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Persoonlijke gegevens Manuel de PORTUGAL I 

• Hij is geboren op 31 mei 1469 in Alcochete, Setubal, Portugal.
• Titel: King of Portugal & The Algarves
• Hij is overleden op 13 december 1521 in Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, hij was toen 52 jaar oud.

  Died of the Plague

• Hij is begraven in Jerónimos Monastery, Belém, Lisboa, Portugal.
• Een kind van Ferdinand de VISEU

Gezin van Manuel de PORTUGAL I

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Maria d'ARAGON.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 30 oktober 1500 te Alcácer do Sal, Setúbal, Portugal, hij was toen 31 jaar oud.

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Eleanor de CASTILE.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 16 juli 1518, hij was toen 49 jaar oud.

(3) Hij had een relatie met Isabella d'ARAGON.

Notities over Manuel de PORTUGAL I

Manuel I (English: Emmanuel I; 31 May 1469 - 13 December 1521), the Fortunate (Port. o Afortunado), King of Portugal and the Algarves was the son of Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu (1433-70) by his wife, Infanta Beatrice of Portugal. His name is associated with a period of Portuguese civilization distinguished by significant achievements both in political affairs and the arts. In spite of its small size and population in comparison to the great land powers of Europe, it was able to acquire an overseas empire of vast proportions and with a global dimension, for the first time in history, during Manuel's reign.

Manuel's mother was the granddaughter of King John I of Portugal; his father, Infante Fernando, was the second surviving son of King Edward of Portugal and the younger brother of King Afonso V of Portugal. Manuel succeeded in 1495 his first cousin, King John II of Portugal, who was also his brother-in-law, being married to Manuel's sister, Leonor.

Manuel grew up amidst conspiracies of the Portuguese upper nobility against King John II. He was aware of many people being killed and exiled. His older brother Diogo, Duke of Viseu, was stabbed to death in 1484 by the king himself.

Manuel thus had every reason to worry when he received a royal order in 1493 to present himself to the king, but his fears were groundless: John II wanted to name him heir to the throne, after the death of his son, Prince Afonso, and the failed attempts to legitimise Jorge, Duke of Coimbra, his illegitimate son. As a result of this stroke of luck he was nicknamed the Fortunate.

Negotiations for a marriage between Manuel and Elizabeth of York in 1485 were halted by the death of Richard III of England. He went on to marry three times. His first wife was Isabella of Aragon, princess of Spain and widow of the previous Prince of Portugal Afonso. Next he married another princess of Spain, Maria of Aragon (his first wife's sister), then Eleanor of Austria, a niece of his first two wives who married Francis I of France after Manuel's death.

He wanted to marry Infanta Isabella of Aragon, then heiress of the future united crown of Spain (widow of his nephew Prince Afonso). Ferdinand and Isabella had expelled the Jews in 1492, and would never marry their daughter to the king of a country that still tolerated their presence. In the marriage contract, Manuel I agreed to persecute the Jews of Portugal. Isabella died in childbirth in 1498, putting a damper on Portuguese ambitions to rule in Spain, which various rulers had harbored since the reign of King Ferdinand I (1367-1383). Manuel and Isabella's young son Miguel was for a period the heir apparent of Castile and Aragon, but his death in 1500 ended these ambitions.

Manuel's next wife, Maria of Aragon, was his first wife's sister, but not the oldest surviving one. That was Joanna of Castile, who had issue.

The Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon houses Manuel's tomb. His son João succeeded him as king.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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