Henrique Lopes de Mendonça (3 July 1856 – 24 August 1931) was a Portuguese poet, playwright, novelist, novella and

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writer, and naval officer. He wrote several plays, and with his friend, the composer

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, he wrote the lyrics of the future Portuguese national anthem, '' A Portuguesa'', which was officially adopted in 1911.

Family

He married Maria Amélia Bordalo Pinheiro, daughter of famous painter Manuel Bordalo Pinheiro and wife Augusta Maria do Ó de Carvalho Prostes, and had issue, three children: * Virgínia Bordalo Pinheiro Lopes de Mendonça (1881–1969), twin, a short story writer and playwright, unmarried and without issue * Vasco Bordalo Pinheiro Lopes de Mendonça (1881–1963), twin, married to Maria Adelaide dos Santos, and had issue, two children: ** Manuel Vasco dos Santos Lopes de Mendonça, unmarried and without issue ** Maria da Graça dos Santos Lopes de Mendonça, married on 11 May 1939 to Jorge Maia Ramos Pereira ( Caminha, Vila Praia de Âncora, 6 April 1901 – Lisbon, 16 March 1974), an

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of the

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, without issue * Alda Bordalo Pinheiro Lopes de Mendonça, unmarried and without issue 1856 births 1939 deaths People from Lisbon National anthem writers Portuguese male poets 19th-century Portuguese poets 19th-century Portuguese dramatists and playwrights Portuguese male novelists 20th-century Portuguese poets 20th-century dramatists and playwrights Male dramatists and playwrights 19th-century male writers 20th-century male writers 19th-century Portuguese novelists 20th-century Portuguese novelists {{Portugal-writer-stub