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Sebastian (Portuguese: Sebastião I [sɨβɐʃˈti.ɐ̃w]; 20 January 1554 – 4 August 1578) was King of Portugal from 11 June 1557 to 4 August 1578 and the penultimate Portuguese monarch of the House of Aviz.
Sebastian (born Jan. 20, 1554, Lisbon, Port.—died Aug. 4, 1578, near Alcazarquivir, Mor.) was the king of Portugal from 1557, a fanatically religious ruler who lost his life in a crusade against the Muslims in Morocco.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sebastian (Sebastião) of Portugal (b. 20 January 1554; d. 4 August 1578), king of Portugal. Camões called him "the well-born hope" of the Portuguese; his nation remembers him as "O Desejado," the Desired One; yet Sebastian also became a symbol of the disgrace the Portuguese dreaded most: loss of their independence.
An austere and religiously driven ruler, Sebastian considered the expansion of Portuguese control in Africa and the New World a divine mission. Although his horoscope predicted that he would sire many sons, Sebastian turned out to be a somewhat mercurial character.
Sebastian ( Portuguese: Sebastião I [ sɨβɐʃˈti.ɐ̃w]; 20 January 1554 – 4 August 1578) was King of Portugal from 11 June 1557 to 4 August 1578 and the penultimate Portuguese monarch of the House of Aviz.
Sebastian, King of Portugal, had appeared as a character in Peele's The Battle of Alcazar (1594), which dramatized his assistance of the deposed Muly Mahamet to regain the throne of Barbary in exchange for the crown of Morocco. Peele's play depicted the death of Sebastian during the eponymous 1578 battle, and his body is carried on stage during ...
Sebastian (Portuguese: Sebastião I [sɨβɐʃˈti.ɐ̃w]; 20 January 1554 – 4 August 1578) was King of Portugal from 11 June 1557 to 4 August 1578 and the penultimate Portuguese monarch of the House of Aviz. He was the son of João Manuel, Prince of Portugal, and his wife, Joanna of Austria.
