than of Dcfigns againft the Life of 
 the King -, he was forced to flie into Caflille, where he dyed , being kept a Prifoner by 
 King fohn I. from this Marriage came one Son. Viz. 
 
 JO. FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL, Seigneur of Eca in the King- 
 dom of Galicia ; was feveral times married , but laft of all unto ISABEL 
 D’AVALOS, daughter of Peter- Lopez d‘ Avalos , fon of the Conftable of 
 CalHIlc, Ruy Lopez, by which Wife, and others which he married , and by 
 feveral Concubines , he had to the number of two and forty children ; from 
 fome of which are iffued the Lords of Eca. 
 
 The fecond Wife of JOHN OF PORTUGAL’ Natural fon of King Pe- 
 ter , was CONSTANCE OF CASTILL s E, who was alfo a Ballard-daugh- 
 ter of Henry II. King of CaftiUe , by whom he had three daughters. 
 
 10. MARY OF PORTUGAL; Wife of MARTIN-V ASQ 11 EZ 
 DE CUN HA, to whom flie brought in Dower the County of Valence, 
 and from this Marriage ( according to fome) the Counts of Valence are de- 
 fended. 
 
 10. MARY OF PORTUGAL, efpoufed to the Count, PETER MlN- 
 HO. 
 
 to. N. OF PORTUGAL, Wife of Lopt-Vafquez de Cttnha. 
 
 The fame Prince, JOHN OF PORTUGAL, had alfothefe Baftards foil 
 lowing , 
 
 10. ALPHONSO DE CASCAES, married BLANCH DE CUN- 
 HA. 
 
 10. PETER Seigneur de Guerra , who hath left a long Pollerity. 
 
 10. FERDINAND, Lord of Eraganca. 
 
 9 . 
 
 DIONYSIO OFPORTUGAL, another Natural Son of King Peter', 
 (romwhom are defeended the Lords of Colmcr.creio , and the Counts of villar, as 
 you (hall fechereaf ter in the Defccntsof the Baflards of the Houfe of Portugal, 
 
 K BE A- 
 
 Mdr'unM.' Lifr. 
 17. C.8. 
 
 Portugal 
 
 Tellez. 
 
 D' AUALOS. 
 
 CASTILLE. 
 
 CUNHA. 
 
 MINHO. 
 
 CUNHA. 
 
 CUNHA. 
 
9 . 
 
 PORTUGAL- 
 
 Comme cj de- 
 vout. 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 Party til 
 
 TELLEZ. 
 
 Moriona. 
 
 VafcoWUim. 
 
 Mtrhtm. 
 
 34 FERDINAND Kingof PORTUGAL 
 
 BEATRIX OF PORTUGAL, alfo a Natural Daughter of King Peter, chmst. 
 and Agnes tie Caftro , wasefpoufed to SANCEO OF CASTILLE, Ton of 
 Sanceo Count of Albuquerque , who was Baftard-Son of King A/phonfo XI. and of 
 Leonora tie Gunman bisparamore; they had iflue Vracca of Albuquerque , ( after- 
 wards named Leonora,) a very wealthy Lady , married to the Infant Ferdinand of Ca- 
 ftille , called d‘ Antaguera • he was King of Arragon by Election , and they had two 
 Sons, A/phonfo V. King of Arragon and Sicelie, from whom are defended fome Kings 
 of Naples ; and John King of Navarre and Art agon, who hath given original to 
 Kings of thefe two Monarchies. 
 
 Another Natural Son o/PETER King of PORTU- 
 GAL, and of Teresa Laurens. 
 
 JOHN King OF PORTUGAL, firftofthename, continu- 
 ed the Pofterity. 
 
 mmmmmmmmmmmmv 
 
 9 . FERDINAND 
 
 King of PORTUGALand the ALGARVES. 
 
 CHAP. 
 
 O King Peter fuc- 1377J 
 ceeded thisPrince His 
 his Son, born in Birch, 
 the Year of our 1340. 
 Salvation , One 
 thonfand three hundred and 
 forty , the Twentieth day of 
 February 5 and in the Twenty 
 feventh year of his age he be- 
 gan his Reign, his Father ha- 
 ving left him to the enjoy- 
 ment of a Rich and Flourilh- 
 ing Kingdom. 
 
 His perfon was comely j 1 
 and his afpeCt pleafant , and 
 moft accomplilhed he had 
 been in all perfections, had it 
 not been that he was writable 
 and wavering in his Refolu- 
 tions. 
 
 He pretended a right of 
 Succeffion to the Crown of 
 CaftiUe after the death of King 
 r eter , as being Great Grand- 
 child of King Sanceo IF. and 
 to this end 1 he contracted an 
 alliance with the King of Ar- 
 ragtm ; but to no purpofe, for 
 having 
 
and the ALGARVE S. gy 
 
 Chm°t ^ iav ‘ n S t0 Co Valiant a Prince , as was King Henry 11. Ballard- bro- 
 
 1 ther of the fame King Peter, he difcontinued his pretentions. 
 
 He gave his promife for the Marriage of Leonora daughter of the King 
 of Arragon, and contracted the fame agreement with the King of C.t[HUe , 
 to efpoufe his Daughter alfo of the fame name; but being ill counfelled , 
 and continuing in his Levity , he abandoned thefe honourable tfnd advanta- 
 geous Marriages , to contrail an unlawful one with LEONORA 
 TELLEZ , Daughter of Martin- Alfhonfto Tellez, , and of Aldouce de 
 Vafconcellos , notwithftanding fire was before married to ff 0 hn- Laurens de 
 Cugna , under colour that her former Marriage was unlawful , as being con- 
 tracted without Difpenfation , and notwithftanding the propinquity of kin- 
 dred betwixt the Parties 5 T his gave difguft to feveral of the Portugal Lords, 
 who retired into Caftille , as did alfo Cugna . 
 
 The King FERDINAND was yet fo raft, as to renew his former 
 Claim and Pretentions to the Kingdom of Caftille, bat Henry King of Ca- 
 ftille, being the more expert Souldier, had much the advantage of him, 
 who entred into the Field , marched into Portugal, ftormed feveral Towns, 
 laid wafte the Countrey, and at length begirt Lisbonne with a ftraighc 
 Siege ; But their differences were at laft compofed in the Conjugal Bed (the 
 ordinary way of reconciliation between the two Royal Houles of Portugal 
 and Caftille) by feveral Marriages contracted betwixt them. 
 
 After the death of Henry, FERDIN AND renewed his old quar- ;° ry of C;! " 
 rel againft $ohn King of Caftille his Succeffor , and called in the Englifh to 
 his fuccour , who were in the end fo burthenfome,that he was for thelecond 
 time, enforced to come to an agreement. 
 
 He begirt the Cities of Lisbonne and Ivor a , with ftrong Walls, and The Dignities 
 was the firft that created the Dignities of Con ft able and Marjhall in Portugal, ' 
 
 His death. And dyed in the fame City of Lisbonne , the Nine and twentieth day of firft created in 
 I 3^3< October , Amo , One thousand three hundred fourfeore and three , having 
 
 Reigned Seventeen years, and lived Three and forty. He lieth in the y^lmceUius'. 
 Church of Santarem, near unto his Mother Conftance Manuel. Mariana, 
 
 HetookforhisSymbole , a Sword which tranfpierced two hearts, wich 
 thefe words , CUR NON U T R U N QU E ; by which, he would 
 have underftood , that by the fagacity of his Judgement, he could peni- 
 trate into the molt fecret thoughts. 
 
 Children of F E R DINAN D King of POR- 
 TUGAL, and of LEONORA TELLEZ. 
 
 io 1ST °F PORTUGAL, a Son born about the Year, One thonfand 
 . three hundred fourfeore and two, to the great joy of the King his fa- 
 ther; but that contentment lafted not long; for he dyed within four dayes 
 after his birth. 
 
 10i DEATRIX OF PORTUGAL, Queen of C ASTILLE, eAsmLEi 
 H _ " O born ia the Year, One thoufand three hundred threefcore and twelve: E ^ Cllrte/e - 
 Bi'r*. She had been , by King FERDINAND her Father , promifed in cfmte & de 
 
 1372 . Marriage to feveral Princes, among others to Edward of England, Son oft-™. 
 
 Edmond of Cambridge, (my Author meaneth, I believe, Edward Duke Party it 
 of York and Albemarle , Son of Edmond of Langley Duke of York) to Ere- Portugal 
 
 K a deride 
 
PETER King of PORTUGAL 
 
 itriek of Cupric Duke of Etnevcnte , Natural Son of Henry It. King of Yew, of 
 Caplle , then to Ferdinand Son of the fame King. But in the end, to HIUST- 
 knit the Peace of the two Kingdoms of CaJliUe and Portugal with a firm 
 knot, BEATRIX was firft contracted to JOHN King OF CA- 
 Mariana. FK STILLE, who was at that time Widower to Leonor of Jrragon , his 
 P firft W ife , by whom he had children : Then three years after this Con- 
 
 trad, in May, Anno, One thoufand three hundred fourfeore and thr.ee, their 
 Marriage was Solemnized at Elvas with great Magnificence, at which the 
 King of Cyprus, and Charles Prince of Navarre, were prefent. 
 
 By reaion of this Marriage the King of Caplle pretended to have a 
 right of Succelfiontothe Kingdom of Portugal , after the death of Ferdi- 
 nand/) his Wives Father, and endeavoured therefore to make himfelf Ma- 
 fter thereof by the force of his Armes. 
 
 But that Natural hatred betwixt thefe two Nations of Caplle and Por- 
 tugal , was fo eracinated , that the Fortugals would not permit him the Suc- 
 ceflion ; But from this Marriage there came no children. So King fohn 
 of Caplle dyed in the Year, One thoufand three hundred fourfeore and ten, J390. 1 
 leaving ifliie by his firft Wife only, and not by Queen BEATRIX OF 
 PORTUGAL; who being yet young at the time of his death , and 
 having been courted by feveral other Kings and Princes, yet lived a Widow 
 to the day of her death; and as an admirable example of Continence and 
 Chaftity , would not hearken to a fecond Marriage; faying. That Ladies 
 Nobly born , and well educated , ought not to be the Wives of two Huf- 
 bands , 
 
 A Natural Daughter of FERDINAND King 
 OF PORTUGAL. 
 
 10. ISABEL OF PORTUGAL, born in the Year, One thoufand three Pun- Het . Eirt!l - 
 
 _ _ dred threefcore and faxr ; Being Nine years old, was promifed in Marriage to the j ,g. 
 
 CASTILLE. prince ALPHONSO OF CASTlLLE ( VafconceUos calls him Ferdinand ) 3 
 Tarty de Count of Gigim , and Seigneur of Norogna, who was Natural Son of Henry II. King 
 PORTUGAL of Caflillt ; their Marriage was confummated in the Year, One thoufand three hun- Her Mj r - 
 dred threefcore and eighteen , againft the grain of Alphonfo , who was at that time on- riage. 
 iy Eighteen years old, therefore this Match gave original to many troubles. For King 1378, 
 Henry his Father moved with cifpleafure for that he neglefted his Wife, deprived 
 him of all his Lands and Seigneuries ; So that the Count wasconftrained to fly to A- 
 vignion , where he made his complaints to Pope Gregory XI. and alfo to the King of 
 - France Charles V. Afterwards having rebelled againft Henry III. he was belieged 
 2 m ''- within his County of Gigim with hisWifeand Children; And to compofe their Diffe- 
 rences, Charles VI. King of France, was chofen Arbitrator , who underftanding the 
 in juftice of his canfe , fent him back to his King , forbidding him the refuge of France. 
 
 Thus afflifled in the Year, One thoufand three hundred fourfeore and fifteen, he fe- 
 cretly retired towards Rochet, where Ins Wife ISABEL and his Children gavehim 
 the meeting , and where they had no afiiftance but what came from the Vifcountefs of 
 Thorars, who gave them the Town of CMarans for a Habitation. It's to be belie- 
 ved, that feme of their Children returned again into Spain , among whom was Peter 
 Vafamtlius. de Norogna Arch-bifhop of Lishonne , John de Norogna, Ferdinand Count of Ville- 
 , .from whom aredefeended theHoufes of Vide-real, and of Menefes ; Alphonfa 
 had ifliie alfo Sanceo de Norogna Count of Odemira , who had Children. Al- 
 phonfo and ISABEL had alfo a Daughter named Conjlance of Norogna , fecond Wife 
 ol iAlphonf of Portugal firft Duke of Eraganca, but they left no Pofterity; la 
 irief, thellluftriousHoufe of Norogna in Portugal, derive their original from this 
 
 Marriage* 
 
 ✓ 
 
Years of 
 Christ. 
 
 138*: 
 
 His Birtb; 
 
 ?357J 
 
 andthe ALGARVE S, 37 
 
 Marriage’ The fame Count of Gigim Alphenfo had a!fo three Baftard-chiidren , a- 
 mong the reft Afartin-Henrtquez who ferved Charter VII. King of France , whom 
 hefentEmbafladourtotheKingof Caftille. From him, it’s probable, is defcended 
 that Family in the County of Foix , who bear the Name and Armes of Caftille. 
 
 9. JOHN I. 
 
 Of the Name, King of PORTUGAL 
 
 And the ALGARVES. 
 
 Sirnamed , With the Good Memory , and Fa- 
 
 ther of his Countrey. 
 
 CHAP. XI. 
 
 iH E defetfl of 
 the birth of this 
 Prince , who 
 was natural Son 
 of Peter King 
 of Portugal, wasinfomefort 
 covered, and, as it were, re- 
 paired by his Angular virtues; 
 Being moft Pious, Magnani- 
 mous , Liberal and Clement. 
 
 The Eleventh day of A- 
 fril gave him Birth , which 
 was in the Year, One thri- 
 ft and three hundred ftftty and 
 [even, and was but Seven 
 Year old when the King his 
 Father eftablilhed himGrand- 
 Mafter of the Knights of the 
 Order Z>’ Avis. 
 
 In the time of King Fer- 
 dinand his Brothers Reign, he 
 had been imprifonedat the in- 
 ftance of Queen Leonora his 
 Wife , who had contra&ed 
 envy againft him , for having 
 reproved her too free and fa- 
 miliar carriage with the Count 
 ; of Andrie : for which, nei- 
 
 ther (he nor the Count were backward in the procuration of hisDeath. But 
 God, who hath the difpofition of Crowns, had Ordered it other wayes. 
 
 L For 
 
 PORTUGAL. 
 
 D' argent cl 
 cinq EfcuJJons 
 d’Agjvre peris 
 en Croix cha- 
 sm charge de 
 cinq he fans 
 aujfy d’ argent 
 pofe\ at faltoir 
 a la Bordure de 
 guculles char- 
 gee de bui& 
 Chateaux d’or. 
 
 Party de 
 
 LANCA- 
 
 STER. 
 
 Efcartcle an. 
 1. & 4. d’A - 
 rgitre feme de 
 Fleurs de Lis 
 d’or, an ^ 
 de gueuRcs a 
 trois Lyons paf- 
 fant guardant 
 d’or 1 an lam- 
 bel d’ ermine 
 bro chant fur It 
 tout . 
 
j8 JOHN 1 ■ of the name, King of PORTUGAL 
 
 For JOHN found out means to fluke off the Bonds of his Capti- Christ. 
 vity • and after the Death of his Brother, this Queen Elianora adminiftring 
 the Affairs of State, othervvife than it belonged unto her, and continuing 
 in her unlawful Loves, to the great diffatisfa&ion of the Portuguese They 
 perfvvaded the Grand-Mafter to take away the life of this Count , which he 
 did accordingly •, by this adt acquiring to himfelf fo great an affediion, that 
 they Proclaimed him , Defender and Protedor of the Publick Liberty ; and 
 then he was made General in the Warreagainff^o^ I. King of Caftille , who 
 afpired to the Succeflron of the Kingdom of Portugal, la the right of Beatrix 
 his Queen, as we have told you before. 
 
 v , But the people more willing to fubmit to the Government of a Prince of 
 
 fhe Blood of their Natural Kings, than to that of aftranger; And obfer- 
 ving the lawful Line of the Heirs-Male to fail in Ferdinand , they eledied 
 this JOHN his Brother, King, notwithftanding he was born out of Mar- 
 riage ; T his was performed in a general Affembly of the Eftates of Portugal, 
 held in the City of Conimbra , in the Year, One thou [and three hundred 1384, 
 fourfcore and four. But this Eledfion fuited not with the defires of Prince 
 JOHN, who told them that he was well content with that Honourable 
 Title which had before been given him; But the Portugues , befides that 
 hatred they did bear the Caftillians, confidering his rare qualifications, judg- 
 ed him more fit and proper for the Dignity of the Crown , than any other, 
 earneftly entreating his acceptation thereof, as one whom they judged capa- 
 ble of defending them from their E nemies. 
 
 Mirifttta. The Principal of which was the King of Caftille , who , incited by the 
 
 queen of Portugal , Leonor his Wives Mother, raifed a confiderable Ar- 
 my, with which he laid a Siege to Lisbonne ; defended this City was with 
 fo much refolution, that after the Caftillians had fate down before it fome 
 ;3 . ;<s months, they were conftrained to raife their Camp. Upon their retreat, 
 
 “ ,mct ,HS ' the Portugues animated by theprefence of their generous Prince JOHN 
 The Battel of fell into the purfuit of them unto Aljuberot , where both Armies drew up 
 Mm uot ' and began the Fight, and where the Caftillians were worfted. This nota- 
 Traifurd.. ble Victory hapned to bp in Auguft , Anno , One thoufand three hundred 
 fourfcore and five. From which year fome have computed the time of the 
 Reign of J O H N , and write that he was then Proclaimed King. 
 
 After this generous exploit , gathering the fruit of this his Vidor y , he 
 conquered from his Enemy , and reduced tp his obedience, thofe Cities and 
 Towns which had been loft in the former Warre. In the mean time the 
 King of Caftille being deceafed , Henry III. his Son andSucceffor having 
 had the fad experience of his Fathers Ioffes, and the new King of Portugal* 
 fucceffes , was willing to let fall his Fathers pretentions, to hearken to a peace 
 at laft concluded betwixt thefe two Kings , and afterwards continued with 
 King ft obn II. Son of tins Henry. 
 
 So that now King J O HN OF PORTUGAL feeing himfelf 
 in the enjoyment of a happy peace, andalfoina good correfpondence with 
 his Neighbours •• Notwithftanding he was grown in years, that checked 
 noc his refolution from afpiringunto high and pious defigns ; He turned his 
 Armes therefore againft the Moors and Sar astern of Affrick , and by the ex- 
 ample of his Valiant Sons, fubdued the ftrong Town of Septe, which flood 
 defray. as a R am pire oppofite to Spain , to the great prejudice of the Chriftians. 141 
 Manana, lib. And confidering his Kingdom robe of too fmall an extendure , to Digni- 
 :,o. £.7. fie the numerous iffue he had by his happy Marriage, he projected to acquire 
 them poffeflions by the force of his Armes, inother Kingdoms. Infomuch 
 
 that 
 
 ✓ 
 
Years of 
 ChkisT. 
 
 His death, 
 
 1433 . 
 
 His 
 
 Marriage. 
 
 1387. 
 
 *4*y. 
 
 and the ALGARVE S. gp 
 
 that he gave beginnings to thofe famous Conquefts which have fince been 
 profeented and continued by the iiluftrious Kings his SuccefTors. 
 
 Theexercifeof his Ai mes was no Remora to impede the progrefs of his rafcmteUim. 
 Juftice,witnefs the Code of fuflinian, which he caufed to be rranilated into 
 his own Language, totheendhis Subjeds might obferve it as his Royal Nmi\. 
 Ordinance^ And for a Monument of his Piety , he founded the Monaftery 
 of the Order of St. Dominick, dedicated to the holy Virgin, giving it the 
 name of B A T T E L , in remembrance of that fignal Victory there gained 
 upon the CaflHlians , and caufed it to be built in the fame place where he 
 was Conquerour. A nd becaufe the Cathedral Church of Lisbonne was firft 
 fubjed to the Arch-biihop of Merida , and then to that of Braga - he ob- 
 tained the eredion thereof into an Arch-bi(hoprick , from Pope Boniface 
 IX. which was done in the Year, One thousand three hundred fourscore and 
 ten. The Magnificence of this Prince yet appears in thofe fuperb Strudures 
 of feveral Palaces and Royal Manfions , which he built in the City of Lif- 
 honne , and in thofe of Saintre , Ban Harem , Aimer in , and other places. • 
 
 In fine, after fo many Heroick performances, -King J O HN (whom ngnie r ; 
 Froifard by miftake calls Dionyfm) finiihed the courfe of his life at Lif- 
 bonne , the Fourteenth day of Augufi , in the Year, One tbouf and four hun- 
 dred three and thirty, after he had lived Threefcore and fixteen years, and 
 Reigned Eight and forty years , Four months, and Nine dayes. His bo - yj MS iiiitts; 
 dy was with Funeral Pomp (at that time a thing unaccuftomed) conduded 
 by men of all Eftates , in a Chariot of Triumph , his Sons accompanying 
 it , and deposited in the fame Monaftery of B A T T E L. He was fo la- 
 mented by his Subjeds,that they gave him thefe glorious Titles, of With the 
 good Memory , and of, Father of the Countrey. In fliort , he had in the 
 courfe of his life feveral rencounters and conformities parallel with thofe of 
 the Valiant French Prince Charles Martel. 
 
 T his King JOHN OF PORTUGAL united his Forces and AaA.iu epefue ; 
 Defignsagainftthe CaftiUians with fohn of England , Duke of Lancafler , “ y 
 
 one of the younger Sons of Edward III. King of England , whopretended ° 
 to the Kingdom of CaftiUe,m the right of his fecond Wife Conftance daugh- 
 ter of King Peter the Cruel ; this Engliih Prince aflifted him with a Fleet 
 well furnilhed with Souldiers , and more firmly to contradthis Alliance, 
 
 King JOHN ( after he had obtained Difpenfatioa from the Pope for the 
 Vow he had made as a Knight of the Order d’ Avis) efpoufed PHILIP- 
 PA OF LANCASTER his Daughter ; this Marriage was Cele- 
 brated in the Year , One thou [and three hundred fourfeore and feven 5 The 
 Duke of Lancafler promifing himfelf, that by this courfe he ftiould more ea- 
 fily make his way to the Kingdom of Caflille. The Queen P H I L I P PA 
 dyed a long time before the King her Husband, about the Year, one thou- 
 sand four hundred and fifteen •, during that preparation of Warre which he 
 made for his Voyage into Africa , 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 tranfpierced with a 
 Sword, heldbyan Armiffuing out ofaCioud, with thefe words, ACU- 
 I T UT PENITRET; for to fignifie , that he exercifed his Soul- 
 diers to things troublefome and difficult ; that they might the more eafily 
 perform the high and generous Enterprises. 
 
 L 2 
 
 Children 
 
io. 
 
 IO. 
 
 • 10. 
 
 PORTU- 
 GAL-CO- 
 NIMBR A. 
 
 Party de 
 
 ARRAGON. 
 
 D’or a quatrc 
 fals de giieitlles. 
 
 Mariana, lib. 
 14.cap.i6. & 
 lib.ii, cap. 7, 
 
 Niiuc 1 ^. 
 
 Vigiuer. 
 
 Mariana. 
 
 VafsmeHitis. 
 
 40 JOHN 7 . of the name , King of PORTUGAL 
 
 Years of 
 Christ. 
 
 Children of JOHN I. King OF POR- 
 TUGAL, and of PHILIPP A OF 
 LANCASTER, hk Wife. 
 
 A LPHONSO OF PORTUGAL, dyed, beingagedTen 
 years, the Two and twentieth day of November , Anno, One theu- 
 fand four hundred ; and was inhumed in the Cathedral Church of Braga. 
 
 E DWARD OF PORTUGAL, Succeflorto the King his fa- 
 ther, continued the Pofterity. 
 
 P ETER. OF PORTUGAL, Duke of CONIMBR A; 
 
 Seigneur of t JMount-Matour le Vieil , and Regent of the Kingdom of 
 Portugal , was a Prince whofe Travels had excellently qualified him ; having 
 gained much experience by the frequentation of feveral people of Europe, 
 
 A fa, and Affrick 5 he was in the Court of the Emperour Sigifmond , and 
 left not unvifited that of the great and renowned Sythian , Tamerlane 5 af- 
 ter feveral dangerous adventures , he returned home, in the Year, One 1428. 
 thousand four hundred twenty and eight , when paffing through Cafiille , the 
 Inhabitants left their houfes to meet him in his journey , reporting what 
 they had feen with wonder , as if a man, fallen from heaven, had come to 
 vifit them. 
 
 He was by the Portugues fo affe&ionately beloved , that after the Death 
 of King Edward his elder brother , the Government of the Kingdom was 
 committed unto him during the Minority of Alpbonfo V. his Nephew ; 
 which he managed for the fpace of T en years , with great Fidelity and Pru- 
 dence; when Alphonfo Count of Barcellts , his Natural Brother, a Prince 
 both Ambitious, and Envious , and who by the means of this PETER, 
 had been before exalted to theDukedome of Braganca, moft ingratefully 
 oppofed him , rendred him a dangerous and obnoxious perfon unto the 
 King their Nephew ; and alfo charged him with a fcandalous accufation,the 
 heads of which were, That he had performed the Office of Regent much 
 to the prejudice of the Kings intereft : had got into his own hands the whole 
 treafure of the Kingdom ; and that alfo he defigned to afeend the Throne 
 by the Depofition of the King his Nephew. To thefe Articles the Duke 
 would have anfwered , and cleared himfelf, but the King who was willing 
 and apt to believe any thing that might fecure him his Crown , beingpof- 
 feffed with a prejudicate opinion, would not hear of his Anfwer; but on 
 the contrary Refolved to take him off. The Duke had timely intelligence 
 thereof, who to avoid the effedts of the Kings Anger, and to fecure his 
 perfon , fhut himfelf up in his T own of Conimbra ; and there finding that 
 he could not be upon the Defenfive part, without the Offenfive; forget- 
 ful of his Duty ; put himfelf into the head of a confiderable Army , with 
 which he marched towards Lisbonne, refolving to make himfelf Matter 
 theireot , but he fell into the hands of the Ambufhes prepared for him by 
 the Kings party-, where, after a hot difpute near unto the River Alfarube- HisDcath? 
 rie , Duke PETER was killed upon the Field , being (hot through the * 449 « 
 Heart with an empoyfoned Arrow ; which fell out to be, in the Year, 
 
 One 
 
Years of 
 VHR1.ST. 
 
 His Marti- 
 age. 
 
 1428. 
 
 II, 
 
 I4JO. 
 
 I44S. 
 
 1464. 
 
 His Death, 
 
 1466. 
 
 ■and the ALGARVES. 41 
 
 One thousand four hundred forty and nine, and on the Twentieth day of 
 May. 
 
 His lofs neverthelefs 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 fpace of three dayes without Burial until that by 
 thefupplicationof the Queen of Portugal his Daughter , Wife of Alphon- 
 fo , it was brought, and interred in the Monaftery of Battel, the Sepulchre 
 of the Kings his PredecefTors. 
 
 T his Duke was fo much the more Praife- worthy , ( following the foot- 
 ftepsof fome Princes of his Houfe ) becaufehe joyned the ufe of his Pen 
 with that of his Sword , he writ feveral Books both in Profe and Verfe, and 
 Tranflated fonle Latine Authors into his own Language, There is yet to 
 befeenof his Verfes in Portugal , which Treat of Morality, and are re- 
 plenifhed with Learning, and Precepts of Wifdom. 
 
 In the Month of September, Anno, One thouf and four hundred eight Mariana. 10, 
 and twenty , Duke PETER married ISABEL OF ARRA- i0> 
 GON, Daughter of fames of An agon , Count of Urgel , and of if abet 
 the Daughter of Peter IF. King of An agon , by which Princefs he had Six 
 Children, here underneath mentioned. 
 
 Children of PETER OF PORTUGAL, 
 
 Dufy of CONIMBRA, iy ISABEL OF 
 ARRAGON, his Wife. 
 
 P ETER OF PORTUGAL eledted King of ARRAGON, arragon. 
 
 and Count of Barcelona , was eldeft Son of Peter of Portugal Duke of F r c „ te!e ~ * 
 Conimbra, and of ifabel of Arragon his Wife ; and was eftablifhed Confta- PORTUGAL, 
 ble of the Kingdom of Portugal by the Regent his Father , after the de- 
 ceafeof his Uncle by the Fathers fide Prince fpohn. 
 
 In the Year,. One thou fund four hundred five and forty , he had the 
 Command of an Army committed to him , for the fuccour of the King of 
 CafliUe, and for the Redudfion of fome of his Subjedfs that had rebelled ; Af- 
 terwards the Catalonians, and fome of the Grandees of i_ Arragon having re- 
 volted from the King of Arragon and Navarre, tfobn II. They caufed this 
 Prince PETER to return out of A f rick , where he fought againft the 
 1 Moors , and acknowledged him for King of Arragon , and Count of Barce- 
 lona , in September , in the Year, One thouf and four hundred three [core and 
 four ; maintaining that thefe Eftates did lawfully belong unto him, asbe- 
 lng Son of the eldeft Daughter of the Count of Urgel defeended from the 
 King of Arragon : fo that PETER was Proclaimed King : And not- 
 withftanding he had affiftance from his Coufin Philip Duke of Bourgongne , 
 yet he could not maintain himfelf in his Eftate , forafter the lofs of a Field 
 difputed betwixt him, and the Prince Ferdinand Son of King f 0 y ]n ; |, e 
 was conftrained to retire to Maurefa. But neverthelefs he carried ftill the 
 Royal Title And on his journey to Barcelona , he fell fick at Cranolie , and 
 there deceafed the Thirtieth day of ffune, in the Year , One thoufand four 
 hundred threefcore and fix , fome fay in the precedent year. His body was ffc.Ta, ' * 
 inhumed at Barcelona in the Church of our Lady , near unto the Sea. It’s 
 believed he was poyfoned , but fome think , that being over-much weari- 
 
 M fid. 
 
4J JOHN /■ of the name, King of P OR T UGAL 
 
 ed ,and troubled at the evil fuccefs of his affairs, he dyed with grief, without chmst. 
 leaving any Children. 
 
 His Device was an Haulk , with thefe words, MOLESTIAPRO 
 L tAs T IT I A •, fignifying thereby , That the honour of the Kingdom 
 which he had accepted of, had been accompanied with more vexation and 
 trouble, than fatisfa&ion and contentment. 
 
 ii. 
 
 J OHN OP PORTUGAL, Duke of C O N I M B R A , and 1 447* 
 Regent of the Kingdom of Cyprus , fecond Son of Peter Duke of Co- 
 
 V ORTH 
 GAL CO- 
 
 nimbra , fucceeded his Father in this Dutchy ; hoping to advance his For- 
 t’ST*. tunes by his Marriage, he efpoufed C H A R L O T E O F CYPRUS, 
 rnfatcm. A, Daughter of J ohn II. Kingof Cyprus of theHoufeof Lufignan , and of‘ 
 aportil He ^ ene Palealogus his Wife , whicn GHARLOTE was Heir apparent 
 gat. & D* to the Kingdoms of Cyprus and fcrufalem. But the Prince JOHN her 
 r e juuf" Husband dyed without iflfue, before the King his Father-in-law. There- 
 of j .a v an y- fore Mari etui and other Authors are miftaken , that give him thequalifica- 
 gmtics. tion of King of Cypress. For he was only Regent of thisKingdom, aTi- 
 bm'mjjyde ^ which he had , when in the Year, One thousand four hundred threescore \tfi6. 
 imuUcs a it and fix , he was admitted into the Order of Knights of the Golden Fleece, 
 fff/fff by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy , in the Chapter held at the Hague 
 
 relLe cf argent hi Holland. 
 
 & d'A V »e m His VVidow married for her fecond Husband Lewis of Savoy , Count of 
 tmcbniufpf'ie Gine ' V/l , Brother of Amides Duke oi Savoy , and Son of Duke Lewis by 
 u,n , qui eft Anne of Lufignan his Wife. In her right he took the Title of King , and 
 c y p r e. pofleffed himfelf of the Kingdom of Cyprus , but at laft he was defeated by 
 his Wives Baftard-brother ; and fince, this] 
 the T urks. 
 
 this Kingdom hath been ufurped by 
 
 PORTU- 
 GAL -CO- 
 NI M B R A. j T 
 
 Tarty dc 
 C YPRE. 
 fomme cy def- 
 
 in his youth , and 'was taken Prifoner in that Battel which his Father 
 tin- elf 1 eftre loft with his life , in the Y ear , One thoufand four hundred forty and nine ; 
 mh after he had obtained his liberty , he went to vilit his Aunt bv the Fathers 
 
 q y eft furle s- a ,r » i ^ _ * -r^ . /• /- r _ » - . 
 
 tout. 
 
 J 
 
 PORTUGAL, third Son of PETER OF 
 
 &c. turned Soul- 
 
 AMES OF 
 PORTUGAL, Duke of CON1MBRA 
 
 *44*. 
 
 fide , Ifabel of Portugal Dutchefs of Bourgongne , who fent him to Rente , 
 
 - where the Pope Calixtus III. created him a Cardinal by the Title of St. I 45^. 
 ' ithi 
 
 calico" £u ft aCe > in the Year , One thoufand four hundred fifty and ftx } being at 
 nimbra. that time but young. HewasModeft, of a Pregnant Wit, and a good 
 Comme cy de- Scholar,, which foundations made men hope great things from him , for 
 
 Onuphriut . 
 
 FV. Ciacoms. 
 
 thofe Virtues with which he wasaccomplilhed. He is reported to beofa 
 temper fochafte, and continent ; that falling extream ill, and being coun- 
 felled by his Phyfitians to have the knowledge of a Woman for a remedy : 
 Herefufed, faying. That he would rather dye, than be polluted. He was 
 Arch-bilhop of Lisbonne , and dyed at Florence the Sixteenth day of April , 
 Anno s One thousand four hundred fifty and nine. His body being inter- His 
 red in the Church of St. Miniat , an Abbey of Monks of the Order of St. 
 
 Benedict. 
 
 ii. 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 Tarty de 
 PORTUGAL. 
 
 I 
 
 SAB EL OF PORTUGAL, efpoufed to the King of Portugal 
 Alphonfo r. herCoufin, as you may read in his Story. 
 
 conim 
 
 BRA 
 
 ii. n UILIPPA OF PORTUGAL, another Daughter of Peter 
 f- » Duke of Conimbra , and of ifabel of Arragon his Wife, wasa Nun in the 
 Abbey of odiuelles. BE A- 
 
and the ALGaRVES. 
 
 43 
 
 Years of 
 Christ. 
 
 B eatrice of Portugal, was aUiedin Marriage to 
 
 ADOLPHE OF CLEUES, Seigneur of Ravenfiein,z youn- cleues- 
 gerSonof Adolf he Duke of Claus , and of Maryoi Rourgongne h is Wife, 
 from which Marriage defcended Philip of Cleues Seigneur of Raven/lein , 
 
 Lieutenant General in the City of G ernes for the King of France Lewis XII. ^'“wmiT 
 his Coufin ,■ afterwards General of a Fleet againft the Turk : He left no & Fleuronne 
 
 jffue. 
 
 d’or, de bud Cl 
 pieces perce d* 
 argent. 
 
 , urgent. 
 
 Zfcartele de BOllRGONGNE qui eft eontre efcartcle At i. & 4. d'A-zyn a. tv ok Fleurs de Ik d*or a lx Bor- 
 dure componnee d’ argent & de gueullcs . An 2 . & 5. ban.de d’or & d’ arqiY e de fix pieces > a la Borditre de 
 gueulles. 
 
 Sur He tout d’gr an Lyon d n fable , qui eft FL ANDRES. 
 
 Party de PORTUGAL-CON IM BRA. 
 
 Here follow again Children of JOHN 
 
 PORTUGAL, and of PHILIPPA OF 
 LANCASTER, bis Wife. 
 
 io. rjENRY OF PORTUGAL, Duke of VISCO ( fourth — 
 
 n Son of King fohri) and Grand Matter of the Order of the Knights of gal-visco 
 Chrifl , hath recommended his Name and Memory to Poftericy, for his high 
 defigns, and generous performances ; for he had the Glory to have under- 
 taken, and happily accomplifhed many dangerous Navigations. After he 
 had given teftimony of his Valour in the Redudtion of the ftrong City of ste P- G,lr '^y. 
 
 1 4 r J. Septe in Africa , he refolved to put himfeif to Sea for the Difcovery of the 
 
 unknown World. And becaufe he might attain to his defign withthemore . 
 facility, he addrefled himfeif earneftly to the ftudy of the Mathematicks, Mm*™, 
 and of Aftrology , rejecting the enjoyment of Marriage, as a thing 
 that was altogether incongruous to the defigns of a contemplative Life. 
 
 And that he might moreeafily apply himfeif to the ComtCmplation of the 
 Starres , he bellowed a good part of his life upon the Cape ot St. Vincent y 
 becaufe the Aire was there ferene and clear,and feldom or never troubled, or 
 overcaft with Clouds. In fine,being fatisfied in his Judgment,that there were 
 Ittands yet undifeovered in the Atlantique Ocean , he was refolved to hazard 
 the proof thereof upon his own proper cofts & expence : So that firft of all he 
 difeovered the Ille oi Mader a, fo called, becaufe of the Forrefts wherewith it 
 was replenilhed; he peopled it with feveral Collonies, it halving been before 
 a Deferc ; the next difcovery was the Canaries , unknown for a long time ; in 
 thefe Voyages he found out alfo feveral Ports in the Atlantique Sea. Laftly, 
 
 He fo well inftru&ed the Portugues in the diredtion of their Navigations ac- 
 cording to the Courfe of the Stars , that with no lefs glory , than utility , 
 they have made large Conqueft in Affrick near unto Ethiopia , and of fe- 
 veral Hies in the main Ocean, and the Indies. And that he might more 
 commodioufly attend upon his affairs , towards the end of his life,this Ge- 
 nerous Prince eftablillied his Habitation ac Sagra in the Kingdom of the Al- 
 garves , at the Cape called Sacra , from which Port he might with eafe fend 
 
 HUDeith. his Ships into the Eaft. But being prevented by death , in the Year, One Marietta. Lib. 
 
 1460 . thousand four hundred and threescore , at the age of Threefcore and (even 'I c '=- 
 years ( Mariana adds Ten years more) the pregrefs of his glorious defigns 
 
 M 2 
 
 was 
 
10, 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 Comme cy de- 
 VM:. 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 Party de 
 PORTU- 
 GAL-BRA- 
 GANCA. 
 
 Qiii cfl d' ar- 
 gent an Sautoir 
 dc gucuUcsy 
 charge de cinq 
 iifcuffons dc 
 PORTUGAL; 
 un an mclictt , 
 & les aiiltres 
 aux quatre 
 boats da Sau- 
 toir. 
 
 Mai ian.t. 
 
 CASTILLE. 
 
 F-fc ancle de 
 
 LEON. 
 
 Party de 
 
 PORTUGAL. 
 
 PORT 11- 
 GAL-VIbCO 
 
 Party de 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 I° # 
 
 44 J O H N /• of the name, King of PORTUGAL 
 
 was interrupted. He adopted for his Son Ferdinand of Portugal his Ne- Years of 
 phew, one of the Children of King Edward his elder brother-. The Corps ° HR!ST< 
 of Henry was interred within the Church of Aljuberot. 
 
 I OHNOF PORTUGAL, Grand Matter of the Order of St. 
 
 fames , and Conftabie of Portugal , was fifth Son of flohn 1 . of the 
 name. King of Portugal , and of Philippa of Lancafler his Wife 5 he fol- 
 lowed the fteps of his Illuftrious Anceftors , is commended for his Piety and 
 Prudence, and alfo to have affedted the welfare of his Countrey. He mar- H ' s Mlr ' 
 ried ISABEL OF PORTUGAL, Daughter of his Natural na ° c ' 
 Brother Alphonfo I. Duke of Braganca , and of the CoUntefs of Barcellos 
 Beatrice, who was Daughter of Avarez Pereira. His deceafe hapnedat HisDeach. 
 Alcacar de Sal , abouttheendof the Month of October , in the Year, One 1442. 
 thoufand four hundred forty and two ; and in the Three and fortieth year of 
 his age. As for the Princefs ISABEL his Wife, (he departed this 
 life in the Year , One thousand four hundred threefcore and five , in the x .Re- 
 place of Arceval, where (he was to vifit her Daughter Queen 1 fab el of 
 Cafiille. 
 
 Children (/JOHN OF POR- 
 TUGAL, &■:. 
 
 ix. JAMES OF PORTUGAL, dyed (hortly after his Fa- 
 ther , fome write that he fucceeded him in his Honours and Digni- 
 ties whichothersmakeadoubtof. 
 
 11. ISABEL OF PORTUGAL, QueenOF CASTILLE, h« 
 
 ArMo , One thou (and four hundred J even and forty , was conjoyned M « r iag=.’ 
 ' by Marriage unto JOHN fecond of the name, King of C A- r 447 . 
 
 S T I L L E , Son of Henry III. and of Katherine of Lancafler his 
 Wife. He dyed at Valedolit the Nineteenth day of July , in the 
 Year, One thoufand four hundred fifty and four , leaving among 
 other Children, a Daughter named I (ah el of Cafiille , Wife to the. 
 
 King of Arragon , Alphonfo y. She was a Magnanimous Prin- 
 cefs. 
 
 Ji. BEATRICE OF PORTUG AL, was the Wife of her „ 
 Coufin FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL, Dukeof Marriage; 
 Vifico , a younger Son of King Edward. This Princefs had for her 
 Son, among others. King Emanuel of Portugal, in the Year, one 1479 
 thoufand four hundred threefcore and nineteen , (he effedfed the peace 
 betwixt the Kings of Portugal , Alphonfo V. and of Cafiille , Fer- 
 dinand V. and is much commended byHiftorians, for her Angular 
 Prudence, and grand Authority. 
 
 11. PHILIPPA OF PORTUGAL never married. 
 
 F erdinand of Portugal, youngeftSonof^A 
 
 J. King of Portugal, and of Philippa of Lancafler , Grand Matter of 
 the Order d’ Avis , Seigneur of Atouguic , and of Sauueterre , was given 
 
 io 
 
and the ALGA RYES. 
 
 45 
 
 v;2rs of in Hoftage by his Brother King Edward, to the General of the Saraztns 
 1 ' Ahen SaU , until that the faid King fhould deliver up into their Hands the 
 Town of Septe, according to the Compofition made after the fatal Battel 
 of Tangier. In the mean time Edward' s death procured his deliverance, and 
 although he had Ordered it fo in his Will, yet FERDINAND ceafed 
 not to continue in the hands of thefe Barbarians the fpace of fix years, where 
 he fuffered many hardihips •, which he underwent with much conftancy ,and 
 incredible patience 5 and was moreover of fo holy a life , that he delerved 
 His Death. t0 be Regiftred in the Rubrick of Martyrs. He dyed A° , One t/mfand 
 1443. /«w hundred forty and three , in the One and fortieth year of his age. His 
 bones were brought out of Affrick lato Portugal, and repofed in the Abbey 
 of Battel. 
 
 I0 - F) LAN CHE OF PORTUGAL, eldeft Daughter of fohn 
 JD I. King of Portugal, and of Philippa of Lancafier , dyed young. 
 
 10. "ISABEL OF PORTUGAL fecond Daughter , was efpoufed — 
 
 unto PH I S, 
 E, ana dyed E , u 
 
 Ah i, & ds 
 FRANCE 
 
 a la her dine componnei d’ argent & de pueulles qui eft B O U R G O N G N E modem?. 
 
 An 2. bande d"or & d’ayjire de fix pieces , a U bordure de gmulles qni eli B O u R G 0 N G N E I’att- 
 eien. Party de fable an Lyon d’or, qni eft B R A B A N T. 
 
 An 3. dts mbfmes Arms <fcBOllRGONGNE l’anc,m ; Party dc L IMB O UR G qni tftd’m^ext ate Lyort 
 de gneulles comonni d’or. 
 
 Sm le tent de F L A N D R E S , qui c!f d’or an Lyon de fable. Le tout party de PORTUGAL. 
 
 Natural Children of JOHN I. of the name 3 
 
 King of PORTUGAL. 
 
 jo.' ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL, Duke of BR AGANZA, who 
 hath given original to that illuftrious Honfe , from which the two laft Kings of Portu- 
 gal ( John IV. Father of King Alphtnfo VI. now Reigning, A a 1 06 2 .) are defeended. 
 
 10. BEATRIX OF PORTUGAL, was three times married in England-, 
 firftto Thomas FiU-ABan Earl of Arundel ; fecondly to Gilbert Lord Talbot , but 
 hadiflueby neither; her third Husband was Thomas Ecttiplace of Shefford in the 
 County of Berks , Efq; by whom (he hid ilfue John FettipUce , fervantto King Hen- 
 ry VI. from whom is defeended FettipUce of North-Dcnchworth, Pufeyjxmi Lttcombt, 
 in the fame County. 
 
 Jofeph T extra , a Portugues, hath committed a notorious errour (as he hath of- 
 ten done in writing the Genealogies of his Kings ) when he reporteth , That King 
 John I. of the name , befide Blanche and ifabel , had three other lawfully begottten 
 Daughters, viz. Philippa, whom he writeth to he Wife of Eric King of Denmark • 
 Jane, of Henry HI. King of Cafiille , and Leonora, of the King of Arragon, Peter 
 IV. For which this Texera is juftly reproved by Edward Nunez in that Cenfure 
 "Which he hath puhlified againji him. 
 
 N 
 
 EDWARD 
 
4& EDWARD Kmgof PORTUGAL 
 
 >o- EDWARD 
 
 King of PORTUGALand the ALGARVES. 
 
 Years of 
 Christ. 
 
 chap. xii. 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 Commc cy dc- 
 vant. 
 
 PORTUGAL. 
 
 Party d’- 
 ARRAGON. 
 
 D’or a, quatre 
 p.ils dc gucttllcs. 
 
 Nonius. 
 
 Mariana. 
 
 VafconceU'uts. 
 
 Othingwas more 1433. 
 to be defired 
 in King E D- 
 WARD, but 
 that he had been 
 favoured with better fortune, 
 and a longer life : for he wan- 
 ted no Virtue, and rendred 
 himfelf by feveral adlions, a 
 worthy SnccefTor of King 
 John, firft of that name, his 
 Father .• He had this name 
 given him in memory of Ed- 
 rvard III. King of England , 
 Grand-father to his Mother 
 Philippa of Lancafler. Ha- 
 ving found his Kingdom flou- 
 rifhing, ih peace, rich, and 
 his people Warlike, and well 
 exercifed in Military affairs, 
 by reafon of the former Wars, 
 there was hope that he would 
 have augmented thofe Con- 
 queftsmadeby his predecef- 
 for 5 But providence per- 
 mitted this hope to be fruftra- 
 ted. 
 
 The beginning of his reign 
 
 Idem. 
 
 was employed inthe War of attheSiege of XhTu? 
 
 ceeded not according to his defire ; fo that for the accomplifhment of a Trea- 
 ty, which he made with the Moors , into whofe hands he promifed to render 
 in a certain time the City of Septc , he was conftrained to give them in Ho- 
 ftage the Prince Ferdinand his Brother , who dyed in their hands - The 
 
 mtates-of- Portugal thinking it not reafonable to quit unto thofe Infidels a 
 place of fo great importance. mnueis a 
 
 It was alfo in the beginning of his reign, that the Popes Maninr then 
 Eugemut iv. aflTembled the Council of Bafil, at which all the Chriftian 
 Princes were exhorted to give their affiftance, King EDWAR D e- 
 folved to go thither inperfon. But the grand affairs that at this time lay up- 
 
 on 
 
 / 
 
and tbs ALGaRVES. 47 
 
 Years of on his hands, impeaded his Journey. For co fupply which default, he fent 
 Christ. a Solemn Embaffade , of which Alphonjo Bifhop of Porte , and 
 
 the Count of Ourcn were chief. They obtained of the Pope, That from 
 that time forward the Knights of the Military Orders of St. (fames, and St. 
 
 (fohn , fhould be difpenfed for Marriage. As alfo that the Kings of Portu- 
 gal might from that time be Anointed and Sacred as the Kings of England 
 were. 
 
 The fame King EDWARD, was of a temper couragicus , and that 
 which is rare in a Prince , joyned the exerdfe of Ai mes with the knowledge 
 of Letters and Sciences and fo earneftly dedicated himfelf to the ftudy of Ummt - 
 Philolophy , that he compofed many rare and excellent Works; among 
 others, aTreatife of the Adminiftration of Juftice , and the Duty of a 
 Prince , another of the Office of the Faithful Councellour , and a third al- 
 fo of the Art of Riding and Managing of Horfes. His Eloquence and 
 Piety Hiftory makes famous. He was a favourer of Learned men , and of 
 all thofe that he obferved to be excellent in any Art , giving them accefs to' 
 his peifon, and conferring familiarly with them, for the advantage and infor- 
 mation of his judgement. 
 
 A rnong thofe evils wherewith he was afflifted, that of the Plague was the Eafeipediiui. 
 moft fatal, which hapned in his Kingdom,and from which his Royal perfon it- 
 felf was not exempted. For he was touched with a contagious Difeafe up - 
 on the opening of a Letter which one fent him from an infeAed place , fud- 
 HisDeacK. denly after which he dyed in the Abbey of T mar ( whither he had retired 
 1438. to avoid the danger ) the Eighteenth day of September, in the Year, One 
 thou (and four hundred eight and thirty , which was the Seven and thirtieth 
 Year of his age , and the Fifth of his reign 5 He had his Burial in the Ab- 
 H - bey of Battel In the Year, One fhoiif and four hundred eight and twenty , 
 mLW this King ED WAR Defpoufed ELEANOR OF ARRAGON, L. Main pent 
 1428. fecond Daughter of Ferdinand of Caftille, King of and £/«&?, and ^ Lib , 
 
 ol Eleanor of Albuquerque his Wife, the Princels had in Marriage Two hun- » 0 .c^. ig.& 
 dred thoufand Florins. She was then aged Twenty feven years, and not 
 Six and thirty , as writeth Mariana ; for the Portugal Hiftorians note her 
 Her Birth. ] 4 rl; [i to be in the Year , One thoufand four hundred undone. 
 
 I 4 01, By his Teftament he ordained his Wife Regent of the Kingdom during 
 the minority of his eldeft Son and Succeffor : to the great diflatisfadion of 
 the Princes his younger Brothers , and alfo of the people , who would not 
 fubmitto the Command of a Woman, and more efpecially of a Stranger, 
 this gave occafion to the Eftates of the Kingdom to rejed this his Will, and 
 on the contrary to nominate for Regent, Peter Duke of Conimhra , Brother 
 to the Defund, at which the Queen conceived fo greatadifpleafure, that 
 Ihe made her complaint, to her Brothers, and the King of CafitUe , but in 
 vain, fo that leaving Portugal , (he retired to Toledo, where Ihe dyed a fud- 
 Her death, den death in the Year , One thoufand four hundred five and forty , the 
 1 44 L Eighteenth day of February , not without fufpition of poyfon. Her body 
 was firft inhumed in the Abbey of Religious of the Order of St .Dominique, 
 founded in the place where (lie chofe her abode, but afterwards tranfported 
 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 Wifdom) 
 with this Infcription , LOCO E T TEMPORE-, to reprefent, that 
 War muff be profecured in time and place, and in fuch occaiions to ule Pru- 
 dence and Difcretion. 
 
 N 2 
 
 Children 
 
4 S 
 
 EDWARD King 0/ PORTUGAL 
 
 Years of 
 Christ. 
 
 Children of E D W A R D King O F P O R- 
 T U G A L , and of L E O N O R OF 
 ARRAGON, hii Wife. 
 
 11. ALPHONSO King of PORTUGAL, continued the 
 /i Line. 
 
 ”• FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL, Dukeof VISCO, 
 po RTU F grand Matter of the Orders of Chrift, and of St. fames , and Con- 
 GAL-viiCO ftableof Portugal, he accompanied King Alphonfo V. his Brother in his 
 v trim a cinq Warresof Affnck , at what time he took the Fore of Alcacer a Maritime 
 Mfcxfont eft- Port. Afterwards he was again fent into Affrick, where he performed fe- 
 'cro\xcbacm vera ^ a< ^ s °f Hoftility againft the Mahumetans , among others the prize of 
 tbdgcdc cinq theTownof Anafe , and then returned Triumphant and Glorious into his 
 tefims d’ar- own Countrey. 
 
 fZ’tol'tu m Lie married his Coufin Beatrice of Portugal, a younger Daughter of his Hii 
 h> dure de Uncle Jehu of Portugal , Grand Matter of the Order of St. fames, and Mwrla g e< 
 
 Wdviichis Conftahle of the Kingdom. She was a Princefs prudent and deliberate , 
 tbtpmx d’er. ‘ c u ' as flie that finilbed the Peace betwixt the two Kings, Ferdinand of Arra- 
 Efcaneie d’ & on > and Alphonfo oi Portugal, upon the difference they had concerning the 
 arragon. Kingdom of Cajlille , as we have told you before. Some Hiftorians write, 
 
 DV t quitn That the King of Portugal , John 11 . Nephew of FERDINAND, „ 
 pits degueuiies. put to death this Prince his Father-in-law 5 But others, better informed, 1I70 
 
 fay, That he dyed at Cetobriga , above ten years before fohn came to the * 
 
 forth- Crown of Portugal, viz., the Eighth day of September, Anno, One thou- 
 gaL-visco f and four hundred threescore and ten , being only Seven and thirty years 
 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 
 Dutchefs Beatrice his Wife, who thereplaced a Convent of Nunnes. 
 
 Children of FERDINAND OF POR- 
 TUGAL, Dnk?ofV ISCO, and ofB EATR ICE 
 OF PORTUGAL, bis Wife. 
 
 pwm~ 12. JOHN OF PORTUGAL, Dukeof VISCO afterhis 
 
 GAL-visco Father, dyed without iffue. 
 
 PORTU- 
 GSL-VISCO 
 qui ifi 
 Efcartele cle 
 PORTUGAL 
 & 
 
 ARRA- 
 
 GON. 
 
 Mariana. Lib. 
 24- c- *3-. 
 
 P'af tonceUiw. 
 
 12. JAMES OF PORTUGAL, alfo DukeofVISCO, 
 Succeeded in the Dutchy after the deceafe of Prince fohn his eldeft 
 brother-. But becaufe he malicioufly confpired againft King fohn 
 II. his brother-in-law , he came to a mournful and tragique end. 
 For in the Year , One thousand four hundred fourfeore and threefhis 
 young Prince, being but in the Twentieth year of his age, was kil- 
 led by the Kings own hand 5 which fome Authors believe,was done 
 to the intent that way might be made to the Crown for his Baftard- 
 
 fon. 
 
Years of 
 C HRIST. 
 
 Her Marri- 
 age. 
 
 Her 
 
 Marriage. 
 
 II 
 
 and the ALGARVE S. 49 
 
 fon , George Duke of A vitro after his deceafe ; But this defign took 
 not effedl , for the King better counfelled, gave the Eftate of the 
 Defundt unto his Brother Emanuel , and furthermore , appointed 
 him Heir of the Kingdom by his Teftament, which he enjoyed ac- 
 cordingly. 
 
 Natural Children of J A M E S OF PORTU- 
 GAL, Duke of V 1 SCO. 
 
 13. ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL was highly advanced , for King p 0RTUG/ ^. 
 Emanuel gave him the Dutchy of Vifco , and Dignified him with the Office of 
 Conftableof Portugal, which he had in the Year. One thoufand five hundred , Comm cy dc- 
 but he dyed four years after , leaving no Children but one only Daughter, named, vM * 
 
 14. MARY OF PORTUGAL, who was efpoufed to the Marquefs of 
 VILLE-REAL. 
 
 12. EDWARD OF P O R T Id G AL ®^ a [| Children of Ferdi- 
 
 V. nand of Portugal , Duke _ 
 
 12. DIONYSIO OF PORTUGAL* of Vifco, by Beatrice of gaL-VISCO 
 
 v Portugal his wife, and 
 
 12 . SIMON OF PORTUGAL »> died in their minority. 
 
 12. T 7 MANUEL King OF P O R T U G A L, youngeft fon 
 P ot Ferdinand of Portugal, Duke of Vifco, and of Beatrix of Por- 
 tugal his Wife , fucceeded King fohn li. and continued the Po- 
 fterity. 
 
 12. LEONORA was Queen of Portugal , as you' may obferve in — 
 
 the Hiftoryof fohn 11. King of Portugal her Husband, by whom rORTUGAL * 
 ihe had one only Son , which was Prince Alpbonfo, deceafing before ds 
 
 his Father, as (hall bedifeourfed hereafter. gai.v'sco 
 
 11. ISABEL OF PORTUGAL,wasDutchefsofBRA-p^7jj7" 
 G AN Z A ; There (hall be more ample mention made of this Prin- gal-bra- 
 cefs in the Story of Ferdinand II. of the name Duke of Braganza GANzA - 
 her Husband , from this Marriage came three Sons, and one Daugh- Ify dc 
 ter , viz. fames of Portugal fourth Duke of Braganza , who con- gal-visco 
 tinued the Line, Philip and Denys of Portugal , Margaret their Sifter 
 dyed young without having been married. 
 
 12. KATHERINE OF PO R TUG AL, dyed young. 
 
 Here are continued Children of EDWARD 
 King 0/ PORTUGAL, and of LEONOR 
 OF ARRAGON, his Wife. 
 
 HILIP OF PORTUGAL, being twelve years old, dyed of 
 the Plague at Lishonne. 
 
 O LEO- 
 
5° 
 
 EDWARD King of PORTUGAL 
 
 ii. T EONORA OF PORTUGAL the Emprefs, was in the 
 JL. Sixteenth year of her age, efpoufed ( A° One thousand four hundred 
 
 4 ift V in tito T l ftr D/\-vtno'\ nnf a f Iiq T’-.a ' J. 
 
 ‘ — — — — j jvur rjunarca 
 
 MTU*, and fifty, and in the City of Rome) unto the Emperour Frederick III. 
 PaiTdfrfJi. Arch- Duke of Aufiria , who was eldeft Son of Arch- Duke Erne ft , and 
 Pamde zim ^ ur S c °f <~Maffovia his Wife-, Aneas Sylvius, afterwards Popeun- 
 POrtugal dcr the name of Pius It. being at that time principal Secretary to Frederick , 
 negotiated this Marriage. The Princefs was in the Year following, Crown- 
 ed Emprefs by Pope Nicholas V, She dyed in the City of Neuflat in Au- 
 firia, in the Year, One thouf and four hundred threefcore and feven , be- 
 ing ap cd Three and thirty years, and was entombed in theMonaftery of the 
 Trinity, by her founded in the fame place. 
 
 As concerning the Emperour her Husband, he had undergone a tedious 
 War againft the Arch-duke Albert his brother , for Aufiria , and alfo againft 
 Mathias Coruin eleded King of Hungary, for that Kingdom-, to which he 
 pretended a Right of fucceffion. He departed this life in the City of Lints 
 in Aufiria , the Ninteenth day of Auoufl , A° One thouf and four hundred 
 fourjcore and thirteen , which was the Four and fiftieth of his Empire and 
 the T hreefcore and eighteenth of his age. From this Marriage ifliied one 
 Son and a Daughter , viz. T he Emperour Maximilian firft of the name 
 . Grand-father ( by his Son Philip alfo firft of tfiat name, King of Spain') to 
 ?"ri*Tc” the .Emperours Charles V. and Ferdinand I. Cunegonde of Aufiria, Maxi- 
 ne a mtltan s Sifter, was married to Albert IF. of the name, Duke of Bauaria 
 and from them thofe other Dukes draw their original. 
 
 Years of 
 dwt-ifr. 
 
 Her 
 
 Marriage. 
 
 145°- 
 
 Her death* 
 
 1467. 
 
 Onupbrittt. 
 
 149?. 
 
 u 
 
 }4 unite. 
 Marian*. 
 
 m 
 
 CASTILIE. 
 
 tifurtcli an 
 I. & 4- 
 gueulles au 
 Chateau A*or , 
 *11 *v 3 . 
 
 J* argent an Ly- 
 an de pourpre 
 qai <71 LEON. 
 
 Tarty de 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 Mariana, lib. 
 
 f. 17. 
 
 AT H '.RINE OF PORTUGAL, was promifed in Mar- 
 nage, fiift to Charles o( Navarre Prince of Viana , eldeft Son of fohn 
 King of Nauarremd Arragon-, then to Edward the Fourth King of Eng- 
 land. But ihe efpoufed neither the one, nor the other , and at laft died un- 
 married at Lisbonne in the Abbey of St. Clare, A° One thouf and four hun- 
 dred threefcore and three , the Twelfth day of fune. She had the honour 1 * 6 *’ ■ 
 of Burial within the Church of St. Eloy, 
 
 T A ^ E OF PORTUGAL, Queen of Caflille , was conioyned 
 J in Marriage (the Twentieth day of May, in the Year, One thouf and 
 ff^Mredfive and fifty, at Cordona ,) to HENRY IV- King of ^ 
 C *?.’ e . “ Son of King fohn II. and of Mary of Arragon his Wife *455. 
 This Marmge was made by the procuration of the King of France Charles 
 nr. at that time confederate with the King of Caftitle , who for this pur- 
 pofe lent to the CaftHlian his EmbafTadour the Arch-biffiop of Tours But 
 this Marriage being Celebrated in a time of War , and great trouble men 
 prefaged nothing from theeffeds thereof but evil events , which according- 
 ly fell out. H E N R Y and J A N E had iflbe one Daughter which 
 was fane of Caftitle , ( fome errorreouily call her Elizabeth ) affianced unto 
 Charles o{ France, Duke of Berry, then of Guyenne , younger Brother to 
 ftf " Xr \ ^ in § of f ranc f 5 But this Duke being variable and inconftnnt, 
 abandoned her and apply edhimfelf to Mary of Rourgon^ne , only dau"h- 
 'ed tle 5 Duke of Eourgongne , whom he likewife marri- 
 
 So that the Princefs of Caflille had for Husband her Nephew Alphonfo 
 
 »ill7\ T p a X K f n f 0 u P<, ^ 4/> who d,aI!en § ed tfae Kingdom of Ca- 
 Etile in the Right of this his Wife, as you (hall fee more fully hereafter in 
 
 his 
 
dtid ilru ALGaRVE S* 5* 
 
 Years of his Hiffory. King Henry was reputed in the opinion of the world.uncapa- 
 Chmst. bleof Children , which gave fufpirion to many to doubt whether this Prin- 
 cefs were really his Daughter, or fuppofed to be fo •, tieverthelefs he owned 
 her by hisTeftament made before his death , which hapned to be at Ma- 
 
 1474. Md, A° One thouf and four hundred threefcore and fourteen, in the month 
 of December , and in him finifhed the diredl Line of the Kings of Cajlille de- 
 fended from Henry theBaftard; from whom, ( being of a couragious and 
 high- flown fpirit 5 ) this Prince did much degenerate, who was a perfon of a 
 weak judgement, and of little Merit. 
 
 Two years after Queen JANE OF PORTUGAL, his Wi- 
 tter death* dow, dyed at Madrid in the month of January , others more truly report 
 
 1475. her Death to be in June, One thoufand four hundred threefcore and fifteen. 
 She was interred in the Church of St. Francis. It’s doubted likewife, whe- 
 ther Ihe dyed in Child-bed, or whether her life was (hortned by Poyfon cau- 
 fed to be given her by the King of Portugal her Brother 5 which laft is rather 
 to be believed, becaufe (he is taxed to be incontinent, and to fuffer herfelf 
 to be oranfported to unwarrantable affedfions. 
 
 jf Natural Son of ED WARD King of PORTUGAL. 
 
 1 JOHN-EMANUEL OF PORTUGAL, was bafe Son of King Ed- 
 11 • ward by fane Manuel Coufin of Eleanor of Arragon-, He was educated with great 
 care,and bronght up unto Virtue, by Nome Alvarez. Pereira Lord of Braganca. Af- 
 ter he had approved his Valour in that War againlhh e Infidels and Moors of Africa ; 
 being infpired with devotion, aand contempt of earthly things -, He forfook the world, 
 and took on him a Religious habit , in the Convent of the C armelitc Friers of Lisbonne ; 
 which he founded, and where he lived moftReligioufly : Yet afterwards he had given 
 him the Bifboprick of Septe in Affrickj, and then that of lngonte. In fine. King Al- 
 phonfo V. invited him to Court , where he gave him the charge of Matter of his Chap- 
 pel of whofe Wifdom and good Counfel , this King was a ftritff obfcrver. 
 
 Idem. Lib. sj. 
 Cap. \i.& Lib. 
 >4. Cap. 4, & 
 
 9 - 
 
 p'af'nneeUim. 
 
p 
 
 ALPHONSO V. of the Name, 
 
 
 Years of 
 
 Christ* 
 
 " ALPHONSO Vf 
 
 Of the Name, King of PORTUGAL 
 and the ALGARVESj Sirnamed, 
 
 The African. 
 
 CHAP. XIII. 
 
 PORTUGAL, 
 
 V argent a cinq 
 Efcuffans d’a- 
 ■\ure pen's en 
 Croix chdcm 
 charge de cinq 
 befants d’ar- 
 g nt pofn at 
 fa lit dir a In 
 t ordure de 
 guc ulles j 
 charg e de huift 
 chajteaux tier. 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 Party de 
 
 CON I Ni- 
 ls R A. 
 
 Efcartcle 
 
 Au i.& 4. de 
 PORTUGAL 
 au. 2. & 3. 
 
 angle- 
 
 TERRE. 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 Party de 
 CASTILLE. 
 
 De guculles an 
 Chajteau d’or. 
 
 Efcartcle 
 dc IKON qui 
 cfl d y argent au 
 /yon de pourpre. 
 
 © King Edward. 1438. 
 fucceeded this 
 \ Prince , who 
 was his eldeft His Birth: 
 Son , born in 1432. 
 the Month of January , A* 
 
 One thoufand four hundred thir- 
 ty and two. 
 
 He was but fix year? old 
 when he fucceeded to the 
 Crown. His minority cau- 
 fing great agitations for the 
 Regency , his Grandees ha- 
 ving revolted from Queen E- 
 leanor of Arragon his Mo- 
 ther , who pretended thereto 
 by the Teftamentary Will of 
 her Husband but the Duke 
 of Conimbra , Uncle by the 
 Fathers fide to the young 
 King , carried it , as we have 
 before written. 
 
 And notwithftanding this 
 Prince had prudently and 
 faithfully adminiftred the af- 
 fairs of State , yet fome per- 
 fons envious at his Virtue, ha- 
 
 ■1 T ir . , . . vin 8 § iven the King fome e- 
 
 vil Impreffions concerning him , he was eafily m duced to Commence a 
 
 War with the Duke which he fo fharply profecuted , that he gave a total 
 rout to his Army and kill d him upon the Field, which Adion was the 
 more unnatural and tragical , becaufe the fame Duke had a double relation to 
 tbs Kin & both by Affinity, and Blood; for (in the Year, One thoufand « ‘ firft 
 four hundred forty and eight ) the Princefs ELIZABETH OF CO- 1448 
 
 N I M B R A ^ ' 
 
 * 
 
Nonius. 
 
 14 59. 
 * 4*3 • 
 
 FafcmetU'its. 
 
 King of PORT II G AL and the ALG A RV E S. 5 ^ 
 
 ch"ist N I M B R A his Daughter had been efpoufed to ALPHONSO. But 
 iST ' it often falls out , that Paflton, that dangerous Counfeller of Princes, fhuts 
 her eyes to all manner of Refpedfs. 
 
