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Peter first locked his brother away, but came to the throne in his own right after Afonso's death in 1683.
Afonso's son, John II, turned his back on Castile and saw an opportunity on the ocean discoveries and expanded them, making Portugal the first intercontinental empire and becoming the most powerful King in medieval History.
) Pedro first installed himself as his brother's regent ; then, he arranged Afonso's exile to the island of Terceira in the Azores on the pretense that he was incapable of governing.
It was during this period that the first subsidies for the exploration of the Atlantic Ocean were appropriated under the supervision of Henry the Navigator ( another of Afonso's half-brothers ).

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Finished on April 24, 1459, it was sent to Portugal with a letter to Prince Henry the Navigator, Afonso's uncle, encouraging further funding of exploration trips.
Afonso's grandfather Afonso V of Portugal had sided with Joanna la Beltraneja who was a rival for the throne of Castile against her half aunt Isabella of Castile.
Her parents ignored this, and in 1497 she was persuaded to marry to Manuel I of Portugal, Afonso's uncle and John II's cousin and successor.
His book Cantares de José Afonso ( José Afonso's songs ) was published.
When his half-brother King Edward I of Portugal died in 1438, his son Afonso V ( Afonso's nephew ) was an infant and the choice for the regency was the Queen Mother Eleonor of Aragon ( Afonso's sister-in-law ).
This choice for the regency was not popular because Eleonor was Aragonese, so in a meeting of the Portuguese Cortes summoned by Afonso's half-brother John, Lord of Reguengos de Monsaraz, the regency was awarded to the Infante Peter, Duke of Coimbra, another half-brother of Afonso and an uncle of the young king.
Beatrice was Afonso's sister-in-law and Isabella ’ s maternal aunt.

Afonso's and .
Meanwhile, King Alfonso VII of León ( Afonso's cousin ) regarded the independent ruler of Portugal as nothing but a rebel.
On 7 January 1325, Afonso's father died and he became king, taking full revenge on his brother.
After a few failed attempts at invasion, the brothers signed a peace treaty, arranged by Afonso's mother Queen Elizabeth.
Afonso's attempts to take over the throne of Castile were not successful after he lost a short war with Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon.
Slave trading increased with Afonso's wars of conquest.
Meanwhile, King Alfonso VII of León ( Afonso's cousin ) regarded the independent ruler of Portugal as nothing but a rebel.
This is the official motive behind Afonso's next action: he sent three men to find Inês and murder her in 1355.
Afonso I wrote a series of letters to the kings of Portugal Manuel I and João III of Portugal concerning to the behavior of the Portuguese in his country and their role in the developing slave trade, complaining of Portuguese complicity in purchasing illegally enslaved people and the connections between Afonso's men, Portuguese mercenaries in Kongo's service and the capture and sale of slaves by Portuguese.
But he made mistakes, for when his two brothers John and Fernando died, he gave their military titles to his sons, and not Afonso's sons as promised.
When young Afonso V reached his 14th birthday, he dismissed his uncle as regent, associated with Afonso's sons, and began to uproot Peter's men from their positions of power.
Afonso's exile lasted seven years.
* Marie Françoise Élisabeth of Savoy, Mademoiselle d ' Aumale ( 1646 – 1683 ), who married king Alphonso VI of Portugal, in 1666 and afterwards Afonso's younger brother, Pedro, Duke of Beja, regent of Portugal, and had issue.
Coelho left Portugal for a third time on April 14, 1503 as captain of the " Faial " with the armada of Afonso de Albuquerque, but died while returning home to Portugal in January 1504 along with Francisco de Albuquerque, Afonso's cousin, near the shallows of São Lázaro, modern day Quirimbas Islands, Mozambique.

first and wife
At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.
Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.
Hearst saw his wife and child, sent a joyful message to his mother in California, and soon returned to Washington, where on April 22, for the first time, he opened his mouth in Congress.
His son Thomas, aged fifteen when he entered Oxford in 1582, married as his first wife Margaret, sister of Sir Edward Greville.
Having ( through my unflagging effort and devotion ) achieved stardom, a fortune and a world-renowned wife at an age when most young men are casting their first vote, Letch proceeded to neglect them all.
These are the poems Hardy wrote after the death of his first wife ; ;
One thing should be clear to both husband and wife -- neither pain nor profuse bleeding has to occur when the hymen is ruptured during the first sex act.
Palfrey told his wife of his intentions for the first time, and left for New Orleans apprehensively invoking a special blessing of Providence that he might be allowed to see his family again.
Jen Nelson, as Thea, his first wife, managed to make that short role impressive.
When the husband drops the case and returns to his wife, both seem sorry they brought the matter up in the first place.
After all, his wife had written most of his letters for him in those first lean days of Partlow Products.
He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School.
In 1946, van Vogt and his first wife, Edna Mayne Hull, were co-Guests of Honor at the fourth World Science Fiction Convention.
He was a son of king Alaric II and his first wife Theodegotho, daughter of Theodoric the Great.
By the first wife he had Mustafa III and by the second wife he had Abdul Hamid I.
According to the accounts given by Pindar and the tragedians, Agamemnon was slain in a bath by his wife alone, a blanket of cloth or a net having first been thrown over him to prevent resistance.
Agesilaus was the son of Archidamus II and his second wife, Eupoleia, brother to Cynisca ( the first woman in ancient history to achieve an Olympic victory ), and younger half-brother of Agis II.
Agrippina was the wife of the general and statesman Germanicus and a relative to the first Roman Emperors.
She became Tiberius's first wife and was the mother of his natural son Drusus Julius Caesar.
Vipsania Marcella was the first wife of the general Publius Quinctilius Varus.
Livia was the first Roman Empress and was Augustus ’ third wife ( from Livia ’ s first marriage to praetor Tiberius Nero, she had two sons: the emperor Tiberius and the general Nero Claudius Drusus.
After the death of her first husband, Agrippina tried to make shameless advances to the future emperor Galba, who showed no interest in her and was devoted to his wife Aemilia Lepida.
Ajax is the son of Telamon, who was the son of Aeacus and grandson of Zeus, and his first wife Periboea.

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