Chapter XVII- D. Sebastião

The wished


Picture 1- D. Sebastião

He ascended the throne on the death of his grandfather D. João III, on June 11, 1557, at the age of three.

However, it is his grandmother, Queen D. Catarina, who remained as regent until 1562, a year that gives up the regency and is replaced by the cardinal-infant D. Henrique, brother of King João III

It was founded in his reign the city of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil on January 20, 1565

Some historians consider that D. Sebastião as a Catholic and Portuguese king would be obsessed because he wished ardently to cover himself with Glory in combat against the Muslims, this will blinded him and dragged him to his tragic end, and this was the reason the Led to want to conquer Morocco to the Moors

At the age of 24, on June 24, 1578, he left for the Africa campaign, where he wanted to expand Portuguese expansion.

The 4 of August of 1578, D. Sebastião dies in the Battle of Alcácer Quibir, with 24 years, nevertheless its companions of war, never found its body, leading that many Portuguese believed that it had just disappeared


Picture 2- Battle of Alcácer Quibir

Myth Sebastianism: for many long years there was the myth that D. Sebastião would appear in a foggy night , because after the battle the king's body was never discovered, which simply disappeared in combat


Picture 3- Myth Sebastianism


His death brought a crisis of Portuguese succession and resulted in the loss of independence of Portugal, which was subject to the Castilian Crown for 60 years.
His recklessness, the fact that he had always refused marriage proposals and had left no descendants, were the reasons for the loss of the Portuguese Independence

In 1582, Filipe I of Portugal, he ordered the transfer to the Jerónimos monastery in Lisbon of a body that claimed to be that of the disappeared king D. Sebastião, in the hope of ending the Sebastianist myth

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