 This War being ftifled, the King of Portugal, by the example of his 
 Grand-fire and Father , turned his Arms againft the Moors. He had 
 made a promife to Pope Calixtus , to fall upon the T urk in A ft a , and for 
 that purpofe had accepted the Crofliade : but the death of that Soveraign 
 Bifhop hapning in the mean time , he cancelled that defign of affaulting the 
 Turk. Neverthelefs he refolved to pafs into Affrick , and to make his way, 
 tranfported a good Army , befieged the Fort of Alcacer near unto Septe , 
 which he fubdued by fine force , and entred in Triumph. Not long af- 
 ter the King of Fez having two feveral times laid Siege to the fame place, ic 
 was with’fo much valour defended by the Portugueffes , that they were con- 
 ftrained to retire with fharne and prejudice. 
 
 Four years after ALPHONSo made his fecond expedition into 
 Africa, but not attended with the former fuccefs. Afterward he fet Sail 
 the third time for that Countrey , better accompanied than before : For 
 he tranfported Thirty thoufand men , with whom he reduced the ftrong Ci- 
 ty of Arzille , at the affault of which he gave fuch proof of his Valour, 
 and became fo terrible to the Infidels , that they alfo quit and abandoned the 
 City of T angier. But as he made. his entrance into the fame City, the lofs 
 of his Uncle Ferdinand coming into his memory afrefh, fomewhat allayed 
 the fatisfadfion he received in the Prize of this place. Alfo fo many memo- 
 rable and glorious Conquefts, acquired him, as another Scipio , the Sirname 
 and Title of. The African. 
 
 The Queen his firft Wife that virtuous Princefs , ceafed not to bear 
 him ftill that refped:, affedtion, and honour required, notwithftanding that 
 fatal Difference that had been betwixt him and her father. She deceafed at 
 Evora in the Month of December , in the Y ear. One thou [and four hundred fif- 
 ty and fix. 
 
 So ALPHONSO being a Widower , took a refolution to marry a 
 fecond Wife, and for that purpofe call his eyes upon fane of Caflille his 
 His fecoi Neece, Daughter of K.m° Henry IF. and of fane of Portugal his Sifter. Ha- 
 Marnage. ving therefore obtained a Difpenfation from Pope Sixtut Its. he efpoufed Vi&krl 
 r 47S* her in the Year, One thoufand four hundred threc[core and fifteen , others 
 fay that it was in the year following then having been proclaimed Kings of 
 Caflille after the death of Henry , they fent their Summons to Ferdinand 
 King of Arragon , and his Wife the Princefs Elizabeth of Caflille Sifter of 
 Henry , who pretended to be true and lawful Heir , to defift from the en- 
 terprize which they endeavoured upon the Kingdom of Caflille , maintain- 
 ing that fane was not Daughter of King Henry , for all that he had owned 
 her for fuch by his T eftament , and for his Heir. But this Summons was of 
 little effefl , for they ceafed not by the ftrength of their great Forces , and 
 thofe of their partakers, to maintain themfelves in the Title by them ufurp- 
 ed, and in their Adtual poflelfion. 
 
 This was tjiereafon why the Duke of Areual, and the Marquefs of 
 Vilhna , Confederates of the Portuguefes , and inwhofe protedfion the Fa- 
 ther had left his Daughter , with thofe of their followers , ftrengthned 
 with fome French T roops,with the fuccours of Alphonfo, took Arms againft 
 Eltfabeth, and endeavoured the feifing fome places. Upon which motive 
 Ferdinand alfo drew into the Field, and begirt the Caftle T aure with a ftrait 
 Siege; To the relief of which the King of Portugal came in perfon with 
 
 P his 
 
 F rfccncclli us'. 
 
 1456 . 
 
 Mariana. Lib. 
 zz, C.ij. 
 
 Mariana, lift', 
 24, ff. 10. 
 
VafconceUUis. 
 
 54 ALP HON SO V. of the Name, 
 
 Bis affociates ; the Armies being come to blows, they difputed it with fo 
 much Gallantry , that the Cafii'llian loft the day , ( according to the Portu- 
 gal Hiftorians, but the Hiftories of Caftille agree notin this point;) ne- 
 verthelefs they were not forced to raife their Siege. 
 
 The King of Portugal having recruited his Army with a good number 
 ofSouldiers, came to another engagement with the Army of Ferdinand , 
 but the iflue of this fecond Battel was contrary to the other : For he was 
 vanquifhed, and unfortunately put to flight, which gave an abfolute check to 
 thecourfeof hisdefigns, and of ever arriving at his pretentions In Caftille . 
 LikewifealfotheMarquefsof Vtllena, and other Lords of his party, being 
 fuborned, and corrupted with gifts,- abandoned him, and ranged themfelves 
 on the ftronger fide, being that of Ferdinand. 
 
 The Arragonians took this advantage ; and to confirm their caufe, obtain- 
 ed a Bull from the Pope, which he made to be publifhed in Cajlille, by which 
 the Marriage of King ALPHONSO with Jane , was declared null', 
 and of no validity, notwithftanding it was Confummated by his Authority, 
 and according to his Rescript : But he declared that, by that, his Bull he 
 had been circumvented. 
 
 Years of 
 Christ, 
 
 1476 . 
 
 In this extremity the Portugueffes yet flood upon their guard , hoping to 
 
 1476. 
 
 P. Mathieu en 
 
 rHiftoire de 
 
 Lovis XI. 
 llHYC 7. 
 
 Philip de Corn- 
 mints, 
 
 V ifcoteeilius. 
 Mariana, 
 
 Idem. Lib. 24. 
 Cap. zo. 
 
 Nonius, 
 
 Lure de l' union 
 
 de PORT LI 
 G A L an Roy- 
 aum°. de C A" 
 STlLLfi. 
 
 find afiiftance from the Kingdom of France. And to that intent fent their 
 Exprefs to King Lewis XI. from whom they only received a fair reception, 
 and good words; for it fell out to be in that nick of time that Lewis had 
 made a League with Ferdinand, that he might the better profecute the War 
 with the Count of Rouffillion , fo that the grand affairs that he had at that 
 time againft Charles Duke of Bourgongne , would not permit him to give 
 fuccours to ALPHONSO; It’s the judgement of an Hiftorian of that 
 time, that if he had affifted him, it’s very probable he might have brought 
 his Enemy toa Cqmpofition.and tothatpoint which he defired. 
 
 Then in this defpair obferving that all things went contrary to his expe- 
 ctation , he defigned to perform ( as a private and unknown perfon ) the 
 Voyage to Jerufalem where in his youth he had made a Vow to go fight 
 the T urks , which he had undertaken, had not he been diverted by the Km» 
 of France. At his return into Portugal , he found the Prince his young lanj 
 Son , commanding in the Quality of King, according to that charge ^ ‘ 
 which he had given him upon his journey into France. Mariana reports, that 
 this was by 1 Letters at his departure from Paris. 
 
 So ALPHONSO conftrained to fubmit to Time and adverfe For- 
 tune, looked upon a Peace as the beft expedient he could make ufe of with 
 his enemies, which was concluded at Alcantara^ in the Year, One thousand 147^. 
 jour hundred threefcore and nineteen , by which he excluded himfelf from 
 any farther Pretentions to that Kingdom. This Peace was confirmed and 
 Sealed by the agreement of feveral Marriages contracted betwixt the Chil- 
 dren of the Adverfary Kings : It being remarkable , that in the Treaty of 
 this Peace, it was particularly declared , That it fhould continue the fpace 
 of an hundred and one years ; thofe which effected it , putting, asit’sufu- 
 al fo to do , the Incertain for the Infinite. But this limited number pro- 
 ' ved Prophetical. For the time an hundred and one years , continued from 
 the end of this War , until that in the Year , One thoufand five hundred 
 and four j core , this Kingdom was fubdued by Philip II. King of Spain (de- 
 fended from Ferdinand and Elizabeth) againft King Anthony of' Portugal 
 when he rendred himfelf abfolute Matter thereof. So that the words and 
 Agreements of tne Treaty of Peace, did at laft meet with the quality of the 
 Event. Now 
 
Years of 
 
 Christ. 
 
 His Death. 
 
 1441. 
 
 12, 
 
 1 2. 
 
 12. 
 
 tier Birth. 
 
 245*. 
 
 1470 . 
 
 Her death. 
 
 M 90. 
 
 King of PORTUGAL and the ALG/.RVES. 5 ? 
 
 Now ALPHONSO tranfported with indignation, that the Queen 
 his Wife had been deprived of that Right which (he had to the Kingdom oi 
 Caflille , and vexed with the (miller events thac had hapned to his Eftate : 
 but principally that his Wife had put on the habit of Religious in the Mo- . 
 nailery of St. Clare which Ihe had founded at Santarem , was carried a- 
 way with fuch an extream excefs of Melancholly , that it cad him into a 
 violent Difeafe, and fo finilhed the courfe of his life at Sintra , being the 
 place of his Birth. Hisdeceafe hapned the Eight (Mariana writes the Lib.14.czp.zt; 
 Laft) day of Augufl , A° one thoujand four hundred fourfeore and one, ha- 
 ving held the Scepter Forty years, and lived Fifty. He lieth at the Royal 
 Abbey of Battel, with his Anceftors, 
 
 This Prince is commended for his Valour, Sobriety, Continence, and 
 Liberality, as alfo to have been the firft of the Kings of Portugal , that pla- 
 ced a Liberary in the Royal Palace , by which we may believe, that in 
 imitation of his Father, he alfo was a lover oi Learning. 
 
 Cbildrenof ALPHONSO V. King of FOR* 
 
 T U G A L , and ELIZABETH OF 
 CON1MBRA bis first Wife. 
 
 JOHN Prince OF PO RTU GAL, dyed young. 
 
 J OHN It. of the name King OF PORTUGAL, whofe Story 
 is comprehended in the Chapter following. 
 
 J ANE OF PORTUGAL, born in the Year, One thousand four 
 
 hundred fifty and tmo, was defired in Marriage by three great M anarchs , Ktfmccllhto 
 Maximilian King of the Romans afterwards Emperour firft of the name, 
 
 Charles Kill. King of France , and Richard III. King of England. But 
 Ihe refufed all thefe matches ; and at what time her Father made his expedi- 
 tion into Africa , being only Eighteen years old , yet had fo great a confi- 
 denceof herWildom, that he left her Regent of his Eftate in his abfence, 
 where Ihe governed his affairs with great care. 
 
 At his return being tranfported with a holy zeal , and mifpriflon of the 
 World , fhe made it her Explication to the King her Father, that he would 
 permit her to pafs the Habit of a Nun, and to encloyfter her felf , her re- 
 queft he granted , and fo Ihe went firft to Aveiro , then to odivelles , where 
 (he palled the reft of her life ' in great Humility. She died ae 
 the age of Eight and thirty years , in the Month of May, Anno , One thou- 
 sand four hundred fourfeore and ten. Vafconcedos is very large in the Story 
 of her Life and worthy Adlions. 
 
 p 2 jo hm 
 

 JOHN IL 4 the Name] 
 
 tare <af 
 
 «=• JOH N If. 
 
 Of the Name, King of PORTUGAL 
 and the A LG A R VE S ^ Lord of 
 Gil IN EE, Siraamcd, THE GREAT . ; 
 
 CHAP. XIV. 
 
 M8UHGAL. 
 
 Qif WgEKt & tlttf 
 ^fuitjfsns /d a &- 
 \ur fptm cn 
 
 &WX ■Ck.tCJiS 
 
 <charge As , ci*J 
 >Hfkzs d’ar- 
 gent fefe^m 
 (fa&tehr . a -U 
 b^rdure & 
 gmiUes 
 t barges de fift 
 £k(tjkaus Jtar* 
 
 amraGAL 
 
 $?arty de 
 poarsi- 
 
 GAL-VJSCO 
 
 PORTUGAL* 
 ELfcartete d*~ 
 $m. AC-ON. 
 
 VafcMcAtixs. 
 
 Mong the troubles 
 and safeliddes 
 wherewith Al~ 
 fbwfv v, was 
 afHkffed toward 
 the end of bis Reign, he had 
 at the leafi this contentment 
 and happiaefs, to have a va- 
 liant Sou, as was this Prince? 
 whofirft law the light of day 
 at L'ishmt , where Queen E- 
 ii&aheth of Ctmimbra his Mo- His ffin&r 
 'Cher brought him into the ” 
 
 1 World the Fourthday of May„ 
 in the Y ear , One timfandfom' 
 hundred fifty md five. 
 
 In his younger years he be- 
 haved himfelf with fo much 
 Gallantry in the fecond expe- 
 dition of Africa , bat more 
 particularly at the prize of Ar- 
 gefiie from the Moors , that 
 the King his Father conferred 
 upon him the Order of Knight- 
 hood ? Afterwards alfo he gave 
 teftimony of a great Courage 
 satheWarreof CaftiUe- And 
 upon Atfhen(ds journey into 
 . — . France , he commanded this 
 
 die Government of his Eftate, with the TitErfKkS** AtliS return his 
 Father perfwadmg him to retain this Tide and Royal quality , during 
 ■his abfence m Africa , as a good Son , he refufed this proffer , and relinqui- 
 shed lire Dignity of King ; feving, That he received a much greater con- 
 tentment 
 
Years of 
 Christ. 
 
 1481. 
 
 14 ^. 
 
 King of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES. 57 
 
 tentment to fee his Father re- efiahlijhed in his Kingdom , thanthathe himjelf had 
 Command of the whole Earth. 
 
 The time of his Fathers death being come, he fucceeded him, and took in 
 hand the Scepter, when he was oftheageofSixand twenty years.No fooner 
 was he mounted upon the Throne, buthecaufed Juftice feverely to be ad- * 4 ' l5 ' 
 miniftred, without exception , permittingthe Judges, and other Minifters 
 oi State , to feize upon the Malefadtors wherefoever they were to be 
 found, not exempting the Houfes of the Grandees it felf, notwichftand- 
 ing that Priviledge, and Antieut Cuftom that might be alledged to the 
 contrary. Thiscaufed many of his own Relations wickedly to plot 
 againft him , and to hold intelligence , and contrive confpiracies, with the 
 Cafliliian to his ruine. The Chief of thefe were Ferdinand Duke 
 of Braganza , and fames Duke of Fifes -, the contrivances and pernitious 
 defignsof the firft having been manifeftly difeoverea by his own Letters at 
 his Indidfment , fo that being convicted , he was condemned , and then Vifco^Wna. 
 publickly executed , and his Goods confiscated •, which fo much amazed 
 fomeof chem, thatthey fled into Cafiille. 
 
 But for all this the audacity of the Confpirators was fuch, that they cea- 
 fed not yet to contrive the death of the King, of which he had information, 
 and not long after got theDuke of Fifes into his power,' where he loft his life, 
 being aflaflinated by the Kings own hand. Thefeverity of which adtion, hath 
 byfome been called Inhumanity, & Cruelty : but this default was recompen- 
 sed with feveral perfedlions of Body and Soul, with which he was adorned. 
 
 He defigned to profecute the high and glorious defigns of the King his 
 Father for the Difcovery and Conquefts of ftrange Regions, propofing a 
 beginning by the Weftern Coaft of Ethiopia , and giving Commiflion to Hiftory of 
 ffohn Cane a Portugal Knight, to fearch out a Countrey which is on the 
 other fide the Equator , where being arrived ^ he found it to be the King- 
 dom of Congo , the inhabitants whereof Were fo humane, and docile, that 
 fome of them fuffered themfelves to be brought into Portugal, and there , 
 with the Language , they were inftrudfed in the Principles of theChriftian 
 Religion, and then Baptized. At their return they perfwaded their King 
 and his Subje&s alfo to be Baptized. With this King , and with others of 
 Ethiopia j OHN entred into League , and caufed in this Countrey to be 
 railed the Cittadel of St. George , fince called, the Mine, from which the 
 Kings his Succeflors have extracted a good quantity of Gold. 
 
 In the beginning of this Voyage the Portugueffes having arrived at a 
 Cape, which by eftimationisthegreateft of the World, they conceived 
 fo happy fuccefs in their enterprife,by the advantage thereof, that they gave 
 it the appellation of, The Cape of good Hope, antiently being called the Front 
 of Africa-, it opened them the way to the knowledge of the Eftate of the 
 Indian Princes, and to penetrate further into Ethiopia , where they found 
 reigning that Prince , which we vulgarly call Pref er fohn becaufe 
 he is named in his Language , Be lulgian , which fignifieth , A Precious 
 Stone of incomparable excellence , a Title and old Sirname ulurped by the An- 
 tient Emperours of Ethiopia , who maintain themfelves to be defeended 
 from the Blood of Solomon by the Queen of Saha. 
 
 Some time after the fame King J O H N II. fent a great Army into 
 Africa, which landed in the Ifle of Gefire , which is the mouth of the River 
 Zsr, where the Portuguefes endeavoured to raifea Fort againft the impeach- 
 ments of the King of Fez-, but this King, after he had cut off their paflage 
 of retreat, forced them to quit their prize , and by compofition to return into 
 their own Countrev, Q_ 
 
5 S JOHN II.. u//fc Name , 
 
 In the mean time King JOHN being advertifed of the Donation Years of 
 fitfier. made to the King of C alt ilk, Ferdinand , by Pope Alexander VI. of thofe Christ. 
 new Regions which had been difeovered by his Subjedh , the Portugal being 
 intereffed therein , as prejudicial to the difeovery that for iiis part he had 
 made upon the Coaft of Ethiopia, for this reafon entred into a difference 
 with the CafiiUian ; which caufed the Pope on his own accord , to give unco 
 King Ferdinand the Indies newly found out , and to the King of Portugal 
 the Coaft of Africa: But to the intent that the one might not attempt 
 any thing upon the other , he caufed to be drawn upon the Globe a Line fal- 
 ling from North to South , which pafifed towards the Weft, above Four 
 hundred miles diftant from che Lies of Cape-verd , that it might not touch 
 upon Africa, 
 
 This, with other violent Actions of K : ng J O H N,drew upon him the 
 Mmmi °d ,um offeveral perfons, in fuch manner, that they were followed with con- 
 
 fpiracies againft his life ; that at iaft fie was found poyfoned in the place of Hr, Death. 
 Vafcmt uH. jilvor in his Kingdom otAlgarvie thcFiveandtwentiethdayofo<JAr,inthe 
 Year, One thoufand four hundred jour (core and fifteen ; after he had lived 
 Forty years, and reigned Fourteen - His body was fir ft inhumed in the Ca- 
 thedral Church of Slides , until that in the Year , One thoufand four hun- 
 dred fourfeore and nineteen , King Emanuel his Coufin and Succefibr , and 
 his Eftates , caufed it to be brought to the Abbey of Battel. 
 
 He was very Pious, and Charitable to the Poor , for whofe Retreat, and 
 Relief, he founded and endowed a fair Hofpital at Lishonne. His Prudence 
 appeared in the government of his Kingdom, and by the placing his favours 
 upon perfons of defert ; keeping a molt exaft Regifter of the names of thofe 
 that had faithfully ferved him , and who were capable , and endued with 
 qualities required, in the admimftration of his affairs ; He had a fpirit elated, 
 and ambitious of the greateft things. 
 
 About the Year, One thoufand four hundred threefcore and ten , notbe- 
 Mn’uM. i n g above Fifteen years old , he married LEONORA OF P O R- His M ar - 
 TUGAL, or OF VISCO, his Coufin , Daughter of his Uncle ri3 &- 
 Ferdinand of Portugal Duke of Vifco, and Conftable of the Kingdom, by I 47°. 
 whom he had only one Son, Heir apparent to his Eftates, but he had the 
 unhappinefs and regret to fee him dye before him, contrary to the common 
 courfe of Nature. Then endeavouring to legitimate his Natural Son George 
 Duke of Aueiro , with fome intention to leave him the Crown • The Queen 
 his Wife oppofed this defign, not willing that her Brother the Prince Ema- 
 nuel fhould be deprived of the Right he had to the Kingdom by the deceafe 
 of his Coufin Alphonfo the young Prince , and to which he fucceeded after 
 deceafe of King JOHN. 
 
 Who took in his Device, a Pelican, a Bird fo Natural and affediionate 
 to her young, that (he wounds her breaft, and feeds them with her own 
 idM. blood, with this Infcription, PRO LEGE ET GREGE; wit- 
 " >Cn “ neffing thereby , how much he both loved, and cherifhed his people; for 
 whofe deface and Religion, he had expofed his life to feveral hazards; 
 
 Some have noted, that he was the firft among the Kings of Portugal, that 
 adorned the Helmet of the Portugal Arms with a Sphere for Creaft, which 
 he took as a prefage of the new Difcoveries which were made during his 
 Reign, and of fome of the Kings his Succeffors, under both the Poles. 
 
 # 
 
 Children 
 
King o/PORTllGAL and the ALGARVE S. 
 
 59 
 
 Years of 
 CHRIST. 
 
 Children of J O H N If, of the name , King of 
 
 PORTUGAL, and of, L.EQNOR OF 
 VISCO, bis Wife. 
 
 13 . A LPHONSO Prince OF PORTUGAL. Thereis remar- 
 l \ kable in this young Prince, looked upon as the Hope and Prop of the 
 Royal Houfe ol Portugal, a notable example of the Inconftancy and frailty of C fm! 9 
 His Marr> I iumane things. F6r after that (in fumpteouslapparel, and great magnifi- 
 agc. cence,) he had (in November, A° One thoafand four hundred four fore and Portugal 
 14 s 0 . ten, ) efpoufed the Prince's ELIZABETH OF CASTILLE, p de 
 eldeft Daughter of Ferdinand V and of ifahel, King and Queen of Ca- castille / 
 Jlilie and Arragon, in t e City oi Stremos , this Marriage, (which it was 
 thought , would be one day the Earned: of a perpetual Concord betwixt the 
 two Neighbouring Crowns ) continued not above feven months only, for 
 h:. Death, the young Prince Sniffled his life at Sanftarem , by a fad and unhappy acci* 
 
 I 49 1 ' dent, being a violent fall from his Houfe, (ashewas running a Courier,) 
 fo that with the bruiie thereof he died quickly after,to the great affliction of 
 the Kings and their people , who had the unhappinefs to fee the Torches 
 of his pompious Funeral let cn flame, almoft fo foon as thofe of his Nup- 
 tials. He was then Sixteen years old. His body was brought and interred 
 in the Monaftery ot Battel, His Widow in fecond Marriage was efpoufed 
 to the Great Fmanuel Snccffor of fohn II. Father of this ALPHONSO.' 
 
 Some Authors write, chat this death came by the Judgement of God, 
 for his Fathers cruel ufage of fome Princes of his own Blood. 
 
 So the Crown of Portugal , that had continued Three hundred and fifty 
 years in a direct Male Line, from Father to Son, or from Brother to 
 Brother, fell into the Collateral of the Dukes of yifeo. 
 
 J Natural Son of King JOHN II. 
 
 j. GEORGE OF PORTUGAL, Duke of Conimbm , hath given origi- 
 3 ’ nal to the Dukes of Amro , who fhall be mentioned in the Second Part of this Hiftory 
 
 F PORTUGAL, Duke of Conimbm , hath given origi- 
 uciro who fhall be mentioned in the Second Part of this Hiftorv 
 
 % 
 
CHAP. XV. 
 
 66 EMANUEL King of PORTUGAL 
 
 Years of 
 Chris?. 
 
 EMANUEL 
 
 King of PORTUGAL and the ALG AR VES, 
 on this and the other fide the Sea in Affrick^-, 
 Lord of Gurnee j and of the Conqueft, 
 Navigation 3 and Commerce o£ 
 
 Ethiopia y Arabia, Perjia, 
 and India. 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 Cmme t'j dc- 
 yatu. 
 
 "Party tie 
 CASTiLLE- 
 ARRAGON. 
 
 "DegHmUes an 
 Chilean d’or-, 
 qui en 
 
 CASTILLE. 
 
 Efcartele 
 ef argent an ly- 
 ttt tie paurpre 
 qui eft EON. 
 
 Party d’ar 
 a quatre pah 
 tie giteuUes qua 
 eff ARRA- 
 GON. 
 
 £ontre party 
 de mefmel’efcu 
 jlanchi d’ ar- 
 gent a deux 
 Aiglea de fa- 
 ble, quieU 
 ARRA- 
 GON-SI- 
 CILIE. 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 Party de 
 
 CASTILLE- 
 ARRAGON , 
 
 smmeydiffm. day of Mdy , in the Year > one 
 
 He continued fuc- 1495. 
 cefsof this Mo- 
 narch , his he- 
 — roick Virtues, 
 
 and fo many glorious Con- 
 quelts and adventures , which 
 he happily atchieved, having 
 vanqurihed and made tributary 
 leveral Kings , but chiefly the 
 care he had for the plantation 
 °e *^ le Ckriftian Religion in 
 the mofl remote Regions, have 
 ( juftly ) given him the efteem 
 
 of one .of % greateft, moft 
 illaftriqus $ arid moft happy 
 Princes of the World. 
 
 The King of Portugal his 
 Grand-father by the Fathers 
 fide, had iflue a younger Son, 
 who carried the name of Ferdi- 
 nand, and was Duke of Vi fee, 
 who by a Princefs of his own 
 Blood ( called Beatrice^dzugh- 
 tei of his Uncle yp ohn of Vor- 
 tu gal , Grand Mafter of the 
 Order of St. tfames^ andCon- 
 fiable of the Kingdom , ) had 
 among other Children this 
 King EMANUEL, bom 
 in the City of Alcochet thelaft HR Bi th„ 
 tlmfand four hundred threefcore and nine 
 
 . Pe 
 
 0 
 
Years of 
 Christ, 
 
 1 49J. 1 
 
 M99. 
 
 1500. 
 
 and the ALGaRVES,^ Wi 
 
 He was firft honoured with the Title of Duke of Brin* then being in the p o rt u- 
 Six and twentieth year of his age, fucceeded to the Crown of Portugal after gal. 
 the death oijobn II. hisGofin, dying without Children in the Year, One strIche 
 thoufand four hundred thirty and five. <»espaine. 
 
 nfcmele , Ail premier aujfy. Efcmcle, A„ ,. & 4. A C A ST I LL E ; Au 1. & , de L E O if* ^ 
 
 An ». grand qunrtier TARRAGON; Party rf’ A R R A G O N-S I C I E I E. 
 
 Ait 3. qitmier de guculles a la fajjc d’argent qui eft AllSTRIC HE. 
 
 Soufleim de bade d’pr & d’ayttr de fix pieces, a la bn dure de gueutles , qui eli de EOnsfios ntS is 
 U pr'miere Branche. J c 
 
 All 4. quarticr d’ astir , a trois Fleurs de Lis d’or , a la bordnre componnee d’ argent & de mottles qui eft 
 BOllRGONGNE de lx fccond tranche. 5 1 
 
 Soujleim de Sable au Lyon d’or , ame & [xmpaffe de gutulles qui efl BRABANT. 
 
 Et fur les trois & quatnefme grands quartim d'or au Lyon de Sable qui eft FL ANDRES, 
 
 Party d’argent a une Aigle employee de giwilles , becqu:c & membret d’or , qui efi du Mar qui fat dn Sainci 
 Empire. 1 J 
 
 Firft of all he called a General Council , in which he put the Queftion , Hief . Of - orlui 
 Whether he (hoiildprofecute, Ordeclinethedefignsof the King his Pre- inHift.Kcj. 
 deceffor for the Conqueft of new difeoverie 3 after the deliberation, and ad- E ” m,,cl - 
 vice required in a matter of that moment , it was refolved , That he was a '“ ma ’ j 
 obliged to profecute them, as well for the Honour, as the Profit and great ad- 
 vantage , that would thereby accrue to him and his Eftate. 
 
 Then being fet on edge by the example of the Kings of Cafiille his 
 Neighbours , who had made difeovery of the We fi- Indies , he endeavour- 
 ed for his part to find out with his Ships , all that Countrey on the farther 
 fide the Cape of GW Hope (at which the Fleet of King J-ohn II. had before 
 arrived) unto the F.dft- Indies , from whence he knew 'that the precious 
 Stones, Spices, Drouges, Perfumes, Medicinals , and other lingular 
 and precious commodities were imporftd for the accommodation of whole 
 Europe. 
 
 So that in the Year, One thoufand four hundred fottrfcore and nineteen ~ ofiriui] 
 hefent Fafquez Gama, a Portugal Gentlemen with four Ships , who in two 
 years Voyage difeovered the whole Weftern Goaft of Ethiopia, with the 
 Illes of Quiola, Mofamhique, Menbaze , Melihde , and at laft arrived at the 
 Kingdom of Malabar , otherwife called Calecur , fo named from the Capital 
 City fo named, which is the place of all the Eaft mod frequented by the 
 Merchants , and from whence the greateft quantity of Spices is Ihipped for 
 this part of the world. Wherefore after that the Portugueffes had been favou- 
 rably received by the King of this Conntrey , and obferved with great dan- 
 ger ( which was occafioned by the unfaithfulneffe of the CMoors ) 
 that which they knew their Prince EMANUEL tobemoftdefirousof, 
 they returned to bring the honour to their Countrey of the Difeovery of 
 things not known, nor feen, fince the Creation of the World, by any 
 Nation of Europe , which Antiquity it felf thought to be impoffible. 
 
 Not long af ter he fent a fecond Caravelle about the Year , One thoufand 
 five hundred , under the Command of Pedro Alvarez Cupral, which en- Utm - , 
 deavouring to fleer the fame courfe with the former, was by ftorm driven ° imm • 
 upon the Coaft of Braftlle ( at that time known by the name of St. Croix ) 
 joyningto Peru. By others neverthelefs it’s believed , that it was Amenc Umax*, m: 
 Veffure a Florentine , who under the Countenance of thefameKing EMA- n. 
 
 NUEL, difeovered the Cotmtrey of Brazille : But be it as it will, C«/W Lope\ Casing* 
 having informed himfelf of theftateof this Countrey , fleered the courfe »«fain theHf- 
 that he formerly intended , and pafled by the Kingdoms of gjiiola , Mo- 
 fambique, and Melinde , with the Kings whereof he contra&ed an Alliance * sui ts. 
 in the name of EM A NUEL hisMafter, and there raifed feveral For- 
 
 R treffes,- 
 
 % 
 
rimi.iH. de 
 Goc\. 
 
 Qfo’cio. 
 
 Vignier. 
 
 $o. Pet.Maphc- 
 m in Hid. Ind, 
 
 Oforim. 
 
 Alphonfo d* Al- 
 buquerque in 
 his Commen- 
 taries. 
 
 O for ins . . 
 
 Tbuanus lib. i. 
 
 Oforiw. 
 
 viene 
 Maffie . 
 
 Lopc^de C(L- 
 fingncda. 
 
 Aut . de Saintt 
 Remain . 
 
 6 t EMANUEL King of 
 
 treffes. Finally s he arrived at the Port of calecut , the King whereof at Yein of 
 his firil entrance entertained him with Iriendlhip , defiring alfo to enter into CHR -‘ sTi ' 
 a League with the King of Portugal. But the Moors and Saraztns that held 
 a Commerce in his Kingdom , fo wrought upon the King , that they chan- 
 ged his mind, and he became a mortal enemy. This was the ground of a 
 cruel Warre betwixt them, which lafted above Thirteen years, in which 
 time the Portugal} performing many notable adions of Warre , acquired a 
 grand reputation , and Empire in the Eail , the experience of their Valour 
 caufing the Kings of Cochan, Cottlan, zs\&Cananor, Neighbours of Calecut, 
 to feek their friendihip , by a Peace with their King EMANUEL. 
 
 In the mean time the Portugal Garifons of Africa under the Govern- 
 ment of fohn Menefes the Kings Lieutenant, in the City and Fortrefs of 
 Argille , and of Roderick de Caftro, engaged the Moors with happy fuccefs, 
 and routed the Army of the King of Fez , upon his endeavour of the fur- 
 pi ife of the Town of Tangier. Ac the fame inftant a Squadron of three I 5 10 - 
 Ships commanded by ffohn Nunez, arrived at the Indies , where they enga- 
 ged the King of Calecut , who was (hamefully defeated by a number much 
 inferiour to his , in purfuit of which they obtained feveral other fignal 
 Vidories. 
 
 Sometime after the fame King of Calecut fell upon the King of Cochin 
 with fuch fury, ( becaufe he had given entertainment to the Portuguc([es) that 
 he was forced toforfakehis Kingdom ; which he chofe rather to fuffer (like 
 a Noble Prince ) than to renounce that League of Amity and Faith which 
 he had promifed to the King of Portugal, who was fo fenfible of this Adi- 
 on, that he judged himfelf obliged to re-eftablifh him, and for thatpur- 
 pofe fent ten Ships under the Condi^f of the famous Captain Alphonfo d’- 
 Albuqtterque , who chafed the Calectttins out of the Kingdom of Cochin , re- 
 effabliihed their King, and built a Fort for his Retreat ; then having given 
 fome allarums to the King of Calecut in his own Countrey, they returned 
 Richly laden with Spices. This Infidel King having raifed another Army 1504? 
 confiding of Fifty thoufand Souldiers , tranfported them in an hundred and 
 fixty Gallies , and came before the Pafs of Cochin to repell the Portuguefjes , 
 but this great Army found fo (harp an entertainment, that they returned 
 home, lefs by the number of Eight thoufand, which were there kill’d,with- 
 out the lofs (a Miracle if true) of one Chriftian. 
 
 This happy fuccefs gave encouragement to King EMANUEL to 
 lend Francis Almeida his Viceroy to the Indies , to Eftablifh and confirm 
 his Empire, and alfo to maintain the Kings his Confederates in fecuritya- 
 gainft their Enemies. This Viceroy in his Voyage to eftablifh a Lieutenant 1 yo 6 , 
 ai^uiola, fell upon the King of Mombazc, becaufe he would not declare 
 himfelf fubjed to the King of Portugal his Mailer , and alfo upon the King 
 of Onor , which is on the Coait of Arabia , on whom he gained a famous 
 Vidory, and fired the City thereof. At his arrival in the Indies , there 
 came an Ambaifadour from rhe King of Narfingne , the moil confiderable of 
 Eaf -India , on the other fide the River Canges , to Contrad a friendihip 
 W'ith the Portugueffes , faying, That he was incited to [earch them out , for the 
 bonders that thej were reported to have acccmplifhed in thoff parts. 
 
 At which time the King of Zophala in Ethiopia came to an engagement 
 with the Portugueffes , where they not only put his Army to flight, but cha- 
 fed him to the Gates of his own Palace, and for the third time were 
 Vidors over the Naval Army of the King of Calecut : the like good fortune 
 attended their adions in Africa, where they reduced into their power, the 1507, 
 
 firong 
 
PORTUGAL and the ALGARVE S, ^ 
 
 UikisT ^ r0n o ToWn of Zafin fituate m the Province of Momca,or Mauritania Tin- 
 ‘ git ana, and then raifed that Siege which Mabumet King of Fez had laid to the 
 Citadel of Arzille. 
 
 About this time Helen the Widow of the King of Ethiopia (vulgarly 
 called P refer fohn ,) who had the Government of the young King At mi 
 ‘Ting'd her Grand-child , likewife fent her Ambaffadour to King EMA- 
 NUEL, to conclude a Peace with him. In a Letter which ihe wrote him, 
 
 (he made mention of aProphefie: That in the later day es, there Ihouldde- 
 fcend from the Trench Region, a Prince that Ihould extirpate and abolifh all 
 the Nations of the Moors and Barbarians. 
 
 I J 09. The defeat of the Navy of the Souldan of Babylon } which was joy ned oforim. Lib.s. 
 withtbofeof theKingsof Cambaje and Calecitt , given by the Valiant Al- 
 meida , conftrained alfo this King to render himfelf VafTal and Tributary to 
 the P ortugueffes: Who with their new fupplies fent to the Indies, difcover- 
 ed the Me of St. Laurence, and then delivered from the fervitudeof the 
 Arrabes, the Ifle of zacocora inhabited by the Chriftians. 
 
 On th£ other fide Alphonfo d' Albuquerque Captain of another Army, 
 fubdued the Me of Ormns, fituate in the mouth of the Gulph of P erfia, and 
 compelled the King thereof to render himfelf fubjedt to the King of Portu- 
 gal ; being at that time Vaflal to the Sophy of Perfta. The fame Albuquer- 
 
 que fuccefTorof Almeida-, fubje&ed the City of Goa by fine force, which rhum u. 
 
 1 1 10, isat prefent an Arch-bifhoprick , and the Chief of this Eftate ; as alfo the 
 refidence of the Viceroy. T he ftrong C ity of Benaflarin alfo owns him for 
 her Conquerour. 
 
 But we cannot without admiration inform you, being a thing which fur- 
 pafleth almoft humane belief, that the Generous Albuquerque aflifted with 
 a final! number, fubdued the opulent City of Malac a fituate in the mouth 
 of the golden Cher f one f us , a City furrounded with ftrong Bulworks, defen- EafcmcKtui 
 ded by Thirty thoufand Souldiers, and fortified with Eight thoufand peeces 
 
 ? $ 1 3 . of Canon , where he made prife of above T hree millions of gold ; and then 
 feized the Iflands of the Moluccos. 
 
 In the mean time Zeiam Prince of the Puiflant City of Azamor in Man- Nonius: 
 ritania , having violated the Faith he had given to the Portugueffes 5 EM A- opmus. 
 NUEL to be revenged, fent a Fleet of Two hundred Snips, attacqued 
 this City with fuch fury , that the Befieged after they had endured fome af- 
 faults, were glad to quit the place to the Portugueffes ; who encouraged by 
 the fuccefs of fo much prosperity , purfued their Conquefts , took and 
 facqued feveral other Towns and Fortrefles ; and defeated the Armies of 
 Cherif Lord of the Province of Zela in Mauritania , and alfo thofe of Ma- 
 bumed and Naz.ec Kings of Fez and of Mequinefie. 
 
 15 iy. Not long after , in the Year , One thoufand five hundred and fif- ofir'm. 
 teen , the Ambafladourof David King of Ethiopia arrived in Portugal, fenc 
 to negotiate a Peace with King EMANUEL; fo much was the Re- 
 nown of his Puiftance and Authority fpread almoft over the whole Uni- 
 verfe. 
 
 But the fweetnefs of fo much Profperity , was at laft fomewhat diftemper- 
 ed with the bitternefs of Adverfity ; when in the fame year, one of the 
 P ortugal Armies confiftingof aconfiderablenumberof Ships, was at their 
 return defeated in Africa near unto the River Mamora , by that of the Kings 
 of Fez and Morocco. 
 
 For as this great Monarch in all his famous Defigns, made the glory, and 
 advancement of the fervice of God his principal end ; fo had he a diligent 
 
 R 2 care 
 
Mariana, 
 Lib.16.Cap.17. 
 
 Vafconcdlitis. 
 
 Idem. 
 
 Mariana, 
 
 Vafconccllim. 
 
 0 fori us. 
 
 Idem. 
 
 Mariana. 
 
 Vafcomlliiis. 
 
 Idem. 
 
 64 EMANUEL King of PORTUGAL 
 care for the eftabliihment of the Chriftian Religion in Ethiopia , India, 
 
 Af- 
 
 Years of‘ 
 CHRIST, 
 
 1513. 
 
 jrtek , and divers other Regions. And for other Monuments of his fignal 
 Piety, he caufed to be built feveral Temples, which he richly endowed ; 
 lie did the like in Portugal, as the Magnificent Church of Bethleem dedica- 
 ted to the holy Virgin , upon the River T ague near unto Lisbonne , and the 
 Monaftery of St. jferofme in the fame place, another ftately Church at 
 Tomar, and the Convent of the Cordeliers at Ever a- as alfo a Houfe at 
 Lisbonne, called De Mifericordia , for the Relief of poor Gentlemen. He 
 alfo Founded the Royal Palace in the fame City , and another at Conimbra. 
 
 After fo many notable Victories , he fent a ftately Ambaflade to Pope 
 Leo X. with feveral rich prefents , befides a Rinocere , and an Elephant , 
 which was ( according to a Portugal Hiftorian ) the firftthat Rome had e- 
 ver feen come from the Eaftern parts. 
 
 Inline, EMANUEL departed this life at Lisbonne the Thirteenth His Death, 
 day of December , in the Year , One thousand jive hundred twenty and one , 15 * 1 . 
 aged Fifty and two years , having Reigned Six and twenty. He was inhu- 
 med in the fame Church of Bethleem, which he left unfinished; But Queen 
 Katherine King ffohn III. hisSons Wife builtthe High Altar, and alfo 
 erefled two ftately Monuments for this King and Queen, a place fince de- 
 figned for the Mortuary of their Kings. 
 
 Befides the works of Piety which we have obferved in this King, he had 
 alfo the care to convert unto the Chriftian faith, a good number of Jews, 
 and to exterminate the Sara&ens his Kingdom. He remitted to the Eccle- 
 fiaftiques, the tenths which they payed to his Demain for Sales andAc- 
 quifitions , caufed feveral profitable Laws to be digefted into better Order, 
 and Adminiftred Juftice with all Integrity. Alfo by his Wifdom , and by 
 fo many fignal Adis , and profperous Voyages , he rendered his Kingdom J 
 Rich, and Flourifhing, abounding in Gold, Silver, Pearl, pretious ftones. 
 
 Spices, and other excellent Commodities, fo that- the Portuguejfes called 
 his Reign , The Golden Age. He was furthermore admired for his Sobriety 
 and to have abftained from Wine the whole courfe of his life. He was a 
 great Lover of Hunting, Hawlking, and Mufick. 
 
 His Device was a Sphere, and a terreftial Globe environed with the Sea ' 
 with this Circumfcription , PRIMUS CIRCUNDEDISTI M E? 
 
 To fignifie, that. His Fleets had compafled the whole Circle of the 
 Earth. 
 
 This great King was thrice married 5 Firft {A* One thousand fourhrn- His fi.ft 
 dred fourjeore and f eventeen , in the Month of October , and in the City of Mlrria g e - 
 Alcantara , ) to the Princefs ISABEL OF CASTILLE, eldeft x 4*7* 
 Daughter of Ferdinand and Elizabeth King and Queen of Cajlille and Arra- 
 gon, and Widow to the Prince of Portugal Alphonfo, Son of King fohn 
 II. his Cofin and PredecelTor. Not long after this Marriage, the young 
 Prince J'ohn of C aft Me , Isabels brother^ deccafed 5 fo that (he became heir 
 apparent to the Kingdoms of her Father and Mother , of which King EM A- 
 N U E L and fire were declared Princes. But a little while after the 
 Three and twentieth day of Attgujl , A 0 One thoufand four hundred fourfeore 
 and eighteen, this young Queen dyed in Child-bed , at Saragoca in Arra- 
 ■gon, her Body was tranfported to Toledo ; and interred in the Nunnery of 
 St. I label, which King Ferdinand her Father had founded. 
 
 Two years after the Thirtieth day of October , A° One thoufand five H ; s Iu6i 
 S Ku } g L M AN UEL efpoufed (after Difpenfation granted by Marriage. 
 Pope Alexander VI. ) his fecond Wife, at Setubal, (nontralence asfome H 00 . 
 
 write) 
 
 1498 . 
 
Years of 
 Christ. 
 
 1517. 
 
 His third 
 Marriage. 
 
 IJ1P. 
 
 1558. 
 
 *3. 
 
 His Birt'i. 
 
 1498. 
 
 His Death. 
 
 IJOO* 
 
 13. 
 
 * 3 . 
 
 tfffi ^c-A.JLG ARVE'S,^. <5f 
 
 write ) being the Princefs MARY OF C A S T I L L E, Sifter of I- 
 fabel his firft Wife. She alfo dyed in Child-bed a: Lu bonne , in the Year, 
 
 One thou] and five hundred And feventcen , aged Five and thirty years , and 
 was buried in the Monaftery of our Lady. 
 
 The third and laft Wife of King EMANUEL, wasLEONOR 
 OF AUSTRIA, Sifter to the Emperour Ch tries V. and Daughter of 
 Philip I. of the name, and of fioane, King and Queen of Cajlille. This 
 Marriage was Celebrated in the Year , One thou [and five hundred and nine- 
 teen, andlaftedbut two years. Leonor efpoufed for her fecond Husband 
 Francis I. of that name, King of France, who had before married queen 
 Claude a former Wife. She deceafed at yalidolit, others fay at Badaios (where Uamda. 
 fiie was buried ) in March , Anno , One thoufand five hundred eight end fif- 
 ty , in the Sixtieth year of her age. 
 
 The Hiftory of King EMANUEL hath been moft elegantly writ- 
 ten in the Latin Tongue, by Hierofme oforio Bifbopol Stive in the Algar- 
 vies , by Damian Goez, a Portugal Knight in his Language,- who was em- 
 ployed in feveral important Voyages and other affairs; His Conquefts alfo 
 have been recorded by Lopetj de Caftagneda , and Anthony de St. Romain ■> 
 in their Hiftories of Fuji- India ; by Alphonfo d’ Albuquerque in his Com- 
 mentaries , fiohn de Baros in the Hiftory of A fid , Peter de Maris in his 
 Dialogues, fifohn- Pedro Maffee of the Order of fejtu in the Hiftory of the 
 Indies in a moft eloquent ftile ; but incomparably well worded by John Ma- 
 riana , Antonio Fafconcellos of the fame Order. 
 
 Children 0/ EMANUEL King OF POR- 
 TUGAL, and of ISABEL OF C AS- 
 TI LLE his first Wife. 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 E fear tele 
 Au 1. & 4. de 
 PORTUGAL 
 Au 1. <& 
 
 centre. efcar- 
 tele . 
 
 Au 1. & ±1 
 de C AS- 
 TI LLE. 
 
 An 2 . & 5 .' 
 de L E O NT, 
 
 M ICHAEL Prince OF PORTUGAL, Cajlille and Girome, 
 bornin the Year, One thoufand four hundred fourficore and eighteen , 
 and in the Month of Auguftr, was acknowledged for the Prince, and Heir 
 apparent of the Kingdoms of Cajlille and Arragon , but he lived only two 
 years, and dyed. Anno, One thoufand five hundred , at Granada , where 
 heliethinthe Ghappel of the Kings. By his deceafe the Infanta Donna 
 ffoane his Aunt by the Mothers fide , came to the Succeflion of the E- 
 iftates of Cajlille, Air agon. Sic Hie, and feveral others , which fire tranfmitted 
 to the Emperour Charles V, her Son. 
 
 Clitiren of E M A N U E L King OF POR- 
 
 T LI G A L , and of MARY OF CAS. 
 
 TILLE hit fecond Wife. 
 
 J OHN III. of the name. King OF PORTUGAL, continued 
 the Succeflion. 
 
 P O R T LI- 
 
 L EWIS OF PORTUGAL, Duke of B E I A , Seigneur of g a l-beia: 
 
 , Sejte , Maure , CouiUan , and Imade , and Gonftable of Portugal, Efcamkis 
 fecond Son of Ring EMANUEL by his fecond Wife MARY OF ^w^a s- L 
 
 S CASTILLE, tille. " 
 
66. EMANUEL King of 
 
 CASTILLE, was born in the City of Abrantes, the third day of March, Years •? 
 Komtu. in the Year , One thoufand five hundred and fix ; At what time the Em- Christ * 
 perour Charles V. his Brother-in-law undertook the Voyage of Affrick for His B ^ th - 
 Sandoval. t i le Conqueft of the City of Thunes from the Moors , and the protection of 1 5 °®- 
 Muleaf[es,v/ho had made his application to this great Emperour for affiftance; x 5 3 > . 
 Mariana. LEWIS accompanied him in that glorious expedition , and had the com- 
 mand of the Ships which King fohn III, his Brother had fent to the Em- 
 perours fuccour. 
 
 In this expedition the Duke of Beta gave proof of his Valour, and ex- 
 perience in Deeds of War, to which he joyned the knowledge of the Me- 
 thamaticks, and other liberal Sciences. 
 
 He had the choice of two wives offered him; the firft was Mar/ afterwards 
 Queen of England ; the fecond,the Princefs Barbara of Poland , Daughter 
 of King Sigijmond firft of the name ; but he would embrace neither , be- 
 ?• Tcxtra. cau f e ( as feme Hiftorians write ) he had clandeftinely efpoufed a Gentle- 
 woman 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 , obferving King jfohn 
 his eldeft Brother to have many male-children. 
 
 The fame Prince LEWIS dyed in the Year, One thoufand five bun- His Death; 
 dred fifty and five , aged Forty nine vears, and Nine Months, and was in- 1555, 
 humedin the Abbey of Bethleem. By his Will he appointed the Prince 
 Anthony his Heir to his whole Eftate , not giving him other appellation 
 therein than, His Son, without adding Natural, by which we may be- 
 lieve, he took him for his lawful Son. 
 
 AbafeSonof LEWIS OF PORTUGAL, 
 
 Duke of B E I A. 
 
 14. ANTHONY proclaimed King O F P O R T U G A L at Sc. 1 
 
 Arem, whofe Story followeth in his place. 
 
 PRDINAND OF PORTUGAL, was born in the City his Birth.' 
 
 Portugal. A of Abrantes the Fifth day of fane. Anno, One thoufand five hundred I Joy. 
 
 EfcamtUe anci ftven, and was conjoyned in Marriage with Guiamare Coutinho, daugh- 
 Castille ter of Francis Coutinho Count of Marialua , and of Beatrice Menefes , by 
 Comma cy dcf- which Wife he had two Children that dyed intheir infancy , and being Se- His death; 
 
 A ven and twenty years old, dyed Anno, One thoufand five hundred four and IJ34, 
 
 Portugal, thirty , in the fame place of Abrantes , where he was born , there his body 
 EfcarteH dc refted , until the Year, One thoufand five hundred fourfcore and two , when 
 CAST pmf* Philip 11. King of Sptinhis Nephew, caufed it to be removed, and interred 
 Portugal tn the Church of che Monaftery of Bethleem near unto Lisbonne. 
 
 13. A LPHONSO Cardinal OF PORTUGAL, Arch-bifhopof 
 Portugal ff\ Lisbonne , Bifhop of Evora , and Abbot of Alcobace , born in the fame 
 comma ej do- Cltyo [ Ev fd,Anno, One thoufand five hundred and nine. He had at- H is Birth. 
 vant. tamed but the Eighth year of his age, when Pope Leo X. alfociated him ijo 9. 
 mix*. to the Colledge of Cardinals, and gave him the Title of St. Blaije, in the 
 ' i ear , One thoujand five hundred and feventeen. He exprefied himfelf to 
 UfioncMm. be Magnanimous, Libera], and Humane, and very diligent in his Epifcopal IJI7 ' 
 
 fundi- 
 
 
PORT U GAL ALGARVE S, &-t. gfi 
 
 Christ & n & i(3n > adminiftring the Holy Sacraments of die Church inperfon. To 
 ‘ thefe Virtues he added an extraordinary Piety towards God, Charity id be- 
 half of the Poor , and much affedion to thofe which made profefllon of 
 Learning. 
 
 In fine , having only arrived at the Eight and twentieth year of his age 
 His Death, he deceafed Anno , One thoufand five hundred f even and thirty , and was 
 1537 . depofited in the Abbey of Bethleem near Lishonne. Onufrtm and Ciacott 
 make mention of this Prelate in their Works which treat of the Popes and 
 Cardinals. 
 
 13. ILJ EN R Y alfo Cardinal OP PORTUGAL, then eleded 
 JL 1 King of Portugal and the Algarve s , (hall have his Story hereafter. 
 
 13. rDWARD Prince OF PORTUGAL , Sixth Son of E- po ^ tuga I 
 !_ mamel King of Portugal , and of Queen Mary of Caftille his fecond ufcmeie de 
 His Binh. Wife, was born the Seventh day of September, in the Year, One thottfand CASTIlle. 
 
 five hundred and fifteen , and being but Fifteen years old, finifhed the forty de 
 
 His death, courfe of his life at Lishonne the T wencieth day of October, Anno, One thou- BRAGANCE 
 1540. jand five hundred and forty. tmsfrfe 1 
 
 He received the honour of Burial in the Monaftery of our Lady at Beth- gue’ues charge 
 hem , with feveral Kings and Princes of the Houfe of Portugal , and from 
 this Prince are defcended the two laft Kings of Portugal, viz. fohn IV. and gff de Port - : 
 his Son King Alphonfo Vt. whoReignethat prefent, 1662. 
 
 His Marti- The Princefs ISABEL OF PORTUGAL his Wife, was Nonius. 
 age. Daughter of $ antes of Portugal fourth Duke of Braganza, and of Eleanor Vafcmcllhtti 
 of Mendoza his Wife. 
 
 Children of EDWARD OF PORTU- 
 GAL , W I s a b E L OF BRAGAN- 
 ZA bis Wije . t 
 
 14. EDWARD OF PORTUGAL* fecond of the name, Duke port u- ” 
 His Birth °f Vimerana, and Conftable of Portugal, was the only , and pofthumus gal-guI- 
 1540. ' Son of Prince Edward, and not being above Fifteen years old , King ffiohn M A R E N S. 
 Ill, hisUncle (Anno, One thottfand five hundred fifty and five') qualifi- Nonius. 
 ed him with the Dignity of Conftable of the Kingdom of Portugal , after Eaf concern ue} 
 thedeceafe of his Uncle Prince Lewis Duke of Beta younger Son of 
 King Emanuel. The fame King fohn created him alfo Duke of Vi- 
 merana. 
 
 This Prince EDW ARD (which fome efleem to bebutlittle fa- 
 voured by King Sebafiian his Cofin) was never married. He had attained 
 His death, the Six and thirtieth year of his age, when he departed this world at Evora i 
 *576' Anno, One thou [and five hundred threefcore and ftxteen (not in the Year 
 'following, as writeth Hierefme Heninges in Ijis Theatre of Kings and Prin- 
 ces) leaving his Cofin John of Portugal Duke of Braganza , his Succeffor in 
 
 the Dignity of Conftable. 
 
 FARNESEj 
 
 14. MARY OF PORTUGAL, Princefs of PARMA,' was 
 Her Efpoufed ( in the Y ear , One thoufand five hundred threefcore and ^ tu d’A^me > 
 Wa "tT' fix) to ALEXANDER FARNESE firftofthe name , Duke 3 - *• 
 
 1< > bC> ‘ S 2 Of BQRTHGAi 
 
6% EMANUEL King ef PORTUGAL 
 
 butesof of Parma and of Placentia , eldeft Son of Prince Ottavio , and of Margaret 
 
 Farm. of Aujlria his Wife , and Grand- fon of Peter Lewis firft Duke, of Parma of 
 
 the Houle of Farneje. 
 
 This Princefs MARY dyed at Parma in july , Anno , One thousand 
 jive hundred threejcore and feventeen , and the Prince ALEXANDER 
 her Husband (who carried the reputation of one of the Created:, and mod 
 Renowned Captains of his age ) deceafed the fecond day of, Decem- 
 ber , in the Year, One tboujand jive hundred fourjcore and twelve. He lieth 
 in the Abbey of St. Vaajl at Arras. 
 
 From their Marriage idued, among others, two Children , the elder of 
 which was Rainucio Farneje ,vtho fucceeded tohisFathers Edates,and as being 
 Heir to his Mother, was of the number of thofe that pretended a right to the 
 Crown of Portugal, after the deceafe of King Henry. And notwithstanding that 
 his Dominions were remote, yet befides the Favour of the Church, which it 
 was believed he had futficiently ; it was alfo thought that it would be agreea- 
 ble to thePortugueffes to have a young King(as was Rawucio)thu they might 
 educate and indrudt him after their own fafhion , and manners. But King 
 Vliipol Spain having the power in his hand, rendred himfelf peaceable pof- 
 fefTor of this Kingdom. 
 
 Rainucio efpoufed Margaret Aldobrandin Pope Clement Fill, his 
 Neece , and had ifiue Alexander Farnc[e fecond of the name, Duke of 
 Parma and Placentia , who after the death of his Father remained under the 
 T uttlage and Government of Edward Famefe the Cardinal his Uncle, youn- 
 ger Son of Duke Alexander fir ft of the name. Margaret Farneje (Softer of 
 Rainucio, and Edward) was married to Vincent de Conzaga firft of that name, 
 Duke of Mantua but they were feparated by the Authority of the 
 Church. 
 
 14 . 
 
 PORTU- 
 GAL-BRA- 
 G ANCE. 
 
 V’ argent an 
 fautoir de 
 jueudes charge 
 \ de cinq Efcuf- 
 fon.de portu- 
 
 V any de 
 PORTUGAL. 
 H- Franchi 
 Coneftagfio. 
 
 See alfo a 
 claufe of the 
 Law of Lame- 
 go, Fol.6 , 
 
 KATHERINE OF PORTHG AL, Dutchefs of BRA- 
 GA N Z A, younger Daughter of Prince Edward, was married to Rjohr 
 of Portugal her Cofin , fixth Duke of Braganza , who was one of thofe 
 Princes that were Competitors for the Kingdom of Portugal in the 
 right of this Katherinehlvs Wife, alledging that fhe ought to precede the 
 King of Spain 'Philip II. Son of the Emprefs ifabel of Portugal, as bein° 
 Daughter of Edward, this Ifabels Brother , whom (Ire did reprefent. And 
 caufed to be written in the Univerfity of Conimbra , divers reafons in her fa- 
 vour, which they fent to feveral Kings, and forrein Princes Katherine 
 grounded principally upon thefe reafons , That in all Succeffions of Crowns 
 thelaft poffdlor was to be fucceeded jure hereditatis , which allowed the 
 benefit of reprefentation , that lire reprefenting the Infante Don Edward 
 her Father, Brother of Henri, ought co precede all the other pretendants 
 the Catholique King becauleifiuedfrom a Daughter, the Prince Anthony 
 for being Illegitimate; Raynucio Famefe, as being farther removed from 
 Henry by the deceafe of Mary of Portugal his Mother (the Law never al- 
 lowing a Grand-child that benefit ) But efpecially by the prime and funda- 
 mental Laws of the Kingdom ( put in execution againft Beatrix Daughter 
 ql Ferdinand King of Portugal , who having married out of the Kingdom 
 to the King of Cajtille (as you may note page 35 . ) her right offucceeding 
 was utterly loft, and Kmg ^fechofen in her Head) Ihe was to be prefer- 
 red before all Claimers or Competitors whomfoever,in regard of her being 
 both born, and married within the Kingdom. ° 
 
 They had iffue Theodofm H. of the name, feventh Duke of Braganza, 
 
 Father 
 
 Years of 
 Christ, 
 
 Her death,' 
 
 1577. 
 
 15 
 
 1580; 
 
 H« 
 
 Marriage! 
 
Tears o? 
 Christ. 
 
 (fee ALGaRVES^c. 6 <y 
 
 Father of fohn II. of that name, eighth Duke of Bragania, Crowned 
 King of Portugal, by the name of John IF. who by this juft Title left, 
 the Kingdom to his Son King Alphonfo FI. Reigning at prefent. 1661. 
 
 Here are continued Children of King EMANUEL. 
 
 by MARY OF CASTILLE bis fccond Wife. 
 
 13. 
 
 ^3. 
 
 Her Birth. 
 
 I503. 
 
 Her 
 
 Marriage. 
 
 1526. 
 
 Her de 
 
 1539. 
 
 1558. 
 
 A nthony of Portugal, dyed not long after his 
 
 Birth, in the Year, One thoufand five hundred and feventeen. 
 
 I SABEL OF PORTUGAL, Emprefs and Queen of SPAIN, 
 born at Lishonne in the Year, One thousand five hundred and three, the 
 Fourth day of ottober, and having arrived at the Three and twentieth year 
 of her age, was (in the Year, one thoufand five hundred twenty and fix) 
 efpoufedat SeviRe, to CHARLES OF AUSTRIA, fifth of that 
 name, Emperour and King of Spain, eldeftSonoi Philip of AuflriaH:^ 
 of the name , and of foam Queen of Cafiille and Arragon his Wife. This 
 Emprefs ISABEL brought to her Husband the Summe of Nine hun- 
 dred thoufand Ducatesin Dower. They were married by the Cardinal 
 Salviati Pope Clement F. his Legate. 
 
 She dyed in the City of 1 oledo the firft day of May , in the Y ear , one 
 thoufand five hundred nine and thirty , aged only Six and thirty years, and 
 her body was tranfported to Granada. 
 
 The Emperour her Husband deceafed the One and twentieth day of 
 September, A° One thoufand five hundred eight and fifty , having carried 
 the honour and reputation of one of the greateft and moft virtuous Monarchs 
 that have commanded fince Charles the Great. Having gained feveral 
 fignal Victories upon the Turks and Infidels ; he moft of all (hewed the 
 grandureof his Courage in this, that he, which had fo many times vanquifh- 
 ed others,remained now Victorious upon himfelf in quitting theEmpire,with 
 the other Eftates and Kingdoms which he poffefled, and all worldly pomp, 
 to retire into a place of Solitude , and there to pafs the remainder of his 
 life, that he might the better apply himfelf to the ferviceof 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 himfelf Mailer thereof, as you have heard before. 
 Charles F. had alfo two Daughters , the elder of which , Mary of Auftria 
 was efpoufed to the Emperour OWaximilian II. and the younger was marri- 
 ed to fohn Prince of Portugal, Son of King John III. and hadifiue King 
 Sebajlian. 
 
 AllS- 
 
 triche- 
 
 espagne. 
 
 Efcartili 
 Au premier 
 quartier aujji 
 
 Efcarte'.e. 
 
 An 1. & 4. 
 
 de CAS- 
 TILLE. 
 
 An z. & 
 de L E O N. 
 
 An x.qua.tier 
 TARRA- 
 GON. 
 
 Vary de 
 ARRA- 
 G O N-S I- 
 CILIE. 
 
 Au 3. de 
 gueullcs a la 
 Vajfc Margate 
 qui cQ A ll - 
 
 STRICHE 
 
 Soujlemt de 
 F andtn.no 
 B O ll R- 
 G O NG NE. 
 
 Au 4. quay* 
 tier de la fecoitd 
 branche de 
 BOllR- 
 GONGNE. 
 
 Souftcnu de 
 BRABANT. 
 
 Sur les troi& 
 & quatriefme 
 quartiers de 
 FLANDRES. 
 
 Party dti 
 Mar qui fate de 
 St. Empire. 
 
 Le tout Party dd 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 J 3* ID EATRICE OF PORTUGAL, Dutchefs of SAVOYE, saToTeT 
 HerBirth. | j born at Lishonne the laft day of December , in the Year, One thoufand A m ff rtelr d 
 Hcr°^’ fi ve hundred and four , was conjoyned by Marriage (in March, Anno, One 
 Marriage, thoufand five hundred twenty and one ) with Charles III. Duke of Savoye, vd gay tffrajt 
 1 yi 1. Son of Philip Duke of Savoye, and of Claude of Bretagne his Wife. This ffif^ 
 
 Hcrdearh. Dutchefs dyed at Nice , in the Year, One thoufand five hundred (even and halite- 
 1 537- thirty , the Eighth day of fannary , at the fame age with the Emprefs her sax ir 
 
 % 
 
70 
 
 ay & d- r*bu sifter , 
 
 d'sjlx iteces , a * 
 
 In couronn ? de 
 
 EMANU EL King of 
 
 which was Three and thirty years. As for Duke Charles her Huf- Years of 
 he departed this life at Verceil , Anne, one thoufand five hundred fif- Christ. 
 
 ' 1553 . 
 
 , uoiiu , nmi.) one thoufand five hundred fif- 
 
 firtople, pent cn ty And three , the Seventeenth day of Augnft , being aged Threefcore and 
 
 m ch '‘ n ,i feven yeas. 
 
 cf!i.< BASSE- From this his Marriage with the Prince's BEATRICE OF 
 saxe. ^ PORTUGAL, came the Duke Emanuel- Philibert his Succeffor, who 
 tnfmmelebi- by Margaret of France , had his only Son Charles-Emanuel Duke of 
 (i »gu, /farin’ Savoy e. 
 
 “rlnesi-n'^lie T ,lis Duke Emanuel was of the number of thofe Princes Competitors 
 
 gtyff s i.& 1. for the Kingdom of Portugal , although he was Son of the younger Daugh- 
 cfruE N " ter ^ ins Emamel - An Hiftorian writes, that among the pretenders 
 >r- that were ftrangers, the Portugueffes w'ere more inclined to him , than to 
 
 Aii 5. c[im- 
 
 m c 4. C> J £>.IJ -••vtijivu imn y uiau lU 
 
 titr jarimm any other ; and this inclination proceeded from the opinion they had , that 
 EZflfde i[ i regard of the quality of his perfon , he was fitter than any other to de- 
 b/Uettes de fend them from their enemies , and if need were, he might vigoroufly refill 
 2 f ”Xde if he fhould ftirre , both by reafon of his Valour , and for the 
 
 Chablais. means he had to moleft him in his Dutchy of Millain , joyning unto 
 Aa j. dtfa- Piedmont , ufing chiefly the Alliance and Neighbourhood he had with 
 anZTm/& tfie French 5 who lald cIaira t0 that Dukedom. But his pretentions 
 imptiffc de fucceeded not according to his defire,for he dyed immediately after this over- 
 
 pmUes, jii efi ture wasmade. 
 
 d’Amifle. 
 
 Stir le tout de gueu lies a la Croix plan’, d’ argent , trii efi I’Efcn tie S A VO YE mtltine Pam if 
 
 PORTUGAL. J 
 
 
 ■M 
 
 ARY OF 
 die. 
 
 PORTUGAL the Elder , dyed in her Cra- 
 
 Children of EMANUEL King of PORTUGAL, 
 and o/ELEONOR OF AUSTRIA 
 h is third Wife. 
 
 „ M - HARLES OF PORTUGAL, born at Evora, in the Year, h; s Birth. 
 
 Vy One thouf and five hundred and twenty , the Eighteenth day of Febru- 1520, 
 ary , and deceafed at Lisbonne the Fifteenth of April, Amo, One thouf and five 
 hundred twenty and one, 
 
 , . „ 13 *TVf AR ,7 9 F PORTUGAL the younger, came into the Her Birth. 
 
 VafmetUm. J_Vg world at the end of the Year , One thoufand five hundred twenty and 1521. 
 one. Notwithstanding this Princefs was adorned with lingular Beauty both 
 of body and foul, and had been courted by feveral Princes, yet would fhe 
 never be brought to marry any , but lived with the honour and pudicity re- 
 quired in Princeffes of her Quality ; then being aged Seven and fifty years , 
 fhe payed her laft debt to Nature at Lisbonne , Anno. .One thoufand five hundred Her death. 
 threefcore and Eighteen. Her body was inhumed in the Monafteryof our 1578. 
 Lady of the Light , of the Order of the Warfare of Chrift, which fhe caufed 
 to be built near unto Lisbonne. 
 
 JOHN 
 
 A 
 
Years «f 
 Christ. 
 
 PORTUGAL mi the ALGARVE S } e^A fi 
 
 >3 JOHN III. 
 
 Of the Name, King of PORTUGAL 
 and the ALGARVE S, on this , 
 and the other fide the Affrican 
 Sea, Lord of Guinea j&c. 
 
 CHAP. XVI. 
 
