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Adam, Francisco b. August 13, 1983 d. April 16, 2006
Actor. A native of Lisbon, Portugal, he grew up in Runa, a village near Torres Vedras, Portugal. A popular Portuguese young actor, he was known for his role as 'Dino' in the telenovela (television series) "Morangos com Acucar", and was also a successful model for Elite Models and On Fashion. On Easter Sunday 2006 he was killed in a car accident near Alcochete, Portugal, after an autograph signing session at a nightclub, at the age of 22.
Cemiterio de Runa, Runa, Lisboa, Portugal
Afonso VI of Portugal b. August 21, 1643 d. September 12, 1675
Portuguese Monarch. He reigned as King of Portugal from 1656 to 1667. The second king of the House of Braganza, his parents were King João IV and his wife, queen Luisa de Gusmão. He succeeded his father in 1656 at the age of 16. His reign saw military victories over the Spanish at Ameixial (June 8, 1663) and Montes Claros (June 17, 1665), culmination in the final Spanish recognition of Portugal's independence of February 13, 1668. Colonial affairs saw the Dutch conquest of Jaffnapatam, Portugal'...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Sao Vicente de Fora, Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Borbón y de Borbón, Alfonso [original burial site] b. October 3, 1941 d. March 29, 1956
Spanish Royalty, Infante de España. Alfonso Christian Teresa Angelo Francisco Borbón y de Borbón was the fourth son of Juan Carlos de Borbón y Battenberg, Count of Barcelona and María de las Mercedes di Borbone. He was also the younger brother of Juan Carlos de Borbón, nowadays Juan Carlos I King of Spain. Alfonso Borbón y de Borbón was killed in an uninvestigated and obscure incident when he and his brother were manipulating a cal. 22 pistol. In 1992 his remains were moved to Spain to be...[Read More] (Bio by: 380W)
Cascais Cemetery, Cascais, Lisboa, Portugal
Braga, Teofilo b. February 24, 1843 d. January 28, 1924
Portuguese President. He served as the President of Portugal from May 29, 1915, to October 5, 1915. He also served as the President of the Provisory Government from October 6, 1910, to August 24, 1911. Also a noted writer and playwright whose works include, "Visao dos Tempos" (1864), "Miragens Seculares" (1884), and "Viriato" (1904). (Bio by: K)
Panteao Nacional, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Braganza, Catherine Of b. November 25, 1638 d. November 30, 1705
British monarch, Queen consort of King Charles II. The daughter of John IV of Portugal and Luisa de Guzman. She married Charles in May of 1662. She was not a popular queen, being Roman Catholic, and her faith prevented her from being crowned. Charles was a womanizer, but Catherine failed to give birth to a living heir, despite several pregnancies. She was neglected by her husband, who continued to have children by his mistresses, and he refused to divorce her. Upon Charles' death in 1685, she...[Read More] (Bio by: VampireRed)
Sao Vicente de Fora, Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Plot: Pantheon of the royal House of Braganza
Camões, Luís Vaz b. 1524 d. June 10, 1580
Poet. Generally considered Portugal's greatest poet, his mastery and art is only comparable in greatness to Virgil, Dante or Shakespeare. He penned dozens of sonnets and other poems, but is best remembered for his epic work "Os Lusíadas." He was born in Lisbon. When he was very young, legend says, he fell in love with a lady of the court. The lady had also caught the king's eye, however, and so Camões was sent into exile. The lady died of a broken heart, and Camões thought so much of her that...[Read More] (Bio by: Cristiana Santos)
Monastery of Jeronimos, Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Cardoso Pires, José b. October 2, 1925 d. October 26, 1998
Portuguese Writer and Essayist. He was born in Sao Joao do Peso and died in Lisbon. He fought against the dictatorship in his country, and during the 1960s, he was forced into exile. As a writer, he is best remembered for his books "Balada da Praia dos Caes" (Ballad of Dog's Beach), "Imperatores, Almirantes e Vampiros," "A Cavalo no Diabo," "Os Caminheiros e Outros Contos," "O Anjo Ancorado," "O Render dos Heróis," "Dinossauro Excelentíssimo" and "Alexandra Alpha." As essayist, "Técnicas do...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Cemitério dos Prazeres, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Carlos I of Portugal b. September 28, 1863 d. February 1, 1908
Portuguese Monarch. He reigned as King of Portugal from 1889 to 1908. His parents were King Luiz I and Queen Maria Pia of Savoy, the daughter of king Umberto I of Italy. King Carlos I was an intelligent but extravagant man. Colonial treaties with Britain in 1892 and 1902 stabilized the colonial situation in Africa. Portugal was twice declared bankrupt during his reigh, in 1892 and again in 1902 causing industrial disturbances, socialist and republican antagonism and criticism of the monarchy...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Sao Vicente de Fora, Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Carmona, Oscar b. November 24, 1869 d. April 18, 1951
Portuguese President. He served as the President of Portugal from July 9, 1926, until his death on April 18, 1951. He also served as the Prime Minister of Portugal from July 9, 1926, to April 18, 1928. Also a noted military leader he was the author of the book, "Prefacio" (1928). (Bio by: K)
Panteao Nacional, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Catherine of Castile b. January 14, 1507 d. February 12, 1578
Royalty, posthumous daughter of Philipp I and Joanna of Castile. When her mother was imprisoned at castle Tordesillas, Catherine accompanied her. While her five siblings were raised at the courts in Mecheln and Madrid she lived in a small room which was located behind her mothers room. When her brother Charles and her sister Eleanor visited their...[Read More] (Bio by: Lutetia)
Monastery of Jeronimos, Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Cintron, Conchita b. August 9, 1922 d. February 17, 2009
