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Sancho I of Portugal (Portuguese pronunciation:), nicknamed "the Populator" (Portuguese: "o Povoador"), King of Portugal (Coimbra, 11 November 1154 [1] – 26 March 1211 [2] [3]) was the second but only surviving legitimate son and fifth child of Afonso I of Portugal by his wife, Maud of Savoy.
Retaliation for Sancho's bold "Triana Raid", as it was later called, came soon. The Muslims invaded Portugal again in 1179. They besieged the city of Abrantes, but they were unsuccessful in capturing it. [4] A Muslim fleet also attacked the outskirts of Lisbon. [4]
In Portugal, the city of Guarda was founded in 1199, in a location that was both difficult to reach and allowed as many as twenty leagues of the surrounding territory to be watched. [79] That same year, king Sancho donated to the Templars the lands of Açafa where the city of Castelo Branco would be established.
A treaty of 10 articles was signed between the Pope and Sancho II, but the king paid little attention to its fulfillment. His priority was the Reconquista, the reconquest of the southern Iberian Peninsula from the Moors. From 1236 onwards, Sancho II conquered several cities in the Algarve and Alentejo, securing the Portuguese position in the ...
The Portuguese had participated in the Reconquista practically ever since the foundation of the County of Portugal in 868.. King Sancho I had captured Silves in Algarve in 1189, however the great Muslim city was retaken by the Almohads in 1191 and all Portuguese conquests south of the Tagus river lost, with the exception of Évora, which remained in the hands of the Order of Aviz.
The House of Aviz, known as the Joanine Dynasty, succeeded the House of Burgundy as the reigning house of the Kingdom of Portugal. The house was founded by John I of Portugal, who was the Grand Master of the Order of Aviz. When King John II of Portugal died without an heir, the throne of Portugal passed to his cousin, Manuel, Duke of Beja.
After signing a five-year truce with Sancho, al-Manṣūr returned to Africa. [1] [9] He had pushed the border north as far as the Tagus, leaving Portugal only one significant fortress to its south, at Évora. [8] [7] Silves was taken and partially destroyed by the German Crusade of 1197, but it remained in Almohad hands. [7] [10]
Sancho I of Portugal, nicknamed the Populator, (1154 - 1212) Sancho II of Portugal , nicknamed "the Pious" and "the Caped" or "the Capuched", (1209 - 1248) Topics referred to by the same term