 
 Vi Is Birthi 
 
 HIS Prince was the 
 
 , , „ , PORTUGAL 
 
 eld eft Son of E- 
 mannel King of C v °^,”‘ C} ds ~ 
 
 Portugal, and of 
 
 Mary of C aft tile Portugal. 
 his fecond Wife. The place Party de 
 
 of his Birth , Lisbonne The 
 time, the Sixth day of tt Hne . • 
 
 in the Tear, one thoujand five Au premier 
 
 hundred, and WO. qua, tier dujji 
 
 At the age of Twenty years a‘ A'. & 4 ; 
 he fucceeded to the Grown of * c a s. 
 his Father, and wanted no coil- T ^ r ; 2 L ^ 
 rage to continue his high de- * le on. 
 figns, as well to maintain him- . ?*«'- 
 
 felf in thofe memorable Con- gon ARRA ~ 
 quefts , that he had fo happily Party da r . 
 accomplilhed , as for the gain- sicu ie 
 ing of other Ifles , Kingdoms, a u •,/£{. 
 Cities, and Countries. To 5 T Riche. 
 this effedt Nonio Acuna his B o[\ r?* d ‘ 
 Viceroy in the Indies , took gongne 
 and ruined the lfle of Bethleem, d b c r l ftJ’ft micr 
 then fubjedted Batin and Da- a,', a . * 
 man , two famous Indian Ci- B ° u r- 
 ties, flew Sultan Baduc thepu- 
 iflant King of Cambaie , and tranche-, 
 fubjedted the City of Dium , * 
 
 BRABANT. 
 Cictadelle. nt f,r ces 
 
 where he built a 
 The fuccefs the Chriftians had dmx 
 
 in thefe parts;, fo perplexed the Turk, that he fent a powerful Fleet com- I/ c */„i'*** 
 indndea by the Baft a of Egypt, to drive the Portugal! from Dium and other flandres. 
 places , which they had in that Countrey : This Army joyned with that of L , Ef ft "ft dt 
 Cambaie, but at the rencounter they received folharp a welcome from the Mar q ti fate d% 
 
 T 2 Defen- S: - 
 
V&ftonccllitej, 
 Andrada . 
 
 Vafconcdliiis. 
 
 Ajidrrdz, 
 
 Kmm. 
 
 VdfconccUhis. 
 
 Martina. 
 
 7i JOHN III. of the Name , King of 
 
 Defendants commanded by Antonio Silueria , that a great number of them 
 were kill’d upon the place. 
 
 Nine years alter this, t he fecond Siege of Dium, was with much refolrn 
 tion maintained by fohn M afcaregna, againft the Sultan lAamudin, not lefs 
 notorious than the other, being that then alfo the Turk affifted the Indian 
 with his Forces. 
 
 The like fuccefs fmiled fora time upon the Chriftians at Safin in Africa » 
 where they valiantly endured Six months Siege by the Cherifs Army con- 
 fining of an hundred thoufand Souldiers , but not long after the Cherif or 
 King of Suez, worfted the Portugueffes , which fo much coaled their refolu- 
 tions, that King JOHN deliberated to abandon all his Forts of Africa 
 the more firmly to fettleand eftablilh himfelf in the fndies, Guinee, and Bra- 
 fiUe but this councel was not followed, for only quitting and difmantlin* 
 the Inland rorts , he retained, and fortified t he Port Towns of Septe Tan- 
 gier ^ and M azagan, with all things necefiary for arefiftance. 
 
 This King JOHN obtained from the Pope , That the City of Ever a 
 (hould be eredled into an Arch-bifhoprick , the Cities of Fortalegre Leiria 
 and Miranda in Portugal, into Bifhopricks , as alfo, of Cochin and Malaca 
 0 fJf*^Brafille, of Cape Afinaire in Guinee ; and in Ethiopia he 
 eltabliihed John Bermudes for firft Patriarch of the Latine Church. 
 
 Following the fteps of the King his Father , to him was attributed the 
 honour of having planted the Gofpel in the Eaftern parts of Afia , in Ethi- 
 opia the Higher , and other remote Provinces ; as alfo in the Molucca Iflands, 
 and Japon, where he fent that famous Jefuite Francis Xavier, afterwards 
 Canomzed the fruit of whofe labours appeared in the converfion of many 
 Infidels to the faith. Infomuch that it’s remarkable , that under the hap- 
 py Reign of this Prince JOHN, there were twelve Pagan Kings baptized 
 with the greater part of their people. He performed many other profita- 
 ble works lor the advancement of Piety 5 caufed feveral Monafteries to be 
 reformed according'to their Antient Rules , and was one of the firft Kin°s 
 that favoured , and greatly encreafed the Order of the Society of fetus for 
 whom he eredted feveral Colledges in Portugal , and his other Dominions 
 
 He was a devout Prince , and naturally fo benigne and clement , that he 
 even fhewed himfelf llow in Ordering punifhment to the Malefadfors and 
 when Judgment was given againft fuch, ( which he did in perfon once aweekl 
 he rather inclined to Forgivenefs, than Condemnation. A Lover he was 
 of Peaceand Tranquility, a favourer of perfons of merit, and parrs havin'* 
 given entertainment in his Kingdom to ftrangers of divers profeffions. He 
 transferred the Univerfity of LishonnetoConimbra , and richly endowed it 
 augmented the Salaries of thepublickProfefiors, and rendred this Acha- 
 demy one of the moft famous of Europe. He raifed alfo feveral proud Stru- 
 dfures at Evora , and reftored the Aqusdud of this Gity , which place he 
 fo much delighted in , that he made it the moft ordinary place of his 
 dwelling. 
 
 In the Year, one thoufand five hundred twenty and five , and in the 
 Month of February , he efpoufed Katherine of Auftria at Salamanca fhe 
 was Sifter of the Emperour Charles r. and fourth Daughter of Philip J 
 of the name King of Spain , and of Queen foanc his Wife. She dyed at 
 Ltsbonne , Anno , One thoufand five hundred three {core and feventeen , ha- 
 ving lived to a very great age. His Grand-fonKing Sebaflian, whofuccee- 
 ded this King J O H N , for the refpedt and reverence which he did bear 
 
 hSlddS Grand ' mother 3 did for fome time bridle the impetuofity of 
 a ' ' King 
 
 Years of ’ 
 Christ 
 
 1538. 
 
 H47- 
 
 His Marti* 
 age. 
 
 *577. 
 
 * 
 
PORTUGAL and the ALGARVE S,&c. 
 
 Christ K * n § JOHN III. her Husband , deceafed twenty years before her 
 HRI ' of an Apoplexie , in the City of Ltshonne , the Eleventh day of June, in 
 Ha Death t Jj e Year , One thoufand five hundred fifty and feven , after he had lived 
 I S 57 * Fifty and five years , and reigned Five and thirty' and an half. Hisbody 
 was interred in the Church of the Monaftery of Bethleem , which being be- 
 gun to be built by his Father, was accomplifhed by him and the Queen 
 his Wife. 
 
 TheSymboleorDevifeof this King, was a Rock compofed of five 
 Collumnes , upon which was exalted a Crofs , and for the Soul of the De- 
 vice , IN HOC SIGNO VINCES; prefenting thereby , ( in 
 imitation of Conflantinc the great, and of one of his Anceftors) that in 
 this fign of the Redemption of Man- kind , and of the Death of the Savi- 
 our of the world, he vanquiihed the enemies of our Faith. 
 
 Children of JOHN III. King OF POR- 
 
 TUGAL, and (/KATHERINE OF 
 AUSTRIA bis Wife. 
 
 14 A LPHONSO Prince OF PORTUGAL, born at Almerin, 
 1516. L* the Four and twentieth day of February, in the Year, One thoufand 
 five hundred twenty and fix, dyed young. 
 
 14. 
 
 1531- 
 
 F “MANUEL OF PORTUGAL, came into this world the 
 firft day of November, being All Saints day , A° One thoufand jive hun- 
 dred thirty and one, and departed this world three years after. 
 
 14. FA HILIP OF PORTUGAL, firft faw the light of day at E- 
 1533. * It vora, the Five and twentieth day of May, in the Year , one thoufand 
 five hundred thirty and three , and deceafed alfo in his infancy. 
 
 14 T“\ION Y SIO or DENIS OF PORTUGAL, born in 
 isn " ^ the fame City of- Evora the Six and twentieth day of April , A° One 
 ^ thoufand five hundredthirty and five, dyed likewife in his youth. 
 
 14 TOHN Prince OF PORTUGAL, out-lived his four Brothers. 
 H b, J The place of his Birth was Evora,xt pon the third day of June, in the Y ear, 
 
 1537 * One thoufand five hundred thirty and (even. About the fixteenth year of 
 „. his age he efpoufed J O A N E OF AUSTRIA, fecond daughter 
 Mirriage. of the Emperour Charles V. and of Ifabel of Portugal his Wife , who was 
 I 5 S 3 . Aunt by the Fathers fide to this Prince. He enjoyed her but feven months, 
 n . and then dyed the fecond day of January, A ' One thoufand five hundred 
 ■ fifty and four, not having arrived at the Seventeenth year of hisage. 
 
 He left this Princefs JOftNE with child, who after delivery of her 
 pofthumus Son King Sebafiian , returned into Caflille , and in the ab- 
 fence of her Brother King Philip II. who was at that rime in the Low- 
 Countreys, governed his Kingdoms with Prince Charles his Son , her Ne- 
 phew, and then departed out of this life intoabettei, in the Year of Sal- 
 o vation, One thoufand five hundred threefcore and eighteen. She founded a 
 1J 7 8 - Nunnery for barefooted Sifters at Madrid, and had this happinefs, not to fee 
 1 U the 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 Comma cy ds- 
 vanf. 
 
 P ORTUGAL 
 Party d'- 
 A LI S- 
 
 TRICHE. 
 Comme cy dt - 
 vatu. 
 
 M.v/hna . 
 
74 JOHN I'll, of the Name, King of 
 
 the lofs and miferable death of her only Son , hapning but few Months after Years a t 
 her deceafe. - Chiust. 
 
 A Son d/JOHN Prince OF PORTUGAL, and 
 JOANE OF AUSTRIA his Wife. 
 
 15 . SEBASTIAN the kft King O E PORTUGAL inde- 
 feent, of this branch. 
 
 J4. A NTHONY OF PORTUGAL, fixth Son of King tfohn 
 
 1 \ III. born the ninth day of March, in the Y ear, One thoufand five hint- 1539 
 dred thirty and nine, finifhed his day es in his infancy. 
 
 H- 
 
 M 
 
 ARY OF PORTUGAL, Princefsof SPAIN, eldefl 
 
 -7 , au °hter of King John III. firflfaw the light of day at Conimbra, Her Birth. 
 
 KES- CHt the Fifth day of October, Anno , One thoufand five hundred twenty and (e- r 5 ! 7- 
 PAGNE. ’ a nd was married at Salamanca (in March , Anno, One thoufand five ^ :r . 
 
 hundred forty and three ) to Philip II, at that time Prince , and afterwards , LIT'" 
 
 Au. premier King of Spain. She was the firft of four wives, that he had, and dyed at Herdiath. 
 v / tdolit T welfth day of July, in the Year , One thoufand five hundred i y 45 
 ’ forty and five , four dayes after (he was delivered of her only Son Prince 
 
 IaAYI fit H/nrt si\7aas4 kofni-c XT 11 1 1-1 1 • 1 
 
 Aui .& 4 jy; -> 7 /*™, dieci me was aenverea or neroniy son Prince 
 
 ; A S - Charles , who dyed before the King his Father , and had a fad, and Tragical 
 
 . T F an A T L a ,Cn m A V fnn t- x 1 /• 1 I 1 . ■ . ' O 
 
 i'CAS. — - — , ruvjiing m> ranter, ananaaaia a, ana tragical 
 
 A»t end l r “ e fame King Philip II. deceafed the Thirteenth day of September, 
 de leon. ln c “ e Y ear °f Grace , One thoufand five hundred fourfeore and eighteen , 1 59%. 
 
 Threefcore at »d eleven years. He reigned Forty years in Spain , and 
 gon. ' Eighteen m Portugal. The body of the Princefs Mary his Wife, was con- 
 Party <f a r - veyed to Granada, and there interred She never carried the Title of 
 sici lie. ■ Q H“ n ’ former Husband came to the Crown a long time after her deceafe. 
 
 Stir leftjuels deux premiers qumiers eft pefi I’Efiti de Portugal. 
 
 Ju 5. ‘PAllSTRICHE, Souflenu de BOURGONGNE * la premier Imnehe. 
 
 Au 4. de BOURGONGNE dt la fccond branebe 5 ouffenu de BRABANT 
 
 Bt r Vmt' 7a * FL ANDRE S. Party du Marqaifate dtt St. Jbyfei. 
 
 X4, 
 
 *4- 
 
 TSABEL OF PORTUGAL born at Lisbonne , the Eight and 
 -■ twentieth day of April, One thoufand five hundred twenty and nine, was x 5 2 7. 
 fecond Daughter of King ffokn III , and dyed young. 
 
 B E ATRIX OF PORTUGAL, brought into this world alfo 
 at Lubonne , the Fifteenth day of February , in the Year of our Redem- 
 ption, One thoufand five hundred and thirty, dyed in the Cradle. *53°. 
 
 J Natural Son of J O H N III, King 
 of PORTUGAL. 
 
 14, f EDWARD of PORTUGAL, Arch-bilbop of Bracara, and Primate 
 „ r „ * ° f S / > was Prelate well read in Pbilofophy , Divinity, and ocher good Learning . 
 AafmeeUtm. tbefe excellent parts had laid a foundation for higher expectations, when Death furpri- 
 fed him in the flower of his years, to the great affliction of King fohn MI. hi s Father. 
 
 SEBASTI- 
 
 * 
 
Ycart of 
 Christ. 
 
 PORTUGAL andthe ALGARVE S } &c. 75 
 
 •5. SEBASTIAN 
 
 King of PORTUGAL and the ALGARVES, 
 on this, and the other fide the Sea in Affrica , Lord 
 of Gurnee, and of theConqueft, Navigation, and 
 Commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia,? erji a, and India. 
 
 CHAP. XVII. 
 
 1 5J7. 
 
 HAT Preju- 
 dice which yong 
 Princes and their 
 people receive by 
 ill weighed coun- 
 cels, and imprudent deliberati- 
 ons , is apparent in this King , 
 when their hot courage, accom- 
 panied with raihnefs ; throws 
 rhem into the precepice of a 
 deplorable ruine. This was 
 King S E B A S TIA N’s con- 
 dition , who being in the firft 
 Flower of his age, without ex- 
 perience in Deeds of War, em- 
 barquedhimfelf in a dangerous 
 ( yet glorious ) enterprise , a- 
 gainft the Advice of his nearefl 
 Eriends , and mod faithful 
 Councellers , leaving his King- 
 dom emptyed of Money , na- 
 ked of Nobility , without a 
 certain Heir, and in the hands 
 of ill-affedted Governours; So 
 that in Fine, he miferably pe- 
 rilhed , and by this unhappy 
 Event gave great advantages 
 to the Infidels , and grief to 
 his Subjects , which was the 
 more increafed , for that the 
 Kingdom of Portugal having for a long time enjoyed the calm of an happy 
 Peace, and fo muchProfperity , was not only agitated with furious Tem- 
 pefts, and inteftine Wars ; but alfo fell into the hands of a ftranger. 
 
 This King SEBASTIAN was only Son of Prince J-ohn of Ponu- 
 
 U 2 galf 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 argent a 
 Cinq EfcuJJ’ens 
 d’Azur peris erg, 
 Croix chacun 
 charge de cinq 
 be fans aujji 
 d’ Argent pofe^ 
 en fautoir a la 
 bordure de 
 gueulles charge 
 de fept C ha fie - 
 aux d 1 or , trdis 
 cn chef deux 
 en faffe&- 
 deux en point* ' 
 
Nonius. 
 
 y.ifconceHim. 
 
 V 'tf concetti us t 
 
 ThuMiiu. 
 
 Cmcptggto. 
 
 76 SEBASTIAN Kino of 
 
 ° . Years of 
 
 gal, and of fo/me of Aufiria his Wife, born a pofthumus (in the Year, Christ. 
 One tho’tjand five hundred fifty and f our) the T wentieth day of January , His Birt(u 
 on which day is celebrated the Feaft of Sc. Sebajlian , in memory of whom 1554, 
 he had this name given him. 
 
 After the death of his Giand-father King tfohn III. being but Three 
 years old, he fucceededto the Crown of Portugal , and during his minority, 
 was under the Government of Queen Katherine of Auftria. But afterwards 
 this Princefs, not being able to undergo lb great a charge as that of the Re- 
 gency , transferred it bv theEftates to Cardinal Henry , great Uncle by the 
 Fathers fide to King SE B A S 1 IAN? who having attained to the 
 Fourteenth year of his age, began to take the Reins of Government into 
 his own hand. 
 
 _ The Moors taking advantage by the infirmity of his age, thought it now 
 a fi t time to endeavour the reduction of fome of his beft Garifons in Affrica. 
 
 So that Mahomet King of Mauritania , the Son of Cherif <^Abdala, came 1562. 
 with a confider able force, and begii t Magazon with a fit ait Siege , and had it 
 not been by Roderick de Soja nobly defended forthefpaceofThreemonths, 
 they had carried it. 
 
 No better was the Fortune of the Infidels Ten years after, when they 1572. 
 undertook the fame defign upon the Towns of Goa, and chiaule. For At- 
 taida and Mafcaregna fo refolutelv oppofed , that after Six months Siege 
 before the one, and Nine before the other , they were forced to retire with 
 loft and fhame. 
 
 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 thofe Dominions which he poffefled , refolved to make Con- 
 quefl of new , net cenfidering , that this defign was net to be effected , 
 without great hazard, and in the alteration of that repole his Kingdom had 
 fo long enjoyed. Fie had fir ft defigned a War againft the Indians , but that 
 his Kinfmen and Subjects would not confent unto. But as there was fome 
 difficulty wholly to withdraw the young Prince ( who had a Warlike fpirit) 
 from this Enterprife , fuch as were near him , laboured to divert him by 
 means of another which they laid before him , turning all his Refolution up- 
 on Affrick , to engage the Moors which live in that part called Mauritania 
 Tingitana, where the Portugals maintained (to their great Charge ) upon 
 the Coaftof Barba>y, the three FortrefTes of Septe, Tangier , and Magagon, 
 the In-let and Key of Spain , by which the Moors have heretofore conquer- 
 ed it But this diverfion whe’reunto they perfwaded the King, produced fad 
 effedls, principally proceeding for want ol Judgment, foralthoughic were 
 difficult wholly to diffwade him from the expedition of India , and therefore 
 convenient torepiefent unto him fome other Adlion-, yet fhould they ad- 
 vifedly have fore feen, not to divert him from one mifchief, tothrufthim 
 into a greater. 
 
 The young King flayed not long to put this defign in execution. For 
 in the Year, One thou (and five hundred three [core and fourteen , he aflem- 1574. 
 bled (againft the inclination of his beft Friends) certain of his Souldiers, K; 
 and with four Gallics, and fome Ships, and Carvels paffed into Africa, Un* baftian* s 
 dercolourof vifiting his Forts, although he really defired to effiedl more firft . v °y- 
 than he made (hew of; There they came to fomeSkennilhes with the Moors, 
 at which he was almoft al wayes found irt perfon, where difeovering his own 
 weaknefs, and vexing himfelf that he could not perform what he defired ; 
 
 He returned back to Lisbonne, ftilldevifine fome new manner of War, which 
 
 fo 
 
Ve*rs of 
 Christ 
 
 1578 . 
 
 King Se- 
 baflian’s 
 fccond ex- 
 pcdirion 
 into Afri- 
 ca. 
 
 The Bat- 
 tel of Al- 
 carer. 
 
 iJ7 8 - 
 
 PORTUGAL and the ALGARVE S,&c. 77 
 
 fo difquieted his conceit, that he ne ther faid nor did any thing to other end; 
 deliberating not as a King, but as a private Souldier , to accuftom his body 
 to labour , intending thereby to habituate himfelf more to the hardlliips 
 and miferies of War. This inclination (in which the heavens had fome 
 part ) was not contradicted by any of his Council For although thefe adi- 
 ons of the Kings were rafh, yet Ambition, and fear of his difpleafure, were 
 of fuch force, That the Nobility , Magiftrates , and other perfons (who 
 might have forced him ) durft not open their mouths, nor oppofe them- 
 felves againft his Will ; and if any did mutter or fpeak to the contrary, they 
 were men of bafe Quality, and not admitted. 
 
 The Cardinal Henry his great Uncle > Brother to fiohn III, his Grand- 
 father, and Queen Katherine ( in whom Flattery iliould have found no place) 
 had fmall credit with the King, neither did they ufethe Authority they 
 might have had, both fearing they iliould not prevail ; but lofe ( with the 
 Kings difgrace ) that fnlall command was yet remaining in them : So as by 
 a fatal filence , they fuffered this young Prince for the fecond time to return 
 into Africa. 
 
 And the more to enflame King SEBASTIAN, it fortuned that 
 Mulej Mahomet chafed out of the Kingdom of Morocco by his Uncle Mule y 
 Moluc , endeavoured his re-eftabliihment by theaide of the Chriftians-, and Errert - 
 for this purpofe entreated fuccours from SEBAST IAN, perfwading 
 this King, that by the advantage of thofe Friends that he could make in 
 his own Kingdom , he ihould 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, embraced the Moors fafcmtiian 
 offer , and finding himfelf not able to perform this expedition without ano- 
 ther Confederate, endeavoured to draw into this AClion his Uncle by the 
 Mothers fide, the King of Spain, Philip It. to which effedl an Interview 
 was appointed at Guadalupa ; There tne Kings met, and propofals were 
 made of a match betwixt King Philips Daughter, and King SEBASTI- 
 AN, and as to the War of Africa, the Spanifh King liked well of it, fa 
 that it might be profecuted by his Lieutenants , but not that he fhould un- 
 dertake it in perfon, excufing himfelf that he could not aflifl him with a con- 
 fiderable force, pretending he had occafion for Souldiers to refill the Turk in 
 Italy fo that from the Catholique King he could expedf but fmall fupplies. 
 
 So that now alfifted only with fome Regiments of Italians , Germans, 
 and Irijh ( after he had with great pomp caufed the Royal Standerd to be 
 hallowed in the Cathedral Church of Lisbonne) SEBASTIAN fet 
 Sail for Affrick with an Army of Eighteen tnoufand men, and thealfiftance Miami u 
 of a great number of the Nobilitv of his Kingdom, among which were fe- 
 veral Princes and Lords, defeended from the Royal Family. ’ ' H ‘ ' 
 
 At his arrival, Multy M due, fearing that the event of this War might cmejh%iw. : 
 fall out to his difad vantage, offered him ten miles Circuit about every one of 
 his Fortrcffes of Africa for Tillage-, But SEBASTI AN would not 
 hearken to any Compoficion, unlels he would yield into his hands the Towns 
 of Tituan , Alarache , and the ( ape of Aghero, which the Cherif refufed- 
 
 In the mean time tire Portugucffes being dilTwaded from marching by land 
 to lay Siege to Alarache , to avoid the iminent danger Which the Army 
 would fall into thereby, were fo ill councelled, and fo unfortunate,as tofor- 
 fake that by Sea, the far more advantagious, and of lefs hazard. 
 
 The Armies then coming to an engagement the Fourth day of Augulf, rbumui 
 in the Y ear , one tkoufand five hundred three [core and eighteen , in the Plain H, A /** 
 
Eli 'era. 
 
 Now as. 
 Coaeflag^io. 
 
 raft 'conccll: us. 
 
 Concftaggio. 
 
 Mariana, 
 
 Ewer a. 
 
 78 SEBASTIAN King of 
 
 of Alcacer. King SEBASTIAN’S Horfe had for forfletime the bet- Y«r, a 
 ter of the Moorijh Cavalry , but the grand advantage the Moors had or the 
 Chriftians in number ( being ten to one ) fo much prevailed , that what 
 they could not perform by their valour , they executed with their number, 
 fo that the Chriftians wearied with Conquering, were at laft wholly defea- 
 ted. The King was firft wounded in the right Arm with the (hot of aHar- 
 qvjebuze , whereof making fmail account , he went ordering things in all 
 parts of the Army ; But being at that time deprived of the greateft Trea- 
 fure which young Kings ought to have in fo important occafions , a perfon 
 lage and advifed, to whom he (hould give ear 5 when he began to fee his men 
 break, he fell furioufly with fome Gentlemen that were about him, into the 
 Enemies ranks, valiantly fighting to give incouragement to the Souldiers, 
 
 Thofe that faw him, wondred at his Courage , for although they had kill’d 
 three Horfes under him without any whit daunting him , yet was he indefa- 
 tigable in charging, ftriking, and relieving all parts of the Army where it 
 was mod opprefl’ed. But being but a man fecondedby few , he cannot re- 
 fift the Enemies fury, nor make his Friends partakers of his Valour : lo that 
 being unhorfed, he was taken and difarmed. And upon a difpute hapning a- His Death, 
 mong the Moors for this royal Prifoner, was by them moft inhumanely butch- 1 57 *. 
 ered in cold blood. 
 
 Such was the death of this unfortunate King , wherein did rencounter 
 all things that might make it deplorable; his youth , the expe&ation of his. 
 Virtues, the want of Succeflion, the violence of his Death, and theprifonof 
 his body, remaining in the hands of the Moors. 
 
 He was indued with excellent qualities ; which were of no advautage to 
 him,wanting,becaufeof his youth, that Virtue which ought to govern our 
 Adtions. For all his defigns which carried him to a precipitate end , were 
 built upon his Magnanimity , Liberality, his defire of Military Glory , the 
 Difpofition of his body, and the Vigour of his Courage. So that we may 
 well lay of- this unfortunate young Prince, thatwhich was fometimesfpo- 
 kenof Alexander the Great, That Nature had given him Virtue, and For- 
 tune vices. For to fay truly, S E B A S T I A N had his Virtues from Na- 
 ture, and his Vices from his Education. 
 
 This Battel was the more remarkable, for that the two other Kings, Mo- 
 luc and Mahttmed dyed there alfo, the firft with the violent accefs of a natural 
 difeafe , the other was drowned in pafling the River of Mucazen, to fave 
 himfelf by flight. There dyed T hree thoufand Moors, and as many Chri- 
 ftians, or more ; among which were many perfons of Honour ; For befides 
 the Captains of theftrangers, and the Duke of Aaeiro ■■ there was (lain Al- 
 phonfo of Portugal Count of Vimio\o ; Lewis Coutinho Earl of Rodondo 5 
 Vafco de Gama Count of Vidigttera Alphonfo of Norogna Earl of Mira, 
 
 ‘■John Loho Baron of Alvito , Alvara of Me He eldeft Son to the Count of 
 Tentugal ; James brother to the Duke of Braganza , John de Silveira el- 
 deft Son to the Earl of Sortegha , Chriflopher of Tauora , and many others 
 of account, fo as fome Noble Families were there wholly extindl; and The- 
 odofins Duke of Barccllos , and Anthony Prior of Crato , with many others, 
 were taken Prifoners. 
 
 The Body of King SEBASTIAN pierced with feven wounds,' 
 not being known till two dayes after the fight, was brought unto Alcacer , 
 and afterwards the King of Spain Uncle to the Defunft, by the permiflion 
 of the Cherif King of Morocco , caufed it to be conveyed to Septe , where it 
 refted, until that in the Year, One thoufand five hundred f our f core andtm, 
 
 it . 
 
 0 
 
PORTU GAL mi the ALGARVES,^. 7? 
 
 Chkist ic ' vas from tllence tranfported into the Kingdom of -Portugal, mi with Mag- . 
 mficent Funeral Pomp ( performed in the prefence of the fame King ) 
 interred in the Monaftery of Bethkem with the Kings of Portugal his 
 Anceftors, * 
 
 And here 1 cannot omit to inform you of that Ceremony ufcd by the Idcm ' 
 TheCere . Portuguese s in bewailing their dead Kings, and performed by them upon 
 monyufcd the news of the death of this King SEBASTIAN. Firft there parted 
 tlguefjh" from Magiftrates houfe , a Citizen on Horf-back > covered himfelf and 
 in bewail- his Horfe all in Black , with a great Enfign in his hand likewife of Black, 
 
 ^ngtheir bearing it on his fhoulder that it might trail on the ground, after him fol- 
 Kings. lowed three old men on foot in Mom ning weeds , with th,ree Scutchions in 
 their hands, like Shields or Targets , bearing them high upon their heads 
 without any figure upon them, but all Black; Then followed fome Citi- 
 zens of the fame Magiftrates , and other inferiors in great numbers : All 
 thefe went through the principal Streets of Lisbonne , and coming to the 
 fteps of the Cathedral Church , which is near unto the place from whence 
 they parted ; thofe which hold the Scutcheons , mount up certain degrees, 
 andoneof them lifting up his Shield, cries with a loud voice , Peoplecf Lif- 
 bonne , lament your King SEBASTIAN , who is dead ; Then all 
 the people weep, and cry: Having ended his words, he breaks his Scutch- 
 ion as a vain thing, ftriking it on the place where he ftands : Then proceed 
 they on, andbeingcometo the New Street, afcending the Stairs of the 
 little Church of our Lady of oliuera , another of them which carried the 
 Scutchions, pronounceth the fame words the former had done, and breaks 
 his Shield in the fame manner ; T he like is done by the third upon the flairs 
 of the Hofpital : So as all the three Scutchions being broken in thofe places, 
 they all return home, and thus is the Ceremony ended. 
 
 T he fame King was at the time of his death aged Four and twenty years, Fm'w. 
 Seven Months , and Fifteen Dayes , and had Reigned about Two and r*fe#uttthn> 
 twenty. 
 
 Henever married, although therewere propofals made of three feveral 
 wives, ifabel of Auftria Daughter of the King of Spain, Margaret of France 
 Daughterof King Henry If. and alfo another ifabel of Aufiria Daughter 
 of the Emperour Maximilian 1. and Widow of the King of France , 
 
 Charles IX. 
 
 He had his Piety by inheritance, having made his Religion flourilh, and 
 eftablifhed it in Brafi/le and the Indies , where he founded feveral Churches 
 and Colledges, but more efpecially thofe of thejeluites. 
 
 About two and twenty years after his deceafe , there was a man in Italy Thuanm , 
 who reported himfelf to be the fame King SEBASTIAN, and that 
 having efcaped from the Battel of Alcacer , he had wandred up and down 
 for a long time, without making himfelf known. Which beingrepre- 
 fented to the Senate of Venice with many Circumftances , fome believed 
 it to be a truth, others were doubtful, and alfo many there were that fup- 
 pofed him to be an Importer. But certain it was , that having been im- 
 prifoned at Florence , and from thence conveyed to Naples , and put in the 
 Gallies,he there came toamiferable end. 
 
 The Cardinal Henry of Portugal being exceeding old , againft the KftonceUiw. 
 common courfe of Nature fucceeded King SEBASTIAN his Ne- m . /iaX!t . 
 phews Son. Which young Prince in that Warre which he undertook in 
 Affrick , endeavouring to deliver a Nation from fervitude , by his impru- 
 dence rendred the greater part of his Nobility flaves to the Arabes , and 
 
 X a Moors, 
 

 K 
 
 So SEBASTIAN Kingof PORTUGAL,^. 
 
 r a r r • j Year* of • 
 
 Moors, and of a free Nation , asitwas, inafmallfpaceot time was redu- emusr. 
 ced under the obedience of the Castilians , which they for fo many years 
 held for their capital Enemies 5 as writeth Hierofme Franc hi Concflaggia, 
 a Gentleman of Genoa , who hath moil judicioufly difeourfed this lalf 
 Warre of the Portuguefjes in Africa , asalfothe end of this Branch of the 
 Houfe of Portugal , the Change of their Government , and the Union 
 of this Kingdom to the Crown of Cajlille. The fame Subject hath been 
 ellegantly Written by tfaques Auguftus de thou , in the Hiftory of his 
 time-, and by Antonio Errera, Hiftoriographer to the King of Spain, 
 
 Philip 11, 
 
 
 HENRY 
 
 
.3. HENRY 
 
 Cardinal of PORTUGAL, then 
 
 EleScd KING 
 
 Of PORTUGAL and the ALGAR VES, &c. 
 
 CHAP. XVIII. 
 
 I57& 
 
 His Birth* 
 
 1512. 
 
 1546J 
 
 S Mong the feven 
 Sonsiffued from 
 the Marriage of 
 ; Emanuel King of 
 Portugal , and of 
 Mary of Cajlille his fecond 
 Wife , this HENRY was 
 the fifth: bom the laft day of Etfamcdum, 
 January , in the Year, One 
 thou [and five hundred and twelve. 
 
 He was firft of all Archbilhop 
 of Erachara , and Primate of ^mut. 
 Spain , then of Lishonne , and 
 laftly alfo firft Archbilhop of 
 Evora , where he founded a fair 
 Colledge for the Jefuites. 
 
 In the Year, One thousand 
 ■five hundred forty and fix, Pope 
 Paul IIP. adopted him to the 
 Sacred Colledge of Cardinals. 
 
 During the Reigns of his Bro- 
 ther, and Nephews Son John 
 III. and Sehafiian , he was In- 
 quifitor Major of the Faith in 
 Portugal . 
 
 After that Katherine of 
 Aultria , Widow of Prince 
 John of Portugal his Nephew, 
 
 Mother of young King Sebafn- 
 an, had quit the Regency of 
 
 the Kingdom , the Eftates conferred it upon this Cardinal HENRY, 
 great Uncle to the young King, in the Year, One thoufand five hundred 
 
 1562. threefcore and two. He exercifed this Charge until the King came to age, 
 
 who upon his fecond expedition into Africa, wanting a careful perfon to 
 whom he might leave the Government of the Kingdom in his abfence , went 
 
 * 
 
Concjiaggio. 
 'Tbu mus. 
 Conefaeg/o, 
 
 Coneslagg’o, 
 
 82 HENRY King of 
 
 to Event , where HENRY at that time liyed. And although this YeJts 
 Prince was not greatly pleafing to him, yet did he intreat him to take this Cfiaisr ’ 
 care in his abfence , which the Cardinal would by no means accept , excu- 
 fing it by reafon of his age , and indifpofition to Rule ; fo that the King 
 made choice of four Governours to command in his name , which were 
 George d’ Aimed a Archbifhop of Lisbonne , Peter d ' Alcafoua, Francis de 
 Sada, and fohnMafcaregnas, to whom he gave a plenipotentiary power. 
 
 After his death in Africa, thefe Governours committed the manage- 
 ment of affairs to the Cardinal , who not long after was Proclaimed , and 
 Sworne King by the Portuguejfes : The Form of the Oath was performed TheCerc- 
 in this manner 5 The XXV. of Augufl , the Hofpital Church of All n ’ on y of 
 Saints was hanged with Silk Tapeftry/ in the which they ereded a Throne, 
 upon which was placed a Seat of Cloth of Gold -, thither came the King in fweann^ 
 the morningdn the habit of a Cardinal ; going from the Palace, there march- thck Kil ’ 5 
 ed before him eight Attabales , or Drums on Horf- back , after the Morefco 
 manner, and nine Heraulds all on Horf- back , carrying upon their Cloaks 
 theirCoatsof Arms: after fol Wed on foot, almoft all the Officers of the 
 Court , thofe of 'the Chamber , and other Magiftrates ; behind them was 
 the Duke of Bragan&a on Horl'-back bareheaded , bearing in his hand a 
 Sword, with a Scabard of Gold, as Conftable: a little after came the 
 Cardinal upon a Mule , the which Alvar a de Silva Count of Portalegre , 
 
 Lord Steward of his Houfhold , led by the reins ; there followed after ma- 
 ny Noblemen and Gentlemen on Horf-back , with a great number of peo- 
 ple on foot : The Cardinal invironed with a great multitude , afcended the 
 Stairs of the Hofpital , being entred the Church, having heard Service, 
 and ended his Prayers , he feated himfelf in the Chair of State prepared on 
 the Throne , where prefently Francis de Sada (one of thofe that had 
 been Governours ) put the Scepter in his hand , and Michael de Mora Se- 
 cretary, Handing a little diftant, faid (reading it with a loud voice) That 
 King H E N RT by the Death of King Sebaftian, did fucceed in the Realm, 
 and therefore they had delivered him the Scepter , and that he was come to 
 take the accujlomed Oath , to maintain and obferve unto his people , and to 
 any other , all Liberties , Priviledges and Conventions , granted by his Pre- 
 deceffors: which done, the Secretary kneeling before him with an open 
 Book, the King laid his hand thereon, fwearingfotodo : Then did the 
 Attabales found , every man crying, Reale , Reale , for H E N R Y King 
 of Portugal: This done, herofe, and with the fame company, holding fliU 
 the Scepter in his hand, he returned to the Palace , the Attabales founding, 
 and the Heraulds crying from time to time as before. 
 
 Now being feated in the Royal Throne, although he was Threefcore 
 and feven years of age, and not healthful, yet looked he about him, and ofTuf 
 ( as it were determined from above, that Portugal Ihould fall by degrees to HE1 ? Rr 
 its declination) did not provide for the State, according to that opinion min^r™" 
 that was conceived of him: butthe Realm by reafon of their miferiespaft, thcCrow* 
 remained as a body empty and affli&ed , which needed a wife Phyfitian to 
 reftore it. For as one mifchief comes not alone , the new King did more 
 torment it; for although many fuppofed, that he being old , aPrieft,and 
 of an exemplary life , lhould lay all palfions afide , and be careful to fettle 
 the Hate of the Common-wealth in better order chan he had found it ; yet 
 notwithftanding he could not temper himfelf, with fuch a difpofition as was 
 fit for his Quality and years : But as it often falls out in them which have 
 been opprelfed, who coming to Rule, feek Revenge upon their enemies, 
 
 even 
 
 0 
 
Yeats of 
 Christ. 
 
 HlsDeach. 
 
 ijSo, 
 
 PORTUGAL, and the ALGARVES, &c. 8; 
 
 eveiifo did he (hot imitating the example of Lewis Xll. King of France 3 
 whodifdained to requite the wrongs done to him being Duke of Orleance ) 
 who refolved to revenge the injuries done to him being Cardinal, if they may 
 be juftly called injuries , when as Princes be not refpedted of their iriferiours 
 as they ought : For not being greatly favoured by the King his Predeceffor, 
 the Minifters , and Favourites of his Nephew, did not ufe him with that 
 Refpeft as was required , conceiving ( that being fo old, and Sebastian fo 
 young ) that he would never have attained to the Crown : By reafon where- 
 of he deprived almoft all the Officers of the Court, and fome of them thac 
 did manage the Kings Treafure, of their Offices; and advanced his own 
 Servants, 
 
 In the mean time , theEftatesbf the Kingdom befeeching him to take 
 care for the declaring of his Succeffor to the Crown, he Convoked a Solemn 
 Affembly of the fame Eftates in the City of Almerin , to hear the Claims 
 of thofe Princes which pretended to the Kingdom. The number of whom 
 was many ; vif Antonio Baftard of Portugal , King HENRY’s Nephew; 
 the Catholick King Philip II. the Duke of Braganza in the Right of the 
 Dutchefs his Wife ; tile Duke of Savoy, the Prince of Parma ; the Queen 
 of France , Katherine de Medicis , Mother of King Henry III. and Pope 
 Gregory XIII. 
 
 During this Affembly, King HENRY left. this World the laft day of Cm cy t yo. 
 January, in the Year, one ihoufand five hundred and four [core ; it being 
 remarkable , That he began to die in the beginning of the Eclipfe of the ibMnk. 
 Moon, and finiffied with it ; as if that celeftial Sign had wrought that Ef- FafconccUhii. 
 feft in him ( being a King of a weak body ) which it doth not in ftronger ; M „ im . 
 or at leaft,not fo fuddenly , as A/lrologers do write. Neither is the houre 
 to be neglefted, being the fame wherein he was born, Threefcore and eight 
 years before, having Reigned Seventeen Months, and eight dayes ; fo that 
 in him ended the Male Line of the Kings of Portugal of that Branch ; fince 
 derived from the Collateral of the Dukes of Braganza. He was of a thin 
 Body, fmallof Stature, and of a lean Face: As for his Judgment , it was 
 indifferent, indued ( beiides the Latine Tongue ) with fome Knowledge. 
 
 Alwayes held to be Chafte, and did never blemiffi this Angelical Virtue, but 
 with the defire of Marriage in his later dayes. He was acounted fparing,gi- 
 ving rather than denying; for he refufed feldom, but hegavefparingly. 
 
 Ambitious he was of all Jurifdiftion, as well Ecclefiaftical, as C ivil, zealous 
 in Religion; yet in the Reformation of religious perfons , moreftridf than 
 was convenient. HewasBiflrop, Governour of the Realm, Inquifitor Ma- 
 jor Legate Apoftolick, and King: But the more he foared , the more he 
 difcovered his weaknefs ; fuffering himfelf in his moft important Affairs to 
 be governed by his Minifters, not being able to determine the Caufe of the Clw jia S &. 
 Succeflion: Opinions were grafted in him with great obftinacy, retaining a 
 continual remembrance of wrongS ; fo that Juftice was in him , but an un- 
 juft execution of his own Paffions. In Fine, He was indued with great Vir- 
 tues and with fewer, and leffer Vices, yet were they equal in this ; for he 
 had the Virtues of an Ecclefiaftical perfon, and the defeats of a Prince: 
 
 During his life, he was feared of many, and beloved of few, fo as none la- 
 mented his death ; onlyfuch, as were well-affeffed (defiring the Difpute 
 of Succeflion had been determined before his death ) had a. fenuble appie- 
 
 henfionof his lofs. ■. _ f 
 
 His Body refted foipe time at Almerin , until that Philip II. King ot 
 Spain, caufed it to be brought to the Monastery of our Lady at 
 
Cottcflaggio. 
 
 $ic. Align fins 
 Tbuanm. 
 
 Coneftngg'o. 
 
 Texerj. 
 
 ^4 ANTHONY King of 
 
 notwithftanding that HENRY had Ordered his Sepulture at Evtra, c^f 
 where he had in his life-time eredled a ftately Marble Tomb. 
 
 His Device was an Anchor , and a Daulphin , with this Infcription , 
 FESTINA LENTE, fortodenote, That in the execution of all 
 Actions ; Diligence, with Difcretion , and a Mediocrity was tobeufed. 
 
 m- ANTHONY 
 
 The Baftard , Proclaimed King of PORT U- 
 
 GAL, and the AL G AR VE S, &c. 
 CHAP. XIX. 
 
 HE Prince Lewis of PortugalDuke of Bcm his father, whofe 1580. 
 Natural and only Son he was , educated him in good Lear- 
 ning, but more particularly in the ftudy of Divinity, 
 with intention to make him a Divine ; But being come to 
 a riper age, he was made Knight of the Order of St. $ohn 
 of tfcrufalem, and Prior of Crato. 
 
 He had embraced this Profeffion againft his inclination, fo that Pope 
 Gregory XIII. was the more willing to difpence with the Vow he had made ; 
 which Difpenfation was obtained at the inftance and purfuit of King Scbafii- 
 <*»of Portugal, who fo highly efteemed this Prince ANTHONY his 1574. 
 Cofin, that upon his firft Voyage into i_ytffrick , he made him his Lieute- 
 nant General , notwithftanding that Prince Edward of Portugal the Confta- 
 ble, wasprefent. 
 
 At the fecond expedition that the fame King Sebaflian undertook for 1 J?8. 
 Affrica, he alfo accompanied him, and affifted him at the Fatal Battel of 
 Aimer , in which he was made a Prifoner, and reduced to a miferable Cap- 
 tivity for the fpace of Forty day es ; After which by an efpecial Providence, 
 he found means to recover his liberty. 
 
 Being upon his return, he had intelligence that his Uncle the Cardinal 
 Henry, after the Death of King Sebaftian, was Elected King of Portugal 
 During whofe Reign ( as you have read ) the Eftates having been affem- 
 bled to advife of a Succefior to the Crown, ANTHONY was of the 
 Number of the Competitors, urging, That he ought to be preferred, as on- 
 ly Male-child of the Pofterity of King Emanuel : In purfuit of which, af- 
 ter the Deceafe of Henry, he was by the confent of the Three Eftates, ’aifo 
 Elefted King the Nineteenth day of June, in the Year, One thoufand five ijgo. 
 hundred and four [core, in the City of Santfarem • then afterwards Con- 
 firmed in that of X«^»,Metropolis of the Kingdom; then received in the 
 Quality of King at Setubal, and acknowledged for fuch, by all the Towns 
 andFortreftesof Africa, and Ifles fubjedl to che Dominion of Formal- as 
 aifo by the famous Univerfity of Conimbra. 
 
 B,ut 
 
 0 
 
Years of 
 Christ. 
 
 avtho- 
 
 NT’s A - 
 my defea- 
 ted near 
 jL UhntlnC 
 
 1580, 
 
 PORTUGAL, and the ALGARVES, &c . 85 
 
 ButtheKingof Spain, Philip IT. pretending on the contrary to be lawful 
 Succeflor to the Crown, in the Right of theEmprefs, ifabel of Portugal, 
 his Mother, incontinently railed a confiderable Army,under the Condudt of 
 his Martial favourite, that famous Captain , Ferdinand de Toledo Duke of 
 Alva, who entred the Frontiers, and leized upon divers Towns by accord. 
 Which the Popular s hearing of, which were with ANTHON Y at St. 
 Arem, Proclaimed him King, that fo they might have a head to their con- 
 fufed body. After which ANTHONY repaired to Lisbonne, and there 
 was fworne, fent the Count of Fimioje to Setuval , whence he expelled the 
 Governours, who there had intended to admit the Spaniih Gallies, fo that 
 all the places about Lisbonne were at his devotion. But Alva very much 
 prevailed, as well through his own good Difcipline , as the Inconftancy, 
 Headinefs, and unskilfulnefs of his enemies : fo that he foon conquered the 
 whole Kingdom of Algarves •, Notvvithftanding the Pope (thinking it not 
 convenientinReafon ot State, that the Catholique King, whofe power 
 was already fo formidable in Italy , fhould grow more potent by the additi- 
 on ot a new Kingdom) had fent his Legate to exhort him to defift from 
 Arrives, offering him a Judge to decide the Rights of the Pretendants : but 
 the Spaniard being loth to put that to Compromife whereof he was already 
 affined , deceived him with delayes fo long , until the Vidtory was even in 
 his hands ; fo that the fears of ANTHONY encreafed as his hopes de- 
 cayed: TheDukeof Braganta, and the greateft part of the Nobility, ma- 
 king their peace with the Enemy to their belt advantage , no hope of Re- 
 lief remaining from other Countries ( a foundation built upon fuccours from 
 the Enemies ill- willers being alwayes unfure , fince they will not declare 
 themfelves unlefs their Companions be ftrong ) and his Army which he had 
 levied, being compofed either of unwilling minds, or unable bodies, fince 
 all were Mecnaniques, Mariners, Slaves, or religious perfons, whofe vaunts 
 before the Fight did more inflame , than their valour in Fight did defend 
 him, whom they had inflamed. Yet filch as they were , they banded to- 
 gether under the leading ot AN THONY, at Alcantara expedirrg the 
 Enemy, in the Year, One thousand five hundred and fourficore, where they 
 were putto rout, chafed to Lisbonne Walls, and the Suburbs facked.a thou- 
 fand Portugals being {lain in Fight, partly in their Trenches , and partly ac 
 the defence of a Bridge, where they made a valiant refiftance, AN- 
 THONY fled to Vuina , whither he was fo fharply purfued by zanches 
 d' Avila Marefcalof the Field, that in the habit of a Mariner hehardlye- 
 fcapedirtafmaliBoat, both Captivity from his Purfuers, and drowning 
 through the violence of the wind and waves. The year following, viz. One 
 thou [and five hundred femhore and one , heefcaped into France from Setu- 
 val in a Flemmtjh Ship which he did hire by the aid of a woman and a Re- 
 ligious perfon, where he incited the Duke of Alenzon to annoy the C atho- 
 lick King in Brabant , and the Queen Mother ( who teemed difeontented 
 with the Spaniard, for interrupting the courfe of fuftice , by the violence 
 of Armes ) toaffifthim with Men and Munition for the recovery of Portu- 
 gal, and the Defence of the T crceraes , which flood out in his Caufe, and 
 'hadvanquifhed Peter de la Baldes, with the lofs of Four hundred of his men, 
 who had been fent thither to reduce thofe Iflands to the obedience of the 
 King of Spain. 
 
 Portugal was now peaceably enjoyed by the Catholick King , who had 
 inade his Magnificent entry into Lisbonne, granted a General Pardon tp all 
 A N T H O N Y ’s Faction , excepting the Religious , and fome few par ti- 
 
 l culars. 
 
 H. V. Coiaflifc 
 &io. 
 
 Thiunusi 
 Texera, ' 
 
 H.F. ContfUr; 
 

 tmdtnut. * 
 
 S 6 ANTHONY Trocluimed King of 
 
 culars, and received the Oath of Allegiance to him felf and Bom Diegt his 
 fon, from the States of the Kingdom. At this time ANTHONY 
 was armed by the Queen Mother with Sixty Sail , and Seven thoufand men 
 for theaflurance of die 1 (lands, andtheiurpi ifingof the Indian Fleet un- 
 der the leading of Philip Strozzi Collonel of the French Infantry , and 
 Monfteur B/tfack, againft whom they fent the Marquefs of St. Croix with 
 a formidable Army , who engaged with the French near the Ifland of St. 
 Michael in a bloody fight , wherein Strozzi, and the Count of Fimiofo were 
 (lain, much blood fpiltonboth fides, but the French received the Foil, and 
 yet not fo weakned, but that ANTHONY retained the Ifland in his 
 hands, from whence he after Sailed into France , leaving Emanuel de Silva 
 Governour behind. After the Report of thisVidfory the Catholick King 
 imagining his affurance of Portugal to be good, departed into C aft i lie , lea- 
 ving Cardinal Albert Arch-duke of Auftria, Vice- roy in his Read, having 
 firft received a new Oath to his Son Dorn Philip , becaufe Bom Biegohts eldeft 
 Sonwasdeceafed. 
 
 But becaufe he meant to make his Conqueft entire, the year following 
 ( 1583 . ) he fent the Marquefs of St. Croix , with a greater Navy than 
 before, to the Iflands , where Twelve hundred French, under the Conduit 
 of Monfteur de Chattes , being joyned with thofe Portuguejfes which were 
 under Emanuel de Silva , madea valiant refiftance , but being oppreffed 
 with fo great a number of Enemies, being Ten thoufand trained SoulHiers 
 at leaft , the French yielded uponCompofition , and Emanuel de Silva was 
 taken, and beheaded •, After which Vidory Eaiole was reduced to obedi- 
 ence, after fomefmall refiftance, and thus was the Conqueft of the King- 
 dom of Portugal wholly compleared , and fubjeded to the Catholick King. 
 
 ANTHONY being returned into France , (the Sanduary of afflided 
 Princes ; )from thence he writ a longLetter toPop ^Gregory XIII. reprefenting 
 theRight he had to theKingdomof Portugal 5 adding, That he had been juftly 
 Eleded King: That the Marriage of Prince Lewis his Father, had been decla- 
 red lawful, by the Sentence of the Biillop of Angra, the Popes Legate : That 
 King Henry his Uncle had unjuftly Sentenc’d him in his own Defence 5 for 
 his Legitimation having been proved, the Crown had in Juftice fallen upon 
 him the (aid ANTHONY, before Henry himfelf, as being the Son 
 of his elder Brother, whofe Sentence was revoked and annihilated by Pope 
 Gregory : To whom. Pope Sixtus the Fifth fucceeding, the fame King AN- 
 THONY writ him alfo another Letter, as well to Congratulate with him 
 in his Eledion, offering him the Vowes of an obedient Son •, as to implore 
 his help towards his Eftablifhment in his Ancient Polfeflion, and Royal 
 Dignity. 
 
 ANTHONY, not long after, obtained Letters of Recommendation 
 from Queen Katharine, to Elizabeth Queen of England in which , fhe 
 forewarned her, and other Princes, to beware of the Spanifh Greatnefs,who 
 now enriched .with the Addition of Portugal, Eaft- India, and many Iflands 
 in the Atlantique Sea, might in time over Iliad ow all his Neighbouring Prin- 
 ces. Queen Elizabeth, alwayes Provident of her own, and her Subje&s 
 Safety, eafily liftned to this Councel, and bountifully relieved ANTHO- 
 NY, which fhe thought (he might do without Offence, confidering, that 
 fhe acknowledged him her Kinfman,defcended of the Blood Royal of Eng- 
 land ; nor was there any League made betwixt the Spaniards and Enghjh , 
 that the Portugals might not be received into England. Here then AN- 
 THONY refuted, till that fatal Blow was given to their ( as they called 
 
 i i) 
 
 Ye*sof 
 
 Christ. 
 
 StroTxh 
 
 and the 
 Count of 
 Vi m i ej o 
 flain. 
 
 1583. 
 
 Portugal 
 
 wholly 
 fubjeftef 
 ro thcCa- 
 rbolick 
 King. 
 
 authoc 
 
 NT enter- 
 tained in 
 England. 
 
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PORTUGAL, and the A LG A RVE S, &c. Sr 
 
 Vesf« of it) Invincible Armado, when Queen Elizabeth judged it more Honourable 
 ch& ist. toattaque her Enemy, than again to be affailed by him-, fuffered a Fleet'to 
 be fet forth againft Spain, commanded by Sir John Norris, mi. Sir Francis 
 Drake, and (ome other private Perons : The Hollander likewile joined forae 
 Ships •, fo that the Fleet confifted of about Eleven thoufand Souldiers, and 
 Fifteen hundred Mariners. 
 
 With this Fleet ANTHONY, with fome few Portugutfics, fet Sail 
 * out of England, having before affined the En?lt(h, That the Portugucfles 
 would revolt from the Spaniard, and appear for him ;and that Mult) Harney 
 King of Morocco, would ftrengthen him with T wenty thoufand men. 
 
 The firft place the Englijh Fleet put into, was the Groyne in Gallicia, the 
 bafe Town they eafily took 5 but endeavouring the higher, were repulfed, 
 and forced to raife their Siege, upon Report that the Count of Andradx was 
 coming with Forces to cut off their paffage to their Ships, which Norris re- 
 folving to prevent, marched up to them, defeated them, and had the {laugh- 
 ter of them for T hree Miles ; after which, having pillaged, and burnt fome 
 Villages j they returned to Sea, fleering their Courfe for Portugal. 
 
 They had laboured fome time with contrary Winds , plying to and fro at 
 Sea when Robert the young Earle of Ejfex fell into them, who out of Mi- 
 litary Glory, Hate of the Spaniard, tmd Commiferation of ANTHONY, 
 had left the Court, without the knowledge or confent of the Queen, in hope, 
 by Reafon of the influence he had upon the Souldiery, to be chofen General 
 of the Foot. Two dayes after his Conjunction with chem, they arrived .in 
 Penicha, where they landed after the lofs of fome men, and reduced the Ca- 
 ttle to A N T H O N Y ’ S Obedience. . ., 
 
 Hence the Land-forces under the Command of Sir John Norrts, march- 
 S t5sf '* ed direCtly and with all poflible fpeed towards Lisbon, about Sixty Miles 
 marcheth diftant, Drake promifitag to follow with the Fleet by the way of the River 
 dircftiyto ^ The Anny being arrived at Lisbon, though they had before at a 
 tuboMe. £* un ’ ce i 0 £ war determined to encamp on the Eaft-fide of the Town, the 
 better to bar Succours from coming out of Spain ; now contrary to their 
 own Refolutions.fate down before St .Katherines Suburbs on the Weft-fide ; 
 whereas at firft they found no Refiftance, fo they found little help, but whac 
 the prayers of fome few difarmed men gave them, who now and then cried 
 out God fave the King ANTHONY: And indeed other help they 
 could not afford him, Albertus Arch-duke of Aujlna the Vice-Roy having 
 before difarmed the Pertugals. ....... 
 
 The next day when the EUgliJh, weary with their long march, betook 
 themfelves to their Reft, the Spamjh Garifon fallied out upon them, who 
 were at firft refifted by Brett, and his Companies, till more coming up to 
 their Affiftance, forced the Spaniards to give back the Valiant Earle of 
 Efox chafing them to the very Gates; but the Englijh had feveralGom- 
 mailders of Note, an! no fmall quantity of private Souldiers flam. 
 
 In fum, when they had now flayed two dayes before the Town, and per-. 
 
 ceived that the Portugals, notwithftanding the great brags and fair promifes 
 of A N T H O N Y, did not at all incline to a Revolt, and that no Advice 
 came of any Affiftance from Mtilt) tlamet King of Morocco ; but thatinftead 
 of them, frefli Forces flocked in great Numbers from the Eaft-parts into 
 the City whil’ft their Army was lefsnedby a violent Sicknefs, their Provifi- 
 on and Ammunition failed, and their great Guns for Battery arrived not, they 
 raifed their Siege, and took their way towards Cafcais, a fmall Town at the 
 mouth of the River, the Spaniards following them at adiftance, but no* 
 
 2 2 6V6J 
 
ANTHONY Proclaimed King of 
 
 ever daring to fall in their Rear. The Town of Ca[cais they took', blew 
 uptheCaftle 5 and fo, notwithftanding all the intreaties of ANTHONY, 
 fet Sail for England, firing in their way Vigo, a Port- town, deferted of its 
 Inhabitants. 
 
 mam ■ S ° that now after 2 fecond Re P ulfe > ANTHONY was forced to re- 
 tire into France, where he was favourably received by King Henry the Great, 
 tinder whofe protection he paffed the reft of his life ; and having lived 
 Threefcore and four Years, dyed at Paris, the Five and twentieth day of 
 Auguft, in the Year, One thou f and five hundred four [core and fifteen. His 
 body was depofited in the Church of the Cordileires in the fame City.There 
 Was found in his Cabinet a Latine Paraphrafe upon the penitential Pfalms 
 with fome Prayers in no Vulgar Stile, which gaveTeftimony of his Piety) 
 whofe Epitaph in Latine Verie, hath been written by Frederick Morel, the 
 Kings Greek Profeflor in the Univerfity of Paris, 
 
 Children of ANTHONY Prior fCRATO, 
 Baflard of PORTUGAL. 
 
 * 5 . CMANQEL OF PORTUGAL, eldeft Son of AN- 
 portugal- r—'T ^U N Y , refided for fome tme with his Father in France , and 
 
 — England , then retired into the Low- countries unto Maurice Count of Naf- 
 
 portugal [an , afterwards Prince of orange , whofe Sifter EMILIA of NAS- 
 Party de S A U Daughter of William Prince ofORANGE, and of Anne of 
 
 oranges rTl hi ? feC0I ) d Wlte ’ EMANUEL married in the Year,o»e thou- 
 Ejcaoeie Iff* P ve hundred fmrfcore and (eventeen •, afterwards he travelled unto the 
 An i- quarter Court of the Infanta JllizAbtih the Arch-dutchefs 3 where he received 
 d ’ A vg au vourable entertainment. ' ” 
 
 Lyon a or arme 
 
 & lampajfe de gueulles, I’Efcu feme de b'Uettes d’or , eft NASSAU, 
 
 An 2. d’or au Lyon de gueulles , arme &■ lampajfe d’aytr. 
 
 Au 3. de gueulles a la Fajfe cC argent. 
 
 An 4* de gueulles a deux Leopards d’or armiif & ivnpajje^ A* argent. 
 
 Sur le tout an. fife it. aufji efcartele ; du i. <& 4. de gueulles a labande d’or . 
 
 Au t. & 2. d’or au Cor d’a-gur , Hi & vircle de gueulles • charge fur le tout de ciitqp ms d'er tanmoUc* 
 * quatre points d’agur. 7 * 1 \ 
 
 Children of EMANUEL OF PORTUGAL, andof 
 EMILIA OF NASSAU his Wife. 
 
 16. EMANUEL OF PORTUGAL. 
 
 16. LEWIS OF PORTUGAL, before named WiBaml 
 had for God-father at the time of his Confirmation, Lewis Xtll* 
 King of France and Nanarre. 
 
 » 6. MAR Y OF PORTUGAL. 
 
 16. LOVISE OF PORTUGAL. 
 
 26. ANNE OF PORTUGAL. 
 
 ' i«. JULIANE OF PORTUGAL. 
 
 : : S6. MAU- 
 
 Years of 
 Christ; 
 
 HisDeach, 
 
 1595. 
 
 His 
 
 Marriage.’ 
 
 1 * 97 . 
 
 * 
 
Claim to the Kingdom of P O RT U G A L i y 
 
 Years ©f 
 
 CHMST - 1 6, MAURICE OF PORTUGAL. 
 
 1 6. SABINE OF PORTUGAL. 
 
 iy. /CHRISTOPHER OF PORTUGAL, after he had been 
 V j fome time with his Father in France and England , undertook the 
 Voyages of Africa and Italy , after wards returned into France , and flicker- 
 ed himfelf under the proteftion of King Henry the great, to whom Antho- 
 ny had prerented , and recommended him by a Lettter writ to his Majefty 
 not long before his deceafe. From which time he continued his refidence 
 in the Court of that great King , and then in that of King Lewis the Juft , 
 his Son and Succeffor , the one and the other having honoured him 
 with a particular favour , which upon all occafions they gave him tefti- 
 mony of. 
 
 IS. PHILIPPA OF PORTUGAL a Nun. 
 
 15. LOVISE O F PORTUGAL. 
 
 , A Lthough in feveral places of this Hi fiery , where I have met with the Perfons , I 
 have given you an account of their Pretentions to this Crown of Portugal yet be- 
 eaufe they lie fcattered in their Stories , and cannot be well compared one with another , {and 
 being it is the Opinion of many. That the Right andTitleto that Kingdom refidesinthe 
 Kings of Spain ,, An Errour, (fringing either from their Ignoraneein the Defcent of thofe 
 Princes-, An apprehenfion that Sixty years Pojfefrionby the Auflrian Family could make 
 a Title indubitable , which was never warranted by the Right of Blrod , or by the Laws of 
 Portugal : Or , that many being wilfully Ignorant, would have others to be fo too) I have 
 therefore thought it necejfary to fiend this Sheet forthe EntranceoftheTablepf the Compe- 
 titors, their feveral pretentions, and to dear the Title of King, John IV. to that Crown. 
 
 I. The Pretention of the People. 
 
 T He People Claimed, tfureRcgni, alledging. That the Mite-Male of their 
 Kings failing,the Election belonged unto them, fortifying this Reafon by the 
 Example of the EleUion which was made of their King, (fohn 1. 
 
 But againft the People it was anfwered , That they had no greater Priviledge of 
 Election m this Kingdom, than in the reft'oi’: Spain ,all which Realms fall by Succef- 
 fion, when there is any lawfully defeended of the Blood-Royal: And that in Portu- 
 gal they have lefs Liberty than the reft, growing from the Gifts of the Kings of Ca- 
 ff Me, and from the Conqueft of the Kings of Portugal. And forafmuch as the Peo- 
 ple did not give the Realm to their Primative Kings, they could not fince be inveft- 
 ed with any Power.to Choofe one. And for .chat which they alledged concerning 
 the Ele&ion of King (fohn L it was anfwered, That this Reafon did fo little ferve 
 their turn , that it was rather an Argument againft them, to prove that the Kingdom 
 in that Cafe was Succeflive: having themfelves.lecretly conteffed, That they had no 
 Right to Choofe , whilrft there remained any one lawfully defeended of the Royal 
 Iffue 5 Inferring, That Beatrice being married to a Stranger , The Realm was in the 
 fame’ eft ate, wherein according to the Law of Lamego,fi\<ey were to choofe the next 
 Prince of the Blood 5 which Choice proceeded from Duty , rather than any 
 
 A a 
 
po Claims to the Kingdom ^PORTUGAL. 
 
 unlimited Power in the People. But to put this Difpute out of doubt, there 
 had been Four feveral Examples put in Practice againft the Peoples Election. 
 
 i. Alphonfo HI. Succefl'or to his Brother Sane to II. left the Crown to his Son 
 Vionjfio, by the Right of Inheritance. 2. Emanuel in the fame Right fucceeded 
 John II. his Fathers Brothers Son. 3. Emanuel upon his journey into C aft i lie, de- 
 clared, That if he deceafed without Children > the Succeifion did belong to James 
 Duke of Braganza his Sifters Son. 4. And Henry the Cardinal in the fame manner 
 without Election fucceeded Sebaftian , to whom he was great Uncle. So that Con- 
 fequently, That Cuftom was to be obferved in the Succeflion of a Kingdom, which 
 had been ever pradtifed. 
 
 II. Of the F OPE. 
 
 T He Popes Title was not forgot, who Challenged to be Jure divino Arbitra- 
 tor ( if not Donor) in all Controverfies for Crowns, but efpecially in this, be- 
 caufe Alphonfo the firft King to obtain that Title, became Tributary to the See of 
 Rome. But this was flighted and difregarded, as not worthy an Anfwer. 
 
 III. Of Katherine de Me diets. 
 
 K Atherinede Medicis Widow of Henry the Second King of France, was the Third 
 Competitor for the Crown of Portugal, as being defeended legitimately front 
 Alphonfo III. King of Portugal ( vide pag.22.) charging all that Reigned fince to 
 be Ufurpers, and that the Kingdom ought to return by diredt Line to the Heirs of the 
 Lawful Children of Alphonfo, and the Countefs of Bullion, whom they faidto be 
 this Katherine Daughter of Lawrence de Medicis, and of Magdalene of Bullion and de 
 la Tour, the only remainder in Diredt Line of that Houfe, and Heir to the County,- 
 the which although fhe did not then poifefs , being incorporate by the Kings of 
 France, as a matter of importance feated upon the Limits of France and England-, 
 yet they gave unto the Queen in Recompence, the Earldom of Lauregais, which flic 
 enjoyed. 
 
 But againft the moftGhriftian Queen it was pleaded . That her Pretention was' 
 improbable, and preferibed, feeing that the Succeffors of the Earl of Bui/len, had ne- 
 ver made any mention thereof , neither is it credible, that fince this Pretention was 
 incorporate to the Crown of fo mighty a Realm , fuch Wife and Potent Princes as 
 were Francis I. and Henry II. would have forgotten to call it in queftion. But the 
 truth was, the Countefs Matildaltit no Children, as it appears in her Teftament , in 
 the Publick Regifters of Portugal , making therein no mention to leave any by Kin® 
 Alphonfo, nor to have had any. It was likewife proved , That Matilda or Maud had 
 no Children, by a formal Requeft found in the fame Regifters, by the which all the 
 Prelates in the Realm did befeech Pope Urban, That it would pleafe him to difannul 
 the Curfe which he had laid upon the Realm , and that he would approve the Marri- 
 age of Beatrix thefecond Wile of Alphonjo, that he would make their Children Le- 
 gitimate, that there might be no hindrance in the Succeifion of the Kingdom^ where- 
 by ft was concluded, T hat if there had been any lawful Children of Maud, they could 
 not have perfwaded the Pope to preferre the Baftards of Beatrice. It was added , 
 That thefe Reafons were not unknown in France , and that of late there had been a 
 Book Printed, of the Genealogieof theHoufesof Medicis and Buillon, continued 
 unto Katherine the moft Chriftian Queen, whereby it did clearly appear , That Maud 
 left no C hildren by Alphonf 1 her fecond Husband , having been formerly married to 
 Philip Son ot Philip Augufhss King of France ; by which Marriage Ihe had one 
 Daughter named Jane , who did not fucceed her Mother in the County dying be- 
 fore her without Iffue: Sozs Robert Son o( Alix Sifter to Matilda, came’ to the Suc- 
 
 eelfion, 
 
Claims to the Kingdom of P OR T U GAL. pi 
 
 celfion , and this is that Robert from whom they would draw the defcent of Queen 
 Katherine , being the Nephew, and not the Son of Manet. So as not being at all 
 proved, that A Iphonfo III. had any Children by his firft Bed , but the contrary by 
 many Reafons, the Queen had no Reafon, they faid, to Pretend. 
 
 The Interest of the other Pretenders more nearly concerned , this enfuin a Table veiR 
 make clear. 
 
 ’ Beatrice Dutchefs oPtEmanuel Philibert D. 
 
 Savoye, Defun A, / of Competitor. 
 
 I fabel the Emprefs A Philip II. King of Ca- 
 Detunft. J fit lie , Competitor. 
 
 ] John III, Fifteenth!^# Prince of Por-\ Sebaflian 16* King of 
 Emanuel Four- I K. of Portugal,Dc(J tugal , Defund. / Portugal , Defunct. 
 teenthKmg of 
 
 Portugal, j Lewis Duke of BeiaA Anthony Prior of Cra- 
 Defundt. / to, Competitor. 
 
