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Beja, Portugal Beja () is a city and a municipality in the Alentejo region, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 35,854, in an area of . The city proper had a population of 21,658 in 2001. The municipality is the capital of the Beja District. The present Mayor ...

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Serpa Serpa () is a city and a Concelho (municipality) in the central Portuguese region Alentejo. The population in 2011 was 15,623, in an area of . The Guadiana River flows close to the town of Serpa. History Serpa has its origins in early settlem ...

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

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Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...

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Afonso V of Portugal Afonso V () (15 January 1432 – 28 August 1481), known by the sobriquet the African (), was King of Portugal from 1438 until his death in 1481, with a brief interruption in 1477. His sobriquet refers to his military conquests in Northern Africa. ...

Biography

João was born in Portugal, the son of Martim Afonso de Melo and Briolanja de Sousa. His wife was Isabel da Silveira daughter of

Nuno Martins da Silveira {{Infobox noble, type , name = Nuno Martins da Silveira , title = Lord , image = , caption = , alt = , CoA = , more = , succession = , reig ...

and Leonor Falcão.{{cite book, title=Os Pinto Coelho Da Cunha, date = 9 July 2007, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wF9TBQAAQBAJ&q=Jo%C3%A3o+de+Melo+Isabel+da+Silveira&pg=PA113 , publisher=By Wendel Albert Oliveira Pereira

References

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