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Old April 10th, 2021 #1
Miguel Dias
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Default Afonso Henriques the Conqueror

Afonso Henriques is a founder King of Portugal.
The conqueror lead Portuguese people to reclaim ancestral iberian lands from arabs and moors.
His descendants completed the job and we have most of our modern borders intact.(Olivença be back.)
He has related to the king of France through his fathers line.
Count Henry was his father. Henriques means son of Henry.
His mother was the ilegitimate but accepted or legitimized Gothic princess Theresa.
The Castilian Kings were direct descendants of Gothic nobility, Goths were an East Germanic people that originally spoke Gothic an east germanic language(extinct more or less, but there are attempts to revive it).
The Goths ravaged Hispania(Roman name for Iberian peninsula) with total war, the survivers created with the Goths a state called Gothia or Gothic Hispania.
Afonso Henriques was descendant from this line, although there is a theory that he might not have been the actual son of count henry.
Afonso Henriques was Gothic and Frankish leading Portucalense county to glory and being acclaimed king after some conflicts including a battle with 5 moorish kings and defeating them.
 
Old April 11th, 2021 #2
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He was said to use a huge sword and had spies in the moorish south.
 
Old April 12th, 2021 #3
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Great king Afonso Henriques the Conqueror!

Under the command of this great king, the Portuguese won the Battle of Ourique, against five Moorish emirs, and the forces of these emirates were in greater numbers.

Iberia started cleaning up the Moorish plague ...

This cleaning work would be completed from 1499:

In 1499 a staunch and somewhat fanatical Roman Catholic, Pedro Sarmiento, wrote the anti-Jewish Sentencia-Estatuto, which prohibited conversos from holding public or ecclesiastical offices and from testifying against Spanish Christians in courts of law. That statute was followed by the 16th-century laws of purity of blood (limpieza de sangre) which further strengthened the laws against anyone of Jewish ancestry and were more racial than religious in nature.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/converso#ref175216


Then there is the Iberian Union, which took place between 1580 and 1640, the unification of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns, and the cleaning of the Jewish plague extends throughout Iberia.

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Old April 13th, 2021 #4
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exactly.
its a shame that dutch, french and english didnt do the same to their own kik.
had we united inter empire forces we coud have cleansed north africa and others giving us a buffer zone.
 
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