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HENRY I

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 293 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY I . (1512-1580), See also:king of See also:Portugal, third son of Emanuel the Fortunate, was See also:born in See also:Lisbon, on the 31st of See also:January 1512. He was destined for the See also:church, and in 1532 was raised to the archiepiscopal see of See also:Braga. In 1542 he received the See also:cardinal's See also:hat, and in 1578 when he was called to succeed his grandnephew See also:Sebastian on the See also:throne, he held the archbishoprics of Lisbon and See also:Coimbra as well as that of Braga, in addition to the wealthy abbacy of Alcobazar. As an ecclesiastic he was pious, pure, See also:simple in his mode of See also:life, charitable, and a learned and liberal See also:patron of letters; but as a See also:sovereign he proved weak, timid and incapable. On his See also:death in 158o, after a brief reign of seventeen months, the male See also:line of the royal See also:family which traced its descent from Henry, first See also:count of Portugal (c. 1too), came to an end; and all attempts to See also:fix the See also:succession during his lifetime having ignominiously failed, Portugal became an easy See also:prey to See also:Philip II. of See also:Spain.

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