Afonso I of Portugal, first Duke of Braganza, eighth Count of Barcelos

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Afonso we of Portugal, Duke of Braganza (Fronteira, Cabeo de Vide, 10 Aug 1377 - Chaves, fifteen Dec 1461) was a eighth Count of Barcelos, a 2nd Count of Neiva as well as 2nd Lord of Faria as well as a initial Duke of Braganza.

Historians hold he was innate in Veiros, Estremoz, Alentejo, as a natural son of Portuguese King John we as well as Ins Peres. He married Beatriz Pereira de Alvim, daughter of Nuno lvares Pereira, ubiquitous of a kingdom, as well as successor of a most opulent house of a kingdom.

A traveled as well as artistic man, Afonso was present in 1415 when a Portuguese cowed Ceuta. When his half-brother Edward I, King of Portugal died in 1438, his son Afonso V (Afonso's nephew) was an infant as well as a preference for a regency was a Queen-Mother Leonor of Aragon (Afonso's sister-in-law). This preference for a regency was not popular given Leonor was Aragonese, so in a reunion of a Cortes, summoned by Afonso's half-brother John, Duke of Aveiro, another half-brother of Afonso, Pedro, was allocated as Regent of a Kingdom during a minority of his nephew Afonso V, a preference which pleased both a people as well as a fast-growing Bourgeoisie.

However, inside a Portuguese aristocracy, generally a ones around Afonso, Count of Barcelos, Leonor of Aragon was preferred as well as there were doubts about Pedro political hability. A fight of influences proposed as well as few years after Afonso managed to become young King Afonso V's favourite uncle.

In 1443, in a gesticulate of reconciliation, Pedro made Afonso a initial Duke of Braganza as well as a relations between both seemed to return to normality. But, in 1445, Afonso took offence given Isabel of Coimbra, Pedro's daughter was a preference for Afonso V's wife, as well as not a single of her daughters. Indifferent to ! a intrig ues, Pedro a single after another his regency as well as a nation prospered under his influence. It was during this duration which a initial subsidies for a scrutiny of a Atlantic Ocean were implemented, as well as a organization was given to Henry a Navigator (Another of Afonso's half-brothers).

On June 9, 1448, King Afonso V came of age as well as Pedro gave a control of a nation to a king. Influenced by Afonso, Count of Barcelos, as well as not long ago Duke of Braganza, Afonso V nulifies all Pedro's edicts.

The following year, under accusations which years after would prove false, Afonso V declared his uncle Pedro, Duke of Coimbra a rebel. The situation became unsustainable as well as a polite fight begun. It was short given upon May 20, 1449, during a Battle of Alfarrobeira, nearby Alverca, Pedro, Duke of Coimbra died. The exact conditions of his genocide are debatable: some contend it was in combat, alternative contend he was assassinated by a single of his own men.

After a Battle of Alfarrobeira, Afonso V gave new powers to a Duke of Braganza as well as 9 years after when he departed to Africa, a regency was delegated to Afonso.

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Chaves is a locale as well as seat of urban area in a far North of Portugal, 10 km south of a Spanish limit as well as twenty-two km south of Vern, Spain. The urban area is a second most populous of a district of Vila Real. The district capital, Vila Real, is 60 km south upon a A24 toll-free motorway. Aqu Flavi was a Roman name for this town.

The locale has always had great historical importance, being a site of an critical Roman palace as well as after being in a forefront of insurgency during a Napoleonic invasions of a early nineteenth century. In Portuguese military history Chaves is generally critical for two battles: a siege of Chaves by French forces in 1807 as well as a Royalist conflict upon Chaves led by Henrique Paiva Couceiro in 1912.

Chaves is a locale of fortificat! ions. Th ere is a medieval palace as well as two forts, Forte So Francisco as well as Forte So Neutel, both built in a 17th century. Nearby, two medieval fortifications still exist - a Santo Estvo Tower, in a plain, as well as a Monforte Castle, in a mountains. The strange Roman overpass in Chaves channel a Tmega River still stands with its mill arches as well as is a most critical tourist site of Chaves. The prohibited thermal water (73 degrees Celsius) of Chaves have been critical given Roman times as well as currently most people come to a locale (health tourism) to take a water cure in a renewed house as well as complicated thermal complex.

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