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In 419 Olissipo was plundered and burnt by the Visigothic king Walia, who founded the Visigothic kingdom in Spain. [71] Remismund conquered Lisbon in 468 with the help of a Hispano-Roman called Lusidius, [72] and finally in 469 it was integrated into the Suevi kingdom whose capital city was Braga.
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 late king's elderly great-uncle, Cardinal Henry, then became king. [98] Henry I died a mere two years later, on 31 January 1580. [99] [100] The death of the latter, without any appointed heirs, led to the Portuguese succession crisis of 1580. [101] Portugal was worried about the maintenance of its independence and sought help to find a new ...
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 ...
Henry was the third surviving son of King John I and his wife Philippa, [3] sister of King Henry IV of England.He was baptized in Porto, and may have been born there, probably when the royal couple was living in the city's old mint, now called Casa do Infante (Prince's House), or in the region nearby.
Lisbon Regicide: King Carlos I of Portugal and his son and heir, prince Luis Filipe, Duke of Braganza, are killed in the Regicide of Lisbon by Alfredo Luís da Costa and Manuel Buíça, republicans of the Carbonária (the Portuguese section of the Carbonari). Manuel II of Portugal, King Carlos's youngest son, becomes king. 1909
Lisbon is one of the oldest cities in the world [7] and the second-oldest European capital city (after Athens), predating other modern European capitals by centuries. [8] Settled by pre-Celtic tribes and later founded and civilized by the Phoenicians, Julius Caesar made it a municipium called Felicitas Julia, [9] adding the term to the name ...
The Roman leaders decided to change their strategy. They bribed Viriathus's ambassador to kill his own leader. In 139 BC, Viriathus was assassinated, and the resistance was soon over. Rome installed a colonial regime. During this period, Lusitania grew in prosperity and many of modern-day Portugal's cities and towns were founded.