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Dom Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu (4 March 1394 – 13 November 1460), better known as Prince Henry the Navigator (Portuguese: Infante Dom Henrique, o Navegador), was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion.
Henry served as regent for his great-nephew King Sebastian, replacing his sister-in-law and Sebastian's grandmother Queen dowager Catherine, following her resignation from the role in 1562. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] King Sebastian died without an heir in the disastrous Battle of Alcácer Quibir that took place in 1578, and the elderly cardinal was proclaimed ...
When King Sebastian of Portugal died, the throne passed to his Grand-uncle, Henry of Portugal (he might be called Henry II because Henry, Count of Portugal, father of Alphonso I of Portugal, was the first of that name to rule Portugal). When Henry died, a succession crisis occurred and António, Prior of Crato, was proclaimed António of Portugal.
The Order of Prince Henry (Portuguese: Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique) is a Portuguese order of knighthood created on 2 June 1960, to commemorate the quincentenary of the death of the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator, one of the main initiators of the Age of Discovery. Minor reforms of the constitution of the Order occurred in 1962 and 1980 ...
Coat of Arms of Prince Henry the Navigator, first Duke of Viseu. Coat of Arms of Infante Ferdinand, 1st Duke of Beja and 2nd Duke of Viseu.. Duke of Viseu (in Portuguese Duque de Viseu) was a Portuguese Royal Dukedom created in 1415 by King John I of Portugal for his third male child, Henry the Navigator, following the conquest of Ceuta.
Commemorative Portuguese tile panel depicting Prince Henry the Navigator at Ceuta, by Jorge Colaço, in display at the Centro Cultural Rodrigues de Faria, Forjães, Esposende, Portugal. Prince Henry left behind a detachment of men to secure the gate while they waited for rest of the army; it arrived shortly afterwards commanded by the King ...
Aerial view of Cape Sagres with the Fortress of Sagres. The School of Sagres (Escola de Sagres in Portuguese), also called Court of Sagres is supposed to have been a group of figures associated with fifteenth century Portuguese navigation, gathered by prince Henry of Portugal in Sagres near Cape St. Vincent, the southwestern end of the Iberian Peninsula, in the Algarve.
Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal (1394–1460) Henry, Duke of Cornwall (January–February 1511), first-born son of Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon, who died in infancy; Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1593/94–1612), son of James I of England; Prince Henry of Prussia (1726–1802), son of King Frederick William I of Prussia