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People: Louis X
Topic: São Mamede, Battle of
Location: Santacara Navarra Spain

São Mamede, Battle of

Years: 1128 - 1128

The Battle of São Mamede takes place on 24 June, 1128 near Guimarães and is considered the seminal event for the foundation of the Kingdom of Portugal.

Portuguese forces led by Afonso Henriques defeat forces led by his mother Teresa of León and her lover Fernão Peres de Trava.

Following São Mamede, the future king styles himself "Prince of Portugal".

He will be called "King of Portugal" in 1139 and be recognized as such by neighboring kingdoms in 1143.

"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"

― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)