The tombs are of gothic style and made of limestone of the Coimbra region. The early location of the graves was side by side (while Inês on the right side of Pedro, what should happen between husband and wife) in the southern transept Alcobaça Monastery Church. It went to the room of the Tombs. In […]
Inês de Castro, 1325 – 7 January 1355 was a Galician noblewoman born of a Portuguese mother. She is best known as lover and posthumously-recognized wife of King Peter I of Portugal. The dramatic circumstances of her relationship with Peter I, which was forbidden by his father King Afonso IV, her murder at the orders of Afonso, Peter’s bloody […]
What follows is the translated text of the Chronicle of the King Don Afonso Henriques.There is a long, sound tradition in Portugal of the appearance of Christ Our Savior to King Don Afonso Henriques, a fact that is confirmed by the writings of our own Portuguese authors as well as many from other countries, thus […]
Implemented in Portugal since the twelfth century, the Cistercian Order accompanied the formation of the territory and the political statement of the first dynasty. Gradually extending their monasteries in central and northern regions, thanks to the special royal protection, the white monks contributed decisively to the colonization and development of the vast areas occupied applying […]
