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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.
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.
SEBASTIAN, king of Portugal (Port. Sebastido ) (1554-1578), the posthumous son of Prince John of Portugal and of his wife Joanna, daughter of the emperor Charles, was born in 1554, and became king in on the death of his grandfather John III. of Portugal.
Biography. Called "the Desired", son of Prince John of Portugal and his wife, Joan of Austria. Sebastian did not marry and died young, presumably at the Battle of Alcácer Quibir. This led to Sebastianism: the belief that Sebastian could return at any moment.
King Sebastian I of Portugal, born on January 20, 1554, and ruling from June 11, 1557, until his disappearance on August 4, 1578, was a significant figure in Portuguese history. As the penultimate monarch of the House of Aviz, he left an indelible mark on the country's legacy.
Morais painted a number of portraits of the young King Sebastian which were sent to his mother, Joanna of Austria, who had been forced to leave her only son behind when she travelled to Spain to rule as regent. Sebastian I was the only son of John Manuel of Portugal and his wife Joanna of Austria.
Sebastian, 1554–78, king of Portugal (1557–78), grandson and successor of John III. He was under the regency first of his grandmother (until 1562) and then of his uncle Henry (a cardinal and later king) until declared of age in 1568.
King Sebastian of Portugal (January 20, 1554 - August 4, 1578) was the grandson of John III, and became heir to the throne due to the death of his father, Crown Prince João Manuel, two weeks before his birth.
