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    Infanta Beatrice of Coimbra (1435–1462) was the fifth child of Infante Peter, Duke of Coimbra, and Isabella of Urgell. After the Battle of Alfarrobeira...
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    Dom Peter, Duke of Coimbra, KG (Portuguese: Pedro Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpeðɾu]; 9 December 1392 – 20 May 1449) was a Portuguese infante (prince)...
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    to Inês de Castro, first performed on March 28, 2012, in New Cathedral of Coimbra on the occasion of 650 years of the transportation of Ines de Castro's...
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    second Duke of Coimbra in 1509. He was also master of the Order of Santiago and administrator of the Order of Aviz from 1492 to 1550. Jorge de Lencastre was...
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    Isabella of Urgell, Duchess of Coimbra (Spanish: Isabel) (12 March 1409 – 17 September 1459) was a Catalan noblewoman of the Urgell branch of the House...
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  • and primatologist Antonio Luiz Coimbra de Castro (1932–2004), Brazilian military general and doctor Arthur Antunes Coimbra, known as Zico (born 1953), Brazilian...
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    Coimbra. King of Aragon, count of Barcelona. James of Portugal, son of Peter, Duke of Coimbra. Cardinal and Archbishop of Lisbon. Beatrice of Coimbra...
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    then went to Coimbra where he graduated from the Colégio de São Bento in 1857. In the fall of 1856, he enrolled at the University of Coimbra, where he studied...
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    1457) was the second son of Infante Peter, Duke of Coimbra, and Isabella of Urgell, Duchess of Coimbra. After the Battle of Alfarrobeira, where his father's...
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    April 1385, the Council of the Kingdom (the Portuguese Cortes) met in Coimbra and declared John, then Master of Aviz, to be king of Portugal. This was...
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    trail became scarce until she completely disappears about 1420. Beatrice was born in Coimbra, during the brief siege of the city by Castilian troops during...
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    Braganza and half-sister of King Edward of Portugal, Infante Peter, Duke of Coimbra, Henry the Navigator, Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy, John,...
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    Portugal (17 September 1433 – 27 August 1459), also known as James of Coimbra, James of Lusitania, was a Portuguese infante (prince) of the House of...
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    Afonso III of Portugal (category People from Coimbra)
    Sancho II of Portugal, who died on 4 January 1248. Afonso was born in Coimbra. As the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal, he was not expected to...
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    Portugal. In 1437, Infante John joined another brother Peter, Duke of Coimbra, in arguing against a projected Portuguese expedition to seize Tangier...
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    Ferdinand I of Portugal (category People from Coimbra)
    crisis, also known as the Portuguese interregnum. Ferdinand was born in Coimbra, the second but eldest surviving son of Peter I and his wife, Constanza...
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    [citation needed] He fell in love with María Teles de Meneses (c. 1338, Coimbra – November 1379, Coimbra), a redheaded beauty about fourteen years older...
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    within Portugal's borders, Afonso ordered Inês de Castro first imprisoned in his mother's old convent in Coimbra, and then murdered in 1355. He expected his...
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    their daughter, Beatrice of Portugal. The jurist João das Regras claimed, in one of the arguments he made before the Cortes of Coimbra in 1385 after King...
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    Peter I of Portugal (category People from Coimbra)
    his death. Born on 8 April 1320 in Coimbra, Peter was the fifth child of Afonso of Portugal and his wife, Beatrice of Castile. Of his six siblings, only...
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    Elizabeth of Portugal (category People from Coimbra)
    the Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha (which she had founded in 1314) in Coimbra. She joined the Third Order of St. Francis, devoting the rest of her life...
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    Infanta Philippa of Coimbra (1437–1497) was the youngest child of Infante Peter, Duke of Coimbra, and Isabella of Aragon, Countess of Urgell. She became...
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    Infanta Isabel of Coimbra (Isabella of Portugal) (1 March 1432 – 2 December 1455) was a Portuguese infanta and Queen of Portugal as the first spouse of...
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    de (12 September 2014). "Uma modernidade perdida: da melancolia à alegria racional na antropologia do homem superior". Revista Filosófica de Coimbra....
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    Afonso II of Portugal (category People from Coimbra)
    in Coimbra on 25 March 1223 before making any serious attempts to do so. King Afonso was buried originally at the Monastery of Santa Cruz in Coimbra where...
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    university was moved between Lisbon and Coimbra several times, and finally installed permanently in Coimbra in 1537 by order of King John III. As a devotee...
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    Sancho I of Portugal (category People from Coimbra)
    nicknamed "the Populator" (Portuguese: "o Povoador"), King of Portugal (Coimbra, 11 November 1154 – 26 March 1211) was the second but only surviving legitimate...
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    Beatrice of Castile or Beatriz (1293 – 25 October 1359) was an infanta of Castile, daughter of Sancho IV and María de Molina. She was Queen of Portugal...
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    King of Portugal in 1433. Peter (9 December 1392 – 20 May 1449), Duke of Coimbra, a well-travelled man who served as regent during the minority of his nephew...
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    Portuguese scholars until 1990, when Torquato de Sousa Soares proposed Coimbra, the centre of the county of Coimbra and another political centre of Afonso's...
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