Risultati di ricerca
30 gen 2023 · This is the fourth and the last video for the "Inception of Portugal". And, it deals with Afonso Henriques, who was born in 1109 in Guimaraes, was the first ...
- 14 min
- 16,9K
- CRITICAL HISTORY TIMES
Afonso I Mvemba a Nzinga. Born: c. 1460. Died: 1542. Afonso I (born c. 1460—died 1542) was the ruler of Kongo (historical kingdom in west-central Africa) and the first of a line of Portuguese vassal kings that lasted until the early 20th century. He is sometimes called “The Apostle of Kongo” for his role in making Kongo a Christian kingdom.
In 1526 the desperate king wrote the following three letters to King Joao III of Portugal, urging him to control his rapacious subjects. The documents are part of a collection of twenty-four ...
Afonso V (born Jan. 15, 1432, Sintra, Port.—died Aug. 28, 1481, Sintra) was the 10th king of Portugal (1438–81), known as the African from his campaigns in Morocco. The son of King Edward (Duarte) and Queen Leonor, daughter of King Ferdinand I of Aragon, Afonso succeeded to the throne at the age of six. In 1440 his mother was deprived of ...
12 mag 2021 · Afonso I of Kongo strategically pursued a close mutually beneficial relationship with Portugal. At first, he collaborated in the slave trade, but later rejected it when it got out of control.
Afonso Henriques (1106?-1185) was the first king of Portugal and one of the country's greatest monarchs. He ruled the new kingdom from 1139 to 1185, also one of the longest reigns in Portuguese history, tied at 46 years with King Dinis (1261-1325), the sixth king. Afonso Henriques created the kingdom of Portugal from the condado Portucalense ...
Annotation. In 1526, the king of the Kongo, Nzinga Mbemba (who by this time had adopted the Christian name of Afonso I) began writing a series of twenty-four letters to the Portuguese King Joao III appealing for an end to the slave trade. While a trading relationship had been in place between Portugal and Kongo since the 1480s, Afonso was ...
