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  2. Manuel I of Portugal - Wikipedia

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    Manuel I [a] (European Portuguese:; 31 May 1469 – 13 December 1521), known as the Fortunate (Portuguese: O Venturoso), was King of Portugal from 1495 to 1521. A member of the House of Aviz , Manuel was Duke of Beja and Viseu prior to succeeding his cousin, John II of Portugal , as monarch.

  3. Capture of Malacca (1511) - Wikipedia

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    The capture of Malacca was the result of a plan by King Manuel I of Portugal, who since 1505 had intended to beat the Castilians to the Far-East, and Albuquerque's own project of establishing firm foundations for Portuguese India, alongside Hormuz, Goa and Aden, to ultimately control trade and thwart Muslim shipping in the Indian Ocean.

  4. Persecution of Jews and Muslims by Manuel I of Portugal

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    Expulsion of the Jews in 1497, in a 1917 watercolour by Alfredo Roque Gameiro. On 5 December 1496, King Manuel I of Portugal decreed that all Jews must convert to Catholicism or leave the country, in order to satisfy a request by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain during the negotiations of the contract of marriage between himself and their eldest daughter Isabella, Princess of Asturias, as an ...

  5. List of Portuguese monarchs - Wikipedia

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    With Manuel II's death, the Miguelist branch of the house of Braganza became the pretenders to the throne of Portugal. They have all been acclaimed king of Portugal by their monarchist groups. The monarchs of Portugal all came from a single ancestor, Afonso I of Portugal, but direct lines have sometimes ended. This has led to a variety of royal ...

  6. Portuguese Cortes - Wikipedia

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    Manuel I (r.1495-1521) convened them only four times in his long reign. By the time of Sebastian (r.1554–1578), the Cortes was practically an irrelevance. Curiously, the Cortes gained a new importance with the Iberian Union of 1581, finding a role as the representative of Portuguese interests to the new Habsburg monarch.

  7. Kingdom of Portugal - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of Portugal [3] was a monarchy in the western Iberian Peninsula and the predecessor of the modern Portuguese Republic. Existing to various extents between 1139 and 1910, it was also known as the Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves after 1415, and as the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves between 1815 and 1822.

  8. Letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha - Wikipedia

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    Pedro Álvares Cabral led the largest fleet in the Portuguese fleet on a mission to Calicut, India, where Vasco da Gama had opened a sea route two years prior. Many historians have debated on the authenticity of this discovery; some have reason to believe that Portugal had prior knowledge of Brazil's existence. [ 1 ]

  9. Manuel I - Wikipedia

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    Manuel I may refer to: Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (1143–1180) Manuel I of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond (1228–1263) Manuel I of Portugal, King of Portugal (1496–1521) Manuel I, Patriarch of Lisbon (1800–1869)