CHAPTER I

EARLY HISTORY TO JOÃO I (TO 1383 A.D.) 425

Land and people, 425. The origin of Portugal, 427. Herculano’s estimate of the first Portuguese king, 432. Reigns of Sancho I and Alfonso II, 434. Sancho II called Capello (“the hooded”), 437. Sancho deposed, Alfonso III succeeds, 438. Political importance of Alfonso’s reign, 440. Don Diniz, 441. The romance of Iñes de Castro, 444. Pedro the Severe, 446.

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