However, he was not, according to several sources, Dinis ' favourite son ; his half-brother, the illegitimate Afonso Sanches, enjoyed full royal favour.

During the reign of Afonso II, when the king continued to provoke the ire of the Papacy, Portuguese knights attacked the Galician tenancy of his half-brother Martin Sanches ( who lived in the kingdom of Alfonso IX of León ), possibly since the Bishop of Braga had estates in that region.

It was to be given to his bastard son Afonso Sanches.

In 1318, Afonso Sanches ( the illegitimate son of King Dinis of Portugal and Aldonça Rodrigues Telha ) and Teresa Martins ( daughter of João Afonso de Menez, Count of Barcelos and grand-daughter of Sancho IV of Castile ) founded the Monastery of Santa Clara.

The Infante greatly resented the king, whom he accused of favoring the king's illegitimate son, Afonso Sanches.

Despite these incidences of occasional violence between African and European forces however, many African states were able to ensure that any trade went on in their own terms, imposing custom duties on foreign ships, and in one case that occurred in 1525, the Kongolese king, Afonso I, seized a French vessel and its crew for illegally trading on his coast.

Afonso de Albuquerque's squadron had, however, split from that of Cunha off East Africa and was independently conquering territories in the Persian Gulf to the west.

Afonso de Albuquerque's squadron had however split from that of Cunha off east Africa and was independently conquering territories to the west.

Her husband presumably married Inês after Constance's death ; however, Inês was later murdered on the orders of King Afonso.

Within the Portuguese aristocracy, however, especially those in the circle around Afonso, Eleonor of Aragon was preferred, and there were doubts about Peter's political abilities.

Afonso did not pursue territory enlargement policies and managed to insure peace with Castile during his reign.

Afonso, of course, did not refuse the papal order and marched to Portugal.

Although Lucius accepted Afonso ’ s feudal homage on 1 May 1144, and excused him from appearing in person, he did not acknowledge Afonso as King of Portugal, but instead as Dux Portugallensis.

The scandal of this affair caused Afonso to banish Inês from court, but this did not end the relationship, and the two began living together in secret.

King Afonso IV of Portugal, Peter's father, disliked Inês's influence on his son and waited for their mutual infatuation to wear off, but it did not.

In an attempt to mitigate these problems, Manuel de Arriaga wrote to the three party leaders ( Camacho, Afonso Costa and António José de Almeida ) in order to come to an accord and form a unity government, but Afonso Costa did not react well to the proposal.

The 1447 expedition led by Estêvão Afonso did not go beyond the beginning of the estuary of the Gambia River, and thereafter expeditions below Cape Vert were largely suspended by Prince Henry.

Afonso Dhlakama of RENAMO came second with 31. 7 % of the vote, and announced that he did not recognize the results.

As this conquest did not take all of the Algarve, D. Sancho never used the title King of Portugal and the Algarve, but instead it was adopted by his grandson Afonso III of Portugal as a part of the titles and honours of the Portuguese Crown.

The scandal of this affair caused Afonso to banish Inês from court, but this did not end the relationship, and the two began living together in secret.

Secure on the throne, Afonso III then proceeded to make war with the Muslim communities that still thrived in the south.

After three years of war against Urraca and other rival claimants to the throne of León, Count Henry himself died in 1112, leaving his widow Theresa to govern Portugal north of the Mondego during the minority of her infant son Afonso: south of the Mondego the Moors were still supreme.

In 1184, in spite of his great age, King Afonso of Portugal still had sufficient energy to relieve his son Sancho, who was besieged in Santarém by the Moors.

The celebration of this marriage, while Matilda, countess of Boulogne and first wife of Afonso III, was still alive, entailed the imposition of an interdict upon the kingdom.

The Church of Santa Maria in Óbidos was the setting for the wedding of King Afonso V to his cousin, Princess Isabella of Coimbra, on 15 August 1441, when they were both still children aged 9 and 10, respectively.

Years after his death, Zeca Afonso is still widely listened to, not only in Portugal, but also abroad.

The whole monastic complex, the church and the tombs of King Afonso Henriques and of his successor, King Sancho I, were rearranged and transferred to the main-chapel in 1530, where they still lie in a sculptural work by Nicolau Chanterene.

King Afonso is little more than a shadow, and only meets Inês once, his son never ; while, stranger still, Pedro and Inês never come on the stage together, and their love is merely narrated.

* 1511 – Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Malacca Sultanate.

* 1643 – Afonso VI of Portugal ( d. 1683 )

Afonso de Albuquerque ( or archaically spelt as Aphonso d ' Albuquerque and also spelt as Alfonso, and Alphonso ; ; 1453December 16, 1515 ), 1st Duke of Goa, was a Portuguese fidalgo, or nobleman, an admiral whose military and administrative activities as second governor of Portuguese India conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean.

In 1138, Ali ibn Yusuf was defeated by Alfonso VII of León, and in the Battle of Ourique ( 1139 ), by Afonso I of Portugal, who thereby won his crown.

Afonso I ( 25 June 1109, Guimarães or Viseu – 6 December 1185, Coimbra ), more commonly known as Afonso Henriques (), nicknamed " the Conqueror " (), " the Founder " () or " the Great " () by the Portuguese, and El-Bortukali (" the Portuguese ") and Ibn-Arrik (" son of Henry ", " Henriques ") by the Moors whom he fought, was the first King of Portugal.

Afonso I was the son of Henry of Burgundy and Theresa of León, the natural daughter of King Alfonso VI of León.

Tomb of Afonso Henriques in the Santa Cruz Monastery in Coimbra.

Afonso, born in 1109, took the title of Prince after taking the throne of his mother, supported by the generality of the Portuguese nobility who disliked the alliance between Galicia and Portugal Countess Theresa had come to, marrying a second time the most powerful Galician count.

In 1122 Afonso became fourteen, the adult age in the 12th century.

Thus the possibility of re-incorporating Portugal ( up to then Southern Galicia ) into a Kingdom of Portugal and Galicia as before was eliminated and Afonso became sole ruler ( Duke of Portugal ) after demands for independence from the county's church and nobles.

On 6 April 1129, Afonso Henriques dictated the writ in which he proclaimed himself Prince of Portugal.

Afonso then turned his arms against the persistent problem of the Moors in the south.

Afonso wed Maud of Savoy, daughter of Amadeus III, Count of Savoy, and sent ambassadors to Rome to negotiate with the Pope.

King Afonso I at the Siege of Lisbon.

Bypassing any king of León, Afonso declared himself the direct liegeman of the Papacy.

Afonso became involved in a war, taking the side of the Aragonese king, an enemy of Castile.

In 1169 the now old Dom Afonso was disabled in an engagement near Badajoz by a fall from his horse, and made prisoner by the soldiers of the king of León, his son-in-law.

Portugal was obliged to surrender as his ransom almost all the conquests Afonso had made in Galicia ( north of the Minho ) in the previous years.

Afonso at the Battle of Ourique.

In the papal bull Manifestis Probatum, Pope Alexander III acknowledged Afonso as King and Portugal as an independent crown with the right to conquer lands from the Moors.

Afonso died shortly after, on 6 December 1185.

There are stories that it would take 10 men to carry his sword, and that Afonso would want to engage other monarchs in personal combat, but no one would dare accept his challenge.

These are the known ancestors of Afonso Henriques, going back five generations.

Afonso married in 1146 Mafalda or Maud of Savoy ( 1125 – 1158 ), daughter of Amadeo III, Count of Savoy, and Mahaut of Albon.