Joaquim António de Aguiar (
Coimbra
Coimbra (, also , , or ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population of the municipality at the 2011 census was 143,397, in an area of .
The fourth-largest urban area in Portugal after Lisbon, Porto, and Braga, it is the largest cit ...
, 24 August 1792 –
Lisbon
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, 26 May 1884) was a Portuguese politician. He held several relevant political posts during the Portuguese constitutional monarchy, namely as leader of the
Cartists and later of the ''
Partido Regenerador'' ( en, Regenerator Party). He was three times prime minister of Portugal: between 1841 and 1842, in 1860 and finally from 1865 to 1868, when he entered a coalition with the ''Partido Progressista'' (English: Progressist Party), in what became known as the ''Governo de Fusão'' (English: Fusion Government).
He also served as minister of justice during the regency of
Peter IV and in that capacity issued the 30 May 1834 law which extinguished "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses of the regular religious orders". Their vast patrimony was taken over by the Portuguese State and incorporated into the ''Fazenda Nacional'' (the National Exchequer). This law and its anti-ecclesiastical spirit earned Joaquim António de Aguiar the nickname "''O Mata-Frades''" (English: "The Friar-Killer").
See also
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Dissolution of the monasteries in Portugal The dissolution of the monasteries in Portugal was a nationalization of the property of male monastic orders effected by a decree of 28 May 1834 enacted by Joaquim António de Aguiar at the conclusion of the Portuguese Civil War. Portugal thus ter ...
References
External links
Portugal – Dicionário Histórico, Corográfico, Heráldico, Biográfico, Bibliográfico,Numismático e ArtísticoVolume I, págs. 94–95.
1792 births
1884 deaths
Prime Ministers of Portugal
Progressive Party (Portugal) politicians
People of the Liberal Wars
People from Coimbra
19th-century Portuguese politicians
Portuguese military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars
University of Coimbra alumni
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