Battle of Alcántara

See also: Alcántara

The battles of Alcántara (1580) is a Spanish victory over the Portuguese.

Stakes

The king Sebastien I {{er}}, killed the August 4th 1578, during the " Battle of the Three Kings " (Alcácer-Quibir, Morocco), died in 24 years without heir. Its great-uncle, the cardinal dom Henri succeeds to him under the name of Henri I {{er}}. He dies in January 1580, him also without heir.

Consequently, sovereignty on the Portugal is asserted by the king Philippe II of Spain. A Portuguese opponent appears: dom Antoine, prior of Crato, nephew of Henri 1st.

Countryside preceding the battle

Course of the battle

Consequences

The battle of Alcántara, gained by the Spaniards of the pile cluster, in 1580, mark the beginning of the personal union of the two kingdoms (which will end only in 1640).

Dom Antoine, refugee in the Azores, resist to the Spaniards until in 1583. He dies in exile with Paris, in 1595. These events mark the end of the Portuguese dynasty of Viseu, or Aviz.

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