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Signature. Dom John VI (Portuguese: João VI; [2][3] 13 May 1767 – 10 March 1826), nicknamed " the Clement ", was King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves from 1816 to 1825. Although the United Kingdom of Portugal ceased to exist de facto beginning in 1822, he remained its monarch de jure between 1822 and 1825.
Appearance. The Crown of João VI with the Sceptre of the Armillary; Ajuda National Palace. The Portuguese crown jewels (jóias da Coroa Portuguesa), also known as the Royal Treasure (Tesouro Real), are the pieces of jewelry, regalia, and vestments that were used by the Kings and Queens of Portugal during the time of the Portuguese Monarchy.
Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza. This is a list of Portuguese monarchs who ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of Portugal, in 1139, to the deposition of the Portuguese monarchy and creation of the Portuguese Republic with the 5 October 1910 revolution. Through the nearly 800 years in which Portugal was a monarchy, the kings held various ...
Description. King Manuel II of Portugal, wearing the Mantle of Luís I, with the Crown of João VI, on the day of his Acclamation. The crown is fashioned out of gold, silver, iron, and red velvet. Its eight half arches are surmounted by a monde: a globus cruciger on a crown, with a cross at its top—as Portugal was a Catholic nation.
Joaquim Rafael Rodrigues (3 February, 1783 — 14 August, 1864) was a Portuguese painter, set designer and sculptor. He was appointed as a professor of drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lisbon and became the First Painter at the Royal Court, where he also sculpted, among others, wax busts of Queen D. Maria I, King João VI and Queen Carlota Joaquina, to be found in the Palace of Ajuda in ...
Mantle (royal garment) The French emperor Napoleon I crowns his empress. Both wear royal mantles. A royal mantle, or more simply a Mantle, is a garment normally worn by emperors, kings or queens as a symbol of authority. When worn at a coronation, such mantles may be referred to as coronation mantles. Many princes also wear such a mantle.
The king had the Regent Diamond set in the lower part of the fleur-de-lis in the front of his crown, while eight of the famous Mazarin diamonds that the cardinal had bequeathed to the French Crown are set in the other seven fleur-de-lis and in the circlet of the crown. Diamonds and colored gemstones are set between two rows of pearls on the ...
Portuguese heraldry encompasses the modern and historic traditions of heraldry in Portugal and the Portuguese Empire.Portuguese heraldry is part of the larger Iberian tradition of heraldry, one of the major schools of heraldic tradition, and grants coats of arms to individuals (usually members of the Portuguese Royal Family or the Portuguese nobility), cities, Portuguese colonies, and other ...