 Henry Cardinal , andSeventeenth K. of Portugal, after whofe 
 death thefe feveral Princes laid Claim to that Kingdom. 
 
 (Mary Dutchefs oiPar-\Raynueius Duke of 
 Edward Duke of Vi- v, ma } Defundt. / iV/wWjCompetit. 
 
 t merana. Defund, 
 
 } Katherine Dutchefs of 
 .B/7<£4#*<«,Competit. 
 
 iv. Of Emanuel fbilebert Duke of Savoye. 
 
 T He Fourth that pretended to this Crown, was Emanuel Philebert Duke of 
 Savoie zi Son to Beatrix younger Daughter to King Emanuel, though it is to 
 oe luppofeo, that he laid not his Claim out of any hopes to prevail whim he was He 
 feendedof rte pnp , My kfof toft 
 
 is rather to be thought , that he was incited to put in his Claim , by the reft of the 
 Pretenders who knew, that of the Competitors that were not Natives , he was the 
 fitteft Perfon of all others, to refill and annoy King Philip, not only by reafon of his 
 Peifonal Va our , butalfo becaufe of his Countries bordering upon the Dutchy of 
 Milan , which w th the afllftance of the French his Neighbours on the other fide 
 and Preti ndcr > to that Dukedom, he might with eafe at all times invade. 
 
 V. Of Anthony Prior of Crato. 
 
 H E was the Fifth Competitor for the Realm of Portugal, who alledged. That his 
 Mother was lawfully wedded to his Father, and endeavoured by all means to 
 Clear the Afperfion of his legitimation. But Anthony was held Diredlv Unlawful 
 having alwayes lived in that opinion, and was fo held by his Father Lewes at his Death 
 ( as it appeared by his Teftament ) That of Four WitnefTes that were to prove his 
 Legitimation Two were convinced to be falfe, for they recanted, confefling they had 
 been fuborned by Anthony ; and the other Two were fufpedled, being neer Kinfmen 
 and difagreemg betwixt themfelves: And that although he had demanded his Legi- 
 timation at Rome, and had obtained it, yet could not any Royal or Pontifical Legitima- 
 tion ferve for the Succefhon of a Kingdom. An VI of Ray- 
 
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 Claims to the Kingdom of PORTUGAL. 
 VI . Of Kaymcio Prime of Parma. 
 
 T He Sixth who made Claim to this Kingdom, was Raynucio the young Prince of 
 1 Parma, who demanded it in the right of his Mother the elder Daughter to the 
 Infente Edward, alledging , That fare Progenitor* , the Male-line was to be'ferved 
 before the Female fo that until the Line of his Grand-father Prince Edward were 
 wholly extindf, neither Philip II, nor the Duke of Savoye could have any pretence 
 to that Kingdom : And againft the Dutchefsof Braganza he argued. That he outfit 
 to precede her, as being defcended of the elder Sifter. Againft the Duke of Parma 
 it was not deny ed, but that he preceded the Catholique King, and fo confequently 
 the Duke of Savoye-, but as to the Dutchefs of Braganza , fhe pleaded, That Ray- 
 nucio could not aid himfelf with the benefit of Reprefentation, being the Son of her 
 Sifter deceafed, and therefore out of the degree wherein the Laws allow it. 
 
 VII. Of Katherine Dntchefs of Braganza. 
 
 T He Seventh Competitor for the Crown of Portugal, wis Katherine Dutchefs of 
 Braganza, younger Daughter of Prince Edward, alledging, Thar in all Suc- 
 Ceffions whatfoetf er, thefe Four Qualities were to be confidered, 'viz. The Line the 
 Degree, ti.eSex, and the Age; that the better Line ought in Juftice firfttotake 
 piace, although others fhould have advantage in all the other three Qualities 1 hat 
 m all Succeffions of Crowns, thelaft Poffefler was to be fucceeded fare hereditatis 
 which allowed the Benefit of Reprefentation : That fhe reprefenting the Infant Don 
 Edrvara, the better Lmedidby Reprefentation precede Raynucio ( the Law never al- 
 lowing a Grand- child that benefit ) and that by her better Line fhe did exclude Kin- 
 fhtlrp, who was defcended of a Daughter, but efpecially by the fundamental Laws o£ 
 the Kingdom (put m execution againft Beatrice Daughter of Ferdinand IX- Kin- of 
 Portugal, who having married out of the Kingdom to the King of C aft ilk her Rmlit 
 of fucceeding was utterly loft, and King fahn I. chofen in her ftead) fire was to be pre- 
 ferred before all Claimers whomfoever, in regard of her being both Born and Married 
 within the Kingdom. Nor can it bethought hard meafure to the Dukes of Parma 
 (being defcended from Verne Edwards elder Daughter, to be excluded theSucceflion 
 to the Crown of Portugal, and the Dukes of Braganza derived from the youn-er and 
 Married to a Native of Portugal, to have the undoubted Right) if we confider°that bv 
 theiarne Law of Lamego the Crown defcended to King Emanuel himfelf, which o- 
 
 K% V Si»d°/| ed Unt ° tHe fam£ BMrke Queenof c 4 tllt > only Daughter of 
 VIII. Of Philip 77, King of Caflille. 
 
 P 11 *}*? y. King of was the Eighth andlaft Pretender; who having em- 
 ploy ed all the beft W its in C hriflendom, to confute and difprove all other Claims 
 and to prove and maintain his Alledged, That the Succtffion of Crowns was to be 
 decided by the Law of Nations, not of the Empire, upon which only her fas repre- 
 lentandiPatrcm was grounded . That theneareft male in degree to thelaft Poffefler, 
 ought o fucceed ; That the Infant Don Edward being deceafed before his Brother 
 hisTofteritvforw 11 ^ Id have no nght in himfelf, and therefore could derive none to 
 ™ u I ?r m ° da tytiodin fe non hahet, that it was very unreafonable, that Ka- 
 
 hisMother ^ ^ ^ preJudlced In ller felf for her Sex, than King Vhtlip fhould be for 
 
 p a b 
 
 * 
 
n 
 
 PHILIP II, III, IV, 
 
 Of that Name, 
 
 KINGS OF SPAIN, 
 
 And i<?, 20, 21. KINGS of 
 
 PORTUGAL. 
 
 C HAP. XX. 
 
 >Ut it was no Arguments could confute , or annul the certain and indu- 
 bitable right of the Dutchefs of Braganza , which was clear to the 
 World, both by her Defcent, and by the Fundamental Laws of the 
 Nation , and this King PHILIP knew well , and therefore , 
 though he carried on his affairs very candidly to the eyes of men , and 
 feemed unbyaffed with proper Intereft , by offering to fubmit his Title to a Depu- 
 tation, profeffing. That the Laws of Portugal were more favorable to him, than 
 the Law of CaftiHe, and openly acknowledging, That if hefhould chance to die 
 before King Henry, his eldeft Son being a degree farther off, would come behind 
 fome of the Pretenders , of whom himfelf had the precedence. Though , I fay , 
 he carried himfelf thus fair to the W orld , yet he clandeftinely wrought with Father 
 Leon Henriques a Jefuite, and Confeffor to King Henry , and Fcrdinando Cafhllo , 
 a Dominican , and of the Kings bofom Councel , to endeavor by all means poflt- 
 ble to divert all Defigns in prejudice of his Claims, and efpecially that. Catherine 
 Dutchefs of Braganza might not by Henry be declared to be the next Heirapparent 5 
 which he, confcious of the juftice of the Title, was very willing to have done. 
 
 And whileft thefe two Fathers profecuted his intereft there with the old, and al-' 
 moft doting King Henry, the vigilant PHI L I P provided an Army inreadinefs, 
 with which he refolved to enter into Portugal, and with his Sword make good his 
 difputable Title, as foon as that old Kings death Ihould give him the Warning-piece 
 to fall on. 
 
 Yet when that was given , and PHI LIP ready to march with an Army of 
 Twenty thoufand men into Portugal , he had like to have been prevented ; for Pope 
 Gregory the Thirteenth pretending ftill his right to Difpofe , or atleaft to Arbitrate 
 all Difference concerning that Crown, had fent Cardinal Riario Legat Apoftolique, 
 with Order to diffwade the Catholick King from raifing Arms, and that done, to pafs 
 into Portugal, and in his Holinefs name and behalf, to Arbitrate the Right between 
 all Pretenders ; which defigns of the Popes , this crafty Spanilb Fox circumvent- 
 ed, for having pre-advice of it, and refolving to purfue his own intentions of aflu- 
 ring to himlelf the Kingdom of Portugal, and yet approve himfelf an obedient Son 
 of the Church , he gave Order in all places where the Legat was to pafs , he fhould 
 
 B b be 
 
5>4 PHILIP II, III, IV. of that Nam, Kings of Spain , 
 
 be molt Magnificently entertained , fo that by fuch fumptuous Treatments, the time 
 might be dexteroufly protra&ed, and he poffeffed of that Kingdom before the be- 
 gat arrived at Court ; which was accordingly done , and the Legat returned thanks 
 for his Magnificent Entertainments, though he was difpleafed at the ill fuccefs of his 
 Negotiation. 
 
 But to proceed to the manner of his poffeffing himfelf of this Kingdom : No 
 foonerdid the News arrive at the Spanifh Court of the death of King Henry , buc 
 Ferdinand de Toledo , Duke T> Silva , was commanded with an Army of Twenty 
 thoufand men to march toward Lisbonne, and in the Name and Right of hisCa- 
 tholick Majefty, to make Conquefl of the Kingdom, if he found oppofi don. 
 
 But all the appearance of oppofition which he found, was made by Hon Antonio 
 the Ballard- fon of Lewis the Infante , who having got into Lisbonne in the Head of 
 a tumultuary Rabble , rather than a well- formed Army, endeavored at firfl to make 
 fome refinance , but was foon difeomfited, and the Suburbs of Lisbonne being 
 facked to fatisfie the Souldiers, the City was furrendred to him, whither foon after 
 the King came, and fo by a mixt Title of Defcent and Arms, took poffeffion of the 
 Kingdom, A° iyio. Katherine Dutchefs of Braganz.ihanz, enforced to furrender 
 to him all her intereft and pretenfions which you have read at large in Anthony, 
 
 The Nobility and People of Portugal were, without doubt , extreamly amazed 
 to fee themfelves fo fuddenly furprized , and made Subject to a Eorein Prince , and 
 efpecially to a Prince of that Nation, againft whom they had a natural Antipathy: 
 but finding themfelves in a condition not able to make any refiflance , they thought 
 they Ihould gain more by fubmitting freely to that King, than by being forced to it ; 
 and therefore they made their humble fubmiffion , which PHILIP met as it 
 were half way , and condefcended in the General Aflembly of Eftates, to be fworn 
 to thefe Articles or Capitulations following. 
 
 I. That the [aid PHILIP King of Spain , (ere. fhould obferve all the Laws l 
 Liberties, Priviledges , and Cufioms granted to the People by the former Kings of 
 Portugal. 
 
 II. That the Vice- King, or Governor , fhould be alwayes the Son, Brother, Uncle, or 
 Nephew of the King , or elfe a Native of Portugal. 
 
 III. That all chief offices of the church or State , fhould be bejlowed upon the 
 Natives of Portugal , and not upon Strangers ; likewife the Governments of all Towns 
 and Places. 
 
 IV. That ad Countries now belonging to the Portugal, fhould fo continue , to the commo- 
 dity and benefit of the Nation. 
 
 V. That the Portugal Nation fhould be admitted to all offices in the Kings Houfe , as 
 well as the Caflillians. 
 
 VI. That becaufe the King could not conveniently be alwayes in Portugal, he fhould 
 fend the Prince to be bred up amongfl them. 
 
 Thefe Articles were fhut up, or concluded, with a Bleffing upon fuch Kings as 
 fhould obferve and keep them , anda Curfe on thofe who fhould break or violate 
 them. And fome Authors likewife affirm , that there was another Claufe added 
 to them , fignifying. That in cafe (which God forbid) that the King which then 
 was , or his Succefiors , fhould not obferve this Agreement , or fhould procure a Di- 
 
 ffenfation 
 
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And 19, 20, 21. Kings c/PORTllGAL. pj 
 
 Jpenfation for this Oath , the Three States of the Kingdom might freely deny Subjection 
 and obedience to the King , without being guilty either of Perjury or Treafon. 
 
 Though thefe Articles were thus fwom to, and the Cardinal Albertus Archduke 
 of Auflria, Son to the Emperour,and Nephew to the King of Spain, appointed Vice- 
 King of Portugal, PHILIP the Second durft not inPerfon yet leave the King- 
 dom ; for he perceived by their Murmurs and vifible Difcontents, that their Subrnif- 
 fionto him, proceeded more out of Fear, than Love •, and that as he had in a mo- 
 ment gained that Kingdom, fo he (hould as loon lofe it, if he (hould but give them 
 the leaft opportunity. 
 
 For that the People were highly difcontented, might eafily appear by their atten- 
 tive liftmng alter old Prophefies, among which, was one of an old Hermit, who told 
 Alphonfo the fir ft King of Portugal , of the great Victory that he fhould obtain over 
 the Five Kings of the Moors that he and his Pofierity fhould Reign happily Kings of 
 Portugal, but that in the Sixteenth Generation his Line fhould fail , but that God at 
 length jhould have mercy again upon them, and refiore them. 
 
 Others had refped to a Letter written by St. Bernard to the fame King Alphonfo 
 ( the Original of , which is reported to have been given to the Portugal Embaffadours, 
 by Lewis the Thirteenth King of France, A 1 One thou [and fix handred and forty one) 
 the fubftance of which was to this effed : T hat he rendred thanks to him for the Lands 
 be flowed upon him , that in recompense thereof, God had declared unto him. That there 
 fhould not fail a Native of Portugal to fit upon that Throne, unlefs for the greatnefs 
 of their fins God would chaflife them for a time-, but that this time of Chafiifement 
 fhould not lafi above Sixty Fears. 
 
 Other Prophefies there were of this Nature, and to this Effed, which pur the 
 People in hopes of a Deliverance , and many of them flattered themfelves. That 
 Don Sebafiian was yet alive, and would come and deliver them ; nay, fo foolilh were 
 fomeof them, that though they believed him (lain at the Battel of Alcacer in Bar- 
 bay, yet they thought he fhould live again, and miraculoufly come to redeem 
 them. 
 
 But that which moft of all expreffed the Peoples Difcontents, was, what was pub- 
 lickly fpoken by the mouths of their Oratours, the Priefts in their Pulpits, who 
 would ordinarily in their Sermons utter Speeches much in prejudice of the Spaniards 
 Title, and in Favour of theDutchefs of Braganza nor were theyfparing to do 
 fo in the prefence of the King himfelf , who would therefore often (ay, That the Por- 
 tuguese Clergy had made the fharpeft War with him. 
 
 Father Lewis Alvarez a Jefuite, preaching one day before the Vice-Roy, took 
 his Text, Surge, tolle Grabatum tuum,fr ambula ; and turning himfelf to the Duke, 
 laid, Sir, the meaning of that is, Arife, Take up your Pack, and begone home. But a- 
 bcve all this, might the Difcontents be perceived in the Noblemens Chappels, ef- 
 pecially in the Duke of Braganzds, Where they were wont to fing the Lamentations 
 of ffertmy, applying all the fcorn and reproach of the ijraelites to themfelves ; as 
 Aquam nofiram pec uni a bihimus-, becaufeof the Excize put by the 'Spaniards upon 
 Wideband other Neceffaries; And that, Serai Dominati funt in nos-, and that, Ce- 
 tidit Corona Capitis noftri 5 moft commonly ending with this Invocation, Recordare 
 Domine, £>uid acciderit nobis Intuerc fir ref ice opprobrium nofirum : Hareditas nofim 
 <, verfa efl ad alienos. 
 
 Yet did King PHILIP bear all thefe Affronts with an incomparable Patience, 
 diffembiing with an admirable Prudence his Paffion ( if he had any ) for thefe Dif- 
 contents 5 for he knew, the only way to win this Nation to an Obedience and Com- 
 pliance, muft be Lenity at firft, whatever he intended to pradife afterwards ; and that 
 he had by his exad keeping of his Word and Oath, won much upon this People, ap- 
 pears, in that during his whole Reign, and the Reign of his Succeflor , PHILIP 
 
 B b a the 
 
<?6 PHILIP II, III, IV. of that Nam , Kings of Spain , 
 
 riie Third, who followed his Fathers foot-fteps, though not with that Graft and Dif- 
 fimulation, they made no Attempts, nor were inclinable to a Revolt. 
 
 Thofe Attempts made by Anthony (which you may read in his ftory) and fome 
 fmallbuftles with one or two Counterfeit Sebaftians not worth mentioning , were 
 the only ftorms, that hapned in this Kingdom during the reigns of PHIL TP the 
 fecond, and third? for they keeping their words in moll things, though fome of 
 their priviledges they infringed , had almoft brought the people to a willingnelTe 
 to be their flaves , whereas P H I L I P the fourth committing the whole charge of 
 the Government to Count oltvarez, (who though without doubt an able Statef- 
 man , yet would feem to have a way in policy by himfelf, which no body elfe could 
 underftand thereafon of ) loft the whole Kingdom, and all its Territories. 
 
 For fuch was the new rigorous ways which he would prefcribe in the G overnment 
 of Catalonia and Portugal , both people very tender of their Priviledges , the leaft 
 breach of which ihould have been feconded by a potent Force to have fupprefted 
 them , in cafe they fliould attempt an Infurre&ion , when inftead of having fuch 
 power in readinefs , the Catalonians had rather opportunity given them to rebel , 
 and fpurs to provoke them to make ufeof the opportunity ; for fome Souldiers 
 being fcatteringly quartered among them, but too few to curb them, they looked 
 upon that as a greater intrenchment upon their Liberties than any before, and a 
 defign utterly to enflave them : wherefore converting their patience into fury , 
 they took Arms, maffacred thofe Souldiers ,flew their Viceroy, and put themfelves 
 under the French Prote&ion. 
 
 This Revolt of the Catalonians was a prefident to the Portugals , who had extream- 
 ly fuffered under the breach of their Priviledges: for contrary to the fecond Article 
 fworn to by King PHILIP the Second , which faid , That the Viceroy or Gover- 
 nor, Jhould be either Son, Brother, Unclear Nephew to the King of Spain: Thelnfanta 
 Margarita dt Mantoua , who had no relation at all to the Kings of Caftille, was made 
 Governefs, which they might, and perhaps would have born , had they not been 
 incenfed by a more feeling injury Anno 1636, when the Tax of a fifth part was im- 
 pofed upon all the Subjects of that Kingdom -, an intolerable grievance, and thought 
 fo infufferable by the Southern parts of the Nation , that theyrofe in Arms to op- 
 pofe it, and had fet the whole Kingdom in a combuftion,had it not been timely quen- 
 ched by the timely care andinduftryofthethen Governefs, the Infanta Marraritx 
 of Mantoua. 1 6 
 
 Yet this fmall ftir gave an Item to the Court of Spain , of the readinefs of the 
 people to revolt, which made olivarex, endeavor by all ways poffible to cut off the 
 means of their being able to do, but whileft he endeavored to prevent them, he 
 gave them the means to do it, though he failed not to make ule of thofe courfes 
 which m probability might enfure that Kingdom? the chief of which was, the en- 
 deavoring to allure from thence the Duke of Braganza, whom the people of Por- 
 tugal looked upon as the perfon who of right ought to be their King, and who 
 was the only Native of the Kingdom who might reftore again the Line of Alpbonlo- 
 be ides, he was a Prince, who for Power, Riches, andNumberof Tenants,noc 
 only exceeded all the Nobles of Portugal , but even of Spain it felf. 
 
 And indeed the Duke of ' Bragan\a was one of the moil glorious Subieffs in 
 Europe, being allied to moft Kings inChriftendom ? which made the Kings of 
 spam, though they were Competitors for the Crown of Postural treat this Fa- 
 
 3 rtr re r h T rthan r a, , ly ° ther ° f his Grandees > receiving them almoft 
 PH IT S r c Pea i as if they were Soveraign Princes ? which appeared in 
 PH I L IP the Second , who moft ofall defired to abafe this Family , yet would 
 always when the Duke of Braganza came to vifithim? meet him in che middle of 
 
 she Canopy of Eftate 6 ™ 1 ' himt ° k ‘ ft hishand ’ feat himwitb himfelf ™der 
 
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And i j>, 20, 21. ir*«g/ of Portugal: 
 
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 io draw him therefore out of that Kingdom , Olivarez, full poiitickly offered 
 him the Government of Milan, a place of great truft and honor , but he modeftly 
 refufedit, as not in a condition at that prefentto undertake fo great a Command, 
 and indeed exprefling an unwillingnefs to go out of Portugal. 
 
 But his unwillingneffe to go from thence , made the King of Spain , and Count 
 Olivarez, the more willing to draw him from thence , it was therefore given out , 
 That the King himfelf was refolved togoinperfon to reduce the revolted Cata- 
 lonians , and that therefore all the Nobility Jliould be in a readinefs in four months 
 time to attend his Majefty in that Expedition. But the Duke of Braganza being 
 fufpitious of the Spaniards, becaufe he knew himfelf fufpe&ed by them, and likely 
 to be, whil’ft the Portuguejes fo much affetted him ; toafliire himfelf of the ones 
 Love, and to avoid (if poflible) the others Sufpedt, retires himfelf to his Coun- 
 trey-houfe at Villa- Viciofa, and there follows his Sports of Hunting,^, not at all 
 regarding matters of State, withalfending an Excufe to Count Olivarez ’ That his 
 Affairs at prefentwere info low and mean a Condition, that he could not appear to 
 attend his Majefty in that Pomp and Splendor that became a Perfon of his Quality 5 
 and that therefore he fhould do his Majefty more Service in flaying at Home, when 
 the other Nobles were abroad, than he could poflibly do by attending him. 
 
 This Plot thus failing, /made the Court of Spain more fufpitious of the Duke 
 than ever before-. Count olivarez therefore refolves to employ his utmoftArt of Dif- 
 ftmulation to entrap him, which hefetsuponby a Fetch fo far about, that to the eye of 
 Reafon, it might put the Duke into ambitious Thoughts of endeavouring to afiiime 
 his Throne, and in a way to accomplifh thofe Thoughts, rather than anv way preju- 
 dice him 5 but it appeared afterwards that Olivarez Defign in fo far trailing the 
 Duke, was only becaufe the Duke fliould truft him. 
 
 In Anfwerto Braganza’ s Letter of Excufe, the Count aflures him that his Ma- 
 jefty was very well fadsfied with his Reafons of not attending him in the intended 
 Expedition againft Catalonia, and that he was very fenfible of his good Inclinations to 
 his Service : That for his ow'n part, he was very forry that his Affairs were in fo low 
 a Condition; for he could notbutCommiferatehislntereftashisown. Thac his 
 Majefty, to let him know how great Confidence he repofed in his Fidelity, had ap- 
 pointed him General of the Militia of that Kingdom, and had for his prelent Sup- 
 ply, fent him Sixty thoufand Crowns, leaving ic to his Choice to refide in what 
 place near Lisbon he pleafed. 
 
 This ftrange Confidence put in the Duke by the King of Spain, much amazed the 
 greateft Polititians, who thought it realonable, That the Spaniard fliould have per- 
 mitted the Duke ftill to have kept retired in the Countrey, rather than to have given 
 him fuch a Command, and called him to Lisbon into the continual View of the 
 People, who looking upon him as the Heir of that Houfe which had ever been re- 
 prefented to have the only Right to the Crown, might eafily be inflamed with a De- 
 lire to have a King of their own . 
 
 And thefe things was the Princefs of Mantoua very fenfible of, and therefore con- 
 tinually follicited the King to know his Reafon, or to defire him to remove thofe ap- 
 parent Opportunities which he had given the Duke of Braganza to effedt a Revolt : 
 But flie not only received intricate and enigmatical Anfvvers from the King, and Duke 
 D' olivarez ; but likewife had the former Actions feconded with one, which made 
 her of Opinion that his Catholick Majefty had a mind to tofs the Kingdom into 
 Braganza s hands whether he would or no ; for on a fudden, without any notice giv- 
 en to her, all the Spani/h Garifon in St. Johns Caftle, which commanded the City of 
 Lisbon ; and indeed upon the ftrength of which, the whole fafety and fecurity of the 
 Kingdom depended, were fuddenly drawn forth, and the Caftle left to the difpofure 
 of Don John of Braganza. ..... 
 
<?8 • PHILIP II, TIL IV. of that Name, Kings of Spain 
 
 But this was the laft Ad of Count Olivarez, Confidence in the Duke; for by 
 trufting him fo much, he now thought that he could not but reciprocally repofe Con- 
 fidence in him; and therefore next Summer, A a One thoufand fix hundred and forty. 
 He again by Letters follicites him to leave Portugal, and come to Madrid, firft telling 
 him, T hat his Catholick Majefty gave him many T hanks, and greatly applauded his 
 Loyalty in the Exercife of the Office of General, and was very fenfible of the good 
 Ejfe&s which his Authority had wrought over the Portugals. Next he reprefented 
 unto him the prefent declining Condition of the Spanifh Monarchy; not only by 
 Reafon of the Difoiders in Flanders and Italy, and the preparations of the Turk- 
 but more efpecially, for that their moft potent Enemies the French , were now in At- 
 fiftanceof the Revolted Catalonians, entredinto Spain: That it highly concerned 
 his Catholick Majefty to drive thefe out of his Territories, which could not be ef- 
 fected, but by a very powerful Force; that he being one of the prime Grandees of 
 the Kingdom, might by his prefence in the Head of a good number of his Tenants, 
 encourage others to a futable Affiftance ; that to that purpofe his Catholick Majefty 
 expeded him every Moment, having defigned for him great Honours, Priviledges 
 and Dignities futable to his Merit. 
 
 But as cunning an Angler as Olivarez was, yet he failed of his Mark, the Bait 
 would not yet hook in the Fifh; for though the Duke of Braganza was accounted 
 no very great Polititian, yet his owrn Safety taught him to know that all thefe T rufts, 
 and fair Promifes, were but gilded Allurements to draw him to his DeftruCtion ; ha- 
 ving therefore fupplied the King with a confiderable number of his Tenants and 
 Friends, he found Excufes for his own not going in Perfon ; and to take off all fu- 
 fpition of Jealoufie or Thoughts , that he had any Defign againft the State, he reti- 
 red again to his Countrey- houfe. Thus did thefe two great Perfonages by Craft 
 and Diffimulation, endeavour to fupplant each other, only the one ftrove the others 
 DeftruCtion, the other only ftudied his own Safety and Prefervation. 
 
 During all thefe paflages, the Vice-Queen Margarita of Mantuan, was very vigi- 
 lant in her Government, and forefeeing what in Reafon might be the ifl’ue of thefe 
 proceedings, wrote very importunately to the King, affuring him, That if it were not 
 fuddenly prevented, the Kingdom would infallibly be loft. To which, his Majefty 
 returnedherno Anfwer ; and Olivarez in his flighting her judgment (as fitter to 
 Govern a private Houfe, than a Kingdom) defired her, That if her Capacity would 
 notreachtotheheightanddriftof thofe Myfteries of State, yet that herWifdom 
 would prompt her not to difeoverthem. 
 
 Y et without doubt Olivarez was inwardly perplexed to fee all his Plots thus fail, 
 and foul means he durft not openly attempt, fuch was the Dukes Potency, and the 
 great Love the People bore him ; he therefore at laft has Recourfe to Treachery , and 
 to that intent gives fecret Advice to Von Lopez X>’ ojfis, and Von Antonie V’ Oquen- 
 do, That when they had relieved Flanders with Men and money, they (hould with 
 the whole Fleet put into Portugal, and then as foon as the Duke fhould according to 
 the Duty of his new Place and Office come aboard, they ihould immediately fet Sail, 
 and bring him away to Coles : But this Plot was by a ftrange Divine Providence pre- 
 vented; for that Fleet was totally Routed by the Hollanders upon the Coaft of 
 England, in the Year, One thoufand fix hundred thirty and nine. 
 
 JOHN 
 
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 * 7 ' JOHN I V. 
 
 Of the Name , King of PORTUGAL,’ 
 
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 CHAP. XXI. 
 
 Ow was the time come • 
 wherein, according to 
 St. Bernards Prophecy, 
 the Kingdom of Portu- 
 gal was to be releafed 
 from the Tyranny of 
 Strangers , and reftored again to the 
 Government ofa Native King, to which 
 all things feemed fo well to quadrate * 
 that we cannot imagine there was lefs 
 than a Divine Hand in it ; for though 
 ( all Plots failing againft the Duke of 
 Braganza ,) the Spaniards beginning to 
 fear fomewhat , drew out as many of 
 the Native Souldiers out of the King- 
 dom as conveniently they could , think" 
 ing thereby to leflen the ill humours 
 which began now to appear , yet they 
 did thereby only the more ftir up and 
 enflame thofe difcontents which were 
 taken at Vafconfettos managing all Affairs 
 of State. 
 
 For although the mod Illuftrious 
 Infanta Margarita of Mantoua was a 
 Princefs of great judgment and know- 
 ledge in S tate-affairs , yet fhe permitted 
 her felf to be fo much over-ruled by 
 FafconfeUos Secretary of State, or at 
 leaft was fo. much over-ruled by him , 
 whether fire would or no , that he either 
 by fome fecret confent of his Catholick Majefty , or led on by his own ambitious 
 fpirit , confiding in the great favour he had at Court , never permitted the Infanta 
 to enjoy other than the title of Vice-Queen. 
 
 And infufferable was the Government of Vafconccdos to the Fortuguejfes , who as 
 much hated his obfcure Birth, as they did his evil Cuftoms: He was a man wholly 
 compofed of Pride, Cruelty, and Avarice , that knew no moderation but in excef- 
 fes: fmall lapfes were by him made capital crimes , chaftifing with all feverity thofe 
 whom he did butfuppofe diffatisfied with his Government; And exercifing with. 
 
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 all rigor the Spanift) Inqtiifition , punifhed not only the a&ions,but the very thoughts 
 of men. The infringing of thegreateftPriviledgesof the Portugal Nation feetr- 
 ed to him but a trifle-, which continued oppreflions , in the endfo exafperated the 
 whole People , that animated by the knowledge of their own ftrength , by the ma- 
 ny diverfions of the Spaniih Nation , by the late example of the Catalonians , and 
 incited by the abfolute ruine which they Aw hung over their heads, whil’ft Six thou- 
 fand of them were yearly lifted and forced to ferve the Spaniard in his forreign W ars , 
 theyrefolved to loofe his Yoke from off their Necks, and to difclaim his obedience, 
 by the eledtion of a King of their own. 
 
 Some have been of opinion, That this Confpiracy was at leaft of Ten years 
 ftanding, agreedandaflentedtobymoftof the Grandees of Portugal : I dare not 
 affirmit, nor deny it; for fuch great adions of State do refemble Lightning, which 
 oncepaft, leave but , the greater darknefs: the Air of State-myfteries is not to be 
 flown in by lefs than Eagles ; I (hall therefore omit to fearch into fo great a Privacy, 
 and only recount the Publick Adtion. 
 
 On Saturdoy the Fil'ft of February , Anno , One tboufand fix hundred and forty , 
 ( and Saturdayes have been often obferved to be propitious to the Portugal Nation,) 
 all the Nobility of the Kingdom , led on by the Marqueffes of Ferreira , and the 
 Count of Virmofoj took Arms, and accompanied with a great multitude of the In- 
 habitants of Lisbonne , and fome Portuguefe Souldiers came to the Caftle , which 
 feitnate in the middeft of Lisbonne , ferves both for a Palace and a Caftle : this was 
 the refidence of the Vice-Queen, and hither aflembled all the Magiftrares for Go- 
 verning of the Kingdom, the Guards which were two Companies of Spaniards , and 
 two of High Dutch , either before gained by fecret intelligence, or frighted with the 
 great numbers of the Portugals , or defire of Novelty, or elfe perhaps unwilling to 
 make refiftanceagainft thofe to whom they were moftof them joyned byfriendfhip 
 or Marriage, without the leaft oppofition, abandoning their Poft , gave them free 
 admittance. 
 
 Whileftthefe things had hapned, the Secretary Vafconfellos was in the Cham- 
 bers of his Office ( upon fome reafons he had by the Difconcents of the People , to 
 fufpedf an Infurredtion ) at thatinftant writing into Spain, of the Alienation of the 
 minds of the Nobility from the Spanifli Government , and erneftly prefftng that 
 fome rigorous Refolution might be taken to prevent it; which Letters afterwards 
 taken, did fufficiently demonftrate his ill will to the Portuguefe Nation. 
 
 Whil’ft he was thus bufied, theconfufednoife of the Souldiers pierced his ears, 
 at which wondring not fo much at the tumult, as at what (laould be the caufeof it, 
 being accompanied only with a Dutch-nan , and another of the Guard, he would 
 have gone down, but was hindred by the Portugals, who came running up, crying. 
 Kid the Traytor , Kill the Enemy of our Flood ; whereupon not knowing where to 
 favehimfelf, he fled, with thofe two accompanying him , into an inner Chamber, 
 and there with his Sword in his hand, accompanied and affifted by thofe two that 
 were with him, difpofed himfelf to fell his Life at the deareft rate he could : but his 
 Valour flood him in no ftead, for thofe two who endeavored to defend him , being 
 {lain with two Mufquet-lhot , he feeing it vain to defend himfelf there longer, leapt 
 defperately out of the Window, rather to feek his Death, than out of any hopes to 
 fave his life ; for no fooner was he down , but numberlefs Swords were embrued in 
 his Blood , the very women and children running to tear in pieces his dead body , 
 with the fame alacrity as he ufed to torment them , when alive, 
 i In the mean time the Marquefs of Ferreira was gone to fecure the Vice-Queen , 
 whom having committed to the Guard oi Two hundred Mufquetteers , he calls a 
 
 1 Council, and inaffiorc Difcourfe fets forth the miferies the Kingdom had endured 
 whileft it lay fubjedt totheSpaniffi Government , who had fought no other end but 
 
 their 
 
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 their deftruftion: Thei\ potting them in mind of the Valor arid Merits of their 
 Nation , he exhorts them to condefcend to the Eledlion of a New King , nomina- 
 ting to them the. Duke of Braganza, as the mod worthy of the Crown, notfo 
 much for his Power , Riches, or the Greatnefs of his Houfe, as becaufe the King- 
 dom was his indubitable Right ; he being the only Perfon left of that Stock, which 
 for fo many years had glorioufly governed Portugal, 
 
 A long Difcourfe was fuperfluous to thofe who were before perfwaded, A pub- 
 lick fliout interrupted the Marqueffes Speech, all of them crying with a loud voice, 
 That they would have J OHN Duke of Braganza for their King. In the whole 
 multitude there was not a face, much lefs a voice that did gainfay this general Vote,' 
 either becaufe they did all really rejoyce to fee that they fhould again have a King of 
 their own Nation, or becaufe none could without danger oppofe themfelves to the 
 torrent of fo a Publick Will, 
 
 The Duke was at this time at his Countrey-houfe at Villa-Vitiofa , whether by 
 accident, or becaufe he would always have had occafion to excufe himfelf , if 
 the bufinefs fliould not have fucceeded, I cannot guefs: butbyreafon of his 
 abfence they thought fit to make choice of two Governors , whom , to avoid the 
 pretences of others , they nominated to be the- Archbifhops of Lisbon and Bra- 
 ganfa. 
 
 Thefe began immediately to exercife their Command , and wereobeyed with 
 fomuch quiet, that in all that great and populous City' of Lisbon there was none 
 flain, but only thofe before-mentioned; the prifons were opened,nor was there 
 any that fuffered any wrong , either in their goods or life : All the Shops were 
 opened as if there had not happened any Change of Government. 
 
 Only the houfe of Vajconcellos was fackt , withfo much anger anddefpite, that > 
 they did not pardon the very Doors and Windows; nay , fuch was the fury of the 
 people, that had they not been kindred by the S ouldiers of the Guard , they had 
 levelled it with the ground. As for his carcafe , it fuffered all thofe difgraces 
 which a people wronged both in their liberties and eftates , could inflicft : they 
 ran like mad men to exprefs living fentiments of Revenge upon his dead and fenfe- 
 lefs Corps , vaunting who could invent the neweft ways of difgrace and fcorn , 
 till at length almoft wearied with their inhumane fport, they left it in the flreet fo 
 mangled, that it did not feem to have the leaft refemblance of a man ; from whence 
 it was the next day carried by the Fraternity della mifericordia, and thrown into the 
 Burying-place of the Moors. 
 
 The Marquefs of Alemquer , after he had by command from the Governor allu- 
 red the ftrongeft poftsof the City, fentfeveralSouldiers into the ftreets, crying, 
 Long live King JOHN the Fourth ; which the people hearing; diftradfed as it 
 were with very joy, leaving their Trades , ran up and down proclaiming him with 
 voices of Jubilee , the greateft part through excels of paffion , not being able 
 to refrain from tears. 
 
 The MefTengers did not run, but flie to the Duke of Braganza, to give hint 
 notice of his promotion to the Crown : The firft arrived on Sunday morning 
 before day; he feigned a great alteration at this Advice, whereupon fome have 
 prefumed to fay , That he had not any knowledge of the Defign. He feemed ac 
 firft not to believe it, but told the Meffengers , that though he might have defert, 
 and afpirit fit for the Crown of Portugal , yet he had neither will rtorambition tode- 
 fire. That his enemies wronged him, by tempting him with Stratagems as far 
 from his Genius, as his Faith. Buc at the arrival of the Count of Monte Santo, 
 who came to accompany him to Lisbon , he feemed of another mind and having 
 been with him in private difcourfe forthefpaceof about two hours, without any 
 further delay, then what the relating the bufinefs to his Wife, and to the Prince 
 
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 his foil, made, he departed with the Count from Villa P'izofd , accompanied wit!* 
 about five hundred perfons. 
 
 Yet others there bethat affirm, That he was not only acquainted with the de- 
 fign oY the Revolt, but of Council about it, and that feme time before the 
 Nobility having had a private Meeting at Lisbon , it was at firft propounded , 
 That they fhould reduce the Kingdom into the form of a Common- wealth •, but 
 that not being approved of by the. major part, the Arch-bilhop of Lisbon flood 
 up, and in a moft eloquent Speech, having laid before them themifevies they had 
 endured under the Spanifh yoke, recommended unto them J O H N Duke of 
 Braganza , as the indubitable Heir of the Crown , and their rightful Sovereign. 
 
 This Motion needed not to be feconded with many Arguments to induce a general 
 Confent, they all moft willingly affented to it, and concluded to fend Gafion Co- 
 tigno , a man of a fluent and voluble tongue, to acquaint the Duke with their in- 
 tentions, and to perfwade him to accept the Crown, and free his Countrey 
 
 Gafion being arrived , with many well-coucht words acquaints him, That there 
 was now a pregnant opportunity offered to recover the indubitable right of his 
 Anceftors to the Crown of Portugal : That the Nobility and Clergy were wholly 
 inclined to redeem themfelves from the Tyranny of the Caflillians, byfecuiitm the 
 Crown upon his head: That the univerfal odium of the whole People to the Spa- 
 ni/h Government, the prefent low Condition of the Houfe of Auflna , diftradted 
 on every fide with War ; the allured Affiftance that France and other Nations, e~ 
 mulating the greatnefsof Spain , would lend , were as fo many Motives to perfwade 
 diem not to let flip fo fair an opportunity to regain their liberty: That it he by 
 Refufal, Ihould be the foie Enemy to his Countries Freedom, they would effeeft it 
 themfelves , and reduce it into a.Common-wealth -, with many other Arguments 
 ufed he, which his Love to the Houfe of Braganza, his hatred to the Caflil/ians , or 
 his own Ingenuity prompted to him. 
 
 The Duke’s amazement permitted him not to return a hidden Anfwer • but 
 after alittle paufe, hereplicd , That he was highly obliged both to him and all the 
 Nobility, for their affedions to him, but that this was a Bufinefs required meat de- 
 liberation : That. there was no Medium between a Throne and a Chair of ^Executi- 
 on, that therefore he would firft advife with himfelf, and not ralhlv attempt fo ha- 
 zardous a bufinefs. ■ 
 
 He therefore communicates the whole bufinefs to his Dutchefs Donna Lucia Si- 
 fter to the Duke of Medina Sidonia , a woman of a Noble, Heroick, andMafculine 
 bpmt , with her he confults whether he were belt accept of the Propofitions of the 
 Nobility, or to prevent all hazards go to Madrid: and being anxious what courfe to 
 take , his Wife nob y told him My friend, if thou goefi to Madrid , thou do’ (l in- 
 curre the danger of tefing thy Itfe ; and ,f thou acceptefl the Crown , thou do’ (l no 
 more: cenftder then whether it be not better to dye Nobly at home , than bafely abroad. 
 
 Thefe woids of his Ladies (fayfome) animated him to a refolution to accept 
 the Crown- fo he returned Gafion in anfwer, That he would conform himfelf to 
 the councejs of the Nobility, refolving to live and run all hazards whatever with 
 them, for the regaining of his Countries Liberty. 
 
 In the mean time the MarqUefs of Ferreira ufed his utmoft endeavors for the re- 
 ducing of thofe Caftles which ftill held out for his Catholick Majefty . The ff a- 
 aythe Caftle of colltne was rendred , which for its fituation was judged inexpim 
 
 orF e e;, ye heW ? apt T° f ic no J 00 !® faw « Alleged, but moved either with Gold 
 or Feai , he delivered it up on Articles. The Tower of Mem , and that De It 
 
 Cabera Were fuddenly furprized before they within had any notice of what wad 
 
 riefenH rKn? 1 !, 8 rTr, of Sc - Giulkn9 > a modern Fortification , and built m 
 defend the Mouth of the River, was ready to furrender, when a Cafictldne , who was 
 
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 there a Prifotier, anti under Sentence of Death for thcSurrendryof a Fort in Bra 
 zif fhut out the Captain, who was gone to Parlie with the Portugucjfes , and re- 
 folved to defend it many dayes : he might have held it out the Siege , but finding 
 neither Ammunition nor Provifion, confumed, as was believed , on purpofe by the 
 Captain, who unwilling to have the Blot of aTraytorcaft upon him forfofudden 
 a delivery, thought it fatter to be forced by neceffity to open the Gates to the Mar- 
 
 quefle. 
 
 After the Surrendry of Fort San Giuliano , the Marquefs of Ferreira in the name 
 of the King, gave the Sacrament of Fidelity , or an Oath of Allegiance to all the 
 Orders, to wit, to the Clergy, Nobility and Commons, which was received with 
 fo much readinefs , that had not the Marquefs feen the neceffary Orders obferved , 
 the People had run into certain inconveniencies , fo much they ftrived to prevent 
 one another in willingnefs to perform this duty. 
 
 On Thnrfday the Sixth of February , His Map-fly made his entrance into Lif- 
 bonne, with all thefeapplaufes that a beloved King can expeft from his moft loving 
 Subje&s. The rich Liveries given by the Nobles, the Triumphal Arches, the 
 Streets hung with Tapeftry, the multitudes of the People flocking to fee him, and 
 the excellent Fire-works , (which were fo many, that a Spaniard cryed out , Ft 
 fo/fible que Je qmta un Reyno a el Rey D Felippe , cun folat Laminarias & vivas 
 finmas exercito in Voder, Gran fenal y cfeto fin Duda del Brazo de dies redo Pedero- 
 fo! Is it polfible that King Philip fhould be deprived of a Kingdom, with only 
 Lights and Fire- works, without a powerful Army ! certainly this is an evident To- 
 ken that ’tis the Almighty hand of God , ) were the lead demonftrations of that 
 Cities love and joy : fo great was the concourfe of thofe that flocked to fee their 
 new King, that though his Majefty entred into the City by Noon, he could not 
 through the Throng arrive at the Palace till Two hours after Sun-fet : curiofity 
 and love which ufually have the force to ftir up all affe&ions, made this People flock 
 fo fall to the fight of their Prince. And becaufe it is prudence in a Publick joy , to 
 accommodate ones felf to the will ol the moft, even thofe who either for envy, or 
 fome other caufe, hated the Houfe of Braganza, did not ceafe to make fome demon- 
 ftration of reverence and mirth, and by how much the more they thought themfelves 
 obferved , by fo much the more they drove to feem other than they were. 
 
 His Majefty being arrived at the Palace , inftead of repofing himfelf,. addi&ed 
 himfelf wholly to confult about carrying on the War; knowing well that oriely la- 
 bour produces true reft. Thefirft confultations were concerning the expugnati- 
 onof the Tower of St. fohn , which of all the Forts in the Kingdom only held out 
 for the Catholick King, To reduce this Cictadel , the Marquefs of Ferreira was 
 fent in perfon with a numerous Army, thoughfor the moft part tumultuary, and 
 ill ordered ; but what they wanted in difeipline, they fupplyed in affedlion ; not 
 refilling to engage themfelves in the extreameft dangers: for two days the Marquefs, 
 found ftrong reffiftance , but on the third day it yielded, as it is fuppofed, forced 
 rather by bullets of Gold, than of Iron. .■ Don Antonio de Mafcarendas , with a Por- 
 ta guefs Garifon was appointed commander of this For trefs , which he very diligent- 
 ly repaired, not only of the damages now received by Battery , but with other 
 neceffary fortifications , to bring it to greater perfection. 
 
 The Kingdom thus fudderily reduced to the devotion of King JOHN the 
 fourth, thefeveral Governors were commanded to their Countries to levy Forces, 
 who lifted the inhabitants indifferently from the age of Eighteen to Sixty ; in 
 whom they found fo much difpofition , thac many offered their eftates, and their 
 lives , and would follow the colours , although they had licence to depart. 
 
 On the 25. ofthe fame Month , followed the Coronation of his Majefty, ac- 
 companied with all thofe applaufes and demonftrations of joy, which could proceed 
 
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lot JOHN IV. ^ lie Name , \ 
 
 from a people of infinite Riches ,, who weary of the Command of Grangers , were 
 confequently ambitious of a King of their own Nation. 
 
 In the publique Place before the Palace upon a moft fumptuous Theatre, was e- 
 redteda great Stage, and upon thatalefs, upon the top of which but three fteps 
 higher, flood a Chair of State under a Canopy, all covered over with Cloth of 
 Gold. About noon His Majefty came forth of his Palace Royal in a Suit of 
 Chefnut coloured Velvet embroidered with Gold , and buttons richly fet with 
 Diamonds : about his neck was a Collar of great value , wbereunto hung the 
 badge of,the chief Order of Knight-hood , called El Ordine di Chrifto. He was 
 girded with a gilt Sword, his Robe was Cloth of God lined with white, wrought 
 with Gold and flowers, the Sword was born before him by Don Francifco De Aiello 
 Marquefs of Ferreira, High Conftable of the Kingdom , and before him was the 
 Kings Banner dilpl'ayed by Ferdinando T clles de Menefes Earl Marlhal , before him 
 went X>. Manrique De Silva , Marquefs of Govea , Steward of the Kings Ho up- 
 hold , andfoin order his Nobles and Grandees of the Realm one before another , 
 before all went Portugal King at Arms , with the Heralds Purfuivants , (ftc. 
 
 His Majefty being afcended the Stage , and having placed himfelf in the Chair 
 of Eftate , had the Crown fet upon His Head , and the Scepter delivered to him, 
 with the accuftomed Ceremonies by the Archbifliopof Lisbon ; which done, he 
 fpoke to His Majefty to this effedt. 
 
 Behold, O mofl Sacred Majefty , theft your Subjects who do More rejoyce to fee this 
 day , than of all the days of their lives : They rejoyce to fee the Crown of Portugal , 
 returned into its Antient flock , they rejoyce to have found a Father who will govern 
 them like Children , not Tyrannize over them like (laves. They here , Great SIR , 
 offer their eftates , their lives, and oblige themfelves to run through all the accidents of 
 fortunes , to eftablifh that Crown upon your Head, which now with fomuch devotion , 
 with ft much readine fs they have placed upon it. They cannot fufficiently exprefs their 
 affeliionsto Tour ..Majefty ; could they bring their hearts, ana lay them down at your 
 Majefties feet, they would not refufe to do it , fo jure are they that they have found a King 
 allgoodnefs , alllove , who will not let [lip any means for the Fftablifhing of theCrown , 
 for the quiet of his Subjefis , for augmenting his Dominions , and forthe confervation of 
 thofepriviledges which have been written with the blood of our progenitors : Be your Ma- 
 jefty gracioufly pleafedto accept this common refentment expreffed by my mouth, there 
 being nothing that more comforts the minds of good Subjects, than the pleaftng of their 
 Prince. 
 
 The good old Prelate fpoke thefe words with fomuch feeling , that the tears of 
 his eyes teftified the affedion of his heart. 
 
 To thisfpeechofthe Archbifoops, His Majefty returned anfwer, inexpreflions 
 equal to his love and greatnefs : That the weight of the Scepter, and fubjedii- 
 on to the Crown , were things always diffonant to his Genius 5 That he had of 
 late years given them fufficient teftimony of it , whilft they were not more affedii- 
 onate in offering, than he was ready to deny the taking upon him the weight of the 
 Kingdom. That his now co'ndefcending to their defires, was only to pro- 
 vide for the Kingdom, which had been acquitted, and agrandbzed with the blood 
 of his Predeceffors , and to take it from the hands of thofe , who befides their un- 
 juftly poffeffing it, had rendred themfelves unworthy of it, by endeavouring by 
 all means to ruine it : in fum , he concluded with thanks for their love , offering 
 himfelf ready to adventure his health, and life, for their prefervation, the redeem- 
 ing them from flavery , and maintaining of their priviledges. 
 
 This Ihort difcourfe ended , His Majefty went to the great Church in the fame 
 order as before, where being fet in a Chair of Eftate, raifed upon a Stage for that 
 purpofe, with a Chriftal Scepter in his right hand, at which flood the Lord Con- 
 
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King of PORTUG AL,&c. loy 
 
 fable , and behind him the Lord Chamberlain , there was placed before him a Table 
 Covered with Cloth of Gold, and a Cufhion thereon, upon the Culhionlav a 
 Gold Crucifix and a Medal. Here the Archbifliops of Lisbon and Braga, admini- 
 fired the enfuing Oath to the King. 
 
 \AJ E [ wsar a »d promife by the grace of God, to rule and governyou weU , andjufily, 
 V V and to adminifler juflice as far as humane frailty mill permit , to maintain 
 unto you your Cufloms , Priviledges and liberties , granted unto you by the Kings our Pre- 
 deceffors. So God help us God, and this his holy Goff el. 
 
 This Oath being adminiftred , the three Eftates, to wit, th t Clergy , Nobility , 
 and Commons , took the following Oath of Allegiance to his Majefty , one for 
 every one of the Eftates , pronouncing thefe words. 
 
 I Swear by this holy Goff el of God ; touching corporally with my hand, That I receive for 
 our King and lawful Sovereign, the High and Mighty King DON JOHN the 
 fourth, our Soveraign , and do homage unto him , according to the u[e and cuflome of his 
 Kingdoms. 
 
 This, and the Ceremonies attendant ended, his Majefty, accompanied with all 
 his Nobles, returned to his Palace, whether not withftanding it was a very great 
 rain, all the Grandees went bare-headed , where there was a moft fumptuous Ban- 
 quet prepared , but his Majefty gave himfelf wholly to confult of preparations for 
 the Warre, fhewing thereby that Kings in their greateft felicity and delights, 
 fhould not forget affairs of State, and taking care for the prefervation of their 
 Subje&s. 
 
 But amongft debates of the War abroad, there happened one of an affair near 
 home, concerning the placing or difplacing Officers of State; and becaufe His 
 Majefty knew that the charge of fuch Officers , muff needs be with the refentmenc 
 of many , and that there is nothing more alienates the minds of men , than to fee 
 themfelvesundefervedly deprived of their honours , he took away only the places 
 of two, to wit, that of the Providitore of theGuftotn-houfe , becaufe he was Son- 
 in- Law to Diego Soarez, and Brother-in- Law to Kafconfe/los the late defer vedly- 
 flain Secretary and that of the Count of Caflanbie , who was Prefident of the 
 Tribunal, or Court of Conference, becaufe he was too much intereffed with His Ca- 
 tholick Majefty. 
 
 As for the Infanta Margarita di Mantoua, late Vice-Queen , and the Marquefs 
 Della Puebla Kinfman to Olivarez, the Caftle called Pa [os de Angiobregas , was af- 
 figned them, with Fourteen thoufand Crowns a year for maintenance. An hono- 
 rable Prifon it was, nor could they defire any thing but liberty , which (bow’d a 
 great Noblenefs of mind in King JOHN: but Princes alwayes do like Princes , 
 and much it demonftrates the Magnanimity ot the mind , to honour our Enemies, 
 though they be our Prifoners. 
 
 Nor mult we here forget the Magnanimous and Couragious Carriage of the 
 Dutchefsot Mantoua late Vice- Queen , during thefe confufions and diftra&ions; 
 for King JOHN fending to afeertain her , That (he fhould want none of thofe 
 Civilitiesthatwerefuitab'letoa Princefs of her high Birth, Provided (lie would 
 forbear all Difcourfe and Pradlifes which might infufe into any an ill opinion of his 
 
 E refent Government. She returned Thanks to the Duke, ( for fhe would not ftile 
 im King ) for his Complement : but withal fell into a grave Exhortation to thofe 
 Nobles that carried the MefTage, telling them. That they fhould lay aftde all vain 
 hopes , and not cozen themj elves , but return to their old Allegiance , according as 
 they were obliged by Oath , which if they did, fhe doubted not to find them all pardon. 
 The reft of the Caflillians of Authority were confined in the Caftle, and all the 
 
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lo <3 JOHN IV. of the Name , 
 
 Souldiers took the Portuguefe Pay , either becaufe they believed doing fo, to be mod 
 for their intereft, or elle becaufe being moft of them linkt in Parentage with the 
 Portuguefres, they believed the Portugal intereft to be their own. 
 
 Shortly after, Lucia now Queen of Portugal-, Sifter to the Duke of Medina Si- 
 donia, with her Son the Prince Theodofio arrived at Lubonne , who w'ere received 
 with all imaginable expreffions of joy: the Queen was foon after Solemnly Crown- 
 ed, and the Prince inftalled, at whole Inftallation, the Nobles and Grandees of the 
 Realm, took to him the following Oath. 
 
 W E acknowledge , and receive for our true and natural Prince , the high and 
 excellent Prince D. Theodofio , as Sonne , Heir , arid Succeffor of our So- 
 veraign Lord the King-, and as his true and natural Subjects , we do him homage 
 in the hands of the King, and after the death of our true and natural King and So- 
 veraign of thefe Kingdoms of Portugal and Algarve , and beyond Sea in Affrica , 
 Lord of Guiana-, of the Conquefts , Navigations , and commerce in Ethiopia, A- 
 rabia, Perfia, India, &c. we will obey his Commands and Decrees in all , and 
 through all , both high and low : we will make War and maintain Peace with all 
 thofe that His Highnef / hall Command us : And all this we (wear to God upon the ho- 
 ly Crofr, and the holy Goff el. 
 
 Thefe Ceremonies performed with all fitting Solemnity, the King, to (how that 
 the good of his Subjefts was his only care, called an Affembly of the Three Eftates 
 of the Kingdom, who being Convened, and the King feated in His Royal Throne, 
 Don Emanuel D ’ Acugna Bilhop of Elves made a Speech to them, to the following 
 purpofe. 
 
 T Hat one of the frjl Laws of Nature, was, 'The uniting of men together, from whence 
 Cities and Kingdoms had their Original , and by which they after defended them- 
 f elves in War, and maintained t hem f elves in Peace-, That for that caufe His Majejly 
 had called this Affembly to Confult for the better ferviceof God , Defence in War, and 
 Government in Peace : That there could be no Service of God without Union of Reli- 
 gion , no Defence without Union amongfl men , no Regular Government without Union 
 of Councils : That His Majejly did expeCt to be informed by his loyal Subjects what 
 was for the good of the State -, That they wen to render thanks to the Almighty , who had 
 given them a Kingthat would govern them by known Laws -, That His Majetly did not 
 etteemthofe Tributes lawful that were paid with tears , and therefore did from that pre- 
 fent , take off from His Subjects all Tributes • that had been impojed by the Kings of 
 Caftille, becaufe His Majejly would not Reign over their Goods , nor over their Heads, 
 nor over their Priviledges, but over their Hearts, hopingthat they would find outafweet 
 expedient to defend their Countrey againtt their Potent enemy , who tbreatned to make 
 them all [laves, and to defrroy, and to annihilate their Nation. That they would therefore, 
 confidering His Majefiies Goodnefr, and their own Honor, manifefl at once unto the world. 
 That as never Subjects had fuch a Gracious King, fo never King had fuch Loyal 
 Subjects. 
 
 The Bilhop having ended his Speech > the moft antient Officer of the Chamber 
 of Lubonne, flood up, and in the name of all the three Eftates, ( who flood up like- 
 wife ,J) returned humble thanks to His Majefty , for this gracious bounty, heartily 
 profeihng, T hat they did not only offer up their Goods, but their Lives to His Ma- 
 jefties fervice, earneftly intreating His Majefty to difpofe both of the one and the 
 other, as he pleafed. And to manifefl: that their hearts and their mouths concoraed 
 in thisfree offer of themfelves to His Majefty , they prefently Voted , That Two 
 Millions Ihould be immediately raifed by the Kingdom : but His Majefty wifely and 
 politickly declined the impofing of a Tax upon his Subjects , chufing rather ro ac- 
 cept 
 
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 cept of their Benevolence ; which made every one ftrive who fliould offer moft ; 
 fomfteadof the T wo Millions , there was in fhort time brought into the Treafury 
 Four Millions of Gold. 
 
 Nor was this Money intended by them, nor employed to any other ufe than to 
 maintain the Grandezza and Splendour of the King and Kingdom, there being no 
 need of Money for the payment of Souldiers , every one offering to ferve freely , 
 and at their own Charge, againft their Vow’d Enemies the Caflillians. 
 
 But let us for fome time leave the Affembly fitting, and give an account how this 
 A&ion was relented into tire Spa nil'll Court : Moft mens minds were ftruck with con- 
 fternation, but Olivarez came fmiling to the King, faying; Sir, I pray give me las 
 Albricias to ban f el the good news , for now you are more abfolute King of Portugal 
 than ever , for the People have forfeited all their Priviledges by this Rebellion ,be- 
 ftdes the Ejlate of the Duke of Braganza , with all his Complices, are yours by right 
 of Confifcation , fo that you have enough todflribute among your Loyal Subjells by way 
 of reward. But however Olivarez feemed thus to diffemble his paffion it was be- 
 lieved, that this news ftruck deeper into him than any. 
 
 The King of Spain upon the firft news of the Proclamation of King JOHN, 
 fent a Letter to him to this purpofe : 
 
 C Oufin and Duke: Some odd news are brought me lately , which I efleem but jolly , 
 cenfidcring the proof I have had of the fidelity of your Houje , give me advertife- 
 ment accordingly ,becaufe I ought to expe ft it from you , and hazard not the efleem I make 
 of your f elf to the fury of a mutinous Rabble, but let your Wifdom comport you jo , that 
 your Perfon may efcape the danger, my Council will advife you farther -, Jo Cod guard you. 
 
 Your Coufin and King. 
 
 To this Letter His Majefty of Portugal returned anfwer -• 
 
 M Y Coufin : My Kingdom defiring its Natural King, and my Sub] eels being tppref- 
 _ fed with Taxes, and new imp 0 fit ions, have executed, without oppofttion, that which 
 they had often defigned, by giving me pofiejfion of a Kingdom which appertains tome-, 
 wherefore if any will go about to take it fiord me, I will jeek flufttce in my Arms : God 
 f re ferve your Majefiy. 
 
 DON JOHN IV* 
 
 King of Portugal. 
 
 Thus was this Kingdom utterly loft to the Spanifh Monarchy, and not only it, 
 but with it all that they enjoyed by that Kingdom in the Eaft-Indies , the Tercera 
 Iflands, and other Iflands in the Atlantick Sea, the Kingdom of Algarve , Brafil , 
 together with all they had in Africa , except the Town of Cexta , which was the 
 whole remained to the Spanifh Nation of all thofe great Dominions. 
 
 But that all men might know the greatnefs of their lofs, and what the Crown of 
 Portugal enjoys abroad, take here a brief narration: 
 
 Firft, Thofe Iflands of the Tercera , Madera, and St, Michael , fo long time 
 poffeffed by the Portugal Nation , which though inconfiderable to their other Do- 
 minions, yetdeferve to be mentioned; next thofe many ftrong places of which 
 they have made themfelves Mafters in Africa , as in Guiana , in the Kingdoms of 
 Congo and Angola , the great Ifland of St. Laurence, of Soffola and Mozambique: on 
 the Continent thence paffing theMouthof theRed-Sea, they have feded a Trade 
 with Socatra and Calaite thence puffing the Bay of Perfia , to the Mouth of the Ri- 
 ver Indus , they fubdued C. ale cut, Coetium, &c. the Ifland of Coa,Ciaul, Daman , 
 
 E e a &c, 
 
io8 JOHN IV. of the Name , 
 
 &c thence toward the River Gauges, they poffefled Ceilam, Malacca, Sumatra, So- 
 lon’ Larantuca, &c. Thence farther they wereentred into the Kingdom of Pegu, in- 
 to ’lava-major, mi Minor, into the Kingdom of Clina where : they fortified Macoat 
 In fum , the Kingdoms, Provinces, Hands, and Cities, that the Portugal Nation had 
 Conquered, and were poffeffed of abroad, may in fome meafuie be compared to 
 the Antient Roman Empire ; nonvas their Valour much inferior jo the Romans ; 
 if we confider the War they made with the King of Cambaia, who tor Piutlance and 
 Military Courage, or numbers of Men of War, did exceed Xerxes, Darius, or Pyr- 
 rhtte • the Battels they had with ifntdlitcco, and idaliam in the Kingdom of Decam ^ 
 both equal to mighty Kings and their Armies, confiding of the bed Warriors of 
 the Ead; the War they have waged with the Moors of Malacca, Sumatra, and Mo - 
 lucco, as a’lfo with the Kings of Bengala , Pcug , and Siamp.c. with many other tor- 
 midable powers. Many of thofe places moft certain it is, weielofl while theCa-, 
 tholique King had pofleflion of Portugal but with it he likewifelod , and King 
 JOHN IV. had pofleflion of above Fifty Towns and Forts accounted impregna- 
 ble, fuchwere, Mozambique, Cuama,Monomotafca, Mombasa, Majiala,Dui, Damam,- 
 Bazaine, chiaul, On or, Barcelor, Mangalor, Cananor, Cranganor , Cochim Conlan, Ncga- 
 patan, Meliapor, thelfle of Ccilam, the Kingdom of fafanapalan, the Cities of M a- 
 nac, and Nombrede fe [u ; then moreNorthward, Azarim, Danue Agazim,Maim Tra- 
 for, and many other places, in all which were maintained Governouts and Souldiers, 
 and a Vice-Roy, redding at Goa, withCourts of Judice, &c. Hither many Kings 
 of the Ead ufed to fend Ambafladors to maintain Amity with the King of Portugal , 
 and to bring Tribute to him. Thus the Portugal Trade in the Ead extended! it felf 
 no lefs than Four thoufand Leagues, by which T rade all the Garifons are maintained,, 
 and all the Ships (whereof they are oftentimes Two or three Fleets'; and much 
 Wealth fent home every Year •, befides thofe aforementioned, the Crown of Portu- 
 gal has feveral Towns on the Coad of Africa , fo drongly fortified. That the Moors 
 of the Countrey could never yet recover them, fuch as Tangier, &c. 
 
 In America they pofiefs the famous Countrty of Brazile, which ftretcheth it felf 
 One thoufand four hundred Leagues upon theSea-Coad, containing Fourteen Go- 
 vernments, and many principal Cities, St. Salvador , Pernambuco , See. 
 
 Thus great a lofs did the Spanifh Monarchy differ by the Revolt of Portugal, which 
 the Catholick King Philip the Fourth was very folicitous to recover, and to that end 
 and purpofe did not only confult with the greated States- men at home, but likewife 
 with thofe abroad , from one of whom he to that etfedt received the enfuing 
 Letter. 
 
 c TT Y the Letter which yourMajedy was pleafedto write to me on the (5th. of 
 ‘ |j March pad , I am commanded to deliver my Advice touching the bed Expe- 
 dient for the Recovery of Portugal: Sir, the Clemency ufed by King Philip the 
 ‘ Second, your Majedies Grandfather, towards the Kingdom of Portugal , was a fatal 
 ‘prefageof the prefent Calamities, and future Dedrudtion, not only of Spain, but 
 ‘ the whole Spanijh Monarchy, becaufe that Kingdom was only in name, but never 
 ‘really Conquered, remaining Rich, and abundant with the fame, if not greater Pri- 
 ‘viledges than before; the Grandees and Nobles at Home, the People not at all 
 ‘CruOied; and (which is more than all) the Government in the hands of Na- 
 
 * lives, and all his Majedies other Subjects excluded from all places of Power, Ho- 
 ‘ nour, or Profit. Sir, The Holy Scripture, which is the Mirrour and Rule of our 
 
 * Aftions, teacheth, That when Salmanazar conquered the Kingdom of ifrael, he 
 ‘ did carry away, not only the Royal Family, but tranfported all the Nobility and Peo- 
 ple into divers Provinces of his Kingdoms, and into the new Conqueds fent new 
 ‘ Inhabitants ; yet the jfraeht's were never fuch inveterate Enemies to the Affyrians , 
 
 ‘as 
 
King of P O R T LI G A Lffic. 1 09 
 
 5 as the Portugal: with devilish madnefs have (hewed themfclves againft thelnterefl 
 c and Conveniencies of this Monarchy. 
 
 c Moreover in the fame Scripture it is rend , That N ebucbadonofor h aving Con- 
 c quered Jentfctlm, tranfplanted all that he found in that Kingdom , leaviug°on!y a 
 
 * few miferable inconfiderable people to remain: there, 
 
 ‘ So Athalia Queen of Judah faw no otlier way to prefer, VP a Kingdom newly 
 ‘ Conquered, but by extinguilhing all the Generation , upon whom the Jem. could 
 ‘ caft their eyes in hopes of Revolt. 
 
 ‘ And Jehu^ Kingelsded by God, extinguilhed all the Family of Ahab, together 
 c with all his dependants, friends, and acquaintance, not fparing fo much as the Pricfts. 
 
 ‘ Thefe.Sir, are the Rules that the Holy Scripture teacheth to be pradlifed upon 
 ‘ the Families and People that abhor the Dominion of their own Soveraigns. 
 
 ‘ 1 1 was, Sir, very fatal to ftand expecting and hoping for better times and oppor- 
 
 * tunities for the fecuring of Portugal. 
 
 ‘ In the Yeer, One thousand fix hundred and thirty nine, obferving the ill affedlion 
 ‘ of that Nation, my Advice was , That without any delay that Kingdom was to be 
 c fecured by Force of Arms-, others were of the fame Judgments , but Fate would 
 ‘ have it that ( for fear of new troubles ) by delay es way flrould be made for Rebelli- 
 ‘ on, than which there could not have been a greater, although that Form of Go- 
 ‘vernment, which was expedient for che Spanilli Monarchy , and was alwayes held 
 e neceflary for the preferving that Crown, had been put in execution with the greateft 
 ‘ violence imaginable. 
 
 1 But when a Jewel is gone, the main enquiry ftiould be, By what means it may be 
 ‘ found again, not How it came to be loft. 
 
