(Obs … History or Story, it is not up to us to judge or create jealousy here.)
In every country there are moments in history that turn into great puzzles over time.
The history of Portugal is full of great mysteries. Intrigues, disappearances, deaths, adulteries… everything happened to the Portuguese Royal Family in 900 years of history. Adventures and misadventures, untold stories, betrayals to explain and even outrageous cruelties. From reis to queens to navigators.
1 — D. SEBASTIAN WAS ARRESTED IN ITALY
King Dom Sebastião survived the battle of Alcácer-Quibir and reappeared in 1598 in Italy, where he was later arrested in Venice, Florence and Naples, with the complicity of the Spanish.
Most historians have accepted without discussion the official version of Dom Sebastião’s History that was created “during the period of Philippine domination with clear political intentions.” There was “a continued and premeditated destruction of the King’s image.”
Among the evidence that Don Sebastião did not die in Alcácer-Quibir, “there are several witnesses who testified that they saw him leave the battle alive, including Sebastião Figueira, who declared that he had left it with the King” and that “the recognized in Venice in the person of the Knight of the Cross, or, as it became for history, as ‘Don Sebastian of Venice’. ”
More: “In addition to other very strong evidence, an important indication that Dom Sebastião survived” was “the nineteenth century finding of a gold medal with the inscription ‘Sebastianus Primus Portugaliae Rex’ on a tomb in the chapel of S. Sebastião from the Augustine Convent of Limoges, where according to tradition was buried a Portuguese King of the same name. ”
2 — The Marquis of Pombal was descended from a black slave
Famous minister who ruled Portugal for 27 years, responsible for the reconstruction of Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake, the extinction of the Inquisition and the law of 19 September 1761, which ends the three hundred and twenty years of importation of labor. slave to Portugal.
Another 1773 Pombaline law, known as the “Free Belly Law,” stipulated “that those whose slavery goes back to their great-grandmother be freed and emancipated, even though…
