Dec 12, 2022
Portugal, Manuel I (1495-1521)
Portugues of 10 Cruzados, Lisbon
Manuel I (31 May 1469 – 13 December 1521), known as the Fortunate (Portuguese: O Venturoso), was King of Portugal from 1495 to 1521.
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Portugal, Manuel I (1495-1521)
Portugues of 10 Cruzados, Lisbon
Manuel I (31 May 1469 – 13 December 1521), known as the Fortunate (Portuguese: O Venturoso), was King of Portugal from 1495 to 1521.
Portuguese monarchs: The House of Aviz.
By the Grace of God, Manuel the First, King of Portugal and the Algarves on this side of the seas and beyond them in Africa, Lord of Guinea and of Conquest, Navigation, and Commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, and India, etc.
Royal birthdays for today, May 31st:
Manuel I, King of Portugal, 1469
Agnes of Hesse, Electress of Saxony, 1527
Feodor I, Tsar of Russia, 1557
John George II, Elector of Saxony, 1613
Michael I, King of Poland, 1640
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, 1923
Felicia van Lippe-Biesterfeld, van Vollenhoven, 2005
The 72 Coats of Arms of Portugal
At the dawn of the sixteenth century, Portugal was a kingdom that sought the Omphalos, the navel of the world, the sacred centre where Heaven and Earth could converge. The old Knights Templar, reborn as the Order of Christ in Portuguese territory, had exchanged the horse for the caravel, carrying the Cross across the seas in pursuit of that hidden axis, the legendary Kingdom of Prester John. Navigation was a form of pilgrimage and an act of metaphysical cartography.
This visionary atmosphere conceived the Hall of Coats of Arms in the National Palace of Sintra. Inspired by the ideal of universal harmony, King Manuel I commissioned the painting of 72 coats of arms on its ceiling, a heraldic firmament representing the principal noble families of Portugal. This act was in itself a symbolic architecture of the cosmos.
The number 72 was not a coincidence. In crowning his hall with seventy-two coats of arms, Manuel I performed a metaphysical act: he placed at Sintra the centre he had once sought beyond the seas. The Solar King enthroned himself within a zodiacal mandala: seventy-two rays of the cosmic wheel, the doubling of the thirty-six Egyptian decans, through which Divine energy descends into the manifested world. This same structure underlies the Shem ha-Mephorash (שֵׁם הַמְּפֹרָשׁ), the “Explicit Name” of God composed of seventy-two triads of Hebrew letters extracted from the Book of Exodus.
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Manuel I 1143-1180 AD
Constantinople Mint
Obverse IC XC
Christ seated front, nimbate, holding Book of Gospels
Reverse MANVHA ΔECΠΟ
Manuel I on left, holding labarum and globus cruciger, being crowned by Mary on right, M above Mary, Θ to right
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Foi rei da Segunda Dinastia e o decimo quarto Rei de Portugal. Filho de Dom Fernando, Duque de Viseu e de Dona Beatriz, que nasceu em Alcochete a 31 de Maio de 1469 e morreu em Lisboa a 13 de Dezembro de 1521 e está sepultado em Lisboa, no Mosteiro dos…
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