 ‘ The firft means of recovering that Crown , may be ( what your Majefties 
 ‘ Grand-fathermadeufeof) to buy your Rights ot your own Subjeds by Giftsand 
 ‘Promifes, wherein your Majefty is to be as Prodigal , as the Portugal! are infolent 
 c in expeding or demanding , and indeed experience teacheth , That that Nation is 
 ‘ fo addided to their own Intereft, that more may be eflfeded this way .than by a pow- 
 ‘ erful Army: to him will they be fubjed who will give moft , or from whom moil 
 c can be expeded herein , Prodigality v?ill be good Husbandry for when Portugal 
 ‘ fhall be returned to the obedience ol your Majefty, all that Wealth which hath 
 ‘ been bellowed amongft them, will return likewife. 
 
 ‘ The fecondmeansisby courfeof Arms, but this will be difficult at prefent , by 
 ‘ Ileafon of the fevenl Engagements of this Monarchy elfewhere : I fuppofe Sir, 
 
 ‘ That in cafe Portugal (hould be Conquered by Force, all their Conquefts in the 
 ‘ Eafi-Indies , &c. w.ll remain in their hands •, for thither will they all flie, and from 
 
 * thence will they be alwayes ready to affift our Enemies ; wherefore it would be very 
 
 * expedient for your Majefties fervice, that a Truce were firft made with the Hol- 
 
 * landers , upon condition that they make War upon the Portugal in the Indies , and 
 
 * have whatever they can Conquer, whence will arife this Commodity that they wilt 
 ‘ want the Wealth of their Gonquefts, your Majefty being difengaged with the 
 ‘ Hollander , will fooner Conquer them at home, and the Hollander will only come to 
 ‘receive to day at t he haniof your Majefty, what to morrow the Portugal muftaeli- 
 ‘ verupto them : At the fame time the Hollanders and Flemings may fcour the 
 
 * Coaftof Portugal , andtheEnglifhmay be invited to a more frequent Navigation 
 
 * in the Eajl- Indies and china , whereby the Portugal T rade may eafily be ruined. 
 
 ‘The third way is , that the Pope be perfwaded to thunder his Excommunicati- 
 ‘ ons againft the Houfe of Braganza, and againft the whole Kingdom, as Perjured and 
 
 * Perturbatorsof the publick Peace , animating all Chriftian Princes to affift in the 
 ‘ regaining that Kingdom , upon pretence ot advancing the Catholick Faith. 
 
 ‘Moreover, difjfidenciesand jealoufies between the Duke of Braganza, and other 
 
 F f ‘ people. 
 
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 JOHN IV. of the Nam 
 
 « people, may eafily be fomented by meansof Merchants^ grangers ,and l by Timings 
 < and Burundians, under the name of French. And to efeft thefe diffidencies the 
 ‘better “a Treaty may really be begun with the Duke, which being difcovered by 
 ‘the People (though it be before the Dukecould know thereof; they will deftroy 
 ‘him and all his Family, and in fuch cafe the Civil diflentions will open a way for 
 c your Majefty to recover your Rights : defperate evils muft have defpeiate reme- 
 ‘ dies, the Kingdom of Portugal is the Cancer of the Spaniih Monarchy •, therefore, 
 
 Eufe reddendum : ne pars Jymera trahatur. 
 
 * Let not your Majefty defer the right Remedy, the greateft Rigor is here the great- 
 ‘ eft Charity; and to have no Charity, is to have much Prudence; to Bury this 
 ‘ Hydra in its own afhes, will be Triumph enough ; to live without this arm, will be 
 ‘ better than to have it employed againft ones own head : Let your Majefty never be- 
 ‘ lieve, or hope betterof that Nation , than you have feen thefe Sixty years pa ft ; 
 
 ‘ never think to keep that Countrey , if not planted with other People ; the detefta- 
 ‘ tion againft your Majefties Government, is hereditary, 
 
 ‘ The Intereft of the King, Sir, is very ample, and hath no bounds againft Rebels, 
 
 * every adtion is juft and honourable that tends to the recovery of the Kings right. 
 
 ‘ Moreover, a Truce is to be made with the Catalonians , whereby they being fre- 
 ‘ ed from the tumultuous courfes of War , will have time to take notice of the 
 ‘ French infolencies, and growing weary of that Y oke, will at length eafily embrace 
 ‘ the next opportunity to return to their obedience , which once effected, will make 
 
 * the People of P ortugal waver betwixt hopes and fears , and beget variety of opini- 
 ons amongft them , which for the Conquering of Kingdoms ( the Emperour fuli- 
 
 * an ufed to fay ) was much more advantageous than the force of an Army , as the 
 « Grand- father of your Majefty found in the Succeflion oi P ortugal : To this may be 
 ‘added, That it will be very expedient that your Majefty name Bifhops to difpofe 
 ‘ of all Governments, and Offices of the Crown , to the moft confiding Perfons in 
 
 * that Kingdom, for this will beget diftruft amongft them all , and the ignorant peo- 
 ‘ pie not knowing whom to truft, will put all into Confufion, whereby your Majefties 
 ‘ fervice will be more eafily advanced. 
 
 ‘ This in obedience to your Majefties Commands , I have imparted my weak ad- 
 ‘ vice, wherein if I have erred,your Majefties goodnefs will attribute it to my want of 
 ‘ abilities, not of affedfion : God preferve the Catholick and Royal Perfon of your 
 ‘ Majefty, as the Chriftian World, and we your Majefties Subjects have need. 
 
 But notwithftanding all thefe endeavors, and thefe propofed Artifices, nothing 
 prevailed towards the King of Spain’s recovery of this Kingdom, nor was it proba- 
 ble that any of thefe Deceits ever ffiould , whil’ft is confidered the extraordinary love 
 and affeft ion which the whole Nation of thePortugueJfes bore to the Family of their 
 prefent King, and the inveterate hatred which they did, and always have born to the 
 Cajlillians, which was fo exceeding great, that it is believed they would rather have 
 Puttered themfelves to be extirpated and routed out , than again fubmit their Necks 
 totheSpanifhYoke. 
 
 And that ever the Spaniard fhould again recover it per force , is incredible, if we 
 either confider the Union and Unanimity of the Portugal Nation , and their Refolu- 
 tions to undergo the greateft miferies of Wat can inflidf, or the Intereft of all the 
 other Princes of Chriftendom , who may juftly fufpedt the encroaching greatnefs of 
 the Spaniard, andtherefore endeavor rather to Lop off more Limbs from that great 
 Body, than fuffer this to be rejoyned. 
 
 But it is now high time to return to a Review of the A&ions of the Grand Af- 
 fembly of the Eftates of Portugal , who next Refolved to Difpatch Ambaffadors to 
 
 all 
 
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King 0/ PORTUGAL, &c. t , u 
 
 all States of Chriftendom, to enter into Confederacies, for the better defence and 
 eftablilliment of the Kingdom, and for the Glory and Reputation of the King. 
 
 Inthefirft place, the Father Ignat ms Majcarenas a Jefuite , with another Father 
 of the fame Order , was fent into Catalonia , to offer them all afliftance and fupplies 
 for their maintenance , and defence againft the Catholique King , for very well did 
 the King of P ortug.il know that it highly did import his Intereft to correspond with 
 them , that fo they might joyntly , not onely defend , but alfo offend the King of 
 Spain ' , whofe Country lying betwixt them both , they might at pleafure invade , 
 ormoleft it , either by Sea or Land. 
 
 This Embaflie of King JOHN’S fo rejoyced and encouraged the Catalonians, 
 that the very next day after the Ambafladors had Audience, they obtained a moft 
 fign.il Vidory in their own defence againft the Spaniards , who had affaulced them 
 with an Army of twenty five thoufand men under the Command of the Marquifs De 
 los veles. 
 
 Shortly after that the Father Ignatius Mafcarenas was difpatched to the Cataloni- 
 ans D. Francifco de Mello , and Don Antonia Caelle Carravallio , ( perfons both of 
 excellent and admired abilities , the one for his great experience and judgment in 
 State- affairs , and the other for his noble Spirit, and eminent knowledge in the 
 Civil Law ) to goonafolemn Embaflie to the moft Chriftian King Lewis the thir- 
 teenth of France. 
 
 Thefe attended with a Stately and moft Magnificent T rain , landed foon after at 
 Kochel and on the fifteenth of -March 1641. madea folemn Entrance into Paris , 
 being met and conduced in by a great number of Coaches, filled with the Gran- 
 dees of the Kingdom, befides numbers of the French Nobilicy , who came to at- 
 tend them on horfe-back. 
 
 Thusaccompanied , they were conduced to the Palace appointed for the Enter- 
 tainment of the Extraordinary Ambafladors , where they were in a fumptuous and 
 magnificent, manner feafted at the Kings Charges. 
 
 From thence they were by the Duke of Chevercux , and the Count de Brulon J 
 conducted in the Kings Coaches unto his Majefty then at St. Germains , to receive 
 the firft Audience 5 which was performed with extraordinary (hews of love and re- 
 ipe<ft : for upon the entrance of the Ambafladors into the place appointed for their 
 Audience, the King rofe'out of his Chair of Eftate: and went forward three fteps to 
 receive them, nor would he permit them to deliver their Embaflie with their Hats 
 off, or to defcendfo low, as to kifshis hands at their departure , but in fteadof 
 that Ceremony , he affe&ionately imbraced them in his Arms, promifing them 
 the greateft Afliftance his Power was able to give. 
 
 They were from the Kings prefence conduced to a fumptuous Dinner provided 
 for them, and after that brought to the Queens Lodging, who was fet to ex- 
 pert their coming.- at their entrance (he likewiferofe, and advanced three fteps 
 to meet them, receiving them with a cheerful and courteous countenance, and 
 not permitting them to be uncovered. 
 
 Amongft other Difcourfes which they had with her, D. Francifco de Mello told her. 
 That he feared his Embaflie might not be acceptable, becaufe the King his Mafter 
 had deprived her Brother of one of his Kingdoms. Whereunto (he readily re- 
 plyed , That though {he ms fifier to the King c/Spain , yet jhe ms wife to the King of 
 France. 
 
 After fome Difcourfe in French , her Majefty began to fpeak to them in Spam lb, 
 which they obferving , defired to know wherefore her Majefty had not vouchfafed 
 them that favor fooner , it being a Language by them better underftood * To which 
 the Queen jeftingly anfwered , For fear they (hould be frighted to hear her fpeak 
 Spanifh , and the Embaflador to improve the jeft , replyed , Como a tarn Grand 
 
 f f 2 Signora 
 
m JOHN IV. of the Name, 
 
 Signer aft , pero cornu a Caftiliano no , that it was t:ue confideiing her Greatnefs, but 
 not her Country : The Queen finding, went on, promifing them all affiftance polfi- 
 ble» and wifhing all profperity to King JOHN and his Queen and !o they 
 having delivered her Majefty a Letter from the Queen of Portugal , took their 
 leave. 
 
 From her Maiefty they went to vifit his Eminence the Cardinal Richlieu , who 
 being advertifed of their coming, came forward to the third Chamber to meet 
 them , where he received them with expreffions of great affedfion , and promifes 
 and proffers of fervices, and from thence conducted them to his own Chamber. 
 
 Being all three fate, the Cardinal (who was the mod experienced and greateft: 
 Statesman of his time ) difcourled with them of, divers affairs of great importance , 
 and they endeavored to explain to his Eminence what was before his fentiment, that 
 it very much imported the two Crowns of France and Portugal to be united by an in- 
 diffoluble League, confidering that it was the Chief and Principal end and aim of 
 theHou r eof Auftria , (whofe Branches were fpread over almoft all Europe ) noc 
 only to be the greateft, but to be the foie and only Monarch of Chriftcndom : That 
 to effedi thofe ambitious defires, he had never made fcruple to ufui p and feize upon 
 Kingdoms and States upon the ieaft pretences imaginable , as had appeared in the 
 Kingdoms of Napfes, , Sicily,. Navarre , the Dutchy of Millan , and lately feverai 
 States in Germany, feizing upon the Fall dine , whereby they had a paffage open to 
 lead an Army of Germans into Italy at pleafure. 
 
 That confidering the vaft power and interefl: that this Family had , not only in 
 Europe, butalfoin America , it could not but be confeffed , That they had a large 
 foundation of their imaginary Univerfel Monarchy ; but that nothing gave them fo 
 great hopes, as the poffeifion of Portugal. 
 
 For by the addition of that Kingdom to the Crown of Ca/li/le, theybecameab- 
 folnteMafters,not only.of all Spain, but of all the Eajl- Indies, of all the Eaftern 
 Trade of Ethiopia, Perfta, Arabia, china, sfapan, and all that incredible wealth 
 that was rai fed out of the Portugal Tiaffick, whereby the Auftrian Greatnefs (if 
 not th^i'r Monarchy ) was principally fuftained, that therefore it concernedall States 
 whatfoever, not only to put a flop to the raving Tyranny of this devouring Mon- 
 fter, but to fupprefs and leffen his Power by all means poffible. 
 
 That to do this, none was more concerned, or more able, than the Kingdom of 
 France united with that of Portugal : T hat this having been called the R ight Arm 
 {is Catalonia the Left) of that great Austrian Coloflus , now both being feparated 
 from it, and united to France, will be able to do greater fervice againft it , than they 
 were ever forced to do for it , not only by affaulting the Spaniard within his own 
 doors, but by intercepting the Plate-Fleet ; which in its return from the Weft-Indies , 
 it being neceffarily forced to pafs by the Terctra Iflands, muft run in danger of the 
 Portuguese Fleet, or be forced to be at the Charge of an extraordinary Convoy. ' 
 
 T hefe were the fum of the Ambaffadors Difcourfes to the Cardinal: Inanfwer 
 to which, his Eminence made offer, not only of all the Affiftanceof the moll Chri- 
 ftian King his Mafter, but that he would disburfe himfelf for the fervice of the King 
 of Portugal, promifing that he would prefently fend thither a Fleet of Twenty Safi 
 with his Nephew , Admiral and Ambaffador Extraordinary. 
 
 This Treatment thus ended, the Ambaffadors took their leaves, his Eminence 
 waiting upop them as far as the Stairs- whichwhenthey endeavored to hinder, he 
 replied, That the Ambaffadors of the King of Portugal, were to be Treated with as 
 much R efpedf as thofe of the Emperor or Pope. 
 
 Few dayes after, a tfuneto of the King of France his Council, were appointed 
 to Treat with the Ambaffadors in the Houfe of the Lord High Chancellor of the 
 Kingdom, where a Peace was fully concluded between the two Kingdoms of France 
 
 and Portugal. 0ther 
 
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 King of PORTUGAL, &c. i ij 
 
 Ocher Ambafladors were ( about the fame time that the afore-mentioned were 
 fent into France') difpatched into England ; for it very much concerned the King- 
 dom of Portugal to maintain a good Correfpondence with th.e Crown of England , 
 both in regard of the Navigation and Commerce of both States, and alfo the better 
 to break that Amity and good Underftandmg which was now held between the 
 Crown of Spain and that State. Hither therefore were fent Don Antonio D’ Alma- 
 do, and Don Franci[co D' Averado Leilon, both perfons of exquifite parts; who 
 notwithftanding that the Dunkirkers Chafed them, arrived fafe in England. 
 
 And for all the fturdy endeavors of the Spanilh Ambafladors, they were received 
 on fhore with abundance of Refpecl •, yet His Majefty of England would not give 
 them Audience, or accept of th.e Ambaflage from the King of Portugal, fo tender 
 was He of His Honor and Confcience, till Don Antonia de Sofa their Secretary, had 
 drawn up a Paper, to fatisfie Him of the Right and Title of the Duke of Braganza 
 to the Crown of Portugal. The fum of which was : 
 
 Upon the Death of King Henry the Cardinal , without Jffue , many pretended 
 ( together with the Infanta Donna Catherina Dutchefs of Braganza, and Grand-mo- 
 ther to this present King) to the Crown of Portugal ; hut all their pretences want- 
 ing foundation , foon fell, except that of Philip the Second, King of Spain, who pr opt up 
 his with force. 
 
 King Henry was Uncle , equally near to both, but with this difference Catherine 
 was the Daughter of a Son named Edward , and Philip was the Son of a Daughter na- 
 med Ifabella, Brother and Sifter to King Henry. 
 
 King Philip pleaded, That he being in equal degree with Catherine, was to be prefer- 
 red for his Sex. » 
 
 Catherine replyed , That theConfitutionof that Kingdom allowing Females to fuc- 
 ceed, and withal the benefit of Reprefentation in all Inheritances , [he reprefenting Ed- 
 ward, mufi exclude Philip by the very fame right that her Father (if he were living) 
 ■would exclude Philips Mother. 
 
 This Conclufion is infallible in Jure: whereto Philip answered. That Succeflion of 
 Kingdoms defending Jure fanguinis, there was allowed no Reprefentation. 
 
 Catherine destroyed that f oundation , aHedging , That the Sucafion by the Death of 
 the lafi King, was derived Jure harreditatis , & non fanguinis, becaufe the Succefi- 
 on of Kingdoms was to be regulated by that Ant tent way , whereby all things defended by 
 Inheritance ■, the other way of Succeffion being not known until later Ages , nor ever pra- 
 tlifed either in Spain or Portugal in fuch Cafes. 
 
 Briefly in behalf of Catherine it was urged , ( which by the Caftillians can never 
 be denied , or an(wered) That Jhe was no fir anger, hut a Native of the Kingdom, to 
 whom alone (according to the Laws of Lamego) the Crown of Portugal can appertain. 
 
 The King having perufed and deliberated upon this Paper, gave immediately 
 Order they lliould be prefently conduced to London , which was done with all conve- 
 nient Solemnity, and they lodged in a Palace ready prepared for them: foon after 
 with great Ceremony they received Audience of His Majefty , in a fair and Stately 
 Hall prepared for that purpofe , where His Majefty fate upon a Throne raifed two 
 fteps, and at the entrance of the Ambaflador pulled off His Hat , nor would be co- 
 vered till they were fo too. 
 
 To the Propofitions made in the Speech of D. Antonia D’Jlmoda, concerning t 
 Peace between Portugal and England, His Majefty replied , That he fhould be ve- 
 ry glad if an expedient might be found out to renew the Antient Leagues of Friend- 
 fliip between the two Crowns, without the breaking with Spain. 
 
 Some few dayes after , the Ambafladors were conducted to give a Vifit to Mary 
 
 G g Queen 
 
 
JOHN IV. of the Name, 
 
 Queen of England, who fate in a Chair of Eftate ready to entertain them: when 
 they came in to thq Prefence, Sherofeoutof the Chair, ard came as far as the Car- 
 petting, making low reverence as the Ambaffadors bowed ; when they came near. 
 Her Majefty made them be covered, but afterwards they fpokewith their Hats off. 
 In condufion the Queen told them, That fhe much defired to hold Correfpondence 
 with Her Majefty of Portugal. 
 
 In fine, on the Thirteenth of fane , One thousand fix hundred and forty one, a 
 Peace was abfolutely concluded with the Portugal , notvvithftanding the earneft en- 
 deavors of Don Alontza Cardenas , Leiger Ambafl'ador for Spain , who by Gifts and 
 Promifes, even as far as the reftitution of the Palatinate , endeavored to hinder it. 
 
 The Ambaffadors that were fent to the King of Denmark ( notwithftanding the 
 great Traffick and Commerce that had formerly bin held between that Kingdom and 
 Portugal ) were not ( by reafon of the great intereft the Houfe of Auftna had with 
 thofe Kings ) received-, yet the King gave all poffibleRetped other wife to them. 
 From thence they paffed into .Sweden , and were Magnificently entertained at the 
 young Queens Court at Stockholm , where a League was loon concluded, and the 
 Ambaffadors difmifTed , according to theCuftom of that Nation, with Gold Chains, 
 and the Queens Portrai&ure in a Meddal of Gold. 
 
 The AmbaffadorD. Triflano De Mendoza Hurtada , that was fent to the States 
 of thellnited Provinces , was received with the like Magnificence and feeming affe- 
 cftion, and a Truce concluded with the Kingdom of Portugal for Ten years 5 for a 
 Peace the States would not aflent to, becaufe they having Conquered many places in 
 Rraftl, Angola , &c whichbelonged to the Crown and Kingdom of Portugal , could 
 not make reftitution of them, by reafon they now' belonged to the Weft- India Com- 
 pany; nor could the King of Portugal allow the Conqueft, as things of right be- 
 longing to his Crown, and depending on it. 
 
 But novy we come to treat of amorefolemn Embaffie, to wit, that tothePope: 
 Long wasit debated in the Affembly of Eftates, whether an Ambaffador fhould be 
 fent to Rome immediately, or a more opportune conjuncture of time be expefted. 
 Some were of opinion that the fending an Ambaffador without further delay , would 
 be a teftification of their duty , and incline the Popes Holinefs to acknowledge 
 DON JO HN the lawful Heir, and rightful King of Portugal , which would 
 extreamly further and advance the Affairs of the Kingdom. 
 
 But others there were who conceived thofe things rather defirable than feafable, 
 and were of the opinion they ihould rather ftay till a fitter opportunity, alledging , 
 that the King of Spains prefent power at Rome , might probably oppofe the Re- 
 ception of their Ambaffador : that although the Pope never was in his heart a Spa- 
 niard, yet he would never yield to (how himfelf an enemy to the Catholick King: 
 That the Spaniards cunningly fomenting the opinion which all the world haden- 
 tertainted , that his Holinefs did in all things favor the French intereft , would 
 from' fiich a Reception, draw as much as ever they could ask or defire. That for 
 this caufe the Pope ( that he might not feem their enemy ) had alwayes granted 
 them whatever they defired; That therefore they thought it convenient firft to 
 found his Holinefs, before they run the hazard of the difgrace and affront which 
 might fall upon his Majefty, and the whole Kingdom ; That in cafe the Pope 
 fhould decline the reception of the Ambaffador , to whom could they repair or ap- 
 peal to vindicate the injury done to the Crown 1 That many Popes had been fo 
 fafcinated to the intereft of their own family , that the world had very great oc- 
 cafion to believe, that their defigns tended rather to what was belt for themfelres, 
 than to what was beft indeed : That the Portugal Nation, had as much reafon to 
 diftruft the See olRome as any , whilft they had to their coft had examples how 
 they onelypurfued their own ends, As particularly Gregory the thirteenth , who at 
 
King of P OUT tl G A L, &c. . i tf 
 
 firft feetned foaffe&ionateco the Kingdom of Portugal , that heimployed theut- 
 moft of his Power for the Intereft of his own Family, approved of all that King 
 had done •, that there was none who had more to give, ot at lead who had more to 
 promife, than the Catholick King •, fo that in any bufinefs ol Competition he mud 
 necefiarily gain the better. 
 
 But notwithftanding all thefe Arguments to the contrary, upon the promifes of 
 the King of France, to be a Mediator at the See of Rome , for the Reception of their 
 Ambaffadors, by the Tuffrage of fomefew Voices, to make the major part, it was 
 concluded, That Ambaffadors (hould immediately be fent to Rome. 
 
 And in purfuance of this Vote, the King immediately made choice of two 
 Reverend and able Perfons, to wit, Michael De Portogallo, Son to the Count Vimio- 
 fo of the Blood Royal, Bifhopof Lamego, and D. Petableone Rodriguez , , Bifhop 
 of Elvas : No fooner was the news arrived at Rome of their being landed in Italy , 
 but the Spaniards in Rome muftred themfelves Together , with resolution either to 
 oppofe their entrance, or at lead hinder their reception; whil’d on the other fide the 
 French, Portugal, and Catalonians affembled themfelves together, refolving to hazard 
 their dearett Blood in their Caufe. 
 
 His Holinefs feeing thefe preparations on both fides , feared led his Countrey 
 fhould be made the Seat of a petty War , and confidering that in any cafe the difho- 
 nour would accrue to him, if whii’d under his Command and Protection, the Perfon 
 of an Ambaffador fhould be violated, dridtly Commanded all his Guards to take fpe- 
 cial care to prevent the Violencies intended. 
 
 The Spaniards by this Order hindred from what they purpofed , their Ambaf- 
 fadors openly proteded , That if his Holinefs did receive the Portugal Ambaffador, 
 
 • they would immediately leave Rome. But notwithdanding thefe protedations, and 
 all other oppofition they could pofllbly make , in November , one thoufand fix hun- 
 dred and forty one , the two Portugal Ambaffadors being met by divers Cardinals , 
 Princes, and Cavaliers, well armed, entred into Rome , and were condu&ed to the 
 Palace of the French Ambaffador, who received them with all Refpeft poflible,dill 
 giving them the precedence. 
 
 Hereupon feveral Manifedo’s are fcattered abroad by the two Spanifh Ambaffa- 
 dors, the Marquefs De Us Veles, and D. John Chiumarrero , labouring to prove that 
 his Holinefs ought not to receive the Ambaffadors of the Duke of Braganza, as they 
 Ailed him. Fird, becaufe he was a Tyrant, and Ufurper of that Kingdom , which 
 had been in the quiet poffeflion of the Catholick King thefe Sixty years. Secondly, 
 Becaufe he was a Rebel, and a Perjured Perfon, havirtg fwom Allegiance to the 
 Catholick King. Thirdly, That the Reception of thefe Ambaffadors would ahi- 
 niate other Subjects of the Catholick King to Rebellion. 
 
 But whil’d the Spanifh Ambaffadors are violently fhooting fuch Paper- Bullets , 
 the Portuguefes ufed all their endeavors , both by themfelves , and the French Am- 
 bafl'adors, ( who had exprefs. Order from the mod; Chridian King his Mader to that 
 purpofe , ) to prevail with the Pope, to give them Audience , and admit their Em- 
 baffie : but his Holinefs was fo fearful to difpleafe the Spaniard ‘ led he (hould after- 
 wards take occafion to revenge hitjifelf upon his Nephew's , that he utterly declined 
 their Reception , yet not oat of any of the Spaniards Allegations , but upon pre- 
 tence that certain of the Church Rites hadbeen violated in Portugal-, the Arch- bi- 
 fhop of Braga , and other Ecclefiadical Perfons , being kept in durance , though it 
 was for very good reafons, as hereafter dial! appear. 
 
 Yet the Spaniards were not content with this Refoliition of his Holinefs, bat 
 ( whil’d the Portugals were endeavoring to prove their Caufe , by both Political and 
 Legal Declarations, Allegations, and Arguments , ) tearing led the Pope might 
 chance to alter his mind, refolved to make a quick difpacch of the Bufinefs , and to 
 
 G g 2 that 
 
n<> JOHN IV. of the Name, 
 
 thatpurpofe Two hundred Bandit! were hired to feize upon the Biihop of Lamego , 
 and carry him to Naples , as the Prince of Sans had been before fierved by them, and 
 there put to Death. _ , w 
 
 But this Defign, themfelves at length could not agree upon , for the Marquefs 
 De LosVelos, thought it would bebetter and lefs dangerous to give the Portugals a 
 Publick Affront in the City, which was concluded to be put in effedl, and to that 
 purpofe it was communicated to the reft of the Nation, (whereof upon feveral oc- 
 casions there are alwayes many in Rome ) who aflembk d together well Armed at the 
 Ambafladors Palace : and fo great is the Power of Revenge : that to the end they 
 might the better effedf their defign , and yet not appear as Souldiers, though there 
 were many Gentlemen of quality amongft them, they condefcended to go under the 
 name of Foot-men to the Marquefs. 
 
 The Popes Holinefs hearing of the great preparations of the Spaniard, fent to 
 them to let them know, that he could not but be very much diftafted to fee fuch 
 diforders attempted in a peaceable City, and therefore defiring them for hisHonors 
 faketodefift , and withal fent a Meffenger to theBifhopof Lamego, to afl’ure him 
 that he need not fear any thing, for upon the W ord of his Holinefs, he ftiould walk 
 the Streets undifturbed. 
 
 But do the Pope what he could , either by threats , defires , or perfwafions, 
 the Spaniards were refolved to profecute their defign, which they put in execu- 
 tion to their own coft , on the twenty of Augufl , Onethoufand fix hundred forty two. 
 On which day theBifhopof Lamego going to vifit the French Ambaftador, one 
 of his retinue obferved, that he was dog’dbya Spanifh S\>ie whereupon a Coun- 
 ter-Spie was fent to the Marquefles to bring intelligence what they were doing 
 there , who brought word to the French Ambafladors, that there was great prepara- 
 tions of Coaches and Men : whereupon the French^Poriugals , and Catalonians, aflem- 
 bled, and armed themfelves with Piftols and Fire-locks, to convoy home the Biihop. 
 
 By the way they were met by the Spanifb Ambaffador , accompanied with about 
 eight Coaches full of Captains and Officers come from Naples , and guarded with a- 
 bout fixty Foot men , befides divers others of that Nation. Nofooner came they 
 in fight of the Bilhops Coach, but they cried aloud , Che ft fermaffiro all’ A mb di- 
 ctator e di Spagna •, that they flrould flop for the Ambaftador of Spam: but the Par- 
 tugals driving on, anfwered , Chef fermajfero Lavo , that they ftiould flop. 
 
 Hereupon both fides with their Swords drawn leapt out of the Coaches , and 
 making a (land, one Gun was firft fired by the Spaniards fide, and immediately 
 feconded with a brave volley on both fides-, when they fell into Swords point, the 
 Bifhops fide foon getting the better of it, yet there was flaina Knight of Malta , 
 an Italian , and a French and Portugal page, but on the S panijh Marquefles fide , 
 there were eight killed upon the place , and above twenty wounded , the Mar- 
 quefs leaving his Coach-horfesdead , efcaped out of the back of the Coach, which 
 ftood upon the place till next day , and got into the next ftiop without his hat , 
 and trembling for fear, from whence he was carried to the S panijh Cardinal Al- 
 kornoz, Palace. The Portuguese Ambaftador returned firft to the French Palace , 
 and from thence went fafely home. 
 
 His Holinefs the Pope was extreamlv perplexed at thefe difturbances , and 
 therefore to prevent the like for the future. Commanded a guard of Souldiers to 
 be putuponthehoufes, both of the Biihop and the Marquefs. Butfhortly after, 
 when the Bifliop of Lamego had again prefled the Pope , by a large memorial of 
 the reafons why he (hould be received , and was abfolutely refufed , he was by 
 his Matter the King of Portugal called home. 
 
 Whilft thefe things were afting abroad, the Cafillians begun to make con- 
 tinual in-roads into the borders of Portugal , which made King JOHN look more 
 narrowly into the defence of his Kingdom, fortifie all the Frontiers , and train 
 up his Subje&s to military exercifes. The 
 
King of PORTUGAL, & c . j i 7 
 
 The Spaniards in one in-road which they made into Portugal, laid wafte all before 
 them, fparing neither Sex nor Age wherefoever they came , which made the Portu- 
 gals in revenge, commit the like out-rages in an in- road they made into Gallicia. 
 
 But thefe were publick enmities , and therefore more eatie tobeoppofed; but 
 there was a private Serpent that lay Lurking at home , which was fo much the like- 
 lier to do tnifchief, by how much it was more fecrecly hidden. Some few there 
 were who thought themfelvesfo highly obliged to the Catholick King, as to en- 
 deavour the re-uniting of the Crown of Portugal to his vaft Dominions , and again 
 inflave their Countrey to Foreigners. 
 
 The principal of thefe was the Arch-'bilhop of Braga, alwayes a great Creature 
 and Favourite of the Count Olivarez, who had at the beginning of the Revolt, 
 fhow'd himfelf fo oppofite to the Freedom of his Countrey , that many Gentlemen 
 were once refolved to make him fuffer the fame fate with Vafconcellos the Secreta- 
 ry Nor had he ceafed ever fince to fhow vifible figns of his difcontentment at the 
 Government, 
 
 In this Arch-bilhops head was the whole Confpiracy firft hatch’t , and by him 
 communicated to V. Lewis de Menefes Marquefs of Filla-real , and the Duke of Ca- 
 migna his Son, two Perfons fufficiently Ambitious , and both difcontented , as not 
 thinking themfelves fufficiently rewarded according to their- Merit : Thefe the Arch- 
 biffiop tampered with , perfwading them , That it was a low and unworthy thing, 
 much beneath their Birth and Greatnefs , to fuffer themfelves to be fubjedt to a fel- 
 low-Subjedt : That it would be much more Noble and Generous in them , to return 
 their Allegiance to the King of Spain their An tient Soveraign, who was able tobe- 
 ftow more upon a Perfon deferving in one day, than the Duke of Braganza could 
 in an hundred years. T hefe and few other Arguments were fufficient to draw thofe, 
 who before out of their envy to the Houfe of Braganza, were inclinable to a change. 
 
 Thefe made fure, the Arch-biffiop next draws into this Plot a Gentleman of a 
 Noble Blood „ named , D. Augustine Emanuel , a man of excellent parts , buc 
 fomewhat neceffitated , nor had ever been looked upon, or put into any employ- 
 ment , which without any other incentives , were motives fufficient to move a man 
 to any defperate defign. Next him was added to this Confpiracy , Pietro Baeza, a 
 lately converted Jew , whom the Periugucffes call Upftart Chriftians ; he was Fa- 
 mous for nothing, but his vaft Riches; being a great Criado of the Count ohvarez, 
 whofe Favour, he ufed often to fay, would one day advance him to high Honor , or 
 to a high pair of Gallows, which 1 aft proved very true. 
 
 Many private Meetings had thefe , and fome few other Confpirators , where 
 they debated to bring their Defigns to effedt ; fome were of opinion, that before they 
 could bring it to pertedfion, more (hould be acquainted with it , for it was impoffible 
 that fo few fhould ever be able to compafs it : But in this courfe there arofe many 
 fears and doubts , left too many being acquainted with it , fome Ihould difcover it , 
 as had often hapned in Defigns of that high Nature: yet at length it was found ne- 
 ceffary to draw more into the Plot , for whil’ft they were fo few, the Bufinefs only 
 refted in imagination , but could never be put in execution. 
 
 Having therefore added fome more to the number , their next debates were of 
 the manner how to bring it to effedt; (ome advifed that a Power of the Catholick 
 Kings was to be got in a readinefs , but they then thought that the King of Portugal 
 would raife as great a force, and fo prevent a fudden Invafion : Yet in anfwer to that 
 Objedtion, it was by fome alledged, That the Spaniard by way of Intelligence might 
 be let in, which again feerned as difficult, the Militia being in the hands of Perfons 
 moft Loyal and Trufty to the King : Others propofed , That the only way to ef- 
 fedt it, was by a fudden and violent making away of the King ; but this advice was 
 oppofed by moft, who inclined to a mediocrity , and would rather have found out a 
 
 H h way 
 
u g JOHN IV. of the Nome, 
 
 way to make his Majefty renounce his own Right and Title to the Crown, and retire 
 himfelf from the dangers which (hould be prefented unto him. 
 
 But whil’ft they thus wavered in opinions, and inclined to chat moderation, which 
 istheruineof allDefigns of this Nacure , they gave the King time and occafionto 
 fearch out their Plots for his Majefty having alwayeshad a fufpitious eye upon the 
 Arch-bifhop of Braga , and the Marquefs of Villa-Real, and having received now 
 private notice, that they had had fundry Meetings, and were obferved daily to con- 
 verfe with Perfons as difcontented as themfelves , endeavored by all means poffible 
 to know the depth of theirCounfel , andatlength intercepts fome of their Letters 
 to Madrid, which difcovered not only the whole Plot, but even the names of all the 
 Confpirators. 
 
 The Ad of Holding Correfpondencewith the Spaniard, wasTreafon in it felf, 
 fufficient to take away their lives, being contrary to his Majefties exp: efs command, 
 its being to this intent, madeit but fo much the more hainous : His Majefty there- 
 fore not knowing how far it might have proceeded , made no delayes , but prefently 
 by the found of Drum and Trumpet ( as the Cuftomis ) caufed to be Prbclaimed , 
 That he intended to go forth of the City ; upon which all the Nobles and Gentry , 
 according to the ufual manner , affembled at the Palace to accompany his Majefty , 
 who when he fawthem all ready, commanded firft that a Council of Eftate (hould 
 be called, which was done, many of the Confpirators being affiftant in it, who be- 
 ing fate, his Majefty without any noife caufed them to be arrefted one by one, which 
 without the taking of thiscourfe, he could never have effeded ; for iftheConfpi- 
 racy had been deteded, before their Perfons had been feized , they had either been 
 torn in pieces by the fury of the People, or elfe had fome of them efcaped. 
 
 It was very ftrange that of all the Plotters in this Confpiracy , not one (hould, 
 either by accident, orotherwife, efcape, for the Perfons of thefe now taken, were 
 no fooner imprifoned, but his Majefty publifhed a Proclamation, declaring a Free 
 Pardon to all the Complices in this Confpiracy , that (hould within Four dayes 
 come and acknowledge their fault, and beg it -, but the Kings diligence had been fuch 
 before, that there Was not one left to accept of this Grace. 
 
 Shortly after thofe who had been taken, were Arraigned according to Law, found 
 Guilty of High Treafon,and in manner following executed. 
 
 On the laft day of Augufi , One thousand fix hundred and forty one, the Marquefs 
 of Villa- Real , the Duke of Camigna, his Son, the Count de Armamac, and Z>. Au- 
 gufiine Mamele , were led along a Gallery to a Scaffold ereded for the purpofe, with 
 two ftories, on the uppermoft of which flood two Chairs , on the next one, and on 
 the Scaffold it felf the fourth. 
 
 The firft that was conduded forth to Execution , was the Marquefs of Villa- Red, 
 who was clothed in a long black Bayes Cloak, and his fervants attending him in 
 mourning , being mounted to the uppermoft part of the Scaffold , he prayed for 
 a good fpace upon his knees , and then rifing up , asked, If there were no hopes 
 of Pardon i which made the people with one voice cry out. No, let him die, let 
 him die for a Traytor. 
 
 The next funebrious Ceremony of his Execution, was the Proclamation , which 
 according to the ufual manner was made by the Executioner , in thefe words 4 
 'This tithe fuflicc that the King our S over aign Lord , commands to he executed upon the 
 perfon of Don Lewis de Menefes , fometimes Marqufs of Villa-Real, that his throat 
 he cut ns a Tray tor to his Majefty , Nobility and People of this Kingdom , that for his 
 Crime his goods be confifcated , and his memory banifhed out of the World' Whereat 
 all the people cryed out, fuftice , -Juft ice. 
 
 The Marquefs thereupon feeing no hopes of any Repreive , with a fober and 
 becoming gravity demanded Pardon of all the Spectators , deliring them to 
 
 affift 
 
Kingof P ORT U G A L, &c. 
 
 aflift him with their prayers to God for the Pardon of this , and all his other fins ; 
 then turning to a Father-Jefuite his Confefl’or , he prayed him in his behalf to 
 prefent himfelfathis Majefties feet, and befeech him out of his wonted goodnefs, 
 to forgive him that hainous offence committed againft him and the whole King- 
 dom. 
 
 Having ended this Speech, he very patiently fate down id the Chair, and the 
 Executioner having tied his arms and legs, to the arms and legs of the Chair , 
 he leaned his neck over the back of the Chair, aud the Executioner with his knife 
 cut his throat, covering him afterwards with a black Scarf. 
 
 In the fame maner his fon the Duke of Camigna came to the Scaffold , his fer- 
 vants all attending him in mourning 5 as he came to his fathers Corps he kneeled 
 down , and feveral times kifTed his feet , begged of the people the fuffrage of one 
 Pater nofire for his fathers foul ; then after feme prayers , and Proclamation made 
 by, the Executioner , he received the fame pumifhment. 
 
 Next that buffered was the Count of Armamac , in the Chair feated upon the 
 lower ftory? and after him Don Augufin Manuel upon the Scaffold it fell; the 
 Judges would have had all their necks cut behind, but his Majefty would not con- 
 fen^ thereto, as a punifhment too ignominious for perfons of their quality. 
 
 T he fame day Pietro de Baefa , and Melchior Correa de Franca , were drawn at a 
 horfe-tail to an extraordinary high gallows, and there hanged, whileft Diego de Bri- 
 to Nabo, and Antonio Vdente , were executed upon a lower •, the Quarters of chefe 
 four were fet up at the Gates of the C ity ,and their Heads placed upon feveral Frontier 
 
 Towns. • 
 
 In the Month of September following , for the tame.offence Annm.i Cogamignc , 
 and Antonio Correa , were like\vife executed the firft of which daring the whole 
 time of his Imprifonment , was an example of Penitence , feeding only upon Bread 
 and Water , and whipping himfelf very often , with continual prayers to God 
 
 for Pardon of that, and all his other fins. 
 
 As for the Arch-Bifhop of Braga , and the Bifhops of Martiria and Malacca , and 
 fryer Emanuel de Macedo , though they were the perfons that had the greateft 
 hand in the Confpiracy 5 yet in regard they were Ecclefiaftical perfons , they 
 fuffered not death, according to their deferts , but were kept inprifon, till the 
 Popes pleafure were known concerning them. 
 
 Here muff not be forgot a great example of humility and repentance in the 
 Arch-Bifhop of Braga , not only in his life time ( when he often writ to the King, 
 that he might buffer, and others be fpared , who were rather drawn in , in comply - 
 ance and obedience to him, than out of any ill-will to the King and Kingdom (but 
 alfo at his death ( which hapned about Three years after his Imprifonment ) when 
 he "ave Order, That as foon as he was dead, his Laft Will and T eftament fhould be 
 carried to the King, wherein he hunjbly intreated his Majefly to Pardon the Treafon 
 committed againft him, and his Native Countrey, and that he would permit his 
 body to be buried without the Church of any Parifh of Lisbonne , and chat without 
 any lrtfcriptionorTomb-ftone, that there might remain no memory of a man who 
 had been a Tray tor to his King and Countrey. 
 
 This exemplary punifhment , and rigorous execution of Juftice upon the fore- 
 mentioned trayterous Delinquents , eftablifhed the King in his Kingdom , ftruck a 
 terror into his enemies , and increafed his Subjects love and care of him more dili- 
 gently to Watch his Royal Families, and the Kingdoms fafety. 
 
 But in the mean time daily incurfions were made upon the Frontiers between the 
 Caftilliam and Portuguese ! , with the fame Violence, Cruelty and Animofity , as for-. 
 
 merly 
 
 About the beginning of the year, one thoufand fix hundred and forty two (notwich- 
 
 H h 2 {landing 
 
,io j OH N IV. of (be Name, 
 
 {landin'* the Truce that had been concluded between Portugal and Holland , and . 
 that a great Fleet of Hollanders had been fenc to aflift the Portugal againft the 
 Spaniard) there paffed very high Adis of Hoftility between the two Nations in 
 Africa and America , beyond the Line; for the Hollanders feeing the difunion of 
 Portugal from Caftille, made all fpeed poflible toperfedl the Conqueft of thofe 
 parts before a pertedl Peace lhould be concluded with Portugal , that fo in the 
 Treaty they might pretend Reafon, that all things lhould continue in the flare they 
 were then found. 
 
 To this purpofe, that is, the expediting their Conqueft, the Hollanders treach- 
 eroufly C whileft there was all quiet and peacable Commerce held between the 
 two Nations in the Kingdom of Angola) furprized the P ortugals that were Go- 
 vernors of the place, Killed divers , and Robbed all of the great Wealth they 
 there found 5 of which Perfidioufnefs, as alfo of the Barbarous Uiage of thePrifo- 
 ners there taken, Complaints were made to the States General at the Hague , but no 
 Redrefs was granted ; nor was the King of Portugal of Ability to force it. 
 
 In the mean time the Affairs in Portugal were a little difcompofed by the general 
 Difcontent and Diftafte taken at the Secretary of State, Hon Francifco de Lucena : 
 This man had lived a long time in the Court of Spain, till he was by Olivarez, made 
 Under-Secretary to Vafconcellos ; hisReadinefs to Proclaim King JOHN, and 
 his Abilities in the place, made the King continue him in it, repofing in him fo great 
 a Confidence, That though fomehad Advertized his Majefty that he kept Corref- 
 pondence with theGourt at Madrid, yet the King would not fufpedt him, nor permit 
 him to be brought to a Trial. 
 
 But about the middle of the Year ,Onethoufandftx hundred and forty three ; the ur- 
 gent Affairs of the Kingdom requiring a Convention of the Three Eftates, they o- 
 penly refufed all Adis that fhould pafs the hands of Secretary Z««»d,pofitively tel- 
 ling his M a jefty , T hat unt il he were brought to T rial, no Adis fhould Pafs in the Af- 
 fembly of Eftates, nor any farther Proceedings be made. 
 
 His Majefty was very much Grieved hereat, yet prudently Refolved to give his 
 Subjedts Satisfadlion, by delivering up his Secretary tojuftice; yetRefolving he 
 fhould have a fair Trial, and to that purpofe fitting himfelf to hear the Witnefles ex- 
 amined. Whileft Procefswas framed againft the Secretary, fomefecret Advice came 
 to his Majefty, which caufed the Imprifonmenc of the Brother, and Three Servants 
 of the Secretary, together with an Englifh Monck, and a Cavalier of the Habit; not 
 long after, the Secretary was Arraigned and Condemned tor betraying hisTruth , in 
 holding Correfpondence with the Enemy, and in negledling timely to Advertife the 
 Infanta Edward to retire out of Germany, Sec. and according to his Sentence, exe- 
 cuted in a Publick place in Lisbon, where at his Death, he protefted his Innocency 
 touching any Treachery towards his Majefty. 
 
 The Death of the Secretary both pleafed the People, and fatisfied theAflembly 
 of Eftates, who now, according to his Majefties Command, met on September 18. 
 One thousand fix hundred and forty three ; and being all fate, and his Majefty feated 
 in his Throne, H. Emanuel H’ Acugna, Dean of his Majefties Chappel, rofe up, and 
 after Reverence made to the King, fpake to the Effedt following. 
 
 * ' | ' Hat in the fpace of Sixty Y ears, that that Kingdom was under the Power of 
 c J_ the Kings of Cafille, there had been but Two Aflemblies of States; the 
 
 * firft to Inflave , the next to Abufe them. But that fince they were under the 
 
 * prefent King, within the fpace of T wo Y ears, they had T wo Aflemblies , the for- 
 1 mer to fettle their Liberties,the prefent to beget a right Underftanding between the 
 ‘ King and his People, wherein they had all Freedom to demand whatever was necef- 
 ‘ fary. That the World might fee they are now no longer Slaves, but Children no 
 
 ‘ longer 
 
King of P O R T II G A L ,&e. , 21 
 
 'longer Strangers, but Natives-, and that they are under rather a Loving Father, 
 than a Severe Soveraign. 
 
 ‘In the former Affembly , Laid he. His Majefty took all the Cuftoms , and left 
 the Defence of the Kingdom to your hands , you Ordered what feemed good unto 
 ‘ your felves , you made Choice of a General Affifhnce by way of Contribution , 
 but in the leaving thereof, the firft Payment was found ineffectual , the fecond une- 
 ‘qual, the third infufficient whence arofe fome Complaints, fome imagining that 
 ‘ tlie fault proceeded from the unequal Divifion of the Contribution ; others from 
 ‘ the Change of Value in Money and Commodities , and others from the diforderly 
 < Gathering and Disburfing the whole. I may eafily fay , That if there were any 
 ‘ errour committed, yet it might be excufable for that Never had any weighty af- 
 '■fair its Conception and Per feed ion at once : Then /had Enottrs ceafe to he in Go- 
 ' vernment , when Men fhall ceafe to he in the World. Thefe things are to be en- 
 ‘ dured with the fame Patience that Droughts, Dearths , Inundations , and fuch o- 
 ‘ ther Diforders in Nature , for the Wit of Man cannot hold forth a Remedy for all 
 1 Difeafes. But certainly they will be no ground of Reprehenfion , ( though much 
 ‘ of Admiration ) to him that (hall Confider how His Majefty entred upon a King- 
 c dom , exhaufted by the Caflilltans of Money and other Neceffaries, for Offence or 
 c Defence, and yec how in lefs than a Y ear and an half, we fhould want neither Ship- 
 ‘ ping, nor Artillery , nor Horfe , nor Arms , nor Fortification , nor Armies upon 
 ‘ the Frontiers , three Powerful Fleets put to Sea , divers Honorable , and Extraor- 
 dinary Ambaffages , befides many Secret (yet Neceflary ) Expences; all which 
 
 * will aftonifti any Underftanding Man. Now to the end that the People may have 
 ‘ full fatisfadion , His Majefty hath Commanded, That (before further Proceed- 
 ing) it be made appear Particularly how all the Money Received hath been laid 
 
 * out , and then it is ExpeCted , and the prefent date of Affairs Requireth , That we 
 ‘ all Contribute Liberally , Confidering that thefe Charges are but fora time, but 
 ‘our Liberties are for ever : 7 hat we (hall never have a better opportunity to De- 
 ‘ ftroy our Enemy. That Nature teacheth. To Hazard an Arm,to Save the whole 
 ‘Body: The Merchants at Sea call away fome part of their Goods fomecimes, to 
 ‘ fave the reft ; we are now on Ship-board in a Storm, our Goods, our Lives, our 
 ‘ Liberties/our Honour, our Countrey, are all in Danger . 
 
 ‘Moreover, the Barbarous Ulage of the King of Caftille towards the Infante 
 e Don -Edward, calls upon this Affembly for Revenge , that wefpendnot only our 
 ‘ Money, but our Blood in Affedtion to Him , and that we make our Enemies fpend 
 ‘ theirs in Satisfa&ion for Him, &c. 
 
 This Speech of the Deans was fpoken with fo much Affe&ion, thatitftirredup 
 and encouraged the States readily to give all Afliftance imaginable , both for Re- 
 dreffing of Grievances , and for the Levying Arms , fo that within a fmall time af- 
 ter, the King was in the Head of Twenty thoufand Foot ,and Three thoufand Horfe; 
 marching towards the Fronteirs of Caflille. 
 
 Whil’d thefe great preparations for Hoftility were made, the Queen brought 
 forth into the World a fecond Son to His Majefty, but firft Child after he came to 
 the Crown, which added to the Magnificence of his Chriftning, he was named Al- 
 phonfo , and his Brother Theodofto dying before his Father, fucceeded in the Kingdom 
 and is at prefent King of Portugal. 
 
 Many Skirmilhes had paffed between the Castilians ana Portugueffcs , many town, 
 had been furprized , many lands wafted , but never happened afet-battel between 
 them till in the year. One thoufand fix hundred and forty four, when both Armies met 
 upon the Border of Portugal in a field called Campo Major. The Spanifh Army 
 which for the mod part confided of ftrangers , was under the Command of the 
 
 I i Marquefs 
 
ns JOHN IV. of the Name , 
 
 Marauefs of Formula, and the Portugal Army confuting of Natives, and feme 
 few Hollanders , were commanded by Macchias de Albuquerque.^ This nght was 
 maintained with all poflible courage and relolution on both fides •, but the Spa- 
 niards being more numerous , efpecially in horfe, at length put tne whole Portn- 
 ruefc Army in Diforder , feized on their whole Amllery and Baggage, and flew 
 Albuquerques Horfe under him , took many Pnfoners , and affrnei themfelves ot 
 an abfolute Viffory . But Fortune which had thus favourably fmilea upon them in 
 the beginning of the Day , frowned as harfhly upon them in the Condufion ; for 
 ^Albuquerque being re- mounted , Rallied again his fcattered Forces , re-charged the 
 purfuing Spaniards, put them to a total Rout, and purtued the Chafe for above three 
 
 M In this Battel the Caflillians loft One thoufand fix hundred men upon the place, 
 amongft which were the Lieutenant General? the General of the Hoiie , the Gene- 
 ralof the Artillery, the Count de Montixo , five Camp-matters , two Adjutants of 
 Horfe, three Serjeant Majors, three and. twenty Cornets, together with many 
 Knights of the Order of St. fames Calatrava and Alcantara : there were taken 
 about Four thoufand Arms, and a thoufand Horfe. , . , 
 
 On the PortHgueje fide there were not above T hree hundi ed (lain 5 among wnicn 
 were two Camp-mafters, one Serjeant Major? a Captain of Horfe, and eight of Foot, • 
 but many Noblemen, Commanders, and Officers taken Prifoners in the firft encoun- 
 ter, were carried away by the Spaniards in their flight. 
 
 It was not long after this Battel, that the Marquefs De Mont alb an , D. George 
 MaCcaneras Lord Treafurer, Prefidentof the Council of the Indies , and Councel- 
 lorof Eftate, with fome others, were imprifoned upon fufpition of aConfpiracy 
 a^ainft the King of Portugal : but it being upon Examination found , that the fufpi- 
 non was by the Spaniards cunningly raifed , to deprive King JOHN of his moft 
 able Minifters, and to make the World. believe the Portuguese Nobility were dif- 
 contented with their King •, they were fet at Liberty, and their Honours fully repaired 
 by a Proclamation of the Kings. 
 
 For the Sfaniards ceded not by all-means and devices , which the Will and Po- 
 licy of the moft wicked Statef-men could invent, not only to weaken the Portu- 
 Jefs Nation within it felf , by breeding difeontents ( if poflible ) between the King 
 and the three Eftates, but likewife to undervalue them , and make their credit be 
 flighted and difregarded by other Kingdoms and States, their Confederates and 
 
 Yet befides thefe fubtile Ambages, the King of Candid not defift the en- 
 deavoring toopprefsthis Kingdom by force of Arms ; but not only the refolved 
 and immutable unity of the Portuguejs Nation, wasaftrongTower and invinci- 
 ble Fortrefs againft the Spanifh Power , butfo extreamly wasthe Houfe of Aujlria 
 involved in Wars and Difafters on every fide, that that vaft Body was rather in a 
 condition to crave help and afliftance from others, than indeed to opprefs them. 
 For befides the Wars in Catalonia,, which had put it felf under the protection of the 
 moft potent King of France , in the Low- countreys , which had proved fo tedious 
 and fo chargeable a War to Spaing in Italy, in this Kingdom, and in Germany , 
 there happened feveral Commotions and popular Tumults in fome of the King of 
 Spains Dominions , which not onlyrobbed the King ofaprefentfupply of T-rea- 
 fure, but were otherwif? retardments to the profecution of his Wars in other 
 places. 
 
 The firft of thefe Commotions began in the Ifland of Sicily , where the peo- 
 ple gathering together ina tumultuous manner, forced the. Vice-roy to take off all 
 newfmpofts and Taxes which the Kings prefent neceffities had enforced him to 
 lay upon them. This encouraged their neighbours on theadjacent Continent, the 
 
 Inhabitants 
 
King ^/PORTUGAL, &e. i ZJ 
 
 Inhabitants of the Famous City ol Naples , in hopes to rid themfelves of their op- 
 prdfions , to rife in like manner in Arms; which they did, encouraged and com- 
 mandedby one Thomas Aniello , or vulgarly Mafaniedo , who though of fo mean 
 find obfcure a birth as a poor Filher-boy ; yet to the wonder of the World for ten 
 dayes Commanded this mighty City , and freed it from all Gabels , fo that 
 ever lince thefe two Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily have rather been a great charge, 
 than any benefit to the Spanifli Monarch. 
 
 Thefe Troubles, and th zAuftrian Families being every where encompaffed and 
 embroiled in Wars , together with the earned defire of the King'of Cafiille to pro-, 
 fecute a vigorous War againft Catalonia , and Portugal, were I fuppofe the motives 
 which perfwaded the Catholique King to end thofe Wars, which had laftel in 
 the low Countreys for above ninety years, by owning now at laft ( what he had fo 
 longrefufed ) the united Provinces free States, fo an obfolute peace was concluded 
 on T and proclaimed at all the chief towns in the Netherlands , on the 5. of 5 tune. 
 One theufand fix hundred and forty eight , a Peace no left advantagious t o the Spaniards , 
 than difadvantagious to the Portugals , byreafon of the pretences the Dutch hati to 
 Brazil, and other places in the Weft-Indies. King JOHNof Portugal about the 
 beginning ol the year , Oncthotifandfix hundred and forty nine , thought his Son t:.e 
 Prince Theodofw arrived at an age fitting to keep a Court of himfelf; Lodgings 
 were therefore appointed for him, divided from the Royal Palace, and Office: s of 
 his Houlhold nominated and appointed by the King, amongftwhom the Earls of 
 Villa nova, of Miranda , of Faldereis & Fernando, Telles de Monezez, (who had for- 
 merly been Governour of the City of Port ,) were entrufted as the principal Gen- 
 tlemen of his Chamber. 
 
 The King likewife thought fit toaddeathird to the two former Supenntendants 
 of his Revenue, whom he nominated to be D. Key d: Moure Tellez , vvhofe former 
 Office of Steward to the Queen, was at the fame time conferred on D. Antonio de 
 Silva Lord oiBillas. 
 
 Notwithftanding the Truce, the Hollanders (till continued their outrages on the 
 other fide the Line, but principally in Brazil, where they feizedupon many of 
 the Portugal forts, impeded theTraffick, abufed and murthered the Subje&s, which 
 made His Majefty refolveto call the Earl of Ca(Hc Melhor from his charge of being 
 General of the Portugal Forces upon the Frontiers of Callicia , and committing that 
 to the young Vifcount deVillamva deServcr a that theEarl might be iroployed as Vice- 
 roy to Brazil to curb the Flemmings infolencies , and to fecure thePortuguefs Mer- 
 chants Ships from their Pyracies, the King appointed a Fleet of forty Ships of War, 
 and fix thoufand Men to attend that fervice as Convoys. 
 
 His Holinefsthe Popes anger as yet continued towards the Kingdom of Portugal, 
 for he had not only hitherto refufed to receive Ambafladors from thence, hut to 
 fuppiy thofe Arohbilhopricks, BHhopricks, and other Ecclefiaftical Offices of the 
 Kingdom , which by the death of the former poffeflbrs were vacant : this the King 
 found a great inconveniency in, and therefore thought fit once more to attempt his 
 Holinefs- and toprefenthimthe names of fuch of his own Subjects, whofe piety, 
 learning ’ or other fufficiencies he thought might make them capable of fuch digni- 
 ties As firft,for the Archbilhoprick of Braga , ( formerly acknowledged to be the 
 primacy of all Spain, notwithflanding the pretenfions of Toledo) he nominated 
 Von Pedro de Lancafiro , Prefident of the Juftice of the Palace of the Hou.fe of 
 Ameiro, and defeended from J O H N the fecond King ot Portugal. For the Arch- 
 bilhoprick of Bvora, His Majefty nominated v. Francifco Barrez Bidiop of ti.e y«- 
 garez Bilhoprick he bellowed upon the Father Dennis Des Anges an Auguftine 
 Monk, and Confeffor to His Majefty: for the Bilhoprick of Guards was appoin- 
 ted Pobo, great Prior of the Military Order of Sc, fames : for the Bilhop- 
 
 I i % nek 
 
n 4 JOHN IV. of the Kami, 
 
 rick of Lamego , D. Antonio de -.JMendofa Commiffary of the Bui, i de la Croifaida : 
 for the Bilhoprickot Lerida, D. Dei go de Souza Inquifitor of the holy Office: for 
 that of Conimbra , Don SebajlianC afar de Menerez, who was before nominated for the 
 Bifhoprick of Porto , but that was given by his Majefty to D. Pedro de Menercz , once 
 named Bifhop of Miranda , of which !aft place D. Pedro de Porros T utor of the 
 Prince D. Theodofto was now named Bifhop. Thefe choices of his Majefty , the 
 Pope after fome time Confirmed D. Franctfcode Souza , who was fent as extraordi- 
 nary Ambaffador , notwithftanding the oppofition of the Spaniards received, noc 
 unlikely out of a fear that they would Officiate without his Confirmation, and fo 
 in a manner Renounce the Power of theSeeof Rome. 
 
 But in the middeft of this fetling of Ecclefiaftical affairs. Arms were not filent, 
 for upon the Borders there hapned a Skirmifh between the CaJHllians and Portuguefe 
 about the latter end of April, One thoufand fix hundred forty and nine. Lord of The- 
 tner Court , Lieutenant General of the Portuguefe Horfe , and Monfieur Du £>ue(ne 
 the Commiffary General gained a Victory over a fmall Army of the Spaniards , de- 
 feating Seven hundred of the Spaniards, and taking divers Prifoners, amongftwhotn 
 was the Nephew of the Marquefs of Melinguen Lieutenant.General of the Cafltllian 
 Army at Badajox , who was after exchanged for the Count fie(cjue Lauagna , who 
 for fome years pafl had been Prifoner in Caflille : in this Con Aid the Portuguefe loft 
 but Twenty five men, the Chief of which was Sieur de la Touche, a French Captain, 
 who had behaved himfelf mod Valoroufly. 
 
 The Commotions of the Peri [tans againft the King of Trance , had given the 
 Spaniard great hopes of better fuccefs than they had many years had, but the middle, 
 of the Year, One thoujand fix hundred and forty nine , happily concluding them, 
 the news of their Pacification , and that of a great Victory gained by the Portuguejfes 
 againft the Hollanders in Brazile, caufed a general joy over all Portugal •, for the King 
 appointed Publick Thanks to be given , and Te Deum to be Sung in all Churches. 
 
 Hopes to revenge the late defeat given by the Lord Therimtcourt , and defire to 
 do fome Valiant Adi before he departed from his Government , made the Marquefs 
 of Leganez Governour of the Spanifh Forces at Eftramadura , give an Alarum to 
 the Portuguefe Frontiers , and enter into the Countrey with Two thoufand Horfe, 
 and Six thoufand Foot, but the Valiant Count of St. Laurence affaulcing him, for- 
 ced him to retire with fhame, and excufe himfelf that he marched out only to meet 
 the Marquefs of Mortar e, who was appointed to fucceed him in the Government, 
 
 Yet this fmall and worthlefs Alarum, made the King of Portugal l who knew 
 that too much care could not be had of the Safety of his Kingdom , to fend Orders 
 to the Governors to look more exadtly to the Countreys committed to their Char- 
 ges, than formerly, and ftridlly to give Charge to Don tfuan de MenezeTf Governor 
 oiPorto. TheVilcount Ponte de Lima Governorof the Countreys between Dott- 
 ro and Mimbo , to the Count of Arogna Governor of Trafmontes , and Don Roderigo 
 de Caftro Governor of Beira, to repair with all expedition to their feveral Commands. 
 
 Nor was his Majefty lefs careful of his Dominions abroad , than of tfiofe near 
 home, which made him difpatch the Baron of Alvire to be Governor of Danger, and. 
 D. Francifco de Norogna to Mazagan, both ftrong Forts in Africa •, the laft of which 
 had been neer furprized by the Moors of Barbary , but the Commander of that Party 
 which afiaulted it , being flain by a Valorous French-man, they were beaten off with 
 lofs , for which fervice the King bellowed upon the French-man a Penfion of Six 
 hundred Crowns per annum. 
 
 And whil’ft His Majefty was diftributing his Bounties, he could not forget the 
 Lady Dona Maria Manuel , Widow to the fome-time before deceafed D. Antonio 
 Coeho, D. Caravallio , who had ever fince His Majefties coming to the Crown, been 
 one of His Privy- Councellors, and was one of the Chief Perfons that went Am- 
 
 baffadors 
 
King of PORTUGAL, &c. 1 2 y 
 
 baffadors into France, to renew the Alliance , and conclude a firm League between 
 the King ot Portugal , and Lewis the Thirteenth King of France ; His Majefty 
 therefore in confideration of his Cervices , bellowed a valuable Penfion on his afore- 
 faid Widow. 
 
 There wasalmoft daily in- roads made upon the Frontiers in fome places or other 
 amongft the rgft,the Baron of Themricoiirt entred withaftrong Party into the Spa- 
 nilh Territories, furprifed the Suburbs of the City of Albuquerque , and brought 
 away a very rich Booty, without the lofs of fo much as one Souldier upon the pkice, 
 and not above T wenty wounded. 
 
 Thefuccourof the diftreffed Subjects of the more diftreffed King of England , 
 about the Year , one thoufand fix hundred and fifty , gaveoccafion to the King of 
 Portugal to manifeft his affedion to the Englifh Nation, which he did by giving af- 
 fiftanceto the Gallant Prince Rupert , who being by His Majefty of England made 
 Admiral of thofe few Ships which in the Year, One thoujand fix hundred and forty 
 eight, returned to their Allegiance, had ever fince been purfued by the more Po- 
 tent Fleets of the Englifh Rebels, and was now by them driven to feek the prote- 
 ction of his Portugal Majefty, who notwithstanding that the Fleet ot the Rebels 
 with threatning Bravados, demanded the faid Kings leave, either to affault them in 
 his Port, or to force them to come out bravely, proteded them under his Cattles, 
 
 In Revenge of which, the Rebels of England,w\\oftl).\z& themfelves a Parliament, 
 Proclaimed an open War with the Portugal Nation,which his Majefty, notwithftartd- 
 ing his great Engagement at that prefent, both againft the Spaniards at home, and 
 the Hollanders on the other fide the Line, refolved to endure, rather than deliver up 
 the faithful Subjeds of England into the hands of Murther, Tyranny, and Trea- 
 fon-, and therefore in part to cry quittance with the Englifh, who had taken Prize 
 feveral Ships belonging to this Nation, he made feizure of all the Englifh Ships and 
 Goods within his whole Dominions, but only thofe he had before Proteded. 
 
 But at length Prince Rupert finding a clear Paffage from out his Ports, where he 
 had for many Months been blocked up, the King, by Reafon of his other large Ex- 
 pences in defence of his Kingdom, finding himfelf unable to maintain a War againft 
 the Englifh ■, and Nature didating us to the Prefervation of our Selves, Refolved , 
 more moved out of Necelfity, than Inclination, to fend an Agent into England to 
 conclude a Peace. 
 
 The Perfon deputed to go on this unpleafant Employment ( to Court Re- 
 belsjwas D. Suarez, de Gimeraines, who had for his Affiftanceand Interpreter, Mr.Uiles 
 an Englifh Merchant, thefe two Embarqued upon a Hamburgher hired for that pur- 
 pofeby the King of Portugal, arrived in England, in January i<5yo. About the 
 beginning of February, V. Suarez, had Audience before a Committeeof the pretend- 
 ed Parliament, to whom he made a Speech in Latine to this Effed. 
 
 ‘ ' | n HE Sereniffimo King of Portugal myMafter, fends me hither to the Par- 
 ‘ X liamentof theCommon-wealthof England that on his behalf, and in his 
 ‘ Name, having firft mod friendly faluted you (as I now do with the greateft Affedion 
 ‘ of my heart that lam able ) I may jointly tender and make known to you the Roy- 
 c al Defire which my Mafter feels within himfelf, to conferve, and more and more to 
 'knit the knot of that Amity which uninterrupted .hath ever been between the Sere- 
 ‘ niff into Kings of Portugals their Anceftors, and this Renowned Englifh Nation. 
 
 ‘ It being my part to endeavor what lies in me , to remove all obftacles that 
 ‘may hinder the molt vigorous effed of this hearty union, and conjundion of 
 ‘ minds , fo to preferve inviolably the ancient peace between us. 
 
 ‘This I come to continue , hoping and wiihing all happy fuccefs therein ; this l 
 ‘come to intimate and offer unto the Parliament ot the Commonwealth oi England, 
 
 IC k ‘ with 
 
xi6 JOHN I V. of the Name, 
 
 c with that fincere and priftine affedlion , which hitherto the experience of many 
 ‘ ages hath made manifeft. 
 
 ‘Nor (ball you need to fcruple the fincerityof my intention and purpofe , by 
 c reafon of the divers part attempts ( not to fay fights ) between your power and ours, 
 
 ‘ fince they have not been fuch as have broken or diffoived our amity , nor have had 
 ‘their rife or approbation from the King my Mailer; nor as we believe from the 
 ‘Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, buc more probably carried on ei- 
 ‘ ther by the impulfe of their own private affc&ions , or by the defedl of that cir- 
 
 * cumfpedtion which in fuch cafes is ever neceflary. 
 
