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Afonso III moved his capital from Coimbra to Lisbon in 1260, six years after he had called the first Cortes (parliament) in Leiria.
Two years later, the Portuguese sent their fleet, led by Afonso de Albuquerque, to seize Melaka.
It was recaptured from the Moors early in the Christian Reconquest campaign and, when Afonso Henriques declared himself the first king in 1139, the Minho became the independent state of Portucale (covering an area from the Douro to the River Minho).
The church holds the tombs of Portugal’s first and second kings, Afonso Henriques and Sancho I, and the Claustro del Silencio (Cloister of Silence) is lined with pretty arches and colorful azulejos.
Afonso V married his cousin Isabel in this small church in 1441, when they were mere children (he was 10, she all of eight).