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Also Known As Filipe • Manuza
Flourished c.1626 - c.1675
Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama
Portuguese navigator
John II of Portugal
John II
king of Portugal
Manuel I
king of Portugal
Afonso de Albuquerque
Afonso de Albuquerque
Portuguese conqueror
John I and John of Gaunt
John I
king of Portugal
John III
king of Portugal
João de Barros
João de Barros
Portuguese historian
Afonso V
king of Portugal
Francisco de Almeida
viceroy of India
Duarte Pacheco Pereira
Portuguese explorer
Sancho I
king of Portugal
Martim Afonso de Sousa.
Martim Afonso de Sousa
Portuguese admiral
Tomé de Sousa
governor general of Brazil
William Hobson
British colonial officer
John Alden
English colonist
Priscilla Alden
English colonist
Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore of Baltimore
British statesman
Antonio Ramalho Eanes
president of Portugal
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus
Italian explorer
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman

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