 ‘But as 1 hope particularly and fully to provef and indeed to demonftrate)this truth 
 ‘unto the Parliament of the Republique of England, fo lam affined they will not 
 
 * only reft fatisfied therein , but fhall alfo have accruing to them a newer force , and 
 ‘ fence of mutual friendfliip between us , fince the jars that happen amongft friends, 
 
 * are oftentimes juftly accounted as certain redintigrations of love. 
 
 ‘And I do admire our enemies have not made this reflection , whilft fed with 
 ‘ vain hope , they have thought it in their power to fow and foment difcords be- 
 ‘ tween us , upon prefumption of this t ivial innovation. 
 
 ‘The King my Matter fends me to continue and preferve our common and an- 
 ‘cient peace, whereof I am to make a tender unto the Parliament of the Common- 
 wealth of England in His Majefties behalf, as proceeding from a perfedl fincerity 
 ‘in his Royal breaft , and whereunto he is chiefly drawn by the Motive of his fin- 
 ‘gular efteem and love , he bears unto this Englifh Nation. 
 
 ‘And this, as the main point I fhall recommend unto you, both in regard of 
 ‘your greater good and ours, and as a thing ofhigheft concernment, that we re- 
 ‘ fled how little it can be pleafing to Almighty God , and how derogatory it muft 
 ‘ needs be to our reputation on both fides , to give the leaft beginning of difcotd 
 ‘ between two Chriftian Nations , fo well affeded to one another as we are. 
 
 ‘It is manifeft unto the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, and to 
 ‘all Europe befides , in how wonderful a manner ( fuch as was only polfible to God 
 ‘the King my Mailer was reftored to hxs Kingdoms , and how the Divine Majefty 
 ‘ ( whole handy-work this was ) doth by his efpecial care and grace defend andcon- 
 ‘tinuethis Reftoration. 
 
 ‘ Whichas it doth dayly more appear by the vidories we have over our enemies 
 ‘at home, fo again it is feeninour remoteftand moft diftantial dominions in the 
 ‘ East- Indus , where even at a huge diftance ( His Majefty poffeffing the hearts of 
 ‘ his people ) enjoyes the greateft peace in the world , and is fecure in jffnca re- 
 ‘ lying therein upon his pro fperous and happy powers. 
 
 ‘To conclude, the King my Matter , left any thing fhould be wanting to ren- 
 ‘ der him compleatly happy , hath ( according to the wifh of an ancient Chriftian 
 ‘Author, for fecuring the profperity of the Roman Empire ) a faithful Senate, 
 ‘ puiffant Armies , and a moft obedient people , Fortifications in the judgement 
 ‘ of wifeft politicians , conducing and neceffary both to defend and increafe Empires 
 ‘ and Kingdoms. 
 
 ^ ‘Now in this good condition of not only gaining and conferving friends , butal- 
 ‘foof vanquifhing our enemies, the King myMafler loves and embraces peace „ 
 ‘as the chiefeft good amongft humane things, holding it forth to all Kingdoms and 
 4 ^^ m 9 nwca ^^ s > hut efpecially to this of England 5 with that exceeding good 
 ^ will which he hath hitherto born, and fhall ever bear unto the fame, Handing 
 thereunto obliged by fuch bonds of love and good offices, as fhall never be for- 
 gotten by His Majefty. 
 
 '.For the people of this Nation are the moft worthy fucceffors of thofe their He- 
 * roick Anceftors, who by their juft power and Arms came freely to vindicate our 
 
 Crowns 
 
King of PORTUGAL,^., II7 
 
 ' ?JTr&'ctu mhum T 011 f efri ° ns - And ^e, if not the fame per Cons, * 
 . che ‘ r Children , who inflamed with a fervor and zeal of defending the 
 
 ‘ Prince ^ ' juftIydld dltdaln to fee it in the unjuft poffeffion of a foreign 
 
 c They are, I fay, thofe who with fo mature deliberation and refolution en- 
 deavoured to (natch away this undue poffoffion from the Ciid Ufurper , maugre the 
 concurrence of fome lll-afFeSed Portugal* with our enemies 5 and that they might 
 atchieve this end glorious to themfelves , and to us emolumental , they are thofe 
 whoeoveiedthe.e as with their Squadrons apd Fleetsof Ships, ever formidable 
 to their moft potent enemies by a new example of an unheard of valour ( had our 
 unfortunate Stars then given us leave to be happy ) come up to the very walls of 
 
 t ‘ And t j lls havin |, fo ™erly been between us and them moft powerful Enelifli- 
 and 1 ° U1 moft ioving brethren, now that the Crown of l>ortugA( for which 
 you have fought fo valiantly , when it was unlawfully detained, is happifo ‘ e- 
 ftoied to the pofleffion of th ? natural , and lawful King to whom of right ^apper- 
 tains) who would not admire to fee you bend your equal power, (upon nooc- 
 cafion given )againft the true and rightful King of Portugal by joyningwrth and 
 avouring the fame Ufurper (beaten by us) from whom your felves did heretofore 
 by force of your own Arms in our behalfs endeavor to fnatch and wreft away that 
 
 ,/ Ic would to all the world feem a thing much removed from the innate genero- 
 Jrty and gallantry ot this your Nation, and very ill fuiting with your Chriftian 
 jr t T? llty ’ as a ^° * c would be a very unworthy requital of us ( who 
 < , ve cel f V( ; d better at y° tlr bands ) and of that benevolence and affedtion 
 t wherewith the whole Kingdom of Portugal is paffionately carrying on towards 
 t you 5 wiihing unto you the fame happinefte that we our felves defire to en- 
 
 py. 
 
 t Let £ tbetefore thefe imaginary Clouds of difcord vanifh, and be quite blown 
 over from our thoughts, as ferving only to Eclipfe with darknefs, the clear li«ht 
 t of our antient amity, which ( with what intention God Almighty knows ) the 
 importune fagacity of our Common enemy would fain deprive us of, 
 
 ‘ Let all obftadtles be removed , and thrown quite away , wherewith the true 
 'ferving polititians by their inbred ambition of an univerfal Monarchy do confpire 
 'the ruine of us both, aiming at nothing more then to fet us together by the ears 
 that overthrowing each other with our own Wars , we may have breads open 
 ( when our powers are exhaufted ) to their fwofds and wounds , with greater ad- 
 c vantage againil our felves 3 and lefs hazard unto them. 
 
 ' This new Republique is built upon ftrong and fure foundations, asalfoouran- 
 ‘tient and reftored Kingdoms, let us therefore cart our eyes unto the common in- 
 t tereft of our caufe, joynmg hands, and mutual benevolence to fucfi effed as 
 may render both parties fecurity,the greater forbearing , and bewaring above’ all 
 ‘things, all provocations, or irruptions of War, whereby ( befides the incon- 
 veniences, and Ioffes which they ever draw after them, ) all our own affairs and 
 fafety may be hazarded extreamly, while their councels and endeavors will be 
 promoted, who by hidden and wicked arts, drive to extend their own power 
 by the common wafte they would make in ours. 
 
 ‘ The King of Portugal my Mafter, hath fent me hither furnifhed with a firm 
 ample plenipotentiary power, that difcuffing, and fcrewing all the juft and con- 
 venient means , I may confer about the conlervation of Peace, and ( removing 
 ‘all emergent obftacles and fcruples ) refolve , and eftablifhwith the Parliament of 
 
 K k 2 the 
 
u8 JOHN IV. of the Name, 
 
 ‘the Commonwealth of England , whatfoever (hall be neceffary for compofing of 
 ‘our prefent affairs, and maturely to provide with the greateft lecurity that may 
 ‘be poifible, fortheir future well-being. 
 
 ‘I therefore befeech the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, that 
 ‘ weighing and confidering thefe things which I have exhibited , they would pleafe 
 ‘ to decree whatfoever (hall feem to them mod convenient and juft. 
 
 To this large Speech of forced and known flattery , if we refpedt it in relation to 
 theperfons itwas fpoke to, (though moft true in thofe particulars relating to the 
 Englijh Nation whil’ft monarchical) was anfwered by the Rebels , with a large Ha- 
 range of the injuries they fuppofed done them by the protection of Prince Ruperts 
 l?leet , and feizure of the Englijh Merchants Ships and Goods, concluding that 
 they muft have reparation made them for the publique damage of the Common- 
 wealth , which they would be willing to accept of in any honourable manner , and 
 were willing to that purpofe , if the Ambaflador had fufficient power to treat with 
 him to that effedt. 
 
 Infumme, after fome time the Count Dels a Lord Chamberlain of the King- 
 dom of Portugal arrived in England , in the quality of an Ambaflador extraordinary, 
 who after manyConferences, Addreffes ,and large Offers made , obtained a Peace, 
 upon condition to repay great Summes of money towards the fatisfadiion of the 
 Ioffes of the Englifh Merchants. 
 
 During the (lay of this Ambaflador, his brother D. Pantaleon Sa, Knight of 
 Malta , led by I know not what frantick madnefle , made a great uproar upon the 
 New Exchange in London, where fome Englifh , were by him and his Followers, 
 murdered ; for which feveral of his retinue were hanged , and himfelf , notwith- 
 ftanding the earned folicitations of his brother, afterwards beheaded on T ower-hill, 
 when the government of England was changed from a ftrange kinde of Common- 
 wealth, to a ftranger kind of Monarchy, under a Protedfor. 
 
 But to return back again to the affairs of the Kingdom of P ortugal. The Earl 
 of Cafile Melhor who had been fent Vice-Roy into Brazil, hadfo good fuccefs , 
 that with the afliftance of thofe Portugueffes before in the Kingdom, he expulfed 
 the Hollanders out of all their Garrifons there , except the ftrong Fortrefs of Recif. , 
 which wasbuilt upon a Rock wholly invironed by the Sea. This animated the 
 United States of the Netherlands , to endeavor a revenge and recovery of that coun- 
 try , and to that end and purpofe , a Potent Fleet was fet out , and notwithftand- 
 ingthe very earned endeavors, and large offers of the Portuguefs Ambaflador at 
 the Hague , fet fail to reconquer that Kingdom, but not with that fuccefs which 
 was expedted , for the expedition proved wholly fruitlefs , and after fo great an 
 expence, the States were fo highly difcontented , that the Admiral Wittifon was 
 arrefted at the Hague , to anfwer fuch things as (hould be objedted againft him con- 
 cerning that voyage. 
 
 It much concerns that King who hath to deal with enemies too potent for him, 
 to (Lengthen himfelf with fuch Alliance , as may moft advantage him , and en- 
 damage his Foe; This confideration made King J O H N of Portugal , about the 
 year. One thousand fix hundred and fifty two , fend an Ambaflador to the young Duke 
 of Savoy, (who by reafon of the fcituation of his Country , had good and frequent 
 opportunities to annoy the Catholique King , ) and divert him from turning his 
 whole Force upon this Kingdom ) offering reciprocal Marriage between that Duke 
 and his Daughter , and the young Prince Theodofia and Savoys Sifter. But this his 
 intention, was I fuppofe diverted, if not wholly hindred by the great power of 
 Cardinal Mazarine in France, who defigned one of his Nieces as a fit match for 
 Eugenios young Duke of Savoy. 
 
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King of PORTUGAL, &-c. ,t 9 
 
 'Tis not at all fafe nor fit for a fubjed to grow too rich , at leaf! not to exceed his 
 Sovereign in Treafure, for he thereby layes himfelf open to the envieand fufpition 
 of his Prince, nor is.it poffible that any who hath managed a publtck imployment, 
 can be fo without faults , as that fomevyhat cannot be laid" to his charge to render him 
 at a Kings mercy. 
 
 Sufficient example of this we have in D. Phillip de Mafcarendas Vice-Roy of Goa 
 in the Eafl-Indies , who having for many years officiated in that high imploymenr, 
 had gathered up an infinite Mals of Riche?, and now being called home , thought in 
 peace and quiet to enjoy what with a penurious and induftrious hand he had been ma- 
 ny years ftoring up: but theKing being informed that he had indeed fuch a vafte trea- 
 fure in Gold, Diamonds, Pearls and other Jewels, as he could not with his own honor 
 orfafety permita Subjedto enjoy, eafily found out them who were ready to form 
 complaints againft him, which were as readily liftned toby the Kings Council, who 
 prefently drawing up a charge againft him, for having ufed an arbitrarypower,oppref- 
 fed, and abufed the Subjeds , and Merchants trading thither, &c. caufed the Ship 
 wherein he came, with all the riches laden on it, to be feized on for the Kings ufe, and 
 himfelf for fome time imprifoned,nor had it been a wonder if he had made a forfeiture 
 of his life, as well as of the greateft part of his eftate. 
 
 The ftrength of the Hollanders at Sea, had been the greateft obftacle to the Portu- 
 guefe, not wholly regaining their ancient pofleffion in Brazile, but the Wars wherein 
 the Hollanders had involved themfelves with England , proving fo powerful adiverfi- 
 on, the Portuguese took the advantage to reduce Recif, which with feveral Forts that 
 encompafled it, and fome few other, were the only places that held out againft them.. 
 
 Againft this therefore with a fufficient Land-force, came Don Francifco Barreto , 
 Governor of Pernambuco (whil'd the P artuguefe Navy confifting of <5 5 .Say 1 , blocked 
 it up by fea,) and firft by ftorm took the Fort of S alines, and thence coming before 
 that of Burracco, found it already abandoned, and blown up by the defendants: he 
 next proceeded to the new Fortrefs, the next and ftrongeft Fort to that of Reci fond 
 well manned and munitioned Thus having made a fturdy refiftance, was at length 
 forced by the Portugal, which fo amazed the Hollanders, that though they had fifteen 
 hundred men, and fix months provifions in Recif, yet they agreed to yield it upon ho- 
 norable terms on the 2 6 of January 1654. being twenty four years after they had ta- 
 ken it from the P ortugals. 
 
 T H E Conditions upon which this ftrong Fortrefs was furrendred up, were to 
 thiseffed. 
 
 r. That D. Francifco Barreto fliould forget all Atfs of Hoflility made by the Hol- 
 landers againft the Portugals b y Sea and Land. 
 
 2. That all perfons vihat foever, even the Jewes in Recif, and Mauric e-town, though 
 Rebels againft the King of Portugal, fhould be pardoned. 
 
 3. That all Hollanders fhould be free to carry away thofe Goods they afluafty poffeffed. 
 
 4. That they fhould have fufficient number of fhips able to pafs the Eoyuinoliial Line , 
 with Iron- guns for their Tranffortation. 
 
 5. That the Hollanders married with Portugal Women, or Natives there, fhould be 
 dealt fo withal, as if they had married Dutch Women , and fhould with the confent of the 
 Women, have powerto carry them arvai with them. 
 
 6. Thatthofe who would flay there under the obedience of the Portugals, fhould be u- 
 fed as well as if they were Native Portugals, and as to their Religion, fhould live as other 
 ftrangers do in Portugal. 
 
 7. That all Forts about Recif and Miurice town, Viz. the Port of St. Baftions.Boa, 
 Vifta, St. Auftines, Convent, the C islle of b/lvadce-town, that of the three Baftions,the 
 Brum, with its Redoubt, the Caflle of St. George, and all others fhould be furrendred. to 
 
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i;o JOHN IV. of the Name, 
 
 the afortfaid D. Francifco Barreto, Governour of Pernambucco, with all the Ordnance 
 and Ammunition prefently after the figning of thefe Articles . 
 
 8. That the Hollanders fliould he free to remain in Recif and M.mtice-town for 
 Three 'Months , they farrcndring their Arms , which Jhould he reflored to them when they took 
 flipping, and in the mean while they fhouldhave power to buy them necefiary provifions of 
 the Porcugals for the Voyage. 
 
 9 . All Negotiations and Alienations fhotild be made during the f aid Three jMontbs ac- 
 fording to the prefent Articles. 
 
 10. That the Governour fhottld quarter his Forces where he f leafed, and that the Hollan- 
 ders jhould be protected during thofe Three Months, and having Liberty to end their private 
 Differences before their own fudges. 
 
 11. That they Jhould carry away all their papers whatfoever. 
 
 12. That if they could not fell their Goods in the f aidThree Months time, they fhsttld 
 leave them with whom they pleafed under the obedience of the Portugals, to be dtffoft td of 
 according to their own Order. 
 
 13. That they Jhould have all the Victuals in the flore-houfes of Recif, and the other 
 Forts for their Voyage. 
 
 14. That as to their prttenfions againfl the Portugals, they might fue them at the King 
 of Portugals Court. 
 
 13. That all their Veff els Jhould be reflored unto them, which they might ft for their 
 Voyage. 
 
 16. That they might have liberty to advife all their (hips upon theCoaf, to come and 
 lade their Goods at Recif. - And in the laft Article it was expreffed. That upon the demand 
 of the Hollanders, this might not prejudice any former Treaty between the King of 
 Portugal, and the States General , D. Francifco Barreto would not afient thereunto. 
 
 There were other articles likewife granted to the Military Forces , the futn of 
 which were , that all offences and hoftages might be forgotten , that all fouldiers 
 fliould go out of Recif with their Arms , Match lighted , Bullet in mouth , Fly-' 
 ing-colours 5 but coming near the Portugal Army , (hould put out the Match, and 
 lay their Arms in thofe Magazines appointed by the governour of Pernambucco , to 
 be reflored to them at their departure, provided they went to Nants , Rochel , or 
 to fome place in the United Provinces and not to any belonging to the King of Por- 
 tugal 5 for fecurity whereof they fliould give three hoftages , and all Officers and 
 Souldiers fliould belhipt together with General SigifmondSchop , after thedelivery 
 of the Forts of Riogrando, Paraiba, and Tamartca. That the General fhould have 
 twenty pieces of brafs ordnance from four Pound-Bullet to eighteen, with all their 
 furnitures , befides all neceffary Iron- guns , for the defence of the Ships thatffionld 
 be afforded them for their tranfportation , with convenient fupplies of ammunition 
 and provifion, according to the thirteenth Article before recited: That General 
 Sigifmond , and all his Officers of War , fhouldhave liberty to carry away or fell 
 all his or their goods or Haves. Thatfickor wounded perfons fliould have liberty 
 to flay till they recovered, but the Governour would not condefcend to releafe thofe 
 Hollanders which were prisoners before this furrendry : A general pardon was grant- 
 ed to all rebels, chiefly to Amhoyna, Mendaz , and all other Indians and Negroes, 
 but theywerenottohavethe honor to march out with their Arms. Infum, the 
 lupream Council at Recif , did oblige themfelves for the furrendring of thefe places, 
 upon chcfigning of thefe Articles, and for the delivering up the Ifland of Farnam, 
 Vsaca, Noroga, Riogrand , Paraiba , mdTamarica , upon the fame conditions for 
 the inhabitants , as had been granted to thofe of Rectf. 
 
 Thefe amdes were figned and delivered on both fides, at the Camp at Tabor, da, 
 ®n the 1 8, of January, one thoufand fix hundred and fifty three, and Conditions on bbch 
 
 fides 
 
King a/PORTUGAL,^f. 
 
 fides punctually obferved. Thus did the Hollanders lofe all their Acquifts in Bm- 
 &il , which fo exafperated thofe high and mighty States, that at the coming into 
 Holland ofmyn Heer Sigifmond Sc bop , who had there been General of their Militia, 
 they can fed him to be imprifoned , and tried for his life by a Council of War, but 
 notwithftanding endeavors of his enemies, he was acquitted. 
 
 Nor were the Portugals at home lefs fortunate againft their neighbour enemy the 
 Spaniards , for to omit many petty skirmifhes , in-roads made by them withallfuc- 
 cefs defirable in the fummer , One thoufand fix hundred and fity four, D. Antonio D’ Al - 
 buqtterque General of the Porttiguefs horfe, taking an advantage upon a party of 
 Cafiillians , which lay upon the Borders neer Aronches , under the command of 
 Count D’ Amaranth , fet upon them , flew their General <_ Arnaranthc , and took 
 fix hundred horfe 5 and farther animated with this fuccefs , and the knowledge he 
 had that a vigorous profccution is theonely mother ofa true victory , purfued them 
 with an Army of 3000 Foot and 1500 Horfe, eight leagues into their own Coun- 
 try, as far as the old and ftrong Caftle ofx>’ oluce , while encouraging his Soldiers, 
 ( made valorous by their former good fortune ) he refolved to attacque , and with 
 continued batteries, and florms fo wearied out the enemy, that after four days 
 fiege they yielded upon compofition , and Albuquerque looking upon it as a place 
 confiderable, both for the countenancing ofiucurfions into the enemies country, and 
 keeping in awe the town of .Stow , which is hard by, having repaired it and placed 
 in it a ftrong Garrifon , returned. 
 
 About the beginning of the year, One thoufand (ix hundred and fifty five, D. Fran- 
 cisco He Ferrara Rubella arrived in England, with Commiffion from the King*; of 
 Portugal as Agent, to Oliver Cromwel , who then fwayed here under the title of 
 Protestor , to make a more firm confirmation of the Peace with England, and to 
 advife, Ifuppofe, about carrying on the War with Spain-, which when Cromtvel 
 had given fame reafons to make the world believe he would commence againft that 
 Catholick Monarch, and how muchfuch a War was for thelntereftof Portugal , none 
 will doubt who have read the foregoing ftory, which made King JOHN Court 
 that Englifh Ufurper with more Submifsnefs and Complacency, by both harbouring 
 his Fleets, and fending Prefents to his Generals, than otherwife his Genius would 
 have permitted him to have done, any way in prejudice of Englands lawful KING. 
 In the mean time the death of Pope Innocentius the Tenth, madeD. Francifco de 
 Souza, Ambaffadour at Rome for the King of Portugal, make new Addrefles to A- 
 lexander the Seventh his Succeftor, for Confirmation of the Church-Officers in that 
 ' Kingdom-, for he never had any full Grant from Innocentfbat now the SpanifhAmbaf- 
 fadors oppofed themfelves more than ever, and by means of the Queen of Sweden , 
 who wholly imployed her intereft for the benefit of that Nation, endeavoured to fru- 
 ftrateeventhe Portuguefes Hopes-, nay, fo defperate was the Spaniards Malice, 
 That they laid feveral Defigns to murder the Portugal Ambaffadour, but all proved 
 Ineffectual. In fum, After D. Francifco de Souza, had fpent fome years in the Court 
 of Rome to very little pnrpofe, he was, upon the death of King JOHN the 
 Fourth, called home to be Governour of the young King Alphonfo. 
 
 The proffered interchangeable Match with Savoy , not taking effedt, father 
 Hu Rozaire,s. Dominican, and Arch-billrop of Goa, was fent Agent to Franceses treat 
 about a Marriage between that King , and the Infanta Donna Catharina, with Propo- 
 fals of Three Millions of Gold for Her Portion, and that the King of Portugal would 
 for Seven Years maintain Eighteen Men of War at Sea , for the defence and fervice 
 of the French Crown. 
 
 Long was this Bufinefs in Negotiation, and by many thought would have taken 
 effeift, the Agent being very highly carreffed both by the King and Queen-mother 
 of France ; but whether by reafon of Cardinal Mazarine's diflikeof it } or ocher Rea- 
 
 L 1 2 fons 
 
i$! JOHN IV. of the Name, 
 
 fonsof State, it was prolonged by continual demurs , till after the King of Portu- 
 gal's Death, and then wholly broken off. 
 
 For King JOHN being now arrived to about Fifty years of Age , in the Six- 
 Hi* Death. teenth year of his Reign , and in the Year of onr Lord, One thoujand fix' hundred 
 
 1656. and fifty fix , on the Sixth of November, S.N. paid his laft debt to Nature, ha- 
 
 ving a long time been troubled with an Obftrudtion in the Kidneys , occafioned by 
 the Stone and Gravel, which was fo fharp all the time of his Sicknefs, that he fel- 
 dom urined, and when he did it, was in fo little quantity, that it did fcarce at all eafe 
 him, this violent Pain put him into a Burning-feaver, which in T en dayes overpreffed 
 his Vitals. 
 
 Before his Death, he appointed Vomit Lucia his Queen , to be Regent of the 
 Kingdom during the minority of D. Alphonfo her Son, recommending to her for 
 Affiftants in the management of fo great burden as a Crown, the Reverend D. Ema- 
 nuel Arch- bifhop of Lisbon , Don Runlio Marquefs of Nifa , the Earl of Canvandake 
 and feme others, whofe abilities, love and fidelity, he had experience of. 
 
 H» Marriage. His Queen Donna Lucia was eldeft Daughter of frohn- Emanuel Perez, de Guzman 
 Duke of Medina Sidonia, and of fane de Sandoval, Daughter of the Duke of Lerme 
 fohn-Comez de Sandoval and Roy as, by Katherine de la Cerda. 
 
 He was a Perfon of a very comely prefence , his Countenance pleafant , but in- 
 clining to Swarthinefs, his Body about a middle ftature, yet comely and well prr>u 
 portioned , nor were the lineaments of his mind lefs becoming , than thofe of his 
 Body, though if ye believe common fame, he was none of the wifeft Kings chat ever 
 Portugal could boaft of: the reafon that he left fo much of the Reins of the Go- 
 vernment to his Wife, a Wognanof a Mafculineand Politick fpirit , from whence 
 perhaps that jelling Spaniard might take occafion to fay That it was not the Portugal 
 force, but the Spanifh policy , that kept that Kingdom from the Catboliqtie King , alludin<no 
 the Queens being a Spaniard. 
 
 He was buried in the great Church of St. Vincenza del Foro , under the Hi oh Al- 
 tar, ( a Monkery of Canons Regular of the Order of St. Augufiine ) with alf accu- 
 ftomed and becoming Ceremonies, lamented by thofe Kings who had been his Al- 
 lies, efpecially by the King of France, who honored his memory with a moft magnifi- 
 cent Funeral Solemnity, himfelf (attended by moft of the Nobles and Parliament of 
 France, ) gracing it with his Prefence at the Church of Noftre Vame, where after the 
 Singing of Mafs, the Bifhop of Vance pronounced a Funeral Oration , fujtable to fo 
 Royal a Subjedtand Occafion. 
 
 Children of JOHN IV '. of the Name, King of PORTUGAL 
 and of Queen LUCIA his Wife. 
 
 18, HEODOSIUS Prince of PORTUGAL, eldeft Son 
 
 -1 of King frohn IV. was born at Vtlla-viciofa , the Eighth day of His Birth. 
 February) , in the Year of our Salvation, One thou [and fix hundred and 1634. 
 thirty four. After the Duke his Father came to the Crown, the Ceremony 
 of his Tnftallation was performed, when the Nobles and Grandees took an 
 Oath to receive him for their Natural Prince, as Son, Heir and Succeffor to 
 their Lord the King-, but he lived not to give Portugal a Kin? of his Name 
 deceafing m the life-time of his Father, in the Month of fane. Onethofnui^h. 
 
 land fix hundred and fifty three, and was interred in theMonaftery of Beth- 1653. 
 UCfM, 
 
 ALPHON- 
 
King of PORTUGAL, &c. 
 
 •r> 
 
 A LPHONSO tecond Son of King fohn, was after the Death of his 
 < 1 Brother Theoaofius , alio Prince OF PORTUGAL; The City of 
 Lisbonne gave him Birth, where he notv wears the Royal Diademe of his Father. 
 
 1 f) E T E R Infant OF PORTUGAL, third Son, born at Lisbonne 
 * in the Year of Chrift, One thousand fix hundred forty and eight , is now 
 living, Amo 1662. 
 
 18. TANE Infanta OF PORTUGAL, came into this World at Villa- 
 .1 viciofa the Eighteenth day ot Septemherjn the Year of our Lord, One thon- 
 fand fix hundred thirty and fix : She dyed young, and was inhumed at Belleil. 
 
 18. ATHERINE Infanta OF PORTUGAL, Queen of GREAT 
 
 BRITAIN, FRANCE and IRELAND , only Daughterfnow 
 
 living,) of King John IV.took her fir it breath at Villa-vicjofa, upon the Five and twen- 
 tieth day of November, being St. Katharines d ay, in the year of our Redemption, One 
 thoufand fix hundred thirty and eight . The Treaties and Articlesof this Marriage were 
 concluded in England with the Count Don Francifco dc Melo Ambafladof for the King 
 of Portugal, who departed hence with the Ratification of the faid Treaty of Marri- 
 age: Upon his Arrival, I need not acquaint you with what Joy this News affetted 
 the King, Queen, Mother, and the whole Court •, nor their mod Solemn Demon- 
 ftration thereof, by difcharging of their Cannon, making of Boneflres, and other 
 Entertainments-, yet were the People unwilling to think of Parting with this their 
 Pious Princefs, for whofe fake (they were wont to fay) God had given them fo 
 Signal and Frequent Victories over their Enemies. 
 
 Not long after, by an Exprefs from England from the King to Her, the Infanta- 
 KATHERIN E was Complemented with the Rile of Queen of GREAT 
 BRITAIN-, and then, with what poflible Speed could be made, was expeded for 
 England , all things being prepared in a readinefs for fo great a Princefs, and fo long a 
 Voyage: Then upon the Thirteenth day of Apr if this prefent year ,One thoufandfix 
 hundred three [core and two, She puffed with the King Her Brother, the Queen-Mo- 
 ther, Don Pedro, and the whole Court, unto the fide of the River Tagus, through 
 feveral Triumphal Arches, and a fumptuous Gallery built upon that Occafion, where 
 Her MAJESTY was received by the Earle of Sandwich, who conducted Her 
 on Board a (lately Brigandine , whence amidtt many Tire and Vollies of Cannon, and 
 many move farevvel Acclamations in the fame Princely Company and Equipage,Her 
 MAJESTY came aboard the ROT A L CHARLES , and was welcomed, 
 with the Thunder of the whole Navy. 
 
 In the Evening, after a Princely Collation, and many paffionate partingExprelfi- 
 ons, a Gun from the Admiral gave the Signal of Her MAJESTIES Refoluci- 
 on to departwvhen all hands were fet on work to weigh Anchor, and let flie thcirSails. 
 
 The King and Queen-Mother, and their Train, took their Farevvel with hearts e- 
 quallycompofedof Grief and Joy, and Re-imharq-ued tor Lisbon, returning with 
 thedilcharge of all the Ordnance and fo immediately with a fair leading Gale, the 
 whole Fleet began their Courfe, being, as they paffed out of the River, faluted by 
 all the Block-houfes, Forts and Caflles. That Night, and part of thenextDay, 
 the Wind Rood very propitious; but afterwards provedaverfe andfiormy, fo that 
 they were forced to labour to and fro with contrary Winds , it being the Six 
 and twentieth of April when they got into the middle of the Bay of Bijcay , Her 
 MAJESTY 1 by the continual working and tolling of the Sea , having 
 been fickthe moR part of the Voyage. About the Fifth of 31 / 4 }., .with unwearied la- 
 
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n 4 JOHN IV. of the Name, 
 
 hour and skill, the whole Fleet reached the Iflands of Scilly. Her Arrival had been 
 every day cxpedted a Fortnight before, which caufed the King to fend down the 
 Duke of York, Lord High Admiral, to attend Her upon the Coaft, and to Comple- 
 ment Her MAJESTY in His Name , vvherenpon His Highnefs hailed to PortJ- 
 mouth,md on the T enth of M, iy, attended by the Duke of Ormond , the Earls of Suf- 
 folk and Cheflerfield, the Lord Berkley, and other Perfons of Quality, went aboard 
 the (lately YAUG H, to Coaft about to meet Her MAJESTY. On Sunday 
 morning about Ten of the Clock, they difcovered the ROYAL JAMES-, but 
 there was fo great a Calm, they could not reach the ROYAL CHARLES till 
 Six at Evening. The Earl of Sandwich having difcovered His Highnefs Y AUG H, 
 went out in his Barge to meet Him, the Royal Banner being all the while vailed till 
 He was aboard; when His Highnefs came into the Ship, the Souldiers gave Three 
 feveral Shouts, and all the Guns in the ROYAL CHARLES (which from the 
 Queens entrance till that time had been filent ) proclaimed His Welcome ; after 
 which, the feveral Ships of the Fleet paid Him their Salutes. The Thirteenth of 
 May at night, the Royal Fleet came to St. Helens Point, the moft Eaftern Promon- 
 tory of the llle of Wight-, and on Wednefday the Fourteenth of May, the Queen 
 landed at P or tf mouth about Four of the Clock in the Afternoon, where She was re- 
 ceived by the Nobility , Gentry, and multitudes of Londoners -, as alio by the 
 Mayor and Alderme n of that Corporation with all the Expreffions of Joy. 
 
 His MAJESTY having received the Exprefs of His Queens landing, prepa- 
 red to be gone forthwith to Salute Her upon Her Arrival : But His great Affairs of 
 State, and Bills by Him to be Ratified into Adis of Parliament, which were not fully 
 ready for His Royal Affent, delayed him till Monday the Nineteenth of May (ha- 
 ving fent before Him the Biihop of London, who departed the Seventeenth, in order 
 to the Solemnizing of the Marriage) when Fie took Coach from the Houfe of Lords 
 at Nine of the Clock in the Evening with His ordinary Guards, and lodged that 
 night at Gilford-, thenextdayHis MAJESTY polled with the fame fpeed to 
 Portjmouth, where He arrived about Noon. 
 
 The Queens indifpofition which yet held Her in Her Chamber, caufed the King 
 to fatisfie Himfeif only with a Vifit in private that day: Yet it pleafed God to reflore 
 Her Majefty to luch a degree of health , that (he was foon after able to go abroad to 
 confummate thcMarriage- Rites, which were there performed upon Wednefday the 2 1, 
 of May , by Gilbert Lord Bifhop of London-, which being concluded , His Majefty 
 Bedded His moft Princely Lady in His Town of Portfmouth. 1 he next Week their 
 Majefties removed to Winchester, thence to Farnham, and then to Ham pt on Court 
 where They fpent moft part of this Summer-, as well for theHealthfulnefs as Ma- 
 jefty of the Place, 
 
 Then on Saturday the 23. of Augttfl, (being the Eve of St. Bartholomew, a 
 Day Remarkable fonts Beauty , being the Faireft of Ten that either came before 
 or followed it , ) after Dinner, the King and Qiieen took Barge in order to Their en- 
 tertainment by the City of London upon the River of Thames , and came to Putney 
 about Four of the Clock in the Evening , where They changed Their fpare Barge 
 and were by the Lord Chamberlain conducted on Board that Barge which was 
 prepared to bring Them to Whitehall , in which They were placed un- 
 der a Canopy of Cloth of Gold , adorned with Five Plumes of White 
 and Yellow Oftrich- Feathers ; the Barge lined alfo with Cloth of Gold , and Cuf- 
 nons of the fame, the two Gondeloes went .on either llde, before in which were 
 His Majefties Trumpets which founded continually. At Chelfej Their Maiefties 
 weremetby the Lord Mayor and Aldermen in their Barge, afterwards by all the 
 
 Sri' Barg f wkh lo r ad ^ uCck) a11 adorned v ™h their feveral Banners 
 and I ennon 5 pt Arms : I cannot fpend time to particularize the fevera) Pageants and 
 
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King of PORTUGAL, &c. 135 
 
 Reprefentationsofthe 2 tfwr«,Z)«^£V.s', Merchant-Taylors,GoUfmiths,8cc.heing neither 
 poffible, nor proper for this place ; therefore I fhall only fay ( which .none but the 
 abfent will deny ) That the oldeftperfon alive never faw the Thames more fully, 
 nor more Nobly covered. Amid'fta Throng of a Thoufand Boats, aud morethan 
 Ten thoufand joyful Subjects, Their Majefties landed at Whitehall about 7. of the 
 Clock in the Evening , where the molt Excellent Princefs the Queen Mother, and 
 the Dutchefs of York , gave Her Majefty Her Welcome ; which was feconded by a 
 Tereof Artillary Planted at Stangate-Wharf over againft Whitehall for that pur- 
 pofe ; the fame Night, afterwards being made an Artificial Day, by the Number of 
 Bone- fires and Fire- works. 
 
 I omit to fix a Character upon the Goodnefs and Beauty of this our Royal 
 Qyeen, as deferving a larger Room , and an abler Pen , or to fpeak of that Portion, 
 lfore ot Money and Jewels , as great as ever any Princefs brought a Husband, be- 
 caufe I will not prefume to meddle with thofe fublime particulars. As alfo of thofe 
 Advantages that the Englilli Merchant receives by the Trade of both the Indies 
 where the Portugucjfes over-rule the Dutch; and by the commodious fituation of 
 Tangier for the checking and curbing the Infolencies of the Pirates of Algier , T unis, 
 and Tripoli, if at any time they break their League with England, it being, a place 
 fituate upon the mouth of the Streight of Gibraltar ; fo that no Ship can pafs that 
 Screight, without Licence firft had from the King of Great Britain, who upon this 
 Account Commands the whole Trade of the Levant. 
 
 May we long enjoy Their Majefties with the Blelfings we have received with 
 T hem, and from Them a continued Line of Greac Britains Kings, that we may not 
 want a Soveraign to Reign over us , who derives his Goodnefs, as well as Greatnefs, 
 from this our Soveraign Pair. 
 
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 -& ALPHONSO VI. 
 
 Of the Name , King of PORTUGAL, 
 Algarvia, Affricl ^ Arabia Ter fa, India , and Brafftkc, 
 
 CHAP. XXII- 
 
 Ing $ohn the Fourth 
 being thus deceafed, 
 his elder furviving 
 Son ALPHONSO 
 the Sixth of that 
 Name fucceeded , 
 being about the 
 Age of Fourteen years, his Mother du - 
 ring his minority adminiftring the af- 
 fairs of the Kingdom , and caufing him 
 to be Crowned on the Fourteenth of 
 November, Eight dayes after the death 
 of his Father. 
 
 The whole Kingdom oi Portugal was 
 in a kind of amaze at the fo fudden death 
 of Kng $ohn,z fpecially confidering the 
 youth of their prefent King, fearing left 
 their common Enemies fhould now 
 take advantage of them : but the pru- 
 dent management of the mod impor- 
 tant bufinefs of State by the Queen 
 Regent > foon banifhed all thofe fancied 
 fears. 
 
 The Queen being fenfible, that up- 
 on this occafion of the Kings death, (Tie 
 fhould have moft occafion to ufe the 
 Souldiery, by the Advice of her Coun- 
 cil , Ordered all the Infantry of the 
 Kingdom mould have Half a years pay, 
 the better to encourage them,who were 
 of themfelvesready enough to fight againft their common and inveterate Enemy ,the 
 Cajlilliam. 
 
 And becaufefhe knew that the King of Spain, would lofe no opportunity to op- 
 prefs the Kingdom of Portugal, lire thought it imprudence to let any flip where an 
 advantage might be gained upon him, and therefore all the Spanifh Forces being 
 drawn out of Andalusia to oppofe the Englilli , in cafe they fhould attempt to land 
 
 at 
 
A L P H O N S O VI. of tbs Nmefoc. ^7 
 
 st c.rliz , ( for they theivblocked up chic Port with a Potent Fleet, ) (he comman- 
 ded Four thoufand Horfe to mike an in-road into that Countrev, who plundered, 
 and laid w.ifte all before them, bringing away between Forty and fifty thoufand head 
 of Cattel, and leaving the whole Soil in a manher defolate. 
 
 This fo exafperated the S poniards, That draining mod of the Garifons of his 
 Kingdom, he railed a Potent Army, and with Ten thoufand Foot, and Five thoufand 
 Horfe entred Portugal, and laid Siege to the ftrong City of olivenza, which at length 
 they reduced to that necelficy, that the Defendants were willing to Capitulate , and 
 founded a Parlie, but when they came to treat, the Spaniards would not admit the 
 King of Portugal any other Tide, than that of Duke of Braganza, which made the 
 P orlugals renounce any farther treating. 
 
 But at length the Spaniards condefcending to treat, the Town was delivered up- 
 on Articles •, but fo much did the Queen- Regent and Council of Portugal refen t it, 
 that they immediately gave Order to Arreft the Perfon of Don Mandtol de Saldagna 
 the Governour, who ( with feveral of his chief Officers ,) was by the Count de 
 St. Lorenzs, Genera! of the Portuguese Forces in thofe parts, fent Prifoners to Lisbon, 
 there to anfiver thejr ill-defending of that Town.it appearing, That at the furrendring 
 of it, there marched out T wo thoufand two hundred well Armed Foot, and One hun- 
 dred Horfe ; nor were they reduced to that neceifity that was pretended . there re- 
 maining in the Stores of Ammunition and Provifion, fufficient to have defended the 
 Town a great while longer. 
 
 Thelofsof this Place was a great blow to the Portuguejfes , it being a ftrong 
 Frontier Town, and giving the Spaniard abfolute Command a great way into the 
 Countrey but this the King of Spain refolved fhould be but a beginning of his 
 Conqueft(if poffible) of this Kingdom, for he ftill made all preparations he could 
 to affault it with a greater force, and not only endeavoured this with might and main 
 toopprefs it himfelf , but by his Ambafladors folicited the States General of the 
 United Provinces to fend their Vice-Admiral Opdant, with the Fleet he then had be- 
 fore Dantzisk, into Portugal, to demand fatisfadlion for the damage the Portugals had 
 done to their Wcfl- India Company in Brazil, and in cafe the King of Portugal fhould 
 deny to comply with their defires, to force them to a Compofition. 
 
 FheHigh and Mighty States eafily liftned to this counfel , and Vice- Admiral 
 Opdam with a Potent Fleet was fent to Lisbon , carrying with him fome Commiflion- 
 ers from the States to make their demands, which the Queen Regent and Council 
 thought fo unreafonabie, that they could not return any fatisfadlory anfwer to them, 
 whereupon the Commiffioners departed : But : Op-dam ftill flayed with his Fleet to 
 wait an opportunity of catching the Brazil Fleet in their return home, many of which 
 notwithftanding the care and endeavors of the Portuguejfes to prevent it, he made prize 
 of, and fent into Holland. 
 
 By this means was the War, which for many years had been maintained between 
 the Hollanders and Portugals on the other fide the Line, transferred to this fide, 
 which the King of France endeavoured by all means poffible, before its eruption to 
 prevent, and afterwards tocompofe by his Ambaffadours, Monfieur deThou in Hol- 
 land, and the Sicur de Comings in Portugal, but to no Efifedt. 
 
 Thusaftaultedby two potent Nations, both by Sea and by Land were the Portu- 
 guc(fes, which yet made them not at all falter in their Courage and Refoiution $ the 
 generous Queen-Regent caufirig all poffible Levies to be made to oppofethe Caftilli- 
 an, fending into Barbarj to buy Horfes,and by Leagues abroad endeavouring to ftren-_ 
 gthenthe inter eft of the Kingdom , an Ambaffadour was fent to that purpofe into"' 
 England, to renew and confirm the Amity before concluded on, and many Conferen- 
 ces there were between the Archbiiliop of Goa , who had before been Ambaffadour in 
 France, mi the Sieur de Comings-, fo that many were in hopes that the Match be- 
 
 N n tween 
 
t 5 S ALPHONSO VI. of the Nam, 
 
 'tween the King of France, and the Infanta, would have gone forward, and anindiffo- 
 luble League both defenfive and offenfive, been concluded between the twoNa- 
 
 n °And to join Force to Policy , a gallant Army of about Sixteen thoufand Foot, and 
 Three thoufand Horfe, all Portuguefes, took the Field, and in Revenge for the lots 
 of Olivenza, laid fiege to Mouron, which in Three or tour dayes they took by ftorm, 
 putting Fitteen hundred Spaniards totheSword,andrefolvedto proceed to the re- 
 gaining of Boday ox and olivenza and to that ptirpofe marching without oppofiti- 
 onby Cay a (which they left fortified ) they came to the Fort of St. chri/lopher, the 
 ftrongeft hold of the City of Badayox, which they feveral dayes battered, and thrice 
 ftormed, but were beaten off; yet at the length they took it,andfo fecurely entrench- 
 ed themfelves about the whole City. 
 
 The Duke of Ojfima, General of the Cap Ilian Horfe, having notice of this flraic 
 fiege of the City, endeavoured with Sixteen hundred Horfe to cut off their Con- 
 voyes and Provifions •, but the Count del Prado , Governour of Elvas , receiving 
 Advice of his Defign.fallied out of the City with Three Companies of Horfe, and 
 all the Foot he had to prevent him, by which means ojfima was encompafTed on both 
 fides; for at the fame time that he was on the other part charged by Don Andrea £>’ 
 Albuquerque, General of the Portuguese Horfe, and that with fo much Gallantry, that 
 they prefently difeomfited their Enemies, flew Four hundred upon the place , took 
 Three hundred Prifoners, and forced the Duke of ojfima tofave himfelf by fwim- 
 ming. _• 
 
 This happy Succefsencouraged them to return with more Alacrity to the fiege, 
 which they profecuted with all vigour polfible, and on the Three and twentieth of 
 jfnne ftormed, and took a Redoubt which was palifadofed ; but at length when they 
 had fpentmuch time, blood, and treafure, they were enforced by the powerful Army 
 of Don Lewis de Haro to raife their fiege. 
 
 For the King of Spain exafperated with the lols of Mouron, and fearing likewife 
 tolofe Badayox, had Rallied a great Army, which he committed to the Care of his 
 Favourite Don Lewis de Haro, who not only with it raifed the fiege from before Ba- 
 dayox \ but likewife fo ftraitly befieged Elvasfine of the Portugueffes ftrongeft; Fron- 
 tier-towns, the taking of which, might have endangered the whole Kingdom, and 
 reduced it to fuch Neceffity, that it was even upon the point of yielding. 
 
 But the Portugals, who knew of how much importance it was to them, had ever 
 been anxious for its Relief, and therefore having at length bravely recruited their Ar- 
 my,they advanced with full Refolution to drive the Spaniards out of their Trenches, 
 nor did they effed it lefs bravely than they had refolved it ; for they totally Routed 
 their General, Don Lewis de Haro very hardly efcaping 5 but in this Battel the Por- 
 tuguez loft the worthy Albuquerque General of the Horfe. 
 
 And to Counterpoise this Vi&ory, the ftrong Fortrefsof Mounfon upon the Bor- 
 ders of Gallicia, was furrendred to the Spaniards,a.nd a Party of the Portugals not ha- 
 ving Advice that it was already poftefled by the Cajlillians , going to relieve it, were 
 fui prized, and forced (hamefully to retreat with the lofs of fome hundreds, and this 
 Succefs encouraged the Spaniards under the Command of theMarquefs of Viana, 
 tobefiege theonly Citv the Portugals were poffeft of 'on the River M'tnho, but it 
 was relieved by the Portugals. The Spaniards likewife gained a fignal Vidtory over 
 a Party of Portugal Horfe nigh Alcantara ■, for Advice being brought to the Go- 
 vernour of thatTown, That the Portnguez with a Party of Four hundred Horfe 
 were entring upon the Frontiers in two Bodies ; lie taking Five hundred Horfe, and a 
 feled Party of Foot, went to meet them, and fo handfomly managed hisBufinefs,that 
 he furprized one whole Body, fcarce a man efcaping a Corn miffary General, five Ca- 
 ptains, and feveral other Officers being taken Prifoners. 
 
 
 But 
 
f King of PORTUGAL, &c. i ]9 
 
 But thefe things were inconfiderable Difadvantages to the intereft of Portugal, in 
 refpedl of what it was like to feel by the Peace which was treacing of between thofe 
 two mighty Monarchs of Prance and Spain, which che Queen-Regent and Council 
 were fenfible of and therefore difp itch Don fobn D’ Acofia Ambaifadour Extraordi- 
 nary to the French Court,toreprefenrunto his moftChriftian Majefty the ftateofthe 
 Kingdom of Portugal, and to infill that there might be a due Confederation had of the 
 Intereft of his Mafter in the concluding of the Peace with Spain , feeing he had for- 
 merly approved himfelf fo good an Ally to the Crown of France. But this Embaf- 
 fie could produce no other Effedl, than a protnife co endeavour a Mediation for them 
 with the King of Spain gnd procure them good terms upon Submiffion,which by the 
 Magnanimous Portugueffes was rejected with Indignation. 
 
 Nor were they at all Daunted with the great Power of the Spaniard, which lie in- 
 tended to employ againft them, but Maniully refolved to endure all Hazards; yet 
 would they willingly have concluded a Peace with the Hollanders ■, and to that pur- 
 pofe, Hon Fernando Tellez, de Faro , Duke of Aveiro , was fent Ambaifadour to the 
 States- General ; but he like a creacherous Villain, revolted from them to the King of 
 Spain, carrying along with him the papers of hisAmbaffie; for which, according to 
 his Delert, his Effigies was executed at Lisbon as a T raytors, his Goods confifcated, 
 his Houfe razed to the ground, and his Children banilhed, and degraded of Nobility, 
 his Brother, Hon HeigoHe Sjlva, who had ferved the King of Portugal in the quality 
 of General at Sea, was hkevvife upon this Occafion commanded to retire to one of 
 his Houfes, and deprived of all publick Employment. 
 
 After him was fent Don Henry de Sou fa Count of Miranda , to negotiate an Ac- 
 comodation with the Netherland States, yet he prevailed little; for the pertina- 
 cious Hollanders were ftill refolute in their unreafonable demands , computing their 
 Ioffes in Brazil ( where they had no right to be) to amount to no lefs than thirty 
 millions. 
 
 The Spaniards in the mean time were forced to give the Portugals fome refpite in 
 the fummer. One thoufand fix hundred and fifty nine, but preparations were made to 
 affault them ; with the whole power of that Monarchy in the Spring, One thoufand 
 fix hundred and fixty , Don fob a d' Aufiria being called out of Flanders to be Genera- 
 lijfimo ohhe Spanifh Forces , and having Orders given him in April , One thoufand 
 fix hundred and fixty , to march dire&ly to Merida, on the Frontiers oh Portugal , 
 though he went not that Summer. 
 
 Butth e Portugueffes refolved not tobebehind-handwith their Enemies, and there- 
 fore madefeveral in-roads into the Spanifh Territories , depopulating all before them, 
 which made the Spaniards to be revenged , refolve to do the like to them ; Order 
 was therefore given to fall into the Kingdom on all fides , the Marquefs of Viana 
 Governor of Gallict a , marching in that way with Eight thoufand Foot, and eighc 
 hundred Horfe , and the Governor of Camara invading that part which was adja- 
 cent to his government. 
 
 In this condition was the Kingdom of Portugal, when His Majefty Charles the 
 Second, King of England, was, reftoredtohis Ciowns and Kingdoms, welcomed 
 by his Subjedts with all gratulatory and fubmiffive Obedience -, the News of which 
 was no foonerby advice from D.Francifco de Melo , Ambaftador for the King of 
 Portugal in England , conveyed to the ears of his Mafter, but he caufed all the Guns of 
 the Town, Caftle, and Ships in the Road, to be fired, and for three days and 
 nights kept folemn and magnificent Rejoycings ; the Portuguefs Nationas well as' 
 by this their joy at the Reftoration of King Charles the Second, as bytheir forrow and 
 general mourning at the Death of King Charles the Firft, exprdfing their great 
 affedlion for the Englifh Nation. 
 
 But becaufe their joy fhould be fomewhat for their own , as well as our fakes , 
 
 Nn i there 
 
, 4 o ALPHONS O VI. of the Nme, 
 
 there at the fame time arrived News at Lisbon, that Don Alphonfo furtndo General 
 ofthe Horfe, on the frontiers of Alentejo , meeting with a Brigade of the Enemies 
 Horfenigh to Bajadox, had fought and defeated them , killed and took tour hun- 
 dred of them , amongft whom were four Captains of Horfe prifoners. 
 
 The Spaniards ftill continued their Leavies againft Portugal, being refolved to 
 employ an Army of four thou fand Horfe and twelve thoufand Foot conlfantly re- 
 cruited, about the Frontiers of Eftramadura , and another of three thoufand Horfe, 
 and ten thoufand Foot about Callicia , and a third of twelve thoufand men, to 
 ferve as a Referve to the two former. In this manner were they refolved to affault 
 them by Land, while the Prince of Monte farchio with ten men of War, was appointed 
 to coaft up and down before their Ports, and do them what mifchief he could by Sea. 
 
 Thus did this Kingdom ftruggle with Spain for her Liberty, by the prudent ma- 
 nagement of Affairs, by that fage and induftrious Queen-Regent, until this prefent 
 year, one thoufand fix hundred threescore and two-, when upon theNinteenth of An- 
 gufl the Cafiilhan Army marched towards the Towns of Barbeifus and Chofis ; 
 whereupon the General of the faid Province the Earle of Vrado , ana the Earle of St. 
 John General of the Horfe, with all the Force they could make, did fet forth to op- 
 pofe the Enemy, who being furprized by the Care of the faid General, did engage, 
 with the Approbation of the chief Commander Von Balthafar Pontaju, who imme- 
 diately commanded them to fall on ; but the Earle of Prado did as well receive them, 
 he denting nothing elfe but to (hew the Cafiillians how little they did value them. 
 The Fight began with a great deal of Refolution on the Enemies fide, who for many 
 houres hotly difputed the Quarrel, till wearied by the unwearied Courage of the For- 
 tugteejfes, their whole Army was forced to flie in great Diforder, A confiderablc 
 number of the Enemies were flain, and many taken Prifoners, by which the faid Pro- 
 vince was freed from the Enemy, with great Satisfaction to the Crown, and great 
 Honour to the Count of Prado, whole Prudence and Valour in the management of 
 this Bufinefs was much commended. 
 
 In the Province of Bcira no lefs Succefs fmiled upon the Portuguefes, by the 
 Count of yillaflor Governour thereof, and the General of the Horfe Manuel Treire 
 V Andrada, who having intelligence that the Duke of offuna had made himfelf 
 Matter of EfcaLu, and raifed a confiderable Fort upon it with feveral Guns, and pla- 
 ced Four Uindred men to defend it, went out, and giving Battel to the Duke, put 
 him to Flight, killing about Six hundred men, and taking the greateft part of his 
 Baggage, withall his Ordnance-, and then falling upon the faid Fort, in few houres 
 took it (at mercy) to the aftonilhment of the Cajli Ilians, who fully perceived that 
 they were notable to Ad any thing againft the fame Provinces, being fo nobly defen- 
 ded by the fame Governour, and the People fo unanimous to oppofc them. 
 
 Nor had the CaJl/llians gained thofe Advantages in Alentejo, had it not been for 
 the Civil Dittentions and Animofities amoug the Portugal Colonels, which fince 
 have been fuffkiently provided againft by the Care of theMinifters of State, and 
 efpecially by the Prudence of Von Antonio Ve Soufa of Macedo , now principal Secre- 
 tary of State, heretofore Refi dent from the King of Portugal in England. 
 
 It that the Portuguejfes have thus long, and fo valiantly defended themfelves by 
 their own proper Valour, without a Forreign Afliftance, againft fo potent a Monarch 
 « the King of Spain, then how much more now will they be able, fince they have 
 tenewed the old League with England, whofe Forces being united, may defie *11 
 thole that (hall oppofe them, both Kingdoms being moft formidable at Sea, and Ma- 
 tters of a potent Army. 
 
 Nor was the King of Great Britain unmindful of rerurning the King of Portugal an 
 Acknowledgment for the Happinefs His Majefty received fromHim,inthePerfon of 
 His Sifter, that Royal Lady tne Prince fs KATHERINE, when He lent Supplies into 
 
 that 
 
King of PORTUGA L ,&e. 14.1 
 
 that Kingdom under the Command of that Valiant Lord the Earle of Inchequeeir, 
 almoft as foon as His Majefty had the Aflurance oi receiving His Beautiful Queen into 
 His own Arms, fuch was His MAJESTIES Care of the Welfare of that Mo- 
 narchy, the Knot of a perpetual Alliance being now fo firmly tied. That maugre all 
 the Oppofirion of the mod malignant Oppofers,They are refolved tojink their Con- 
 cerns together ever hereafter. 
 
 Since the Arrival of che Englifh Forces \nPortugal, there hath been littleAdtion^hey 
 having been difpoled of into Three feveral Squadrons fo that now in September laft 
 the Generals all returned to Lisbon to r#frefh themfelves, there being no further Oc- 
 cafion for the Field. Don John’s Army had Orders fent them not to march, and the 
 other Two, fince the late Defeats given them, have been'in no Capacity of doing the 
 leaf! Injury, Portugal being now free from the Noife of the Caftillians both by Sea 
 and Land. Don John wa$ lately 'at Badayos, .( having for awhile laid allthoughts 
 of farther Adion afide) where he muttered all the Forces, and drew them into their 
 Winter- quarters. In the'mean time, the King pf Spaifl | pt Otders fo fe deral Places 
 to make great preparation againft -the next Spring-, to that marching it) with more 
 Force, they may give a better Account than they have of this years Expedition. 
 
 King ALPHONSO VI. entring now upon the Twentieth year of His Age, 
 lately took the Reins of the Government into His own Hand, and hath fate for the 
 Adminiftration of Juftice in Criminal Caufes, where a Judge, and Secretary of the 
 Court of Orphans, were brought before Him, and Accufed for having dealt unjuftly 
 in the managery of their Truft. His MAJESTY was pleafed with much Pati- 
 ence to attend the whole Tryal, where it being fully proved, That according to the 
 Charge exhibited againft them, they had wronged feveral Orphans, and dealt unjuftly 
 in the Difpofalof their Goods ; Sentence was pronounced upon them both,the Judge 
 to be beheaded, and the Secretary to be hanged . I mention this, only to let the Rea- 
 der kno\V how much this Adion 0! the Kings hath encreafed the Efteem and Affedi- 
 onwhichHis MAJESTIES Subjeds had for Him ; That at His firft fitting in 
 the Adminiftration of Juftice, He fhould fo far encourage the Caufes of His weaker 
 People, as not to fpare Offenders, though of the greateft Quality; but to fee Sen- 
 tence of Condemnation paffed againft thofe that injure them. 
 
 Thus have you an Account ofthe Lives and Iffues of the Kings of Portugal^ 
 from the Foundation of that Monarchy, to the Sixth year of the Reign of King 
 ALPHONSO VI. being this prefent year, 1662. leaving that Kingdom 
 In an aflured Confidence, That England will prove ( as it hath ever been) abet- 
 ter Bulwark to them, than any other their Confederates. 
 
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ill db th tli &it-h *4) th tf 5 Si Si SfSi _4i4n . _ . ^ 
 
 A N 
 
 ALPHABETICAL 
 
 TABLE, 
 
 Containing the Principal NAMES in this 
 
 history 
 
 ( L P H O N S O I. King of for- 
 tugal. Chap. II. 
 
 ALPHONSO II. King of 
 Portugal. IV. 
 
 ALPHONSO III. king of 
 Portugal. Vi. 
 
 ALPHONSO IV. King of Portugal. VIII. 
 ALPHONSO V. King of Portugal. XIII. 
 ANTHONY Prior of Crato, proclaimed 
 King of Portugal. XIX. 
 
 ALPHONSO VI. King of Portugal. XXII. 
 
 Alphonfo of Psrtugal, Knight of the Order of Si 
 John of JirUfitleM. Pag. 8 
 
 Alphonfo of Portugal, Lord of Portalegre. 23 
 Alphonfo of Portugal, Seigneur of Leiria. ibid. 
 Alphonfo of Portugal. 30 
 
 Alphonfo of Portugal dyed young. 30 
 
 Artmburga Countefs of Vrgel. 1 3 
 
 Adolphe of Cleves, Seigneur of Ravinftein. 43 
 Alphonfo Prince of Portugal. 59 
 
 Alphonfo Cardinal of Portugal. <6 
 
 Anthony of Portugal. 69 
 
 Alphonfo Prince of Portugal. 73 
 
 Anthony of Portugal, 74 
 
 Alphonfo-Lionyfto B. of Portugal 24 
 
 Alphonfo-Sanceo B. of Portugal , Count of Al- 
 butpuercjut. 28 
 
 Alphonfo B. of Portugal. 3 3 
 
 Alphonfo deCafcacs, B .of Portugal. ibid. 
 
 Alphonfo B .of Portugal, Luke of Braganza. 45 
 Alphonfo B. of Portugal, Luke of Vifco. 49 
 
 B 
 
 Lanche of Portugal , Lady of Guadaliara. 
 
 pag; H 
 ibid. 
 
 Berengaria of Portugal. 
 
 Beatrice of CaftiUe, Queen of Portugal. zt 
 Beatrix of C aft HU, Queen of Portugal. 30 
 Beatrix of Portugal, Queen of CaftiUe. 3 1 
 Beatrice of Portugal, Lad) of Ravenfiein. 43 
 Beatrice of Portugal, Lutchefs of Vifco. 44 
 Blanche of Portugal , died young. 45 
 
 Beatrice of Portugal , Lutchefs of Vifco: 47 
 Blanche of Portugal, Abbefs of Loruano. 2 J 
 
 Beatrix of Portugal, Lutchefs of Savoy. 69 
 
 Beatrix of Portugal. Ibid. 
 
 Beatrix B. of Portugal. 34 
 
 Beatrice B. of Portugal , Countefs of Arundel. 
 
 45 
 
 C Onftance of Portugal, fyife of Goncalo-Nur 
 nez Le Lara. pag. 2 3 
 
 Conftance of Portugal. ibid. 
 
 Conftanee of Portugal , Queen of CaftiUe. 27 
 Conftance Manuel, Queen of Portugal. 32 
 
 Charlote of Cyprus, Lutchefs of Cenimbra. 42 
 
 I Charles of Portugal. 70 
 
 'Chriftopher of Portugal. 89 
 
 Conftance B. of Portugal. 15 
 
 Conftance B. of CaftiUe. 3 3 
 
 D. 
 
 
An Alphabetical TABLE,' 
 
 D. 
 
 D IONYSIO King of Portugal. Chap 
 
 VII. 
 
 Doulce of Arragon , Queen of Portugal pag. 
 
 io 
 
 Dionjfo of Portugal 3 o 
 
 Dionjfio of Portugal. 3 2 
 
 Dionjfio of Portugal. 49 
 
 Diego- Alphonfo of Portugal. 24 
 
 Dionjfio of Portugal. 73 
 
 33 
 
 Dionjfio B. of Portugal. 
 
 E. 
 
 E DWARD & of Portugal Chap. 
 
 - xir. 
 
 EMANUEL King of Portugal. 
 
 xir. 
 
 XV. 
 
 Eleanor of Arragon , Queen of Portugal, pag. 
 
 47 
 
 Edward of Portugal. 49 
 
 Elizabeth , or Ifabel of Conimbra, Queen of Por- 
 tugal. 52 
 
 Edward Prince of Portugal 67 
 
 Edward of Portugal, Duke of Vimerana. ibid. 
 Emanuel of Portugal. 73 
 
 Emanuel of Portugal. 88 
 
 Emilia of Najfau. ibid. 
 
 Edward B.’ of Portugal , Archbijbop of Bra- 
 cara. 74 
 
 F. 
 
 jpERDINAND King of Portugal. Chap. 
 
 Ferdinand of Portugal, Duke of Vifco. pag, 
 
 47 
 
 Ferdinand of Portugal , Count of Flanders. 
 
 1 1 
 
 Ferdinand of Portugal, Infant of Serpe. 1 7 
 Ferdinand of Portugal. 23 
 
 Ferdinand of Portugal , Seigneur of Sea. 3 3 
 Ferdinand of Portugal, Duke of Vifco . 48 
 
 Ferdinand of Portugal , Grand Matter of the 
 Order D’ Avis. 44 
 
 Ferdinand of Portugal. 66 
 
 Ferdinand- Alphonfo B. of Portugal , Knight of 
 the Order of thcTcmpIars. 24 
 
 Ferdinand B. of Portugal , Lord of Bragttnza. 
 
 33 
 
 G. 
 
 G llles-Sanceo B. of Portugal. pag. I % 
 GiUes-Alphonfo B. of Portugal. 24 
 
 George B. of Portugal, Duke of Conimbra. 5$ 
 
 H. 
 
 O E N R Y of Bourgongne Count of Portu- 
 gal. Chap. r. 
 
 HENRY theCardinalKing of Portugal. XVIII. 
 
 Henrj Prince of Portugal. pag. 8 
 
 Henrj of Portugal. 13 
 
 Henrj of Portugal, Duke of Vifco. 4$ 
 
 I. 
 
 J OHN I. King of Portugal. Chap.Xl, 
 JOHN II. King of Portugal. XIV. 
 JOHN III. King of Portugal. XVI. 
 
 JOHN IV. King of Portugal. XXL 
 
 Jane Countefs of Flanders. pag. 1 x 
 
 Ifabel of Portugal, Ladj of Bifcaj. 23 
 
 Ifabel of Portugal, Ladj of Albuquerque, ibid. 
 Ifabel of Arragon, Queen of Portugal. 26 
 John of Portugal. 30 
 
 Ifabel of Arragon , Dutchefs of Conimbra. 41 
 John of Portugal , Duke of Conimbra. 42 
 James of Portugal, Cardinal and Archbijbop of 
 Lisbon. ibid. 
 
 Ifabel D’ Avalos. 3 3 
 
 Ifabel of Conimbra, Queen of Portugal. 42 
 John of Portngal,Grand Mnfter of the Order of 
 St. James. 44 
 
 Ifabel of Braganza. ibid. 
 
 James of Portugal. ibid. 
 
 Ifabel of Portugal, Queen of Cafiille. ibid. 
 
 Ifabel of Portugal, Dutchefs of Bourgongne. 45 
 John of Portugal, Duke of Vifco. 48 
 
 James of Portugal, Duke of Vifco. ibid. 
 
 Ifabel of Vifco, Dutchefs of Braganza. 49 
 
 Jane of Portugal, Queen of Cafiille. 50 
 
 John Prince of Portugal, died Joung, 5 J 
 
 Jane of Portugal, a Nun at OdiveUes. ibid. 
 Ifabel of Cafiille, Qupen of Portugal. 64 
 
 Ifabel of Braganza, Princefs of Portugal. 67 
 
 John Prince of Portugal. 73 
 
 Joane of Aufiria. ibid. 
 
 Ifabel of Portugal. 74 
 
 Jane Infanta of Portugal. X 3 3 
 
 John- Alphonfo B. of Portugal. 18 
 
 John B. of Portugal. 33 
 
 Ifabel P. of Portugal, Countefs of Giglon. 36 
 
 O 0 2 John 
 
An Alphabetical T ABLE. 
 
 Ip iter of Vonug.ll, defied King of Arragtn. 
 1 Philippa of Portugal, a Nan at Odive/les. 
 
 K atherine Queen of great I vhmppa of p m*g*j,*vw mmU. 
 
 . Britain. ' pag. i 3 3 j Philip Du\e of Bourgcngne. 
 
 Katherine of Portugal, died young. 49 ! ^ cter ff ori, gna. 
 
 Katherine of Portugal . 59 
 
 Katherine of Portugal , ])n! chefs of Sr aganza. 68 
 
 L. 
 
 L £oacr of Portugal , Princefs of Denmark 
 
 pag. 17. 
 
 Leonor of Portugal, Queen of Denmark, ibid. 
 Leonora of Portugal, Queen of Arragon. 3 ° 
 Leonora T eUez,Queen of Portugal. 3 S 
 
 Leonora of Vifco, Queen of Portugal. 49 
 
 Leonora of Portugal the Emprefs. 5 ° 
 
 Leonora of Vifco, Queen of Portugal. 58 
 Leonor of Auftria, Queen of Portugal. 65 
 Lewis of Portugal, Duke of Beta. ibid. 
 
 Lucia Queen of Portugal. 132 
 
 LeonorB. of Portugal, wife of Gar ft a de Souza. 24 
 
 M. 
 
 M Aud of Savoy, Queen of Portugal, pag.7 
 Mary of Flanders. 1 2 
 
 Maud of Portugal, Queen of Cafiille. 1 4 
 Maud of Dam-Martin,Countefs of Bolongtte. 20 
 Mary of Portugal, Lady of Molina. 23 
 
 Mary of Portugal, Queen of Caftille and Leon. 3 Q 
 Mary of Portugal, Lady Marqucfs of Tort of a. 3a 
 
 33 
 
 ibid. 
 
