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Manuel I: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Manuel the Fortunate • Manuel O Afortunado
Born May 31, 1469 • Portugal
Died December 1521 (aged 52) • Lisbon • Portugal
Title / Office king (1495-1521), Portugal
John II of Portugal
John II
king of Portugal
Afonso de Albuquerque
Afonso de Albuquerque
Portuguese conqueror
John I and John of Gaunt
John I
king of Portugal
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John III
king of Portugal
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Afonso V
king of Portugal
Charles III
Charles III
king of Spain
Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama
Portuguese navigator
João de Barros
João de Barros
Portuguese historian
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Francisco de Almeida
viceroy of India
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Duarte Pacheco Pereira
Portuguese explorer
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Sancho I
king of Portugal
Martim Afonso de Sousa.
Martim Afonso de Sousa
Portuguese admiral
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Tomé de Sousa
governor general of Brazil
Full-length portrait of Cardinal Richelieu by Philippe de Champaigne, showing him in red clerical robes holding a red book, standing beside a balustrade with a draped curtain behind.
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
president of France
Leopold II
Leopold II
king of Belgium
Frederick Lugard
Frederick Lugard
British colonial administrator
Robert Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury
prime minister of United Kingdom
Dalhousie, detail of an oil painting by Sir John Watson-Gordon, 1847; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
James Andrew Broun Ramsay, marquess and 10th earl of Dalhousie
governor-general of India
Jan Pieterszoon Coen
Jan Pieterszoon Coen
Dutch merchant and statesman

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