Afonso I Henriquez, King of Portugal[1, 2]
1106 - 1185 (~ 79 years)
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Name Afonso I Henriquez King Afonso I of Portugal
Compendio de crónicas de reyes del Antiguo Testamento, gentiles, cónsules y emperadores romanos, reyes godos y de los reinos de Castilla, Aragón, Navarra y Portugal (ca. 1325)Suffix King of Portugal Born ca. 1106 Guimarães, Portugal 
Gender Male Title 1112 Conde de Portugal Title 1139 King of Portugal Military 24 Oct 1146 Lisbon, Portugal [3, 4] Capture of Lisbon Died 6 Dec 1185 Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Buried Monastery of the Holy Cross, Coimbra, Portugal 
Tomb of Afonso I, Monastery of the Holy Cross, Coimbra, Portugal Person ID I15134 Dickinson Last Modified 6 Nov 2017
Father Henri de Bourgogne, Conde de Portugal, b. ca. 1069, Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, France , d. 1 Nov 1112, Astorga, Spain (Age ~ 43 years) Relationship Birth Mother Teresa Alfonso, b. ca. 1081, d. 1 Nov 1130 (Age ~ 49 years) Relationship Birth Married ca. 1095 Family ID F4686 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mathilde de Savoie, Queen consort of Portugal, b. ca. 1125, d. 4 Nov 1157, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Age ~ 32 years) Married 1146 Children 1. Mafalda de Portugal, b. ca. 1149, d. ca. 1173 (Age ~ 24 years) [Birth] + 2. Urraca de Portugal, Queen consort of Léon, b. ca. 1151, d. 16 Oct 1188, Valladolid, Valladolid, Castilla-Leon, Spain (Age ~ 37 years)+ 3. Sancho I Martino de Portugal, King of Portugal, b. 1 Nov 1154, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal , d. 26 Mar 1212, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Age 57 years) [Birth]4. Teresa-Mafalda de Portugal, b. ca. 1157, d. 6 May 1218, Veurne, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium (Age ~ 61 years) [Birth]Last Modified 9 Apr 2017 Family ID F4677 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map 
Born - ca. 1106 - Guimarães, Portugal 
Military - Capture of Lisbon - 24 Oct 1146 - Lisbon, Portugal 
Died - 6 Dec 1185 - Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal 
Buried - - Monastery of the Holy Cross, Coimbra, Portugal = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Sources - [S336463] Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families, Charles Cawley, (Online: The Foundation for Medieval Genealogy at http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/, 20XX), http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/PORTUGAL.htm#AffonsoIdied1185B.
- [S336470] Wikipedia, (Online: https://en.wikipedia.org), Afonso I of Portugal, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_I_of_Portugal.
- [S420] The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land, Thomas Asbridge, (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 212.
- [S359] The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors, Dan Jones, (New York: Viking, 2017), 61, 115.
"During the 1140s, Afonso Henriques cleared the valley of the lower Targus, eventually conquering as far south as Lisbon, where the river empties into the Atlantic Ocean."
- [S336463] Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families, Charles Cawley, (Online: The Foundation for Medieval Genealogy at http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/, 20XX), http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/PORTUGAL.htm#AffonsoIdied1185B.