 65 
 ibid. 
 67 
 70 
 ibid. 
 74 
 
 39 
 
 40 
 
 4 1 
 
 42 
 
 44 
 
 45 
 36 
 49 
 73 
 
 Philip of Portugal 
 j Philip of Portugal. 
 j Peter Infant of Portugal. 
 
 ! Peter B. of Portugal. 
 
 1 Peter B. of Portugal, Count of Barcdios. 
 
 Peter B of Portugal, Seigneur De Guerra. 
 
 R. 
 
 Odsrick. of Portugal. pag. 1 J 
 
 s. 
 
 4 
 
 28 
 
 33 
 
 I^ANCEO I . King of Portugal. Chap, III. 
 
 S A N C E O II. King of Portugal. 
 SEBASTIAN King of Portugal. 
 
 V. 
 XVII. 
 
 Mary Tellez. 
 
 Martin Vafquez de Cunha. 
 
 Mary of Caftille, Queen of Portugal. 
 Michael Prince of Portugal, 
 
 Alary of Portugal, Princefs of Parma. 
 Mary of Portugal. 
 
 Mary of Portugal. 
 
 Mary of Portugal, Princefs of Spain. 
 
 Martin B. of Portugal , Count of Triftemare. 1 5 
 Martin- AlphonfoChicorro B. of Portugal. 24 
 Mary B. of Portugal. 3 3 
 
 Mary B. of Portugal, Wife of Peter Minho. ibid. 
 Mary B. of Portugal, Lady Marqu fs of Y illt- 
 real. 49 
 
 P. 
 
 P ETER King of Portugal. Chap. IX. 
 PHILIP II, HI, IV. Kings of Spain, 
 1 9,20, 2 1 . Kings of Portugal. XX. 
 
 Vettr of Portugal, King of Majorca, pag. 13 
 
 Sihille of Flanders, Lady of Beaujeu. pag. 1 2 
 Sance of Portugal, Al/befs of Loruano. 1 4 
 
 Sance Fernandine De Lara , Lady of Serpe. J 7 
 Sance-Mentic- Lopez De Haro, Queen of Portur 
 
 gal. 19 
 
 Sanceo of Caftille. 34 
 
 T. 
 
 T Erefa of Caftille, Queen of Portugal, pag. 3 
 T erefa,otherwifi called Sance of Portugal. 4 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 13 
 132 
 
 Terefa of Portugal, Count efs of Flanders. 
 Terefa of Portugal , wife of Sancea-Nunez. 
 Terefa of Portugal, Queen of Leon. 
 Theodojius Prince of Portugal- 
 
 Terefa-Sancez B. of Portugal. 15 
 
 u. 
 
 u 
 
 Dacca of Portugal, Counteft of Traftemare 
 
 pag- 4 - 
 8 
 17 
 
 ibid. 
 
 Vracca of Portugal, Queen of Leon. 
 
 Vracca of Caftille, Queen of Portugal. 
 
 Vincent of Portugal. 
 
 Valdemar II. of that Name, King of Denmark , ib. 
 
 Vracca B. of Portugal. 
 
 Y. 
 
 j s 
 
 Y Oland of Caftille , Lady if P trtaleg 
 
 pae, : 
 
 pag 'a t 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 # 
 
T H E 
 
 SECOND BOOK 
 
 OF THE 
 
 ROYAL HOUSE 
 PORTUGAL, 
 
 CONTAINING THE 
 
 GENEALOGIES 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Dukes of BRAGANZA and BARCELLOS J 
 Counts of L EM 0 S , and Dukes of T AV RI S J NO. 
 Marquefles of F E R R E I RA, and Cotints of TFNTZJGAL, 
 Counts of GELVES, and Dukes of VERAGV A. 
 Counts of FARO t and of MIRA. 
 
 Counts of VIM 10 S 0. 
 
 Dukes of AVE IRQ. 
 
 Counts of V ILL AR. 
 
THE TABLE OF THE SECOND BOOK .' 
 
 8 . 
 
 s JOHN fitft of the name. 
 King of Portugal. 
 
 PETER King of Portugal. 
 
 — , S — 
 
 10 . EDWARD King 
 of Portugal, 
 
 11. ALPHONSO V. of the 
 name, King of Portugal. 
 
 12. JOHN II. of the name, 
 King of Portugal. 
 
 13. GEORGE B. of Portu- 
 gal , Duke of Conimbra. 
 
 14. JOHN D. 
 
 of Aueiro. 
 
 15 . GEORGE 
 D.o f Aueiro 
 
 \ 
 
 16. JULIAN 
 
 Dutchefs 
 of Aueiro, 
 
 * 7 - 
 
 ALPHONSO B. of Por- 
 tugal, Duke of Braganza. 
 
 DENYS Baftard of Por- 
 tugal , Lord of Cifuentes .' 
 "1 1 - 
 
 ALPHONSO 
 C. of Ourem. 
 
 I 
 
 ALPHONSO 
 
 of Portugal , 
 
 FERDINAND of 
 
 Portugal. 
 
 ~i r- 
 
 * FERDINAND DENIS Lord 
 I. of the name, D. of Torres. 
 of Braganza, 
 
 »-a. . 
 
 ALPHON- 
 
 SO. 
 
 I 
 
 ALVARO 
 D.of Atreiro 
 I 
 
 GEORGE 
 ~D.de T ours 
 neufues. 
 
 FRANCIS B. of Por- 
 tugal, Count of Vimiojo. 
 
 ALPHONSO I. of the 
 name, Count of Vimio\o. 
 
 FRANCIS II. LEWIS C. 
 
 C. de Vimiojo. de Vimiojo. 
 
 1 
 
 ALPHONSO II- 
 C. de Vimiofo , and 
 Marquefs of Aguiar 
 
 FERDINAND 
 
 Lord of Villar. 
 t lA ' 1 
 
 BERNARD IN 
 
 Lord of Villar. 
 
 r ——•* r- 1 
 
 FERDINAND 
 Count of Villar. 
 
 I 
 
 BERNARDINO 
 
 Torres & de Port. 
 I 
 
 JOHN de Tor- 
 res,^ de Portugal, 
 Count de Villar. 
 
 LEWIS II. Count of vimiojo. MICHAEL C. of Vimiojo. 
 
 11. 
 
 DVKES OF BRAGANZA. 
 
 * FERDINAND I. of the name, Duke of Braganza , Son ©f Duke Alphonjo. 
 
 12. FERDINAND II. 
 
 Duke of Braganza. 
 
 13. JAMES DENIS^ 
 
 Duke of Count of 
 
 Braganza Lemos. 
 
 ALVARO Seig- 
 neur of Ferreira. 
 
 RODERICK 
 Marquefs of 
 Ferreira. 
 
 ALPHONSO 
 Count of Faro. 
 
 I 
 
 SANCEO 
 firft C. of 
 Odemira. 
 
 I 
 
 GEORGE I. 
 of the name, 
 
 G. of Gelues. 
 
 14. THEODOSIO FERDINAND FRANCIS I. ALVARO ALPHON- 
 
 I. D. of Braganza I. C. of Lemos. ]s/[3.u\.of Ferreira C.of Gelues SO of Portur, 
 
 | r— 1 f r 1 f ( I 
 
 15. JOHN PETER NUGNO GEORGE NUGNO 
 
 Duke of Countof ALVA- II. Count Duke of 
 
 Braganza. Lemos. REZ. of Gelues. Veragua. 
 
 16. THEODO- FERDI- FRANCIS LEONO- ALVA- 
 
 SANCEO 
 II Count of 
 odemira. 
 
 I 
 
 ALPHON- 
 
 SIO II. D. NANDII. II. Marquefs R A Coun- RO D.of SO C. of 
 of Braganza C.of Lemos. of Ferreira. telsoiGelues Varagua, odemira. 
 
 17. 
 
 JOHN 
 IV. King of 
 Portugal. 
 
 PETER 
 II. C.of 
 Lemos. 
 
 FRAN- NUGNO II. 
 CIS D.of Marquefs of 
 Taurijano. Ferreira, and 
 
 18. ALPHONSO VI. FRANCIS Duke D,of Cadaval, 
 King of Portugal. of Taurijano , 
 
 PEDRO S A N- 
 NUGNO C EO III. 
 Columb.D. Count of 
 of Veragua. odemira. 
 
I 
 
 Teats of 
 CUR 1ST' 
 
 DUKES OF 
 
 BRAGANZA , and BARCELLOS: 
 
 ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL.’ 
 
 firjl Dnkg c/BRA GAN Z A , and Count 
 of BARCELLOS. 
 
 H E Houfe of Braganza deriveth its Original ftotn the — - - 
 
 Royal Family of Portugal , and enjoyed more fair afid am- gal-bra- 
 ple Priviledges in this Kingdom, than any other. For ganza. 
 thofe of this Honfe might juftly have like Officers, and vargm la 
 wear the fame Armes as the Kings do. They had their f* m " r dc 
 Life-guard , and likewife Heraulds and Kings of Armes, dlcH^Efiur- 
 and Power to confer Military Orders. T hey alfo held the firft place and f°* ! de P°rtu- 
 degree of honour among the Illuftrious Houfesof this Kingdom , as well S 1 '? m m , 
 becaufeof their High Extra&ion, the Marriages they have made with 
 feveral Kings, and Princes of the Blood-Royal , as alfo by reafon of the bms d “ fi“~- 
 Rich Seigneuries they have poflefted for this Two hundred years. From 
 the Chief or Source of the Houfe, which was this ALPHONSO firft 
 Duke of Braganza , and Natural Son of King fohn firft of the name, are 
 defeended feveral Branches of Dukes, Marqueffes, Counts, and other Per- 
 fbns of Quality , which have fpread not only in Portugal , and Camille , but 
 alfo in Italy, and more particularly in the Kingdom of Naples fome of which 
 have left the firname of Portugal , and taken the names of thofe Illuftrious 
 Houfes into which they have matched; which we find often pradifed in 
 Spain. 
 
 ALPHONSO was firft dignified with the titleand quality of Count L -* : . 1 
 of Barcellos , in the right of his firft Wife BEATRICE PEREIRA, 
 file was daughter and heir of Nugno Alvarez Pereira , fecond Conftable 
 of Portugal , Count of Arrajalos , Barcellos , and Ourem. As for the MarimA 
 Dutchy of Braganza , he was inverted therein by' the Inlant Peter of Portugal , 
 
 Duke of Conimbra his Brother ; at what time he was Regent of Portugal , 
 during the minority of King Alphon\o V. their Nephew, in the Year, One 
 7 44 c thousand four hundred forty and two. Sometime after the fame King Alphon- 
 fo gave him the Seigneury of Vtmarana. 
 
 For his fecond Wife he efpoufed CONSTANCE OF N Of 
 ROGNA, daughter of Alphonfo of CafiilLe Count of Gijon , and of the 
 
 A a a 2 Comv- 
 
2 Dulses of BRAGANZ Aj 
 
 . _ ~ Ycirs q p 
 
 Countefs ifabel of Portugal. But from this fecond Marriage there came no Christ, 
 Children. 
 
 Mariana Lib • ALPHONSO is charged (by Hiftorians) with extream ingrati- 
 
 ti. c u p. 7 . tude towards his Brother and Benefador the Duke of Conimbra , and to have 
 been of the number of thole that incited King Alphonfo to purine him with 
 Armer, unto the death, as we have informed you before. 
 
 ALPHONSO dyed in the Year, Oni thousand four hundred three- His Death 
 / core undone, and was inhumed in the great Church at Chuttes. 1461, 
 
 Children of ALPHONSO Dufy of BR.A- 
 G a N Z A , and ofB E A TR I C E PE- 
 R E i R A \m first Wife. 
 
 11. ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL, Count of OUR EM, 
 and M.irquiTs of VALENCE, gave original to the Counts of Vimiofo, 
 whole Genealogy flia'l be deduced in its proper place. 
 
 it. FERDINAND OF PO R TUG AL , Duke of Braganza 
 
 after his Father, continued the Pofteriry. 
 
 11. ISABEL OF PORTUGAL or Braganza , Efpoufed to 
 JOHN OF PORTUGAL, a younger Son of King ff-ohn the firft 
 her Grand-father. 
 
 it. FERDINAND l.oftb e name > Duhi 
 
 of B RAG AN Z A, Count of A RRAYAL OS, 
 and Mat quefj of V l L L A- V I C I O S A. 
 
 H E was fecond Son of Alphonfct of Portugal firft Duke of Braganza, 
 and of Beatrice Pereira his firft Wife, and fucceeded him in the 
 Dutchy. He was alfo Count of Array Jos, and Marquefs of Faience, by 
 thegiftof Alphonfo V. .and Goveroourof theCity of Septein Affrick. ’His 
 Wife J A N E DE CASTRO, was daughter and heir of fohn de 
 C a fro Seigneur of CadavJ, and of Leonor oi Acugnahis Wife. He recei- 
 ved the Honour of Burial in the Church of St. Auguftin at Fida-vidofa aa 
 Abbey which he had founded in that Seigneury. 
 
 Children of f E R D ! N A N D L of the name ] 
 DhC of BRAGANZA. 
 
 12. FERDINAN D II. Duke of Braganza , whofe Story folio weth 
 in the next Page. 
 
 12, TOHN OF BRAGANZA, Marquefs of extent- major , wds 
 Conftable of the Kingdomof Portugal ; but having a hand in the Gonfpira- 
 cy againftKing fohnll. forged by the Duke 0 iBraganza his elderBrother,he 
 
 fled 
 
 # 
 
and Counts of BARCELL O S. 3 
 
 Chkist flEc j lnt ° the Kingdom of Caflille, where he dyed, without leaving any iffue 
 c “ by his Wife ISABEL OF NOROGNA, daughter of Peter de No- 
 regno,, Arch-bifliop of Lisbonne . 
 
 12. A L VARO OF PORTUGAL, hath given original to the 
 Branch of the Marqueffes of F E R R E I R A , which (hall be fpoken of 
 in their place. 
 
 12 
 
 12 . 
 
 12 . 
 
 12 
 
 ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL, Count off ARo, 
 from whom the Counts of M I R A are iffued 5 as you may fee hereafter. 
 
 KATHERINE OF PORTUGAL dyed, having been affi- 
 anced to JOHN CO UT IN HO Count of Marialva. 
 
 BEATRICE OF PORTUGAL, WifetoPETER DE 
 M E N E S E S Marquefs of Fille-real. 
 
 GUIOMARE DE C ASTRO, efpoufed to HENRY DE 
 MENESES Count of Loulle, 
 
 12. FERDINAND II. of the name , Duf\e 
 of BR.AGANZ.Aj and V IMARANA. 
 
 A Mong the Children of Ferdinand firftofthe name Duke of Bng/in- 
 ~ a > and of pane de Cajlre his Wife, this was the eldeft. In the life- 
 time of his Father he was eftabliffied Count of Vimarana by the gift of Kin°- 
 Alphonfo v. And upon the point of his Marriage to his fecond Wife I S A- 
 BELOF PORTUGAL, daughter of the Infant Ferdinand of Por- 
 tugal, he was created Duke of the fame place of rimamna. 
 
 The rigorous ufage of this Prince, and of other Grandees of the King- 
 1 dom , by the Officers of King pohn II. gave ground to his unhappy Con- 
 fpiracies againft the State, which Treafon was thus difcovered. For when 
 FERDINAND caufed fearch to be made in his Evidences for certain 
 Charters and Priviledges, to get them confirmed , his Secretary found the 
 Letters of Intelligence and Confpiracy, betwixt the Duke his Mafter, and 
 the Kings of Cafhlle „ to the prejudice of the King his Soveraign ; into 
 whole hands the Secretary delivered them , in the Hope of a Recompence.. 
 For fome time the King diftembled the difcovery , and favourably received 
 the Duke into his Court butoneday, having called him afide, hecharg- 
 ed him with his fault , Which the Duke would not confefs , but on the con- 
 trary protefted his right intention and fidelity to his fervice ; But not cea- 
 fing to continue his Treafons , the King refolved to bring him to a Tryal ; 
 where being convidted, and condemned to lofe his life , he was beheaded at 
 fiisDeath. Evora, the One and twentieth day of fnne, in the Year, One thoufnd four 
 MN hundred fourfcore arid three, and his Goods were Confifcated. TheDu'tch- 
 efs ISABEL his Widow the Queens Sifter, lent her three Children in- 
 to Caflille, where they were favourably received by the Queen their Aunt. 
 T he Body of the Duke was inhumed in the Church of St. Dominique of the 
 fame City of Evora, and afterwards removed to the Convent of S t.Auguftine 
 at FilU-viciofa, BbB The 
 
 PORTU- 
 
 gal-bra- 
 
 GANCE. 
 
 Mariana Lit „ 
 24, Cop . 131* 
 
 % 
 
4 Dukes o/BRAGaNZA; 
 
 The firft Wife of this Duke Ferdinand was LEOb^OR DE 
 ME'NESES, daughter of Peter de Menefes firft Count of FfHe-real , Cn *- l ' ,r 
 others fay of Urana , and of Margaret of Miranda his Wife 5 by her he had 
 no Children ; but he left iffue by his fecond Wife before mentioned. 
 
 Children of FERDINAND II. Dithg of BRA, 
 GANZA, and of ISABEL OF POR- 
 TUGAL , his jecondlVife. 
 
 jf. JAMES Duke of BRAG AN Z A, continued the Pofterity. 
 
 13. PHILIP OF BRAGANZA, was fent into Caslille by his 
 Mother, when that fetal ftroke fell upon his Father, and there dyed without 
 iUiae. Some believe him to be the eldeft Son. 
 
 13 . DIONYSIO OF PORTUGAL, or BRAGANZA, 
 efpoufed the Countefs of Lemos , and in her right was Earl thereof, as we 
 fhall inform you in the Dedudiion of his branch. 
 
 13. MARGARET dyed, not having been married. 
 
 13. JAMES OF PORTUGAL,. Dm{c 
 
 of BRAGANZA, and Count o/BARCELLOS. 
 
 forth- T T U was eldeft Son of Ferdinand II. Duke of Braganza, and of I fa - 
 gal-bra- 11 bel of Portugal his fecond Wife, and was reftored to all his Eftates 1593. 
 gancE. Honours, and Lordihips, by King Emanuel his Uncle by the Mothers fide’ 
 
 Mariana. immediately after he came to the Crown of Portugal. He made him Gene- 
 ral of a Fleet, which he fent for Africa^ .4°, One thoufand five hundred and 
 VtfcmtttiM. thirteen , where he reduced the City of Azamor , which having been tribu- I5I3 ‘ 
 tary to the King of Portugal , had thrown off their Yoke; Itwasfacqued 
 and pillaged by the Portuguefes , which ftroke fo great a terrour into the Infi- 
 dels, that they abandoned to the Chriftians the Towns of Tite,Almedina } and 
 other neighbouring places. 
 
 vtTd^R 11 ^ 6 JAM US efpoufed two Wives ; his firft was LEO- His Srff 
 E MENDOZA, daughter of tfohn de Gutman Duke of iWanu & 2 *' 
 Medina- Sidonia , and of I [abet de Vela[co his Wife. 
 
 Secondly , He married JANE DE MENDOZA, daughter His 
 of Diego de Mendoza Grand Alcaide of the City of Mouron , and of Eea- Marl ia S e - 
 trice Suarez his Wife. 
 
 Children of JAMES Duke of BRAGANZA, byL FO- 
 NOR MENDOZA his firft Wife. 
 
 J 4 - THEODOSIUS OF 
 
 Duke of Braganza^ad iffue. 
 
 PORTUGAL, fiift of the name, 
 
 I S A- 
 
years of W cf BARCELLOS. j 
 
 I S AJB EL OF PORTUGAL, was conjoyned in Marriage 
 '' with the Infant ED W AR D OF PORTUGAL, youngeft Son 
 of King Emanuel , who , among other Children , had Edward oi Portugal 
 Duke of Vimarana , that dyed without iffue. 
 
 Children of JAMES Duke p/BRAGANZA , and of 
 JANE DE MENDOZA his fecond Wife. 
 
 M. JAMES OF PORTUGAL, dyed without iffue. 
 
 14. CONSTANTINE OF PORT UG A L, was Great Cham- 
 berlain to King fohn III. And by him fent Embaffadour into France, A" 
 U 4 9 . One thou fund five hundred forty and nine , where he flood as his Proxy at 
 the Baptizing of Lewis of France Duke of Orleans , fecond Son of King 
 Henry II. He was alfo honoured with the Dignity of Vice- roy of the In- 
 H;s Mam- jj u ; anc { e fp 0u f ec j MARY DE MENESES, daughter of Rode- 
 rick de Mello firftMarquefsof Ferreira, and of Beatrice de Menefes his fe- 
 cond Wife , by whom he had no Children. He dyed in the City of Efire- 
 mos, and was interred in the Church de las Hagas at Villa-viciofa. 
 
 14. FULGENCE OF PORTUGAL, Prior of vimarana, had 
 iffue thefe Natural Children. 
 
 15. FRANCIS OF BRAG ANZA ,' Canon at Evora', 
 Commiffaryof the Croiffade of Portugal ; and of the Councel 
 of Portugal , refiding in the Court of the Catholique King at 
 Madrid. 
 
 1 5. AN GE L LIC A, Abbefs of Villa-viciofa. 
 
 14. THEOTON OF PORTUGAL , Archbiihop of Event, 
 was a Prelate of great Virtue. He dyed at Validolit^ in the Year, One thou- 
 sand fix hundred and two , and his body was interred in the Monaftery of St. 
 Anthony at Evora. 
 
 14. JANE OF PORTUGAL, Wife of BE R N AR D I N 
 DE CARDENAS, Marquefs of Elche. 
 
 14. EUGENIA OF PORTUGAL, efpoufedto FRANCIS 
 D E MELLO, Marquefs of Ferreira , her Cofin. 
 
 I4> MARY and VlNCENDA, the one Abbefs , the other a Nun 
 
 at Villa-viciofa, 
 
 Bbb 2 
 
 14.THEO- 
 
Dukes of BRAGANZA 
 
 Year s 
 Ch k i 
 
 14. THEODOSIUS OF PORTUGAL, 
 
 firft of the name , Dub of BRAGANZA, 
 and BARCE LLOS. 
 
 J Amts Duke of Bragan&t, and Leon or de Mendoza , were father and mo- 
 ther of this Duke THEODOSIUS. The King of Portugal, Job 
 III. created him the firft Duke of Barcellos , a Title which hath ever fince 
 been affixed to the eldeft Sons of this Royal Houfe of Braoanza 
 
 His firft Wife ISABEL DE CASTRO his Cofin , was 
 daughter of Dionyfm of Braganza Count of Lems, and of Beatrice de Ca- 
 (ho his Wife. 
 
 ‘ His fecond was BEATRICE DE LANCASTRO, ano- 
 ther of his Cofins , daughter of Levois de Laaicajlro , and of Mapdalcnc de 
 Granada his Wife. 
 
 
 Children 0/ THEODOSIUS Duke of B R AG A NZ A, 
 ^ISABEL DE CASTRO /aw fir& Wife. 
 
 1 J. - JOHN OF PORTUGAL, Duke of BraganzaMcceeded his 
 father in the Dutchy, 
 
 IS. 
 
 IS. 
 
 Children c/ THEODOSIUS I. Dufie of BRAG A N- 
 Z A, and BEATRICE DE. LANCAS- 
 TRO /aw fecond Wife. 
 
 JAMES Of PO RTU GAL having accompanied Schaftian 
 King of Portugal at the fecond Voyage of Africa againft the Moors, was at 
 the fatal Battel of Alcacer, where they were both {lain, the Fourth day of 
 Anguft, intheYear, One thonfand five hundred tbreefcore and eighteen, with- isvS 
 out having been married. 6 3/ ‘ 
 
 ISABEL OF PORTUGAL , was efpoufed unto MICH A 
 EL J>E MEnESES, firft Dukeof Canigna, andMarquefsof rii- 
 
 >5. JOHN 
 
Years of 
 Chr-ist: 
 
 mi BARCELL OS. 
 
 7 
 
 15 * JOHN OF PORTUGAL, fflof 
 
 the name , Duke cf BRAGANZA and B ARCE L- * 
 L 0 S' , Confiable of P ORTZJ G A L, and Knight 
 of theG OLDEN FLEECE. 
 
 1578- 
 
 mini; 
 
 '«sc. 
 
 T His Duke was eldeft Son of Thcodofius firft of the name, Duke of 
 Braganza , by ifahelde Caftro his firft Wife. At the time of the 
 Ceremony ( performed in Portugal in the Month of Augufl , one thoufand 
 jive hundred threejeore and eighteen) of the Recognition , and Oath of Alle- 
 giance, taken by the Portugueffes to Cardinal Henry in the Quality of King 
 this fame Duke of Braganza held the firft place, going before him, and car- 
 rying the Sword as Conftable. 
 
 During the life of this King, who was much in years , JOHN Duke 
 o, Braganza , was one of thole Princes which were Competitors for the 
 Crown of Portugal in the right of KATHERINE OF PORTU- 
 GAL his Wife, daughter of the Infant Edward, Son of Emanuel King 
 of Portugal ; In her lay the only right of Succelfion ( page 68. ) warranted 
 by the Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom (page 6 . ) fo that from hence- 
 forward the Dukes of Braganza did juftly wear the Royal Armes of Portu- 
 gal without diltinftion, the dire A Male line being extinguilhed , and the 
 Kingdom falling to the Collateral of the Dukes of Braganza in the right of 
 this Katherine. 
 
 portu- 
 gal-bra.' 
 gance. ' 
 
 D y argent an 
 fautoir de 
 gneulles charge 
 de cinq Efatf- 
 font de Poccu-i" 
 gal, unaume - 
 lie & les an- 
 tres an quntre 
 bouts du fan* 
 toir. 
 
 Chargee fur 
 le tout d'm 
 Efcu de 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 And becaufethat this Duke JOHN was the prime Grandee of the 
 Kingdom , and his Tenants the moll Warlike ; and moreover confiding in 
 the good-will which King Henry did bear him , he thought himfelf half in 
 poffelfion of the Effiate : But in Fine , he was forced to give place to King 
 Philip ll. whofebeft Title lay in the ftrength of a formidable Army with 
 which he fubdued Portugal, as you have heard before; who being come to 
 the Crown, continued him in his Eftates, gave him the Demonftrations of 
 a high favour, atid alfociated him into the Order of the Knights of the Gol- 
 1481. den Fleece , in the Year, One thoufand five hundred four [core and one. 
 
 He lived not long after, for he left this World in the Year, One thoufand 
 HhDeath. five hundred four fore and two, and was inhumed in the Church of St. c^«- 
 l$° 2 . gujlin of Villa-viciofa, with his Predecefiors. 
 
 Children of J O H N I. Duke of BRJGANZA , and of 
 KATHERINE OF PORTUGAL, his Wife. 
 
 i 6 i THEODOSIUS Of PO RTUG AL, fecofldof thenamc, 
 Duke of Braganza, mentioned in the Chapter following. 
 
 16. EDWARD OF PORTUGAL, Marquefs of Flechillaj 
 vvhofe Pedegree is deduced next after this of Braganza. 
 
 i 6 ' ALEXANDER OF PORTUGAL, was Arch-bilhopof 
 * Evora, and Inquifitor General of the Faith in Portugal. 
 
 Gcc PHI-' 
 
 * 
 
8 Dukes of BRAG A NZA j ' 
 
 x g' PHILIP OF PORTUGAL, fourth Son, dyed young. 
 
 l6m MARY OF PORTUGAL 
 ’ married. 
 
 dyed without having been 
 
 16, SERAPHINE OF PORTUGAL, efpoufed unto JOHN- 
 FERNANDEZ PACHECO , Duke of Afcdlona, and Mar- 
 quels of Vtllena. 
 
 PORTUGAL' 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 D* argent a 
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 d'Azur e peris 
 m Croix tba- 
 chit charge de 
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 auffi cl’ argent 
 poft\ en fau- 
 toir 5 a labor- 
 dure de gucullcs 
 charge de fept 
 Cbafieaux (For. 
 
 Party de 
 VELASCO. 
 
 Coneflaggio, 
 
 16. THEODOSIUS OF POR.TU- 
 
 GAL, II. of the name , Duke of BRAG A N- 
 Z A and Barcellos , and Conjlable 
 cf Portugal. 
 
 T His Prince, eldeft Son of Duke -John by the Dutchefs Katherine of 
 Portugal his Wife , was not part Nine or Ten years old , when, ha- 
 ving the Title of Duke of Barcellos, he accompanied King Seballtan his 
 Cofin, m the fecond Voyage he undertook into Affrica againfl: the Moors 
 where he was by them made Prifoner at the Bartel of Alcacer. The Cherif 
 Muley-Hamet King of Morocco, kept him in durance until that Philip n 
 King of Spain , obtained his liberty ^ who having paffed' the straits to re- 
 turn into Portugal, was detained at St. Lucar by the Duke of Medina-Sido- 
 nia, upon the news of the Death of Henry King of Portugal , conceivin'* h 
 would be a matter of importance to the Catholick King his Matter, to keep 
 this Prince in durance, as being Son of the principal Pretendants to rhe 
 Kingdom: whereupon the Duke of Barcellos wrote a Letter to his Father 
 the Duke of Braganza , that he mult not then exped him , and that his 
 detention fliould not any way prejudice the rights of the Realm , preferring 
 Juftice before his own life. T his Letter being come into Portugal , was bv 
 the Duke his Father fent unto the Aflembly of Eftates at Aims an, ihewine 
 on the one fide the grief for the detainment of this his dear Son ; and on 
 theotherfide, the contentment he received , that in fo tender years ’ he 
 was fogreat a Lover of the good of his Countrey, chat he offered if there 
 wereoccafion* to facrifice his Life for the Service of the State. ^But im- 
 mediately this fear of the Duky of Braganza his Father ceafed, for the Kin ff 
 of Spam commanded that he fhould. have free liberty to depart; which he 
 did as wdro avoid the indignation of the Port ugufos , as to make a friend 
 of the Duke of Braganza. 
 
 Not long after THEODOSIUS fucceeded the Duke his Father, 
 undlhll continued the demonftranon of, his Magnanimity for when thac 
 tlie Catholick King Philip UT. and fecond of the name King of Portugal 
 made his lolemn Entry mto the City of Lisbonne: who willing to fhr.V 
 VAcomUms. now much he affeded him above all the other Grandees of this Kingdom 
 and defirous to make him a participant of his Royal Favours , promifed that 
 
 fS Sh i ‘? Wha,f ?' teI To which ,L DokeS 
 
 i , : T , ,^ c Km S s of Portugal his Predeceflbrs , which were alfohis 
 
 Ma/efties; hadfoolten, and fo freely conferred their Benefits upon his' 
 
 ' Houfe, 
 
 Years <" c „ 
 Christ. 
 
 157s. 
 
and BARCELL OS. p 
 
 Cbm st. Loufe, that there was not any thing remained that he could demand; and 
 if there were, acknowledged to have received a fignal Favour from his Ma- 
 jefty if he would vouchfafe to honour and embrace his Subjects of Portu- 
 gal with a fatherly affe&ion, but more efpecially the Grandees of the 
 Kingdom. 
 
 T his Duke THEODOSIUS, who was feventh Duke of Bragan- 
 z>a , and twelfth Conft able of Portugal , efpoul'ed ANNE D E VE- 
 LASCO, daughter of the Conft able of Cafiille fohn-Fernande\ dt Vc- 
 iafco , and of the Dutchefsof Frias, Mary dt Giron his firft Wife, 
 
 Children of THEODOSIUS II. Duke of BRAGA N- 
 Z A, by ANNE DE VELASCO his Wife. 
 
 17. T O H N II. of the name, eighth Duke of B R A G A N Z A,crown- 
 cd King of Portugal by the name of fohn IV. and had ilfue Alphonfo VI. 
 King of Portugal, now Reigning, 1662. of whofe Hiftories and Iffue,you 
 may read in the Firft Book, 
 
 17, EDWARD QF PORTUGAL, born the One and thir- 
 tieth day of March , in the Year of our Salvation , One thousand fix hun- 
 dred^ and five , who coming unto Mans eftate, had ferved the Emperour iti 
 his Wa's with much gallantry, and no lefs fuccefs , long before his Brother 
 Duke tfobn had any thoughts of a Crown ; nor did he (hew any endeavours 
 to defert the Emperours fervice, after the news arrived of the Revolt of 
 Portugal , butfeemed refolved td continue there , till he was betrayed by 
 Francifcode Mcllo a Portugal, at that time Ambalfador to the Catholique 
 King in the Emperial Court. 
 
 This Juiello notwithftanding he was bound by many ftrong Obligations 
 to the Houfe of Braganta , yet like an ungrateful Villain , having oppor- 
 tunity offered , now refolved to build his fortunes upon their ruine, or. a? 
 leaft difpleafure , he therefore earneftly follicited the Emperour to feize up- 
 on the perfon of Don Duarte , arid deliver him up to the King of Spain , al- 
 ledging of what great concernment the fecuring of his perfon would be to 
 the Catholique King ; that it much behoved his Imperial Majefty to fliew 
 his affedtion to his brother the Catholique King in this particular, which 
 would not only prove of Iritereft to Spain , but the whole houfe of Aufiria : 
 That this Prince was the only Prop of the Houfe of Braganta-, and this was 
 the only means which God had left in the hands of the Houfe of Aufiria to 
 recover the Kingdom of, Portugal ; that it would be a great errour both iri 
 prudence and policy to let flip fofair.anoccafion , for that ifhe fliould fcape 
 out of their hands, and get to the afliftance of his brother, both his perfon- 
 al valour and experience in Warlike affairs , would very milch infeft the Ca- 
 1 tholique King. 
 
 The Emperour was riot only riot perfwaded by this Difcourfe of Medo’s, 
 but extreamly offended at it , returning him in aniwfer , That he did abhbrre 
 and deteft fo great a breach of publick faith , arid violation of all Laws of 
 Hofpitahty; that it would be both againft the liberty of the Etnpire, arid 
 againfi his own Honour , to imprifon a Prince who had committed no fault 
 ■to the Empire , but father had laid innumerable Obligations both upon it, 
 and himfelf. 
 
 C c c 2 Nof 
 
i o Dukes of BRAGA NZA, 
 
 Nor was the deteftation of the Arch-duke Leofold to-an adtfo foul and 
 fhameful, lefs than that of his brothers the Emperour ; notwithftandingali 
 which. Mellow as not at all difeouraged , but ftill profecuted his villaaouS 
 tiefign, by corrupting wich great funis of money the Count of Tratfman- 
 dorf, and feveral other Penfioners of the Crown of Spain ; but they were 
 foon weary of fo bafe and fhameful an employment ; which made Mello think 
 of a more cunning Artifice , which was to perfwade the Emperour to hear- 
 ken to the allurements of one Diego di Qjfircga , who of a Souldier was 
 turned Monk, and was now Confeffor to the Emprefs : This Father who 
 had often been called to give his judgement in Affairs of State, endeavored 
 by all means poflible to perfwade the Emperour that he might not only with 
 a good confcience fecure the Infante, but that according to the beft Rules 
 of Interefi of State, he ought to do it. 
 
 His Imperial Majefty notwithftandingali thefe perfwafions, was very 
 much unfatisfied in the aftion , and once fully refolved not to do ic 5 but at 
 length overcome by Mello’ % importunities , and the Ghoftly perfwafions of 
 fduiroga , he was as it were conftrained to alter his refolution , and to give 
 order to Don Lewis Gon\aga , to go to the Princes quarters at Leipen , and 
 fummon him to Ratisbone. 
 
 In the mean time to endeavor to prevent all ill impreffions , which an a- 
 ftion fo hainoufly wicked, might ftrike into all bofoms that had either ho- 
 nor or honefty ; it was given out abroad , that the Infante Don Edward was 
 fecretly fled for fome mifdemeanor from Leipen , (when he confident of 
 hisowninnocency, was in his journey to Ratisbone , according to the fom- 
 mons) and thereupon propofal made of Sixteen thoufand Crowns , as a re- 
 ward to any man could bring him either dead or alive fo that the Prince be- 
 ing ignorant of any fuch thing, very hardly efcaped their hands, who out of Vit rJ 
 hopes of the money, had gone in fearch of him ; but miffing them, he came wit 
 to Ratisbone-, where he was no fooner received, but without any reafon gi- ' mo tl,e 
 ven, he was caft into a Common Goal , and all his Servants imprifoned.° GoT™ 
 
 Don Francifco de Mello having thus far brought his defires to effe<ft,ftop- Rdtisberie. 
 ped not here, but afrefh follicited the Emperour,that the Prince might be de- 
 livered into the Spaniards hands, and fent prifoner to Millain : but inftead of 
 affenting to this, he fends a Meffenger to the Infante, affuring him upon his 
 word, that he would not deliver him into the hands of the Spaniards , but 
 would fpeedily procure his liberty and infranchifement. 
 
 Y et notwithftanding thefe fair promifes of the Emperours, DonEdward ' s 
 ill ufage in prifon daily and hourly increafed, nor could he by any means 
 poflible gee audience of the Emperour , not without reafon, for. No 
 face is more terrible to the offendor , than the face offended ; which made 
 the Prince make his proteftation , calling God and man to witnefs of the in- 
 jury done him by the Emperour , to whom he was ifeither fubjedt by Obli- 
 gation, nor Birth; that when his brother was made King of Portugal, he 
 was in the Emperours fervice, and wholly ignorant of any defign of his bro- 
 thers; that if the King of Spain were offended, he Ihould revenge himfelf . 
 upon the perfon offending; that that bufinefs no way concerned the Empe- 
 rour, &c. r 
 
 All thefe Allegations the Emperour confeffed to be true, by a Meffenger 
 lent tothelnfante in prifon, again affuring him that he would not deliver 
 him up to his enemies, but that he could not releafe him for fome reafon of 
 State, which made Don Francifco de Sofa Contigno , Ambafladour extra- 
 ordinary from Portugal to the King of S tveden , in the name of the King his 
 
 Mafter, 
 
T 
 
 and BARCELL OS.' h 
 
 c«wst. reprefentat large to the Diet at Ratisbont , the whole proceedings, 
 
 requiring Juftice and Liberty for the Infante : But itis in vain to plead againft 
 Intereft, all the Manifefto’s , Proteftations, Petitions, and Interceflions 
 made, produced no other eifed than the removal of the Infante from place 
 to place, that ftill as he was the farther off, he might have the harder ttfage. 
 
 But hitherto the Emperour feemed immoveable in his refolution of not 
 delivering up thelulante into the hands of the Spaniards , till tempted with 
 what made facits betray his Mafter, and our bleffed Saviour to death, Mo- 
 nsy ; he confented to the breach of his refolvc , lor upon the promife of 
 Forty thoufand Crowns ( contrary to the immunitiesof the Empire, to the 
 Priviledges of Free Princes , to the Law of Nations, and to his Word and 
 Promire fo often reiterated) he confented that that Noble and Innocent 
 Prince Ihould be fent whither the Catholique Kingihould think fit; fo a- 
 way he was hurried towards the Caftle oi Miilain, there to remain a prifoner. 
 By the way as heentred into the Spaniih Territories, he was received by 
 the Count de Sirnela Governouroi that Dukedom, where the Emperours 
 Commiflary took leave to return, to whom D. Edward openly faid. Tell 
 thy Majier , that I am more ferry I have ferved fo unworthy a Prince, than 
 to fee my felf fold a Prifoner into the hands of my enemies 5 hut the juft 
 fudge of the world will one day fuffer the like dealing towards his children , 
 who are no more priviledged for being of the houfe of Auftria , than my felf 
 that am of the Blood- Royal of Portugal, Pojlerity will judge of him and me. 
 
 T he Emperoar had given inftrudion to thofe that Convoyed the Infante, 
 that in cafe their prifoner made an attempt to eicape , they ihould kill him 
 upon the place : being arrived in Miilain he was clapt in the Common gate 
 with all the Rogues and Banditty , having a Guard lodged with him in his 
 Chamber, forude, that they would fcarce admit him to take his reft; in 
 HisDtsth. which Prifon he moft miferably dyed, upon the Third day of September , in 
 164 9, the Year of our Lord, one thoufand fix hundred forty and nine. 
 
 Thus was this generous, but unfortunate Prince rewarded , for having 
 left his Countrey, Kindred, Friends, Intereft ; for having at his own proper 
 coft and charges, ferved the Empire Eight years , for having alwayes , and 
 upon all occaiions ventured his life with the moft daring, and yet expeding 
 no other pay but thanks, nor other recornpence but Honor. 
 
 King fohn was extreamly perplexed at this inhumane barbarifm ufed to 
 his Brother, which he vowed fully to revenge with Arms ; but he could 
 for the prefent do it no otherwife , than defenfi vely , by reafon of the con- 
 tinual inroads the Cafiillians made into Portugal. 
 
 i 7 . ALEXANDER OF PORTUG AL, third Son of 
 Theodofius II. Duke of Braganza, born the Sixth of April, in the Year, 
 One thoufand fix hundred and feven, and left this World the One and thir- 
 tieth of May, A° One thoufand fix hundred thirty and (even. 
 
 l 7 . KATHERINE OF PORTUGAL, only daughter of Thct-, 
 do ft us II. Duke of Braganza, came into this World, intheYear, One thou- 
 fand fix hundred and fix. She dyed an Infant. 
 
 Ddd 
 
 MAR: 
 
\i 
 
 Years of 
 C ““ I 
 
 MARQUESSES ofFLECHILLA, 
 
 And of 
 
 X AR ANDILLA. 
 
 1 6. EDWARD OF PORTUGAL, M»r- 
 queffe of FLECHlLLA. 
 
 S E was a younger fonne of John I. of the name, Duke of Br.t- 
 gxnja , and of the Princeffe Katherine of Portugal his wife , 
 and Obtained the honour to be a Grandee of S fain. His fir ft 
 wife BEATRICE DE T O LE D O and DE MON- 
 ROY Lady Marchioneffe of XarandiHa , Was daughter and 
 heir of John Alvarez, de Toledo, Count of Oropefa and Leitofa, and of the 
 Countefle Lovtfe Pimentel, 
 
 In fecond marriage EDWARD efpoufed GQIOMAR PAR- 
 D O Marchionefle of Magalon , daughter of Ares Pardo Lord of Magalon, 
 'and of Lovife de la Cerda, but had no iffue by his laft marriage. 
 
 Children of EDWARD of Portugal M arqueff of F L E- 
 CH1LL A, and of BE AT RlXDE TO. 
 
 LE DO his jirft wife. 
 
 1 7 . JOHN of PORTUGAL 
 
 l7 , FRANCIS of PORTUGAL^ 
 
 i 7 . FERDINAND ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO Marquefs 
 of X A R A N D 1 L LA, &c. continued the Line, 
 
 17. FERDINAND ALVAREZ DE 
 
 T O LEDO , Monroy and Ayala , Marquefjfe of 
 XarandiHa, and Count of Oropefa. 
 
 F J E was fecond fon of Edward of Portugal , Marquefs of Flechilla, and of 
 1 Beatrice de T oledo his' firft wife. He efpoufed MEN Cl A P I M E N- 
 T E L, the daughter of John- Alphonfo 'Pimentel Count of Benevent, by the 
 Countefs Mencia de Cuniga and Reqnefens. He deceafed in the flower of his 
 age, leaving by her two fonnes and adaughter. In the year, Onethoufand fix I( j r< - 
 hundred and nineteen, his Grandmother by the Mothers fide, in his favour 
 gave up her right and title to the County of oropefa. 
 
 0 
 
 Children 
 
Marqueffes of F L E C H I L L Aj &c. if 
 
 Vests ©t 
 CH**ST. 
 
 Children of FERDINAND ALVAREZ DETO- 
 LEDO, Count of Oropefa , dud cf MEN CIA 
 PIMENTEL his wife. 
 
 IS. JOHN DE TOLEDO died young. 
 
 18. EDWARD ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO, Couac of <W- 
 P e l a i and Viceroy of Navarre, married ANNE daughter of Hoiica fc 
 Cordova Count of Alcaudere. 
 
 18. MARIANA DE TOLEDO efpodfed to P E D R O FAX- 
 AR D O Marquefs do les yeles , and Molina. 
 
 COUNTS OF LEMOS, 
 
 AND 
 
 MARQUESSES OF SARRIA. 
 
 i 3 . d/onys/us of Portugal; 
 
 Count of LEMOS. 
 
 B E ter that the Duke of Braganza Ferdinand It. of that name, 
 his Father had been beheaded , the Dutchefs Tfahel his Wi- 
 dow, fent this Prince DIONYSIUS OF PORTU- 
 GAL, their third Son into Cafiille , where he eftablilhed his 
 Fortune. For the Queen of Ca/lille lfabel his Aunt, about 
 the Year, One thousand five hundred, procured his Marriage with a rich 
 Heir, whofename was BE AT RI C E DE CASTRO Countefs 
 HisMarri- 0 f LEMOS, daughter of Roderick do Ca/lro , and of Tere(a oforio his 
 rToo Wife , by whom he had a numerous I (Tue fire had among other things in 
 5 * Dower, the Lordihips pPSARRlA, Caflro, and Ottero , which had 
 
 been given by the Kings. Mariana miftakes in making this DIONY- 
 SIUS Son of fames of Braganza, contrary to the Evidences and Re- 
 cords of : this Houfe, which exactly prove their defcent. Their Children 
 took the name of C A S T R O, upon the account of their Mother, as is 
 ©bferved often in Spain. 
 
 Ddd 2 Children 
 
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 GAL!. E- 
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 14 Coh«ij' 0/" LEMOS, &cl 
 
 Vears tf 
 CHRIST; 
 
 Children of DIONYSIUS OF PORTU- 
 GAL, Count of LEMOS. 
 
 FERDINAND DE C ASTRO firft of the name, Counc 
 of L E M O S , and Marquefs of S A R R I A , continued the Pofterity. 
 
 ALPHONSO DE LANCASTRO, Grand Commander 
 of the Order of CbriB , had alfo iffue, mentioned in his place. 
 
 PETER DE CASTRO) Biihop of Cuenca. 
 
 LEONOR DE CASTRO, Wife of JAMES-SAR- 
 MIENTO DE MENDOZA, Count of Ribadauia, 
 
 ISABEL DE CASTR-O.firft Wifeof THEODOSIUS 
 OF PORTUGAL, firft of thename, Duke of BR AGANZ A 
 her Cofin. 
 
 ANTONIETTA DE LANCASTRO, married to 
 ALVARO COUTINHO, Marefcal of Portugal. 
 
 MENCIA DE LANCASTRO, firft Wife of R E N E 
 Count ofCHALANT in Savoye , who had iflue Elizabeth dt cha- 
 lant Wife of Frederick Madruce Count of Aue, and Arbe , and Lord of 
 Beaufremont. 
 
 TERESA DE CASTRO dyed before Marriage. 
 
 CONSTANCE DE C ASTRO, a Nun intheMonaftery 
 of our Lady at Lisbonne, 
 
 14. FERDINAND DE CASTRO, fount of 
 LEMOS, and Marquefs of S A R R I A. 
 
 T O Dion) ft us Count of Lems , and the Countefs Beatrix de Cafiro 
 his Wife, fucceeded this FERDINAND their eldeft Son, who 
 was fent Embafladour to Rome during the Pontificalty of Paul III. by the 
 Emperour Charles V. who created him Marquefs of S A R R I A , and the 
 King of Spain Philip II. alfo fent him Embafladour to the Court of Rome, 
 where he refided in the time of the Popes fulius III. and Paul IF. The 
 Princefs fane of Portugal, Mother of King Sebafliait , honoured him with 
 the Office of Steward of her Houlhold. 
 
 He efpoufed TERESA d’ANDRADA, daughter and heir of 
 Ferdinand d‘ Andrada Count of Vilalua and Andrada , and of Frances de 
 USoa and Zuniga his Wife. 
 
 Children 
 
Counts of LEMOSj &cl I j 
 
 Years of 
 Chmst. 
 
 Children of FERDINAND DE CASTRO Count of 
 LEMOS, and of TERESA d’ANDRA- 
 DA his Wife. 
 
 U- PETER-FERDINAND DE CASTRO; firft of that 
 name, Count of L E M O S , of whom we fhall fpeak hereafter. 
 
 ISABEL DE CASTRO, Wife of R O D ER IC K DE 
 M O S C O S O Count of Altamira. 
 
 15. PETER FERDINAND DE CASTRO 
 
 I. of the. name , Count of LEM OS, Andrada , 
 andVilalua , and Marquefs of Sarria . 
 
 1580, 
 
 H E was Son of Ferdinand de Caftro Count of Lemos , and of Ferefa 
 d’ Andrada , and ferved the King of Spain Philip ll. at the Conqueft 
 of the Kingdom of Portugal. 
 
 He was twife Married , firft toLEONOR DE LA CUE UA 
 daughter of Bertrand de la Cueua Duke of Albequerque, and of Ifahel Giron 
 his Wife. 
 
 Secondly, To TERESA DE BOB ADILLA & de LA 
 CERDA, daughter of Peter de Bobadilla Count of chinchon, and of Me- 
 rit ci a de la Cerda. 
 
 Children of PETER-FERDINAND DE CAS- 
 TRO Count o/LEMOS, and of LEONOR 
 DE La CUEUA bis firJlWife. 
 
 16. FERDINAND-RODERICK DE CASTRO Count 
 of L E M O S , whofe Story followeth in the next place, 
 
 1(5, BERTRAND DE CASTRO, was never married, buthad 
 ’ iffue three Natural Children. He ferved the King of Spain in Italy, the In- 
 dies, and Spain. 
 
 17. JOHN DE CASTRO dyed at Naples] 
 
 17. FRANCIS DE CASTRO. 
 
 17. BERTRAND DE CASTRO.' 
 
 16. TERESA DE CASTRO Wife to GARCI A-HUR* 
 TADO DE MENDOZA, Marquefs of Cagneta, 
 
 1 6 . ISABEL DE CASTRO dyedyoung, 
 
 E e e 
 
 
 PORTtt- 
 
 GAL-LE* 
 
 MOS. 
 
 Children 
 
Counts 0 /LEMOS, 
 
 Years of 
 Christ. 
 
 l<> 
 
 Children of P ETER-F E R DIN A N D D E CAS- 
 JR O Count cfLEMOS, and of FERES A 
 DE BOBADILLA hisfecond Wife. 
 
 16 PETER DE CASTRO, Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to 
 
 * Kins Philip HI. married HIERONIM A DE CORDOU , 
 Lady of Honour to Queen Margaret of eM ufiria , and daughter of Roderick 
 de Cordoua Lord of Talma, and of Menecia de Mendoza his Wife, from 
 
 which Marriage came no Children. 
 
 e RODERICK DE CASTRO Canon of Toledo , Arch-dea- 
 
 * con of Alcaraz, and Inquifitor, left three Natural Children; Viz. 
 
 17. FELIX 
 
 17. TERESA ^ DE CASTRO. 
 
 17. ANGELA & 
 
 16. ANDREW DE CASTRO never married , but left a Baftard 
 Son, named 
 
 17. RODERICK DE CASTRO. 
 
 1<5 . JAMES DE CASTRO. 
 
 Baftard^Children of P EFER-F ER DIN AN D DE 
 CASTRO Count of LEM OS. 
 
 16. ANTHONY a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict, Abbot of St,' 
 * Benet at Madrid, and General of his Order. 
 
 16. JOHN DE CASTRO, a Monk alfo of the fame Order, Arch- 
 bifhopof otrante , dyed, being ele&ed Bifcop of Cordoua. 
 
 16. FERVIN AN D.RO DERICK DE CAS - 
 TRO Count of LEM OS , and Viceroy of Naples. 
 
 port u- A Mongthe Children of Peter -Ter din and de Cafiro Count of Lemos , 
 gal-le- LI and of Ltonor de la Cueua his firft Wife , he was theeldeft. After 
 M o s. that King Philip III. was come to the Crown of Spain , he fent this Counc 
 his Embafladour to Rome to Pope Clement VIII. for to make tender of his 
 obedience , and to have a new inveftiture in the Kingdom of Naples, where 
 this fame Earl was alfo fent Viceroy, and where he deceafed in the Year, One 
 thousand fix hundred and one. 
 
 He 
 
Counts of LEM OS, &c. iy 
 
 Christ. He had to Wife K A T H E R I N E D E Z O N I G A DE S AN- 
 15 OV A L, who was daughter of Francis Roy as de Sandoval Marquefsof 
 Dexia, and of ifabel Borgia his Wife, which Katherine Countefs of Lems 
 was one of the principal Ladies of Honour to the Catholique Queen Mar- 
 garet, Wife of King Philip III. 
 
 Children of F E RD IN AN D-RO DERICK DE CAS - 
 TRO Count of LE MO S. 
 
 i 7 . PETER-FERDINAND DE CASTRO, fecondofthe 
 name, Counc of L E M O S, mentioned in the next place. 
 
 17. FRANCIS DE CASTRO Duke of Taurifana, of whom wc 
 lhall fpeak after his Elder Brother, continued the Pofterity. 
 
 1 7. FERDINAND DE CASTRO efpoufed LEO NOR 
 DE PORTUGAL, Countefs of Gelves , Daughter and Heir of 
 George of Portugal Count of Gelves , and of Bernardine de Vincenttlo his 
 Wife, in whofe right he was Count of Gelves. They had iffue one only 
 Child. 
 
 18. KATHERINE OF PORTUGAL, Counteffe of 
 
 Gelves. 
 
 17.' PEfER-FERDINAND DE CASTRO, 
 fecond of the name , Count of LEM OS and Andrada , 
 Marqnefs of Sarria , and Viceroy of Naples. 
 
 T HE King of Spain, Philip III. bellowed feveral Charges and Dig- 
 nities upon him ; for he not only honoured him with the Quality of 
 Gentleman of his Bed-Chamber, but alfo made him Prefident of the 
 Councel- Royal for the Indies, and Viceroy of Naples, in the Year, One 
 thousand fix hundred and ten : As alfo eftablilhed him Prefident of the 
 Councel of Italy. 
 
 His Wife, was KATHERINE DE SANDOVAL, his 
 Cofin-Germane, Daughter of Francis de Sandoval and Roy as, Duke of 
 Lerme, by the Dutchefs Katherine de la Cerda his Wife, by whom he had 
 not any Children, 
 
 E e e 2 
 
 i j.FRAN* 
 
Years of 
 
 Chmst. 
 
 ,g Counts of LEM OS, &c- 
 
 t ' 
 
 17. F RAN CIS PE CASTRO Duke of TAV* 
 R IS A NO, Count of Caflro, and Viceroy of 
 Naples and Sicilie. 
 
 H E was fecond Son of Ferdinand- Roderick de Caflro Count of Lems, by 
 Katherine de zttniga and fandoval his Wife ; and as his elder Brother, 
 was for his greatExperience, employed in important Affairs by the Catholics 
 King: For he not only eftablifhed him his Viceroy of Naples, after the 
 death of his elder Brother, but alfoof Sicily. Afterwards the fame King 
 fent him Embaffadour to the State of Venice, to endeavour a Reconciliation 
 betwixt that Republick 5 and Pope Paul Y . to whom FRANCIS DE 
 CASTRO was alfo fent Embaffadour in Ordinary. 
 
 He efpoufed LUCRECE GAT INARA LEGN AN A, 
 Countefs de Capo in the Kingdom of Naples, only Daughter of Alex an- 
 der Catinara, Fifth Count of Caflro , and of Victoria Caracciol his Wife. 
 
 Children of FRANCIS DE CASTRO, Duke 
 ofTAVRISANO , 
 
 jg FERDINAND DE CASTRO Duke of Taurifano , &c, 
 ’ continued the defeent. 
 
 l8> ALEXANDER DE CASTRO. 
 
 18 FRANCIS DE CASTRO. 
 
 12 KATHERINEand VICTORIA DE CASTRO. 
 
 l8# CLARA-MARIA DE CASTRO a Nun. 
 
 l8 ELISEandMARIA DE CASTRO. 
 
 18. FERDINAND DE CASTRO Duke of 
 T AV R IS AN 0 , fount of Caflro and Lemos. 
 
 H E was eldeft Son of Francis de Caflro Duke of Taurifano, and of Lu- 
 crece Gatinara Le^nana his Wife. 
 
 His Wife was ANTONIA DE GIRON, the daughter of 
 Peter Giron Duke of ojfuna, and Marquefs of Peg-oaf el. 
 
 Children of FERDINAND DE CASTRO Duke of 
 TAVRISANO , Count of Caflro and Lemos. 
 
 j 9, PETER DE CASTRO Count of Antrada. 
 
 14. ALPHON- 
 
Counts o/LE M O Sj &c. ip 
 
 Years of 
 
 Christ. 
 
 14. ALPHONSO DE L ANC ASTRO. 
 
 D lon-ffms of Braganza, or of PortWal, and Beatrix de Capo Coun- 
 tefs of Lemos , had feveral Children, among whom, this AL~ 
 PHONS O was the fecond, honoured with the Dignity of great 
 Matter of the Military Order of Chrifl in Portugal , and grand Alcaide of 
 Ovidos. King fohn III. fent him Embafladour to Rome unto the Popes 
 Julius III. and Paul IF. Afterwards he was alfo fent into France toKing 
 Charles IX. during the Minority of King Sebaflian in the beginning of his 
 Reign. 1 he fame ALPHONSO was interred in the Monaftery of 
 the Carmelites of Lisbon. His Wife, HIERONIMA DE NO- 
 R O G N A , was Daughter of fames de Norogna , great Matter of the 
 Order of Chrift, and of Philippa Attaida his Wife; he had by her one Son 
 and a Daughter, which were 
 
 iy . DIONYSIUS DE L A N C A S T R O mentioned here- 
 after. 
 
 i 5 . PHILIPPA DE LANCASTRO, Wife to MICH A E L 
 DE MENESES Marquefs of Villa-real. 
 
 15. Diohirsivs DE. LANCASTRO. 
 
 H E was, as his father Alphonfo, grand Matter of the Order of Chrifl, 
 and by the King of Portugal, Sebaflian, alfo fent into France to King 
 * 5 7 2 • ‘Charles IX. about the Year, onethoufand fine hundred threefcore and twelve* 
 then into Spain to King Philip //. He was alfo nominated by the fame 
 King Sebaflian , his Embafladour for Rome, to be fent to Pope Gregory xill. 
 But upon the death of this King in Africa, hisEmbaflade ceafed,and he 
 HisDeith. dy e( j at Lisbon , A’'. One thoufand five hundred fourfcore and eighteen , being 
 very much in years: He lieth inhumed in the Monaftery of St. Augufline. 
 
 By his Wife, ISABEL ENRI QJtt E Z , Daughter of Francis 
 Coutinho fecond Count of Redondo, and of Mary de Guzman his Wife, he 
 had thefe Six Children following. 
 
 ALPHONSO DE LAN CASTRO, great Matter of the 
 Order of Chrifl , and grand Alcaide of Ovidos. He efpoufed MARY 
 DE TAUORA, daughter of Alvaro Perez de Tauora , and of ifabeldt 
 Melo his Wife- 
 
 l6 FRANCIS DE LANCASTRO, Gentleman- Waiter at 
 ' the Table, to the Catholick Kings Philip III. and IV. 
 
 l6 JOHN DE LANCASTRO Biihop of Lamego , and Chief 
 ' Chaplain to the King of Spain Philip III. 
 
 F f f HIERONIMA 
 
 k- 
 
 PORTU- 
 G AL-tAN 
 CASTRO 
 
20 Marquejfes of F ERR E I R A, 
 
 HIERONIMA DE N OR O G N A was never married. 
 
 I O* ' 
 
 T(S MARY DE LANCASTRO wasefpoufedtoFERDI- 
 g *NAND-RODERICK DIEGO MARTINES MAS- 
 CAREGNAS. 
 
 16. IOLAND ENRIQUEZ married to F R A N C I S COU- 
 TINHO, fourth Count of Redondo her Cofin, 
 
 Years of 
 Christ. 
 
 MARQUESSES of FERREIRA, 
 
 AND 
 
 COUNTS of TENTUGAL. 
 
 12. ALVARO DE F ORTZ> C AL, Lord 
 of FERREIRA. 
 
 Mong the Children of Ferdinand firft of the name , Duke of 
 Braganza , and of Jane de Cajlre his Wife , this A L V A- 
 R O was the third. He was Prefident of the Couneel Royal 
 in CaJliEe , and grand Alcaide of Seville , and in Portugal alfo 
 i Lord Chief Juftice and Chancellor. He efpoufed PHILIP- 
 PA D E MELO Countefs of olivenca, daughter and heir of Roderick 
 de Helo Count of olivenca, by jfahel de Menefes, 
 
 Children of ALVARO DE FORTVGAL , 
 
 Lord of FERREIRA. 
 
 if RODERICK DE MELO, and Portugal , firft Marquefs of 
 FERREIRA, continued the Line. 
 
 13, GEORGE OF PORTUGAL, Count of GE LUES, gave 
 original to the Branch of C elves, hereafter mentioned. 
 
 13 . ISABEL D E CASTRO, Wife of Alpbonfo de SOTO-MA* 
 J O R Count of Belalcacar. 
 
 x 3. BEATRIX DE MELO, and Tentu^aL Dutchefs of CO- 
 NIMBRA, Wifeof GEORGE Baftard OF PORTUGAL, 
 Duke ofCONIMBRA, and Lord of Aveiro. 
 
 JANE 
 
Years of 
 Chmst. 
 
 and Counts a/TENTUGAL 21 
 
 1? JANE DE VILLENA married to FRANCIS OF 
 'PORTUGAL, Count of V I M I O S O. 
 
 13. MARY MANUEL Wife of JOHN DE SILVA fe- 
 cond Earl of Portalegre. 
 
 13. RO DERICK DE MELO, and Portugal, Mar- 
 que fs of FERREIRA , and Count of Tentugal. 
 
 H E was eldefl: Son of Alvaro of Portugal Lord of Ferreira , and of 
 Philippa de Melo his Wife, and for his Memorable Services deferved 
 well the Title of Marquefsof Ferreira , and Count of T tntugal , into which 
 Honours he was Created by the great Emanuel King of Portugal, his Cofin. 
 He married two Wives. 
 
 His firft Wife was LEONOR d’ ALMEIDA , Daughter of 
 Francis d’ Almeida Viceroy of the Indies, by^tfCiVrwmhisWife. 
 
 His fecond Wifewas B E A T RIX DE MENESES, Daugh- 
 ter of Anthony d'Almada Major General of Lis tonne, and of Mary de Ment- 
 is his Wife. He hadiflTue by both Wives. 
 
 Children of RODERICK DE MELO Marquefs of 
 FERREIRA , by his jirft wife. 
 
 ALVARO DE M E L O , dyed in the life-time of his Father ] 
 
 ■ having efpoufed MARY DE VILLENA, daughter of $obn de 
 Silva , fecond Count of Portalegre , and of Mary Manuel. He had one 
 Son bearing his name, which followeth. 
 
 15.- ALVARO DE MELO, had no Children by hi Wife MA- 
 RY d’ALGACOUA, daughter of Peter Count of tgnana , 
 and of Katherine de Soufa. This Alvaro was flain at the Battel of 
 Alcacer. 
 
 FRANCIS D E MELO firft of the name , Marquefs of Fer- 
 reir a, continued the Pofterity. 
 
 PHILIPPA DE VILLENA Wifeof ALVARO DE 
 S Y L V A Count of Portalegre. 
 
 JANE DE MELOwasaNun. 
 
 14. 
 
 F f f 2 
 
 .< children 
 
1 2 Marquejfes of FERREIRA* 
 
 Years of 
 CHMjT, 
 
 Children of KO DERICK DE M EL 0 , 
 and of his ftcond W fe. 
 
 I4 . ALVARO DE MELO. 
 
 t/l MARY DE M E N E S E S efpoufed to CONST AN TINE 
 ^ DE PORTUGAL, or BRAGANZA, her Cofm : Of whom 
 we have fpoken. 
 
 14. FRANCIS DE ME L 0, flr(l of the name , 
 Marquefs of F E R RE IR A, and Count of Tentngal. 
 
 T O the Marquefs of Ferreira Roderick de Melo , fucceeded this his 
 fecond Son (the eldeft dying before his Father. ) He married 
 EUGENIA OF BRAGANZA or PORTUGAL, daugh * 
 ter of James Duke of Braganza, and of Jane de Mendoza his Wife. 
 
 Children of FRANCIS DE ME LO , 
 
 Marquefs of Ferreira. 
 
 j 5 RODERICK DE M E L O fecond of the name , flam at the 
 Battel of Alcacer in Affrick with King Sebajtian , in the Year, One thou- j 
 (and five hundred threefcore and eighteen , and left no Childien.by his Wife 
 KATHERINE DEC’ A, daughter of A Ip bon jo de Norogna. 
 
 j 5 NUGNO ALVAREZ DE MELO, Count of T 'entugal, 
 
 ' continued the defeent. 
 
 15. JOHN DE BRAGANZA, Bifhop of Vifco. 
 
 J5. CONSTANTINE DE BRAG ANZ A, efpoufed MA- 
 RY DE MENDOZA daughter of Ferdinand de Menefes , by Phi- 
 lippa de Mendoza his Wife. They had thefe Children following. 
 
 1 6. FRANCIS DE MELO , Servant to the Catholick 
 King , Marquefs de la Tour de Laguna , and Count of Alcumer , 
 married ANTONIA DE VILLEN A, daughter of Hen- 
 ry de Soufa Count of Miranda ; by whom he had iflue N. De 
 Melo, Beatrix, and Menti*. 
 
 16. JOHN D E M E L O a Carmelite Fryer. 
 
 16, ALVARO DE M E L O , Knight of the Order of St.John. 
 
 16. FERDINAND DE MELO. 
 
 JANE 
 
Years of 
 Christ. 
 
 and Counts of TENTUGALJ 
 
 ij. JANE DE MENDOZA, Abbefs of Villa-viciofa, 
 
 JOSEPH DEMELO, a Natural Son of Francis Marquefs of 
 Ferreira , was Arch-bimop of Ever a. 
 
 15. FRANCIS d ALM EID A, alfo a Natural Son. 
 
 15. NUGNO ALVAREZ DE MEto: 
 Count of TEN TUG AL. 
 
 F Funds de Melo Marquefs of Ferreira , and Count of Tentugal, and Eu- 
 genia of Braganza or Portugal his Wife , were Father and Mother of 
 this Count, who married with MARIANA DE CASTRO daugh- 
 ter of Roderick de Mofcofo Earl of Altamira and of the Countefs ifabcl de 
 Caftrohis Wife. 
 
 Children o/NUGNO ALVAREZ 
 D E MELO. 
 
 FRANCIS DE MELO fecond of the name j Marquefs of 
 Ferreira , continued the Pofterity. 
 
 1 0. RODERICK DE MELO Arch-deacon of Ever a. 
 
 1 6] LEONOR DE MELO , Wife of MANUEL DE 
 
 M O U R A CO RT E R E A L, fecond Marquefs of Cafielrodrigo, Gen- 
 tleman of the Bed-Chamber to the Catholique King , and great Matter of 
 
 Alcantara. 
 
 16. JANE OF PORTUGAL cfpoufed to M A N R I QU E £ 
 DE SILVA Count of Portalegre, alfo Gentleman of the Bed-Gham- 
 ber to the King of Spain, and his grand Matter of the Houlhold in Portugal. 
 
 16. FRANCIS DE MELO II. of the name , 
 Marquefs o/FERREIRA, and Count of Tentu- 
 gal ■ General of the Melitia to King John IV. 
 
