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It was not until 1128, when Dom Afonso Henríques became the Count of Portucale, that the struggle to regain power met with any real success.
Afonso III moved his capital from Coimbra to Lisbon in 1260, six years after he had called the first Cortes (parliament) in Leiria.
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.
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.
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.