Matadora. Called "La Diosa de Oro", or "Blonde Goddess", she was arguably the best-known female bullfighter of all-time, killing roughly 750 bulls over the course of her career. Born Concepcion Cintron Verrill to American parents (her father was a Puerto Rican West Point graduate) living in Chile for business reasons, she was raised in Lima, Peru, from age three. At around 11 Conchita was taught horse riding by Ruy da Camara, a retired Portugese rejoneador (bullfighter from horseback) whom she...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Cemitério de Trajouce, Trajouce, Lisboa, Portugal
De Deus, João b. March 7, 1830 d. January 10, 1896
Poet. João de Deus Ramos was born in São Bartolomeu de Messines in the province of Algarve. He completed his baccalaureat in law at the University of Coimbra in 1859. A unanimously popular figure of his age, he was honored at national level in 1895 one year before his death. Although he worked as a journalist, he is still remembered more as a great lyrical poet and the teacher who perfected a method of teaching reading that was published as "Cartilha Maternal" in 1876. It was an immediate...[Read More] (Bio by: F G)
Panteao Nacional, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Fernão II of Portugal b. October 29, 1816 d. December 15, 1885
Portugal Monarch. He reigned as King consort of Portugal following his marriage to Queen Maria II da Glória in 1836. He was born as Ferdinand, prince von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, the son of Ferdinand von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha and his wife princess Maria Antonia von Kohary, a Catholic Hungarian noble-woman. (This branch of the previously fully Protestant Coburg-family became Catholics, and good marriage material to Catholic monarchies). According to Portuguese law, the husband of a reigning queen...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Sao Vicente de Fora, Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Fielding, Henry b. April 22, 1707 d. October 8, 1754
Novelist, satirist, playwright, magistrate. Born to an aristocratic family, Fielding was educated at Eton and studied law for a time at Leiden University in southern Holland before beginning his career in London writing for the theatre. His political satires were scathing, and are thought to be the reason behind the Theatrical Licensing Act of 1737, which made putting a political satire on the stage virtually impossible, and made those who wrote them suspect. Fielding then retired from the...[Read More] (Bio by: VampireRed)
British Cemetery, Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Gama, Vasco Da b. 1469 d. December 24, 1524
Explorer, Navigator, born in Sines, Alentejo, Portugal. He led the expedition which discovered the route to India round the Cape of Good Hope (1497-1499), and in 1502-1503 led a squadron of ships to Calicut to avenge the murder of a group of Portuguese explorers left there by Cabral. In 1524 he was sent as viceroy to India, but he soon fell ill, and died at Cochin. His body was brought home to Portugal.
Monastery of Jeronimos, Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Guerra Junqueiro b. September 17, 1850 d. July 7, 1923
Poet, Journalist, Politician. Abílio Guerra Junqueiro was born in Freixo de Espada à Cinta, in the Trás-os-Montes region, and studied theology and law at the University of Coimbra. His life was a combination of peaceful rural life devoted to farming in the Douro region, and public life dedicated to political struggles, which led him to be a member of the Portuguese parliament and a diplomat. He was linked to the Vencidos da Vida group, but broke away from some of its members at the time of the...[Read More] (Bio by: F G)
Panteao Nacional, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Habsburg, Maria Anna Josepha of b. March 6, 1683 d. April 14, 1754
[Body without Heart] Archduchess of Austria. Queen of Portugal. Daughter of Emperor Leopold I. and Eleonore Magdalene von Neuburg. She loved the ballet and danced at the court theater. On October 27. 1708 she married King João V of Portugal. They had six children. In 1742 her husband was hit by a stroke. Assisted by advisers, she conducted the government until his death eight years later. It was her wish, that her heart should be buried in Vienna. Her body rests beside her husband in Sao...[Read More] (Bio by: Lutetia)
Sao Vicente de Fora, Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Josepha, Isabel Louisa b. January 6, 1668 d. October 21, 1690
Portuguese infanta and the sole daughter of King Peter II of Portugal and his first wife and former sister-in-law Marie-Françoise of Savoy. As such she was styled Princess of Beira. She was the presumptive heir to the throne of Portugal between 1668 and 1689, the year her half-brother John was born. She was planned to marry Victor Amadeus II of Savoy and many royal heads in Europe but every arrangement failed due in part to her fragile health. For this she was nicknamed Sempre-noiva, "Always-...[Read More] (Bio by: Donna)
Sao Vicente de Fora, Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
King Afonso IV b. February 8, 1291 d. May 28, 1357
King of Portugal 1325-1357. "Afonso the Brave" was the son and heir of king Dinis I the Farmer of Portugal and his queen Isabella de Aragon. He had a long quarrel with his half-brother Afonso Sanches about the Royal favour of their common father. The rivalry led to several outbreaks of civil war. When Afonso IV became king in 1325, Afonso Sanches was exiled to Castile.In 1309, Afonso IV married princess Beatrice, daughter of king Sancho IV of Castile by his wife Maria de Molina. The first-born...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Se Lisboa, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Luís I of Portugal b. October 31, 1838 d. October 19, 1889
Portuguese Monarch. He reigned as King of Portugal from 1861 to 1889. The second son of Queen Maria II da Glória and her King consort Fernão II von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, he was married to princess Maria Pia of Savoy, the daughter of the 1st Italian king Vittorio Emanuele II and his queen Adelheid of Austria. Luís was a cultured man who wrote vernacular poetry, but otherwise had no distinguishing gifts in the political field into which he was thrust by the death of his brother king Pedro V in...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Sao Vicente de Fora, Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

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