 H E was eldeft Son of Ntigno Alvarez de Melo Count of Tentugal, by 
 the Countefs Mariana de Cajlro. He dyed in the Year, One tboufand 
 HisDcath. p x fj Un d rei i f ort y ane i f lve . A nc j i e ft noiffue by his firft Wife MARY 
 PE SANDOVAL his Cofin Germaine , daughter of Lopez oforio 
 de Mofcofo , Count of Altamira and of the Countefs Leonor de Sandoval 
 his Wire. 
 
 G g g His 
 
2 4 Counts o/GELVE S, 
 
 His fecond Wife was JANE PIMENTEL daughter of 
 thony Pimentel Marquefs of Tabara , by her he had thefe Children. 
 
 NUN I US DE M E L O Duke of Cadaval, Marquefs of Ferrei- 
 7 ' rt, and Count of Tentugal, now living, 1662. 
 
 17, THEODOSIUS DE MELO fecond Son. 
 
 COUNTS OF GELVES, 
 
 AND 
 
 DUKES OF VERAGUA. 
 
 I)’ argent an 
 fautoir de 
 gueulles charge 
 de cinq Kfcuf- 
 font de Portu- 
 gal, dount Vm 
 eft an melieu 
 du fautoir & 
 les autres aux 
 quatre bouts 
 d’iceiuy . 
 
 13. GEORGE OF PORTUGAL, I. of the 
 name , firft Count of GELVES, and Alcaide 
 of Alcacer and Seville. 
 
 ■ F the two Sons of Alvaro of Portugal, who was Prefident of the 
 : Councel Royal of Caflide , and of his Wife Philippa de Melo Coun- 
 ! tefsof olivenca, Roderick of Portugal fil'd Marquefs of Ferreira, and 
 Count of 7 'entugal, was the elder , and this GEORGE the younger, 
 who performed fo many good and faithful Services for the Emperour Charles 
 y. that he honoured him with the Title of Count of G E L V E $. 
 
 The ftrfl Wife he efpoufed was GUIM ARE d’ AT AID A und 
 SILVA, daughter of fohn deVaftoncellos fecond Count of Penela , and 
 ef the Countefs Mary de Soufa ; byher he had no Children. 
 
 His fecond Wife was ISABEL DE TOLEDO COLO M- 
 BO) daughter of fames Colombo firft Duke of Veragua , and fecond Ad- 
 miral of the Indies, and of the Dutchefs Mary de Toledo his Wife.- which 
 fames was iffued from that famous Cbriftopher Colombm the Geneves, which 
 made difeovery of the Weft-Indies under the Reigns of the King and Queen 
 of Caftide and Arragon , Ferdinand and ijabel. 
 
 Children of GeORGE OF PORTUGAL, Count of 
 GELVES, add of ISABEL DE TOLEDO 
 COLOMBO, his fecond Wife. 
 
 14. ALVARO OF PORTUGAL, fecond Count of GELVES; 
 continued the Line. 
 
 14. ANTHONY OF P O R T U G A L, a Monk of the Order of 
 St. Dominique. 
 
 GEORGE 
 
Years of 
 Christ. 
 
 and Dul^s o/'VERAGUA. 
 
 j. GEORGE OF P O R T U G A L , one of the Four and twenty 
 ’ Magiftrates of Seville , whofe defcent fhall be mentioned hereafter. 
 
 14. JAMES OF PORTUGAL, as his elder Brother , exercifed 
 the Charge of one of the Four and twenty of Seville, and had to his Wife 
 I S A BE L BOTTI daughter of fames Botti a Florentine , by Anne- 
 Frances Fonts his Wife, and by her had t.hefe Children following; 
 
 15. JAMES OF PORTUGAL. 
 
 15 ISABEL OF PORTUGAL Wife of JOHN GU- 
 TIERREZ TELLO DE SANDOVAL, Knightof 
 the Order of Sr. fames. 
 
 15. ANJIE-FRANCES OF PORTUGAL, conjoypedin 
 Marriage with F R A N C I S TELLO DE GUNMAN. 
 
 , 4> LEWIS OF PORTUGAL, fifth Son of George Count of 
 G elves, dyed, not having been married. 
 
 14, MENCIA DE TOLEDO,byfome Records named M ARY.' 
 
 I4 PHILIPPA, and ISABEL, herSifters. 
 
 14. ALVARO OF PORTUGAL, Second 
 Count of G ELVES. 
 
 A Mong the Children of George of Portugal Firft of the Name , and 
 Firft Count of Gelves, and of ifibd de Toledo his Wife, this was 
 the Eldeft, who had two Sons by his Wife LEONOR DE C OR- 
 DOUA and ARRAGON, Daughter of Alvaro de Cordova , grand 
 Chevalier to the Catholick King Philip II. which Alvaro efpoufed Mary 
 of Arragon. 
 
 Children of ALVAR.Q OF PORTUGAL, 
 
 Count of G E L V E S, 
 
 . GEORGE OF PORTUGAL, Secondof the Name, Count 
 of GELVES. 
 
 15# NUGNO DE PORTUGAL, Duke of VERACUA, 
 " whofe Defcent is mentioned after that of his elder Brother. 
 
 1 5. GEORGE 
 
 G g g 2 
 
26 
 
 Counts 5/ VERAGUA, 
 
 Y-ars of 
 Chmsi 
 
 15. GEORGE OF PORTUGAL, 11 of the 
 Name , and Third Count of G ELVES. 
 
 H E Was eldeft Son of Alvaro of Portugal, Second Count of G elves, 
 and of the Countefs Leonor of Cordova, and Arragon his Wife, and 
 efpoufed BERNARDINE VINCENTELO: She was 
 Daughter of John- Anthony Corfo Vincentelo by Bridget Corf 0 his Wife, from 
 which Marriage came only one Daughter following : 
 
 l6 LEONOR OF PORTUGAL, Countefs of GELVES, 
 
 " twice married ; firft to FERDINAND DE CASTRO her 
 Cofin, Third Son of Ferdinand- Roderick de Cafiro Count of Lemos , by 
 whom Ihe had her Daughter Katherine of Portugal alfo Countefs of 
 C elves. 
 
 For her Second Husband , LEONOR OF PORTUGAL, 
 efpoufed JAMES PIMENTEL Viceroy of Arragon, Son of 
 the Marquefs of Tauara ; from this laft Marriage there came no Children. 
 
 15. NVGNO OF PORTVG AL COLOMBO , 
 Duke of VERA GU A , and Admiral of the Indies. 
 
 A Lvaro of Portugal Count of Gelves , and Leonor de Cordova and 
 Arragon his Wife, were Father and Mother of this Duke of Vera- 
 gua , who was Heir to his great Grandfather James Colombo firft 
 Duke of Veragua •, he married with ALDONCE PO RT OC AR- 
 RER O, Daughter of James de la Bafiide, and had by her TwoSons,and 
 Three Daughters. 
 
 Childrenof NVGNO COLOMBO Duke of VERAGVA. 
 
 , ALVARO OF PORTUGAL COLOMBO, Third Duke 
 * of VERAGUA, continued theDefcent. 
 
 l6 CHRISTOPHER OF PO R TU GAL, Second Son. 
 
 LEONOR OF PORTUGAL, one of the Ladies of Honouf 
 ” to the Catholick Queen Ifabel of France. 
 
 l6 LOVISE OF PORTUGAL, aNun. 
 
 l6 PHILIPPA OF PORTUGAL, alfoaNun. 
 
 16. ALFA- 
 
Years of 
 Christ. 
 
 and Dukes of V E II A G LI A- 
 
 27 
 
 1 6 . ALVARO OF PORTV GAL COLOMBO , 
 Third Duke of V E R A GV A, Murquefs of Jamaica, 
 
 And Admiral of the Indies. 
 
 H E was the eldeft Son of Nugrn of Portugal Colombo, Duke of fera- 
 gaa, by Aldorue Portocarero his wife,and efpoufed KATHERINE 
 DE Cl ASTRO; by her he had Hlbe, 
 
 1 7 . PETER-NUNIUS COLOMBUS Duke of VERA- 
 GUA now living, A° 1662, 
 
 14 . GEORGE OF PORTV G AL, One of the 
 Four and twenty Mag f rates of Sevile. 
 
 H E was Third Son of George of Portugal firft of the name, and firft 
 Count of Gelves, and of his Wife the Countefs Ifabelde Toledo Co- 
 lombo. He was one of the Four and twenty of Sevile. "By his Wife GE- 
 NIEURE BOTTI, daughter of fohn Botti , he left Four Sons and 
 a Daughter, viz. 
 
 t 5 . GEORGE OF PORTUGAL. 
 
 15. JAMES OF P O R T U G A L , of whom we fhall fpeak in the 
 
 next place. 
 
 15. ALVARO O'F PO R TUG AL followed theprofelHon of the 
 Church. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER OF PORTUGAL, a Monk of the Or- 
 
 der of St. Bier of me. 
 
 1 y. ISABEL OF P ORTUG AL, aNuninthe Abbey ofourLa- 
 
 dy at Seville. 
 
 14. JAMES OF PORTV GAL, firft 
 
 of the Name. 
 
 H E was fecond Son of George of Portugal one of the Four and twenty 
 of Seville , and had to Wife G UI 6 M A R-C OLOMBO DE 
 TOLEDO, daughter of Lic-enuo-Hierofme Onego*, and of Frances Co- 
 
 H h h lon&s 
 
28 Counts of FARO, 
 
 Umbo his Wife, in whofe Right he pretended to the Dutchyof Veragua , 
 ngainft Nugno of Portugal his Cofin, to whom by fentence it wasadjudged. 
 The Children of JAMES OF PORTUGAL, were 
 
 if JAMES OF POR TUG AL fecondof the name, conjoyned 
 by marriage with ISABEL DE MEDINA, and DE GUZ- 
 MAN. 
 
 l6 ANTHONY OF PORTUGAL, a Fryer. 
 
 1 6. LEWIS OF PORTUGAL. 
 
 16. FRANCES, and ANNE-FR ANCES. 
 
 1 6. MARY, PHILIPPA, andlSA.BEL, 
 
 COUNTS OF FARO, 
 
 AND OF ODEMIRA. 
 
 i 2 . ALPHONSO OF FORTVGAL , firtt of the 
 name, Count of FARO and 0 D EMI RA. 
 
 p ortu Fter having heretofore written of thePofterity of Ferdinand IT. 
 
 g al ode- °f the name, third Duke of Braganza, and Alvaro of Portugal 
 
 M 1 R his Brother, from whom are iffued the Marquefies of Ferrei- 
 
 ra, and Counts of G elves 5 it refts now to deduce the Defcenc 
 of ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL, who was 
 alfo their Brother , all Three Sons of the Duke of Braganza Ferdinand I. 
 of the name, and of the Dutchefs fanede Caflro his Wife. 
 
 The fame ALPHONSO who was Lord of Faro in his own right , 
 was created firft Count thereof by Alphonfo V. King of Portugal,zad at what 
 time the Duke of Braganza his Brother, of whom we have written, was pu- 
 nilhed for having confpired againft King fokn II. he fled into Cajli/le,where 
 he departed this World, after he had efpoufed MARY DE NO- 
 ROGNA Countefs of odemira , Daughter and Heir of Sanceo de No- 
 rogna firft; Earl of odemira , Lord of Aveiro and Vimieiro , grand Alcaide of 
 Eftremos, and of the Countefs Mencia de Soufa his Wife. 
 
 Children of ALPHONSO OF F ORTV G A L, Count 
 of FA RO and Odemira. 
 
 is. SANCEO OF NOROGNA firft of the name , Count of 
 ‘ODEMIRA, continued the Line, 
 
 FRAN- 
 
 a 
 
Year* of 
 Christ. 
 
 I 3. 
 
 *3- 
 
 ij. 
 
 13. 
 
 13 . 
 
 13 . 
 
 > 3 - 
 
 and of ODE MIRA. 2 ? 
 
 .FRANCIS OF NOROGNA efpoufed LEONOR MA- 
 N U E L, daughter of $ antes Manuel and Fillena , Lord of Cheles , and of 
 Major dt Silva his Wife, by whom he had one daughter here mentioned, viz,, 
 
 14. MARY MANUEL Wife of JAMES DEMELo 
 DE FIGUEIREDO, by him (lie had iffue feveral children. 
 
 FREDERICK DE NOROGNA, Biihc/p of Calaotra and 
 Ciguenca , Arch-bilhop of Sarragoca, and Viceroy of Catalonia. 
 
 ANTHONY alfo followed the profeffion of the Church. 
 
 FERDINAND DE F ARO Lord of Fimiero, hath given ori- 
 ginal to the other Lords and Earls of V I M I E R O and F A R O, as you 
 may read hereafter. 
 
 GUI O MARE DE NOROGNA Dutchefs of SEGOR- 
 B I A , Wife of HENRY OF ARRAGON , firnamed the 
 child of Fortune , who was Son of Henry of Arragon , great Matter of the 
 Order of Knights of St. fames , by Beatrix Pimentel his fecond Wife ; 
 which Grand Matter was one of the younger Sons of Ferdinand of Caftille, 
 King of Arr agon, and of Elianor d Albuquerque. 
 
 MENCIA DE NOROGNO Dutchefs of MEDINA 
 C E L I , was married to JOHN DE LA CERDA Duke of 
 Medina Celt. 
 
 KATHERINE DE NOROGNA Abbefs of Semide. 
 
 13. S AH CEO OF NOROGNA, jirtt of the name] 
 Count of Odemira , and Lord of Mortagoa. 
 
 T O the Count of Faro Alphonfo of Portugal firft of the name , and to - 
 the Countefs of odemira Mary de Norogna his Wife, fucceeded the 
 Earl S A N C E O firft of the name their eldeftSon, who was twice mar- 
 
 H^irtt, He married FRANCES DE SILVA daughter of fames 
 Gil Muniz, , and of Leomr de Silva his Wife : By her he had iffue Two Sons 
 
 The fecond Wife of the fame Count S A N C E O, was ANGE- 
 LA F A BR A daughter of Gajpar Fabra by whom he had alfo Two 
 Sons and a Daughter. 
 
 Children of S AN CEO 1 of tlx Nme, Count of 0 DEM L 
 RAfby FRANCES DE S ILVA his frtt Wife. 
 
 ALPHONSO OF N O R O G N A confirmed the Pofterity. 
 
 H h h 2 ROD Z- 
 
 * 4 . 
 
jo Counts of FAR O, 
 
 j J Years of 
 
 Christ 
 
 RODERICK DE NOROGNA was an Ecclefiaftick. 
 
 MENCIA DE NOROGNA efpoufed to the Count of FR A- 
 CVUEZ in Savoy. 
 
 Children of SAN CEO I. Count of ODEMIRA, and of 
 ANGELA FABRA his ficond Wife . 
 
 ,4. JOHN DE FARO, whofe Branch (ball be deduced after that of 
 his elder Brother. 
 
 14. FREDERICK OF PORTUGAL married (in CaftiRe ) 
 ’MARGARET' DE BORGIA, Daughter of John Ve Borgia 
 third Duke of Gandie, by the Dutchefs Anne Ve Caflro his Wife , and had 
 this only Daughter following, viz. 
 
 15. ANNE OF PORTUGAL Wife of RODERICK 
 D E SILVA. Duke of Prafirana. 
 
 14. JANE MANUEL was conjoined in marriage with JO HN DE 
 LA CERDA Marquefs of Cogolludo , and Fourth Duke of Medina 
 Celi. 
 
 14. GUIOM ARE DE NOROGNA Wife of J O H N BA- 
 CA DE L I C,AN A •, fome Records mention that it was (he that was 
 efpoufed to the Duke of Medina Celi, 
 
 14, KATHERINE a Natural Daughter of the Count of O D E M I- 
 R A Sanceo I. was a Nun in the Monaftery of odivtlles. 
 
 14. ALP HONS 0 OF NOROGNA. 
 
 I N the life-time of the Count of odemira, Sanceo the firft his Father , 
 he was (lain by the Moors-, having before been married to Mary V’ At* 
 taide. Daughter and Heir of Nugno- Ferdinand V' At t aide Lord of Pena Co- 
 va. Captain of Cafin, and of fane Ve Faria his Wife 5 from which Mar- 
 riage came their only Son, which was Count Sanceo II. mentioned next fol- 
 lowing. 
 
 1 6. SANCEO DE NOROGNA II. of the Nam, 
 Count of ODEMIRA . 
 
 H E fucceeded his Grandfather Sanceo Ve Norogna fiift of the Name , 
 and was Fourth Count of ODEMIRA, and grand Alcaide of 
 
 Fftremos, 
 
, Wu/ ODEMIRA. it 
 
 Years, of J 5 
 
 Chmst ■ Ejlremos Katherine of Aujlria Queen of Portugal, Wife of King John 
 III. honoured him with the Office of Steward of her Houfhold, 
 
 He efpoufed MARGARET DE SILVA Daughter of John 
 Be Silva fecond Count of Portalegre ; from this marriage there came two 
 Sons and a Daughter. 
 
 1 6. ALPHONSO DE NOROGNA thirdof the Name, and 
 fecond Count of ODEMIRA of that Name. 
 
 1 6. NUGNO DE NOROGNA Bilhop of Vifio , and Be La 
 Cttarde. 
 
 16, MARY DE NOROGNA Wife of LEWIS D’ AT- 
 T A I D E Count of Atouguia. 
 
 1 6 . ALP HONSO DE N 0 KOG N 0 III of theName, 
 and fecond Count of 0 DE MIR A of that Name ; Lord 
 of Mortaga , and grand Alcaide of Ejlremos. 
 
 A LPHONSO eldeft Son of Count Sanceo II. was of the Num- 
 ber of thofe Lords of Portugal that accompanied King Sebafiian in 
 his fecond Voyage for Affnca, and was flain with him at the fatal Battel of 
 Alcacer in which, befides the King, there dyed Eight or Ten Princes and 
 Lords of the Blood-Royal. 
 
 The fame ALPHONSO had three Wives ; thefirft was JANE 
 DE VILENA Daughter of Manuel Pellet Lord of Ugnon , by 
 Margaret Be Vilena his Wife-, by whom he had no Children. 
 
 His fecond was JANE DE GUZMAN Daughter of Peter Be 
 \JOtenefes Captain of Septe, and of Conjanse Be Guzman his Wife, nei- 
 ther had he Iflue by her. 
 
 But by YOLAND DE CASTRO his third Wife, Daughter 
 of Alvaro Be Cafiro, and of Anne B’ Attaide his Wife, he had one Son fol- 
 lowing. 
 
 17, SANGEO D E N O R O G N A third of the Name , Count of 
 'oDEMIRA, Lord of Mortagoa, who was alfo grand Alcaide of Efire- 
 mot, and efpoufed JULIANA DE LARA, Daughter of Manu- 
 el De Menejes Duke of Ville-real, and of Mary Be Silva his Wife; by her 
 
 he had a Daughter ,which dyed young. 
 
 The fame SANCEO deceafed in One theujand fix hundred forty 
 
 and two. 
 
 14. JOHN DE FARO. 
 
 H E was eldeft Son defeended from the marriage of Sanceo Be Norogna 
 firftof that Name, Count of odemira , and Lord of Mortagoa, and 
 
 Iii of 
 
P ORTU- 
 G AL-VIMI- 
 ERO. 
 
 14 . 
 
 H. 
 
 > 4 - 
 
 14. 
 
 14. 
 
 14. 
 
 1 1 Lords and Counts of V I M 1 E R O, 
 
 of the Countefs Angela Fabra his fecond Wife,and took to Wife ISABEL 
 FRE 1 RE Daughter of Emanuel Ereire, by Grimanefa de Mela his 1 
 Wife, by her he had his only Son, viz. 
 
 JOHN DE FARO fecond of the Name, who was conjoined in 
 marriage with MARGARET DE NOROGNA Daughter of 
 John j o' Almeida by Lucia D' Ornelas , by her he had one only Daughter , 
 named, 
 
 1 6. LUCIA DE FARO married to HIEROSMECOU- 
 T I N H O of the Council of State to the Catholick King Philip 
 III. in the Kingdom of Portugal. They had Iffue, PHILIPP A 
 DE COUTINHO married to LEWIS D’ A T- 
 T A I D A Count of Attougia , and Viceroy of the Indies. 
 
 LORDS AND COUNTS OF VI- 
 MIERO, AND OF FARO. 
 
 v r FERDINAND DE FARO Lord of VIMIERO. 
 
 F the Children of Alphonfo of Portugal firft of the Name, 
 Count of Faro, and qf Mary De Norogna Countefs of odemi- 
 ra his Wife, he was the fifth; Catherine of Aujlria Queen 
 of Portugal, Wife of King fthrt the Third, honoured him 
 with the Office of Steward of herHoufhoId. He left feve- 
 ral Children by his Wife ISABEL D E MELO, Daughter of Go- 
 mez VeFigueiredo, by LeonorDe Mela, viz, 
 
 FRANCIS DE FARO, who continued the Pofterity. 
 
 DIONYSIUS DE FARO had alfo IfTue , as you fhall fee 
 hereafter. 
 
 SANCEO DE FARO died, being ele&ed Bifhop of Leiria. 
 
 ALP H O N S O E N R I QjUE Z Deanof the Chappel- Royal to 
 Sebaftian King of Portugal. 
 
 MARY DE NOROGNA Wife of JOHN DE MENE- 
 S E S Captain of T angler, 
 
 MENCIA G U I O M A R, and two other Daughters were 
 
 Nuns. 
 
 14. FRANCIS 
 
Years ©£ 
 CHMST' 
 
 and w/FARO, 
 
 33 
 
 14. FRANCIS DE FAPvO hard of VIMIERO. 
 
 14 E was eldeft Son of Ferdinand De Fare, by ijabel de Melo his Wife 
 11 and was Prefident of the Council ot Affairs to the King of Portugal 
 Sebajlian. & 
 
 The firft of his Wives ME NCI A D’ ALBUQUERQUE 
 was Daughter of George D' Albuquerque, and of ^Anne Enriquez ^ 
 The fecond, GUIOMARE DE CASTRO was Daughter 
 of Matthew D Acugna Lord of Pombeiro , by LeonerCoutigna. 
 
 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’ ALBUQJJERQUE bit firth Wife. 
 
 i). FERDINAND ENRI Q_U E Z whofe ftory followeth in the 
 next place. 
 
 D. GEORGE DE FARO was flain at the fatal Battel of Alcacer , 
 in the year, one tbou\and five hundred threescore and eighteen. 
 
 * 5 . MARY DE NOROGNA efpoufedto FERDINAND 
 TELLEZ DE MENESES, Governour of the Indies , and the 
 Algarves. 
 
 Children e/ FRANCIS DE FARO, ^GUIO- 
 MAR DE CASTRO his fecond Wife. 
 
 15. FRANCIS DE F A R O firft Count of V I M I E R O ,of whom 
 * we (hall fpeak more fully hereafter. 
 
 15. MARIANA DE LANCASTRO, WifeofLEWIS DE 
 SILVA, Prefident of the Council of Affairs to the King of SpaimPhi- 
 Itp IE. 
 
 15. FERDINAND HENRI QjU E Z 
 
 A Mong the Children of Francis de Faro Lord of Vimicro, and of Mtn- 
 l\ cud’ Albuquerque his firft Wife , he was the eldeft , and dyed in the 
 life-time of his Father , having married J A N E DE GUZMAN, 
 Daughter of Alvaro Caraallo by Mary de Guzman his Wife; by her he 
 had tnefe Children following 
 
 jg t LEWIS DE FARO never married. 
 
 16 MARY DE FARO Wife of MANUEL COUTIGNO. 
 
 Iii 2 MEN: 
 
, Lords and Counts of V I M 1 E R O, 
 
 J ' Years of 
 
 6 MENCIA DE FARO efpoufed to PETER ALVAREZ 
 # PEREIRA, Counfellour of State to the Catholick Kingpin the Coun- 
 
 cilof Portugal relident in his Court. 
 
 6 KATHERINE DE FARO Wife of BLAISE TEL- 
 "LEZ DE MENESES Captain of Mazagan. 
 
 15. FRAN C I S DE FARO Count of VI M I E RO. 
 
 F Rom the marriage of Francis de Faro Lord of Vimiero, and of Guio- 
 mar De Caflro his fecond Wife defcended this Count, who was raifed 
 
 rSfi GUERRA Daugte 
 
 of Peter Lopez Ve Soufa, by Anne l)e LaGuerra his Wife, by whom he had 
 Iffue Three Sons and a Daughter, viz. 
 
 l6 FERDINAND DE FARO, Lord of Vimiero. 
 
 16 LEWIS DE FARO, a Monk of the Order of St. Auguftin. 
 
 16. ALPHONSO DE F ARO> was alfo an Ecclefiaftick. 
 
 16 MARY DE FARO, Wife of R O DERICK DE LA 
 ' C AM AR A Captainof the Ifleof St. Michael. 
 
 14. DIONYSIUS DE FARO. 
 
 »3i& £ was fecond Son of F erdinand de F aro Lord of Vimiero , and of 
 I h | jfabel de Melo his Wife. And was conjoyned in Marriage with 
 •Zvvvv loRISE CABRAL Daughter of fohn-Alvarez, Camnig- 
 na ; by whom he had thefe two Sons following. 
 
 15. JOHN DE F A R O, dyed unmarried. 
 
 I5 STEPHEN Count of F A R O and St. Lewis , mentioned in the 
 ’ next place. 
 
 15. STEP HE N Count of F ARO, and 
 of St. Lewis. 
 
 1 ITAS fecond Son of Dionyfius de Faro , by Lorija Cabral his Wife. 
 VV He was of the Council of Eftate to the Catholick King , and alfo 
 Prefidentof the Council of Affairs. Va [conce lies writeth that the Kingof 
 Spain , Philip III. Created him Count of St. Lewis. He efpoufed GUIO- 
 MAR DE CASTRO, Daughter of John Lobo Baron of Ahitt, by 
 Leaner Mafcaregisas his W ife. 
 
 Children 
 
 * 
 
Years of 
 
 Cmm. 
 
 
 x of FARO. 
 
 Children of STEPHEN Count of FARO" 
 and of L O R I S A CABRAL his Wife. 
 
 1 6 ' 1 ^? I t 0 a N vt Y / . S ^ S „ DE FARO, married MAGDALENE 
 
 ^ E LAN ,^ As TRO, the Daughter of Alvaro de Lancaftro Duke 
 or Avetro and Tourncuf , by her he had iflue one Daughter, viz. 
 
 I7 'J^ LIANA DE FARO, was Wife ofM ICHAEL 
 DEMENESE S,Marquefs of Villa-real find Duke of Camignc. 
 
 16. FRANCIS. JOHN. SANCEO. FRANCIS-L E WIS. 
 
 itf. LUCIA DE FARO Wife of EDWARD DEMENE- 
 S ES Count of Tarouca, 
 
 16. LEONOR efpoufed toBERNARDINE DE TAUORA.' 
 
 COUNTS OF VIMIOSO. 
 
 n. ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL, Count 
 of O II R E M, Marque fj of Valence , and 
 Lord of For to de-Mot. 
 
 Lpbonfo of Portugal , firft Duke of Braganza , Son of King »ortu 
 John I, and Beatrix de Pereira Countefs of Barcellos and gal-vimI- 
 Ourem his Wife, had two Sons, of which this was the el- oso ‘ 
 der •, But deceafing before his father , he fucceeded not to 
 the Dutchee . The King of Portugal , Edward , his Unde 
 fent him Ambafladour to the Senate of Florence. 
 
 The fame Count ALPHONSO having been chofen to Conduct 
 the Princefs Leonor pf Portugal to the Emperour Frederick III. her Huf- 
 band, was Created Count of OUR EM, and Marquefs of Valence, by 
 1450, King Alphonfo V. in the Year, One thoufand four hundred and fifty • and 
 1460. Ten years after dyed at Tornar ; having had by his Love-Miftrefs BEA- 
 TRIX DE SOUSA, daughter of Martin- Alphonfo de SettJ'a , and 
 of loland Lopez de Tanora, this his only Son, viz. 
 
 la . ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL, was Biihop oiEvora-, 
 and before he followed the Profeflion of a Church- man , had alfo by a Lady 
 called DE MACEDON, others fay DE MELO, thefe two Sons 
 following ; 
 
 13. FRANCIS OF PORTUGAL, firft Count of VI-- 
 M 1 0 S O, mentioned in the next place. 
 
 Kkk 
 
 13. MAR- 
 
3<5 
 
 13. MARTIN 
 
 Counts „/V IMIOSO. 
 
 OF PORTUGAL, Arch-biihop of Fonchal, CllRlST - 
 ‘afterwards Bifhop of Algarvie , and Patriarch of the Indies. King 
 3 0 h„ m fent him Ambafladour to Pope Clement VII. who made 
 him his Nuncio to the Kingdom of Portugal. He had two Baftard- 
 Chtldren by KATHERINE DE SOUSA, a Bafkrd- 
 daughter of Roderick dc Soufa, viz, 
 
 14 ELISHA OF PORTUGAL , was of the Privy- 
 ’ Chamber to the Popes fits IV. an d Gregory XIII. 
 
 14 MARY OF PORTUGAL, fecond Wife to JAMES 
 ' DE CASTRO. 
 
 12. FRANCIS OF PORTUGAL y fS of the 
 name, Count of VIMIOSO, and 
 Lord of Aguiar. 
 
 T HE King of Portugal, Emanuel, honoured him with the Dignify of 
 Count of V I M 1 0 S O, and furthermore inftituted him Super-in- 
 tendantof his Affairs, as did likewiCe King John III. aftetward the Prince 
 Portugal his Son, made'him his High Chamberlain. 
 
 He efpoufedfor his firft Wife BEATRIX DE VILLENA, 
 daughter of Roderick Tellez de Menefes Lord of Ugnon , Steward of the 
 Houfhoid to the Emprefs Ifabel of Pwt^Wife to the Emperor Charts V. 
 
 His fecond Wife was J A N E D E V I L L E N A , daughter of 
 Alvaro oi Portugal of the Houfe of Tentugal, and of Philtf f a deMelo Com- 
 tek of oliven\a. 
 
 A Daughter of FRANCIS OF PORTUGAL, 
 Count of Vimiofoy by his former Wife. 
 
 GUIOMAR DE VILLENA, efpoufed to FR AN CIS 
 " DE GAMA fecond Countof V EDIGUER A, and Admiral of 
 the Indies. 
 
 Children of FRANCIS OF PORTUGAL, 
 Count of Vimiofo , by his later Wife • 
 
 14! ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL, Countof VIMIOSO, 
 continued the Pofterity. 
 
 14. MANUEL OF P O R.T U G A L hadalfo Children, as youfhall 
 fee, after we have deduced the Branch of his cider Brother. 
 
 14. JOHN OF PORTUGAL, Biihop of Guar da. 
 
 14.ALPHON: 
 
Years of 
 CHMST. 
 
 Counts o/VlMlOSd; 
 
 P 
 
 14. ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL, M,/ 
 the name , Count of V 1 M I O S O. 
 
 TJ E was eldeft Son of Funds of Portugal firftEarl of Vimio\o, by gant 
 de Vtlknii his a d Wife, and was, as his father before him , Super- inten- 
 dantof the Affairs of the Kings of Portugal , John 111. and Sebajlian, with 
 whom he undertook the Expedition of Jffnck. The Hiftory notes thus 
 much of him-. That having been this Kings Chamberlain, and having 
 Command in his firft Voyage, he deported himfelf foil), that thofe which 
 emulated his Greatnefs,took occafion to exclude him the Kings Favour. He 
 behaved himfelf no better in thefecondExpedition; For being ambitious,and 
 defirous to regain that Reputation with the King which he had loft, he fe- 
 conded his will, notwithftanding he knew it to be raih and prejudicial. For 
 the Army being landed in A f rick , he perfwaded them to make their paffage 
 by Land, infteadof that by Sea, void of danger, which he did principally 
 out of complacency with the King , whom he obferved to be grounded in 
 this opinion , notwithftanding urged and diflwaded by many more fubftan- 
 tial reafons, from feveral others •• So that he dyed with his Prince at the un- 
 fortunate Bat rel of Alcacer. 
 
 He was conjoyned by Marriage with LUCIA DE GUZ MAN, 
 daughter of Francis dc Guzman Great Steward of the Houfhold t o the In- 
 fanta Mary of Portugal, youngeft daughter of King Emanuel. 
 
 Children of ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL, 
 firft of the name , Count of ‘Vimiofo. 
 
 jr FRANCIS OF PORTUGAL fecond of the name, Count 
 5 *ofVIMlOSO, whofe Story followeth in the next place. 
 
 j,. JOHN OF PORTUG AL , a Monk of the Order of St. Do- 
 5 " ntinicky a Learned man, was of the Council general of the Inquifition. 
 
 is LEWIS OF PORTUGAL, fucceeded his eldeft Brother in the 
 County of VIMIOSO. 
 
 jy ALVARO OF P O RT UGAL, dyed in Siciltc. 
 
 NUGNO-ALVAREZ OF PORTUGAL, wasPrefident 
 of the Chamber of Lis bonne , and had been One of the Three Governours , 
 of Portugal. By his Wife and Gofin JANE OF PO RT UGAL, 
 daughter of Manuel of Portugal, and of Margaret dc Mendoza his fecond 
 Wife, he had, befides fome Children that dyed young. Four Sons, and Two 
 Daughters. 
 
 16. LEWIS OF PORTUGAL, 
 
 16. JOHN. ALPHONSO, ANTHONY. 
 
 MARY and MARGARET. 
 
 K k k 2 
 
 CON- 
 
.§ Counts of V IM I O S O. 
 
 x CONSTANCE DE GUZMAN, Abbefs of the Monaftery 
 of our Lady at Lisbonne. 
 
 15. BEATRIX DE GUZMAN, alfo Abbefs of the fameplace, 
 
 15. PHILIPPA DE GUZMAN, Priorefs of the Monaftery of 
 
 the Holy Sacrament at Lisbonne. 
 
 1 y. M E N C I A and J A N E, alfo Nuns in the Monafteries of d’Ejpe- 
 ranza at Litbonne , and of St. Catherine at Evora, 
 
 15. FRANCIS OF PORTUGAL, o/ 
 
 the nme , Count of VIMIOSO, and 
 Conjlable of Portugal. 
 
 '“I' His Count accompanied King Sebafiian of Portugal , to the Battel of 
 I Alcacer , and was there made a Prifoner, 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 , hono- 
 red him with the Dignity of Conftable of Portugal : He followed this Prince 
 in his Voyage for France. 
 
 Afterwards being at the Naval fight, in A" One thoujand five hundred 
 fottrfcore and two , near unto the Azores , betwixt the French Army Com- 
 manded by the Collonel Philip Strozzi , and the Spanifh, Conducted by 
 the Marquefs of Sc. Croix , Lieutenant General to the King of Spain , Phi- 
 lip II. This Count of Fimiofo was fo grievoufly hurt , that he lived but 
 two dayes after the Fight. The Marquefs for all he was his Enemy , did 
 much lament and deplore his Fortune , as being his Kinfman. His end was 
 more honorable, than that of any of the other Lords that had followed An- 
 thony. He was young, adorned withgood parts both of body and mind , 
 and was one that joyned Learning to the Military profeffion. 
 
 15. LEWIS OF PORTUGAL, Count 
 r/ VIMIOSO. 
 
 H is el deft Brother the Count Francis II. not having been married , and 
 leaving no Children, this Count fucceeded him, and efpoufed JANE 
 DE MENDOZA daughter of Ferdinand de Caftro fir ft Count of 
 Bajlo, by the Countefs Philippa de Mendoza his Wife. 
 
 This Count and Countefs being touched with a Angular Piety, took a 
 holy refolution to forfake the World , and with mutual confent took upon 
 them the Habit of Religious. He entred himfelf into the Order of St. 
 Dominick -, and the Countefs J A N E his Wife Cloyftered her felf in the 
 Monaftery of the Holi Sacrament at Ltsbenne , with the Barefoot Sifters, aa 
 Abbey which fhe and her Husband had founded. 
 
 Years of 
 
 Christ 
 
 1 57*. 
 
 1580. 
 
 1582.’ 
 
 Children 
 
Years of 
 Christ. 
 
 i 6 . 
 16. 
 
 1 6 . 
 
 1 6. 
 l6. 
 
 * 7 - 
 
 17 . 
 
 » 7 - 
 
 * 7 . 
 
 Counts of VIMIOSO. ^ 
 
 Children of LEWIS OF PORTUGAL, 
 
 Count of Vimiofo. 
 
 ALPHONSO OF PORTUGAL, fecond of tfie name, Count 
 of V I M I O S O, continued the Pofterity. 
 
 MICHAEL OF PORTUGAL, Bifliop of Lamego, Arch- 
 bifhop of Lisbonne , Ambaffadour from the King of Portugal , John IV. to 
 Pop e Urban VIII. Anno 1641, He departed this world in the Year, 1644. 
 
 FERDINAND OF PORTUG AL,wasaSouldierin* 7 <«- 
 ders , where he dyed. 
 
 LUCIA DE GUZMAN. 
 
 PHILIPPA DE CASTRO, aNunwith her Mother in the 
 Abbey of the Holy Sacrament at Lisbon. 
 
 16. ALP HONSO OF PORTUG AL, fecendof the 
 name , Count of V l MI 0 S 0 . 
 
 H E waseldefi Son of Lewis Count of Vimiofo , and of Jane de Mendoza 
 his Wife : And efpoufed MARY DE MENDOZA daugh- 
 ter of chriflopher de Mora firft Marque fs of Cafile- Rodrigo , and of the 
 Marchionefs Margaret Corte-rcal, by whom he had thefe Children follow- 
 ing : 
 
 LEWIS OF PORTUGAL, II. ofthename, CountofVl- 1 
 M I O S A, was Created Marquefs of Aguiar by the King ol Portugal, John 
 IV. He dyed without lawful iffue. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER OF PORTUGAL dyedalfo, notha- 
 ving been married. 
 
 MICHAEL OF PORTUGAL, Count of VIMIOSO, now 
 living, 1662. 
 
 JANE. MARGARET. LUCIA. BEATRIX. 
 
 14. MANUEL OF PORTUGAL . 
 
 TIE was fecond Son of Francis of Portugal firft Count of Vimiofo, by 
 H Jane de Videna his fecond Wife. King John III. of the name, fent 
 him to the Emperour Charles V. to Congratulate with him for his fuccefs 
 in the Enterprife of Algier ■, and afterwards King Henry fent him alfo to 
 the Kin<* of Spain , Philip II. to Condole with him for the deplorable 
 Death of King Sebaflian his Nephews Son Sometime after 
 
Counts of V I M 1 0 S O. Years of 
 
 KillEL OF PORTUGA L(asdid Francis fecond of the name, Count CaRr T ' 
 of rmi»(t his Nephew) followed the Defigns and Party of King Anthony 
 
 ° f VJLLENAtagh- 
 
 ”bSl^'i^wS^RGARET DE MEN- 
 
 D O Z A daughter of Manuel Cone-red, and of Beatrix de Mendoza his 
 Wife. 
 
 Children of MANV EL OF F 0 RT V G A L, and of 
 MART DE FILL ENA his firfi Wife. 
 
 HENRY OF P O RT U G A L continued the Pofterity. 
 
 JOHN OF PORTUGAL dyed at the Battel of Abater , after 
 • he had married MAGDALENE DE VILLEN A daughter of 
 fronds de Sou fa Tavares , Captain of Dm, and of Mary de Silva his Wile ; 
 by her he had a Son, and two Daughters following. 
 
 16. LEWIS OF PORTUGAL, dyed at Sept with a fall 
 from his Horfe. 
 
 16 MARY OF PORTUGAL, Wife of PETER DE 
 M E N E S E S, Grand Alcaide of Vijco. 
 
 16. JANE OF PORTUG AL,Wifeof LOPEZ d’ ALMEI- 
 DA, Grand Alcaide of Alcohace. 
 
 ALPHONSO OF P O RT UG AL, wasflain intheBattel of 
 1 Alcantara in thefervice of Anthony King of Portugal. 
 
 J Daughter of MANVEL OF PORTVGAL, hy 
 MARGARET DE MENDOZA his fecond Wife. 
 
 JANE OF P O RT U G A L, Wife of her Cofin Germain NUG- 
 NO ALVAREZ DE PORT UG AL, as you haveread before. 
 
 15 . HENRY OF FORtV GAL. 
 
 H E was eldeft Son of Manuel of Portugal , by Mary de Villena his 
 firft Wife ; and efpoufed ANNE ATAIDE daughter of 
 Anthony Ataide Count of Chaflaigneraye , by Mary de Villena his Wife, by 
 whom he had iffue Four Sons , and Two Daughters. The King of Portu- 
 gal, Sehajlian , fent him to vifit the Emperour Rodolfh II. to Condole 
 with him for the Death of his father Maximilian II. His Children were, 
 
 l6 MANUEL OF PORTUG AL II. of the name,dyed young 
 * in the life-time of his father; having married LUCIA DE VILLEr 
 N A daughter of Manuel de Cajlro by his Wife Beatrix de Villena ; by 
 
 her 
 
Years of CoH ’ HS °f VI M T O S O. 41 
 
 Christ, her he had two Sons 5 the elder of which, called by his Grandfathers name, 
 dyed young * the other was, 
 
 17. ALVARO OF PORTUGAL. 
 
 15. FRANCIS. MANUEL. 
 
 26. JOHN OF PORT UG A L deceafedalfo in the life-time of his 
 father , having efpoufed A N T O N I E T T A DE VILLEN A, 
 daughter of Anthony Corea. Batareno. 
 
 16. MARY OF PORTUGAL, Wife of LEWIS d’AL- 
 MEIDA. 
 
 i5. GUIOMAR OF PORTUGAL, was efpoufed to MANUEL 
 A T A I D E , third Coun t of Cajtaigneraye her Unde. 
 
 DUKES OF GONIMBRA, AVEI- 
 R O, AND TOURSNEUUES. 
 
 His Birth. 
 
 1481. 
 
 I4P5. 
 
 GEORGE Battard of PORTVG A L, Duke of CO- 
 N IM B RA , Lord of Toursneuues , Aveiro , and 
 Mont-Major le Vieil , Grand Mafler of the Or- 
 der of Cbrijius and d’ Avis. 
 
 H E King of Portugal , tpohn II. of the name , had by his 
 Queen Beatrix of Portugal the Prince Alfhonfo their only 
 Son, who dyed before them in the flower of his age. The 
 fame King alfo begat by Anne de Mendoza his Paramore, this 
 Prince G E O R G E , who was born about the Year , One 
 thoufand four hundred fourfcore undone. He was affectionate- 
 ly beloved by the King his father, infomuch,that having no lawful iflue, 
 heintended after his death to leave him the Crown, which the Grandees of 
 the Kingdom did vigoroufly oppofe, as alfo the Queen his wife (as we have 
 informed you before.) The Princefs ( who was tranfported with a natural 
 Love towards her Friend ) would not permit that the Duke of Bttafimam- 
 el of Portugal her Brother ( who was Heir apparent to the Crown by the 
 right of Blood and Proximity,) foould be deprived of his Succeflion by a 
 Baftard-Son. Neverthelefs King John having appointed the Prince Ema- 
 nuel for his Succeffor, recommended this GEORGE to his care, whom 
 he caufed 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 
 Great King, who promifedtobeto him a Father 5 and for a Tefhimony 
 
 L 1 1 2 of 
 
 p o r t u- 
 G AL-AVEIf 
 RO. 
 
 Mari aria Etb. 
 16, Cap.i . & 
 
 si- 
 
 Vafconccllosi 1 
 Nonius L to. 
 
Dukes of CONIMBRA, 
 
 Years ef 
 Christ- 
 
 Children of GEORGE OF PORTVGAL , 
 
 Duke of Conimbra. 
 
 14. JOHN DE LAN CASTRO, Dukeof AVEIRO, conti- 
 
 nued the Pofterity. 
 
 14. ALPHONSO DE LANCASTRO, Great Commander of 
 St. fames, had alfo iflue. 
 
 14. LEWIS DE LANCASTRO, Grand Commander £ Avis , 
 had likewife Children. 
 
 14. JAMES DE LANCASTRO Biihopof^W. 
 
 HELEN D.E LANC AS TR O, Comraandrefs of the Mona- 
 
 14. MULC1N LJ-n. 
 
 fteryof the Order of St. James. 
 
 14. PHILIPP 
 
 14; MARY &DE LANCASTRO, Nuns, at St.g Ub» of Sctuvdl 
 14. ISABEL & 
 
 Natural Children of GEORGE Duke of Conimbra. 
 14. GEORGE DE LANCASTRO Grand Prior d'Avis. 
 
 14. GEORGE DE St. M A R Y a Monk of the Order of St. Hie- 
 refine. 
 
 14. ANTHONY DE St. M A R Y a Monk of the Order of St. 
 Aug uftine, and Biihop of Leiria. 
 
 14. JOHN DE LANCASTRO, Dukeof AVEIRO, 
 Uarquefs of Toursmmes, and Lord of Montmor. 
 
 H E was eldeft Son of George Dukeof Conimbra, and of Beatrix de Me- 
 lo his Wife. The Title of Duke of Conimbra was not continued in 
 hisPerfon-, But the King of Portugal, Emanuel, Ihewed his affeftion to- 
 wards this illuftrious Family, which was fo near to him, that he Created him 
 
 Mar- 
 
AVEIRO, and TOURSNEUUES. 
 
 CflaiST ’ Marquefsof Toursneuues • and King John ln\ raifed him to the Dignity of 
 Duke of Aveiro, By the Command of the fame King, he was to vific 
 the Emperour Charles V . to Condole with him upon the Death of his Em- 
 prefs ifabel the Infanta of Portugal. 
 
 He took to Wife JULIANA DE M E N E S E S daughter of 
 Peter de Menefes, third Marquefs of Vi lie-real, and of the Marchionefs Bea- 
 trix de Lara his Wife. 
 
 Children of JOHN Duke of Aveiro. 
 
 JJ. GEORGE DE L A NC AS T RO fecond of the name, and 
 
 fecondDukeof Aveiro. 
 
 * 5 . PETE R-DION Y S IU S DE LANCASTRO, had to 
 Wife PHILIPPA DE S I LV A , daughter of John de Silva, heir- 
 efs of the Houfe of Portalegre , and of Margaret de Silva his Wife ; from 
 which Marriage defcended their only daughter Juliana, who dyed 
 young. 
 
 ij. JOHN DE LANCASTRO, a Natural Son, was a Monk of 
 the Order of St. Dominick. 
 
 15. GEORGE DE LANCASTRO } fecond of the 
 name, and fecond Duke of A VE I RO, and 
 Marquefs of Toursneuues . 
 
 O F the two Children of John de Lancaflro Duke of Aveiro , by his 
 Wife Juliana de Menefes , he was the elder ; He accompanied King 
 HisDeath. sebaflian in the Voyage of Africa , and was (lain at the Battel of Alcacer , 
 1 y 7 °' 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 fecond Duke of Aveiro. 
 
 17 . JULIANA DE LANCASTRO, Dutchefs of Aveiro, wa9 
 married to her Cofin A LV ARO DE LANCASTRO, as we 
 (hall (hew you more at large hereafter. 
 
 14. ALPHONSO DE LANCASTRO, Great 
 Commander of St. James. 
 
 H E was fecond Son of George Ballard of Portugal Duke of Conimbra , 
 and of Beatrix de Melo his Wife. He efpoufed Y O L A N D HEN- 
 RI Q U E Z daughter of John Coutinho Earl of Redondo, and of the Coun- 
 ted ifabel Henriquez his W ife ; by her he had four Sons , and fix daughters. 
 
 •ini _ 
 
 Mmtn 
 
 Children 
 
11 Dukes of CON 1 MBRA, Years o? 
 
 CHMSf. 
 
 Children of ALPHONSO D E EA NCA S TR O. 
 
 15. LEWIS DE LANC ASTRO, dyedyoung. 
 
 15. GEORGE DE L AN C A S TRO , was flain at theBattel of 
 
 ^Alcacer in Affrick, in the Year, One thousand five hundred thrtejcorc and I 57 «. 
 eighteen. 
 
 15. ALVARO DE L A N C A S T R O, Duke of AVEIRO, men- 
 tioned in the next place. 
 
 xj. MANUEL DE LANC ASTRO, Great Matter of the- Order 
 of St, ^ames y and Governour of the Jlgarvies , had a Natural Son , which 
 was , 
 
 if. JOHN DE LAN CASTRO, aMonkof the Order of St. 
 
 Augufiine. 
 
 15. ISABEL 15 MARY 
 
 15. BEATRIX 15. PHILIPP 
 
 15. HELENE iy. ANNE 
 
 15. HIEROSME DE LAN CASTRO, a Baftard-Son, was 
 Prior of Teursneuues, and had iflue Constantine, Alvaro, and other 
 Natural Children.. 
 
 15. ALVARO DE L4NCASTRQ , D«% 
 of AVEIRO. 
 
 A % Nuns. 
 
 T His Duke was fourth Son ©f Alphonfo de Lancaftro Great Matter of 
 St. fames, and of Toland Henriqaez his Wife. He took to Wife 
 JULIANA Dutchefs of AVEIRO, only daughter , and foie heir of 
 Duke George II. by Magdalene Giron his Wife : So that the Dutchy Went not 
 out of, the Family. From this Marriage did defcend feveral Children. 
 
 Children of ALVARO DE L AN CASTRO , and of tht 
 Dutchefs JV LIANA d'AVlERO his Wife. 
 
 \6. GEORGE DE LANCASTRO, DukeofTOURS- 
 NEUUES, efpoui'ed ANNE D O R I AC O L O M N A,daughter 
 of Andrew Doria Prince of Melphi, and of fane Colomna his Wife. But 
 this Dutchefs ANNE dyed Without iflue. 
 
 16. ALphoNSO DE L ANC ASTRO, Grand Commander 
 of St, fames. 
 
 JOHN 
 
AVEIRO, WTO URSNEtfUES. 
 
 Years of 
 Christ. 
 
 4 5 
 
 16 , JOHN DE L A-N CASTRO, was a Monk of the Order of St. 
 
 Dominick. 
 
 1-6 ‘ MARIANA DE L AN C A S T R O , a Nun of the Order of 
 St . Francis, in the Monaftery of our Lady at Lis bonne. 
 
 1 6 " B E A T R I X a Nun of the Order of St. Dominick , in the Abbey of 
 St. John at Setnhal. 
 
 14. LEWIS DE LANCASTRO, firtf of the name, 
 Great Mazier of the Order d’Avis. 
 
 O F the four Sons of George Baftardof Portugal Duke of Conimbra, by 
 the Dutchefs Beatrix de Melo his Wife, he was the third. He was 
 j__ g fent by King Sebaftian, to the King of Spain, Philip II. for to Condole 
 with him Upon the death of Prince Charles his eldcft Son, and alfo for the de- 
 ceafe of his third Wifi, Queen i[abel of France. 
 
 He married MAGDALENE OF GRANADA daughter 
 of the Infant John Jo Granada, by Beatrix de Sandoval his Wife - r which In- 
 fant was iffuedfrom the Blood of the antient Kings of Granada. 
 
 Children of LEWIS DE LAN CAS TRO , 
 frSl of the name. 
 
 15. LEWIS DE LAN C AS TRO, fecondof the name, conti- 
 nued the Pofterity. 
 
 15. JOHN DE LANCASTRO had alfo Children, hereafter 
 mentioned. 
 
 15 BEATRIX DE LANCASTRO, fecond Wife of THEO- 
 DOSIUS OF P O R T UG A L, Duke of Braganza. 
 
 1 y ANNE Commandrefs of Sand at, of the Order of St. James. 
 
 ly MAGDALENE, Wifeof JOHN DE SILVEIRA.’ 
 
 x 5< M ART efpoufed JOHN GONCALEZ DE CAMARA,' 
 * Count of' Callera. 
 
 15 . LEWIS D E LANCASTRO, II. of the name , 
 
 Great Mafier d Avis. 
 
 H E was the eldeft Son of Lewis de Lancafiro firft of the name, by the 
 Infanta Magdalene de Granada his Wife and was of the Council of 
 Eftjte to the Kings of Spain, Philip It. and Ilf. and Super- intendant of 
 
 M m m 2 their 
 
^5 Dukes of CON 1 MBRA, 
 
 their Affairs He dyed in the Year, one thoufand fix hundred and thirteen ; 
 and was interred in the great Chappel of theMonaftery of Nuns ofSt .John 
 
 ^PHILIPPA DE MENESES his Wife, was daughter of 
 fames de Silveira fecond Count of Sortella, by Mery de Menefes his Wife. 
 
 Children ^LE W I S DE LAN CAS TRO, 
 fecond of the name. 
 
 !6. FRANCI SLEW IS DE LANC ASTRO, vvhofe Story 
 follower h in the next place. 
 
 16. MAGDALENE DE LANC ASTRO, Wife of JOHN 
 L O B O, fixth Baron of Ahitt, 
 
 1 6. FRANCI S-LE W I S DE LaNCASTRO. 
 
 H E fucceedcd his father and Grand-father Lewis 11. and Lewis /.in the 
 Dignity of Grand Matter d’ Avis 5 and married P H I L I PPA DE 
 MENDOZA daughter of Manuel de Kafconcellos , by Lucia de Mendo- 
 za his Wife. 
 
 Children ^FRANCI S-L E W IS DE 
 LANCASTRO. 
 
 17. LEWIS, and MANUEL. J 
 
 17. PETER, and VERISSIME. 
 
 15. JOHN DE LANCASTRO; 
 
 A Mong the Children of Lewis de Lane afro firft of the name, great Ma- 
 tter d'Avis, and of Magdelene de Grenada his Wife,he was the fecond 9 
 and had two Wives. , , 
 
 His firft Wife was P A U L A D E TAUORA daughter of Law- 
 rence Perez de 1 auora , by Katherine de T auora his W ife. 
 
 His fecond Wife was PHILIPPA DE CASTRO, daughter 
 of Alfhonjo de Caftdblanco Merino , Major of Portugal , and of ifaheldeCa- 
 firo 5 by her he had no iflue ; and dyed in the Year, One thousand fix hun- 
 dred and fourteen. He lieth buried in the Monaftery of St. Anthony, of the 
 Order of St. Francis in the Province of Rabida. 
 
 Children of JOHN DE LANCASTRO 
 by his firji Wife- 
 
 1 6 LAWRENCE DE LANC ASTRO efpoufed AGNES 
 
 DE 
 
 Years of 
 Christ. 
 
Years of A V E I R O, and T O U R S N E U LI E S. 47 
 
 CHRISf ' ME NE s ES daughtei- of Roderick Tellez, de Menefes , Lord of 
 Ugnon : By her he had lCTue ‘ ’ 
 
 17. JOHN DE LAN CASTRO. 
 
 1 Mofmfaq ^ ^ E ^ E ^ANC ASTRO, was {lain by the infidels at 
 
 16. KATHERINE DE 
 JOHN-MART INEZ 
 of Mont-Major the new. 
 
 LANCASTRO , fecond Wife of 
 MASC AREGNAS, grand Alcaida 
 
 lords and counts of 
 
 VILLAR. 
 
 <?. DIONYSIUS OF PORTUGAL, Lord of 
 CIFUENTES, Afcalona^and Aha de Tomes. 
 
 Mong the natural Children of Peter King of Portugal, one, which 
 
 woe Tfincr TtnUvi trip PirfK nmp tr\ on AkfAlm-a « l • 
 
 was King fiohn the Firft, came to an Abfolute Fortune, being gal-vil- 
 chofen King of Portugal, after the Death of King Ferdinand-, LAR. * 
 and another, which was this DEN IS, whom ne begat by 
 Agnes de Caftro, made his Fortunes in CafiMe, where he was 
 Lord ofCIFUENTES, and the other Seigneuries here above-men- 
 tioned. 
 
 He took to Wife JANE OF CASTILLE, natural daughter 
 of Henrj II. King of Caflille and Leon. 
 
 Children ofDIONY SIO OF PORTUGAL, Lord 
 of Cifuentes, and of JANE OF CASTILLE 
 his Wife. 
 
 10. FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL, Knight of the Order 
 of St. tfiames. Commander of oreia , continued the Pofterity. 
 
 10. PETER OF PORTUGAL, Lord of Colmeneraio, had alfo 
 Children. 
 
 jp. BEATRIX OF PORTUGAL , founded the Hofpital of 
 
 " Tordefill/u. 
 
 Na» 
 
 10. FERDI- 
 
43 
 
 Lords and Counts of VI L L A R • 
 
 Years of 
 Christ. 
 
 ,o. FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL , Knight 
 of St. James , and Commander of Oreia. 
 
 H E was eldeft Son of Denis of Portugal Lord of Cifuentes, and lived in 
 Cakiffe during the Reign of King J-okn the fecond. He was twice 
 married* his firft Wife being MARY DE TORRES, daughter of 
 Ferdinand Roderick de Torres , Lord of Villar and Efcagnella, by Agnes S oili- 
 
 er his Wife. „ _ A T 
 
 For his fecond Wife FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL 
 efpoufed ALDARA OSORIO. 
 
 A Son -of FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL, 
 and of MARY DE TORRES hufirHWife. 
 
 ii. DENIS OF PORTUGAL., Lord of Torres , continued the 
 Pofterity. 
 
 Children of FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL,^ 
 of ALDARA OSORIO his fecond Wife* 
 
 T JAMES OF PORTUGAL, efpoufed MARY DE V 1 L- 
 1 'LENAS, by whom he had feveral Children. 
 
 12. FERDINAND, RAMIRO, and JOHN, dyed all with-, 
 out ilfue. 
 
 i2. ALDARA OF PORTUGAL, Wife of LEWIS DE 
 CAL A-T A I U D, Lord of Prouencio. 
 
 i2. JANE OF PORTUGAL, efpoufed to ALPHONSO- 
 SANCHEZ DE C A R U A I A L, Lord of fodar and To- 
 u/trnela. 
 
 U. DENIS, orDlONYSIO OF PORTUGAL,' 
 Lord o/TORRES. 
 
 H E fucceeded not in the Lordfiiip of VilUr , for he dyed in the life- 
 time of There ja de Torres his Cofin German, fhe was daughter of 
 Charles Lord of Villsr brother to Mary , Mother of this DENIS OF 
 PORTUGAL, who efpoufed ISABEL FAXARDO MA- 
 NUEL, daughter of fobn Manuel, and of Menaa Taxardo 5 from which 
 Marriage came one only Son mentioned in the next place. 
 
 12. FER- 
 
Years of 
 
 Christ. 
 
 Lords and Counts of V I L L A R. 
 
 49 
 
 U. FERDINAND D E TORRES, and P Q R- 
 1 U GAL, Lord of V 1 L L A R, Donpardo , 
 and Ecamella. 
 
 H E was only Son of Denis of Portugal Lord of Toms, and of ifabel 
 Faxardo Manuel his Wife, and was twice married 
 His firftWifewas MAGDALENE VILLEGAS, by her he 
 had one daughter, named 
 
 13. MARY MANUEL OF PORTUGAL Wife of AN- 
 THONY DE LA MOTHE in Mexico, 
 
 Thefecond Wife of FERDIN AN D DE TORRES was 
 BEATRIX DE LUXAN, by her he had thefe Children folio w- 
 
 13 . BERNARDINE DE TORRES and PORTUGAL,' 
 Lord of V I L L A R, continued the Poftericy, 
 
 13. ISABEL DE TORRES, Wifcof JOHN DE VILLE- 
 REAL. 
 
 ij. BERNARDINE D E TORRES and P O R- 
 T U G A L,frfi of the name, Lord of VIL- 
 LA R and Donpardo* 
 
 A Mong the Children of Ferdinand dt T ones, and Beatrix ie Lux an his fe- 
 cond Wife, this BERNARDINE was the eldeft. He efpou- 
 fedMARY DE MEXIA daughter of Roderick Mtxia Lord de la 
 Quarde and St, Fimia, by Mary de Ponce Leon his Wife. 
 
 Children of BERNARDINE DE TORRES: 
 Lord of ViUar. 
 
 J4< FERDINAND DE TORRES and PORTUGAL; 
 third of the name, and firft Count ofVlLLAR, had iffiie 
 
 15. BEATRIX DE TOR RES, efpoufedto LE WIS DE 
 C ARUAIAL, Lord dc las Velas, fodar and Touarnela. 
 
 Nnn 2 
 
 14. FER- 
 
5 o 
 
 Lords and Counts of M 1 L LA R- 
 
 Yearsttf 
 
 Christ. 
 
 14. FERDINAND DE TORRES and FOR- 
 TVG A L, third of the name, fir ft Count of V1L. 
 EAR and Donpardo, and Viceroy of Fern. 
 
 H E was SucceH'or of Bernardine de Tones Lord of Ft liar his father, and 
 was employed by the King of Spain, Pbilif II. who created him firft 
 Count of Villar Donpardo. He was V iceroy of Pent, and was twice married. 
 
 He efpoufed for his firft Wife F R A N C E S DE CARUAIAL, 
 daughter of Diego de Caruaial, by ifabel oforio. 
 
 His fecond Marriage was [with MARY DE CAR 1 LLO DE 
 C ORDOUAj daughter of Fernandez, de Cordoua , by ifabel Cabeea' his 
 Wife. 
 
 Children ofFERDlNAND DE TORRES Count of 
 Vtllar , and of FRANCES DE CA KVA 1A L 
 his firft Wife. 
 
 ,y. BERNARDIN DE TO RRES and P O R T U G A L,con& 
 tinued the Defcent. - — — — 
 
 i 5 . JAMES DE -TORRES and PORTUGAL, Knight of St. 1 
 
 fames. 
 
 15. LEWIS DE TORRES. 
 
 ty. GONC.ALO MEXIA DE PORTUGAL. 1 
 
 15. FERDINAND DE T O RRES and PORTUG A L , of 
 ’ whom we fhall fpeak more amply hereafter. 
 
 Children of FERD INANE) D E TORRES , Count ofVil- 
 hr, by MART CARIL LO his fecond Wife. 
 
 15. HIEROSME DE TORRESandPORTUGAL,Knight 
 of St. fames. 
 
 15, JOHN DE TORRES and CORDOUA, Canonofy/W, 1 
 15. MANUEL DE TORRES andPORTUGAL. 1 
 15. JAMES DE TORRES. * 
 
 iy. BEK- 
 
Year 8 of 
 Christ 
 
 Lords and Counts of V I L LA R. 
 
 5 * 
 
 i$. bernardw de Torr es and 
 
 PORTVGAL . 
 
 XfErdinknd de T ones and Portugal, firft Count of Villar, and Frances de 
 I Car tut d his firft Wife, had for their eldeft Son this BERN ARDIN, 
 who dyed iri the life-time of his father, having married AGNES MAN- 
 R I QJJ E, daughter of Goncalo Mcxia Marquefs dc la Guarde , and of Anne 
 Manrique his Wife; and from their Marriage camethefe Children follow- 
 ing , viz,. 
 
 l6w JOHN DE TORRES and PORTEIG ALj Count ofVlL-j 
 L A R, whofe Story followeth in the next place. 
 
 16. BERNARDIN MANRIQUE OF PORTUGAL.' 
 
 1 6. FERDINAND DE TORRES and PORTUGAL. 
 
 Three Daughters Vailed Nuns. 
 
 \6. JOHN DE TORRES and PORTVGAL, < 
 V ; Count ofVILLAR DON PARDO. > 
 
 H E fucceeded his Grand-father Count Ferdinand in the Earldom of 
 Villar, being eldeft Son of Be’rnardin de T ones , by Agnes Mamiques 
 his Wife, and. was made Knight of the Order pf CaUtraua. 
 
 Of the two Wives he efpoufed , the firft was ISABEL CAR- 
 U A I AL daughter of Alphonfo Cxrudldi and of Catharine Mcxia Lady of 
 tfodar and Touarnela his Wife. ... 
 
 His fecond Wife was MAR Y DE MENDOZA, daughter of 
 Bermrdm Suarez de Mendoza , fifth Count of Corugua , and of his Wife Ma- 
 riana de Bacan. 
 
 Children of JOHN DE TORRES andPOR TV GAL , 
 Count of Villar , by IS A BEL CA RVA I AL hi* firft Wife. _ 
 
 17. BERNARDIN DE TORRES and P ORT U G AL, dy- 
 ed young. 
 
 17 AGNES MANRIQUE DE TORRES and PORTU- 
 GAL /efpoufed to A N T HO N Y DE CALATAIUD eldeft 
 Son of the Count of Red, 
 
 Children of JOHN DE TORRES and PORTVGAL, 
 Count of Villar, by MART DE ME NDOZA hh fecond Wife. 
 
 i, IOHN-ANTHONY DE TORRES and PORTUGAL.' 
 
 / • J O 0 o rcK- 
 
5 * 
 
 Lords and Counts of V I L L A R. 
 
 Years of 
 Christ. 
 
 7 . FERDINAND. 
 
 7. JANE. MARY. 
 
 15. FERDINAND DE TORRES and 
 P ORTV GAL. 
 
 O F the Five Children of Ferdinand de T ones and Portugal, firft Count 
 of Fillar, and of the Countefs Frances deCaruaial his firft Wife, this 
 FERDINAN D, which was the fifth, was made a Knight of the Order 
 of St. and married GUI OMAR DE TORRES &CON" 
 T RER A S , daughter of Puy Dias Torres , by Aldoncede Contreras his 
 Wife ; from which Marriage came two Sons and a daughter. 
 
 1 6 . RODERICK DE T O R R E S and PORT UG A L , was 
 (as his father had been before him) Knight of the Order of St. J-ames. 
 
 1 6 . LEWIS Dfe TORIES and PORTUGAL, was one of 
 the Four and twenty Magiftrates of Jaen. 
 
 \ 6 . FRANCES DE T ORRES andPORTUGAL, was efpou- 
 * f e d to JOHN PALOMINO HURTADO DE MENDOZA 
 
 ♦ $♦♦♦# WMM 
 
 10, PETE K oE PORTVGAL , Lord of 
 CO LMENERAIO. 
 
 D Enis, Eaftard-Son of Peter King of Portugal, left two Sons by his 
 Wife font of Cafiille, the elder of which ms Ferdinand of Portugal , 
 from whom the Lords and Earls of Fillar are defeended-, and the younger, 
 this PETER OF PORTUGAL, which fome neverthelefs fup- 
 pofeto be born before his brother .• But however it was , he efpoufed I S A- 
 BEL HENRIQUEZ, by whom had a Son and a daughter, Tia. 
 
 11. JOHN OF PORTUGAL, Lordof COLMENERAIO, 
 whofe Pofterity is mentioned in the next place. 
 
 ill JANE OF PORTUGAL, WifeofVASCO GONCA- 
 LES DE CONTRERAS, Lord de la Puebla and orcaiada. 
 
 11. JOHN OF PORTVGAL , Lordof 
 COLMENERAIO. 
 
 H E was the only Son of Peter of Portugal, alfo Lord of Colmeneraio, by 
 ifabel Henriquez his Wife , and took to Wife B E A T R I X DE 
 
Years of L ° rds ^ CoutltS of V I L L A R. 
 
 Christ. £ A UR E NC ANA; {he was defcended from the Kingdom of 
 f hey had iffue three Sons and a daughter, Viz. 
 
 Lean. 
 
 “• A £ E a r D[N a ND OF PORTUGAL, marriedN.DE OUT 
 A U A, and had by her his only daughter, 
 
 13. TERESA HENRlQUEZ OF P O RT QG AL,efpou- 
 fedtoPETER GONCALES DE MENDOZA. 
 
 12; DENIS OF PO RT UG A L, a younger Son of John Lord of 
 Colmeneraio, was an Ecclefiaftick. 
 
 12. BERNARDIN OF PORTUGAL, married E L UIR A 
 DE MENDOZA, daughter of the Count of Frkgo , and had no iffue 
 by her. 
 
 '**• ISABEL HENRlQUEZ, efpoufed to F R A N C I S Duke 
 DE GUZMAN; fo named by Jlphonft Lopez de Haro in his Book 
 of the Nobility of Spain , chap. IV. 
 
 FINIS.