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Updated: May 5, 2025
He was much less successful in the chancel of Belem, while about the cathedral which he built at Miranda de Douro it is difficult to find out anything, so remote and inaccessible is it, except that it stands magnificently on a high rock above the river. The reigns of Dom Sebastião and of his grand-uncle, the Cardinal-King, were noted for no great activity in building.
But the lieutenant-general of the realm felt it time for him to show that his authority was not a shadow that he was not a pasteboard functionary like the deceased cardinal-king, Charles X. The letters entrusted by the Sixteen to Claude Mathieu were intercepted by Henry, and, very probably, an intimation of their contents was furnished to Mayenne.
In this same summer, the Cardinal-King of Portugal, Sebastian's successor, died.
But the lieutenant-general of the realm felt it time for him to show that his authority was not a shadow that he was not a pasteboard functionary like the deceased cardinal-king, Charles X. The letters entrusted by the Sixteen to Claude Mathieu were intercepted by Henry, and, very probably, an intimation of their contents was furnished to Mayenne.
But the lieutenant-general of the realm felt it time for him to show that his authority was not a shadow that he was not a pasteboard functionary like the deceased cardinal-king, Charles X. The letters entrusted by the Sixteen to Claude Mathieu were intercepted by Henry, and, very probably, an intimation of their contents was furnished to Mayenne.
In the latter part of the sixteenth century, after Don Sebastian had fallen in the ill-fated expedition to Morocco, Philip the Second of Spain took advantage of the failure of the male line on the death of the cardinal-king, Henry, to add Portugal to his dominions, already too large.
But the lieutenant-general of the realm felt it time for him to show that his authority was not a shadow that he was not a pasteboard functionary like the deceased cardinal-king, Charles X. The letters entrusted by the Sixteen to Claude Mathieu were intercepted by Henry, and, very probably, an intimation of their contents was furnished to Mayenne.
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