Jacques Ier de Bragance
Second wire of Fernando II of Bragança, it attended the decapitation of his father with Évora, financed by João II of Portugal, rival of the ducal house and the countervailing power which it represented for the centralization of the State. After the execution of Fernando, Jaime flees in Castille with the remainder of its family and remained there all her adolescence until in 1500, the king Manuel Ier of Portugal forgives the family and again grants to him the titles, grounds and goods confiscated with his/her father.
Nevertheless, Don Jaime decided to leave for Rome, accompanied by a servant, with an aim of making there cancel its marriage to become Moine capuchin. Handbook I sent messengers who intercepted it with Calatayud and obliged it to return to the Portugal.
He married in first weddings Luisa de Gusmão, girl of the duke of Medina Sidonia in 1502, of which he had two wire. Considering it was a marriage arranged for political reasons, when this alliance ceased being useful to him, it organized a project to get rid of the duchess, by making it surprise with a young rider and while ordering to assassinate (or by assassinating itself) the young couple. In spite of its row within the Portuguese nobility, the suspicions of the murder fell down on him. To escape the opprobe from the nobility, Manual Don ordered to him to be freed from the suspicion while leaving for the Guerre. Thus, Jaime was obliged to personally spend the expenses of a forwarding of 25.000 knights and 19.000 infantrymen transported in 400 Bateau X intended to take Azamor, with the Morocco, in September 1513, city which was easily conquered by the Portuguese.
He was the person in charge of the construction of the Ducal Palais of Villa Viçosa.
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