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Not until 1249 did King Afonso III (1248–1279) complete the Reconquest and secure borders for Portugal — 250 years before the Spanish could do the same.
Two years later, the Portuguese sent their fleet, led by Afonso de Albuquerque, to seize Melaka.
Afonso III moved his capital from Coimbra to Lisbon in 1260, six years after he had called the first Cortes (parliament) in Leiria.
Built to celebrate a victory, the 1147 battle in which Dom Afonso Henriques took over the town of Santarém from the Moors, the church remains the largest in Portugal.
Pedro and Inês lived a tragic love story that ended with her murder — ordered by Pedro’s father, King Afonso IV.