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You are correct, Paulo, Charle ll it was.From: "Colaco-Dias, Paulo R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [Goanet]Re (goanet) At Home, in Rome Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:23:14 +0100
Alfred, Catarina de Braganca married Charles II of England. Not Charles I.
Where I went wrong: Catarina, or Catherine of England, was, from begining, a pawn in
contracting an alliance with England; of great contemporary significance in countering
Spanish and Dutch threats to Portugal and Port interests abroad.
Thus, the negotiations for her marriage to the E. monarch, in fact, had begun during rhe
reign of Charles l and renewed immediately after restoration.
But the hapless princess, who was replete with virtue and dilligence but no physical charm
was, I am quite certain the daughter of D. Joao lV of Port. not Pedro lV.
Pls check up, I am doing some work on this period for an opus I have underway on Goa.
Sonia, not G, but your cousin, C., comes here Friday.
Love, Alfred, the prospective historian
A few more very interesting things about this Portuguese princess:
- Daughter of D. Pedro IV, King of Portugal. - Arranged marriage to King Charles II of England in May 1662 in Portsmouth. - Her dowry included Bombay and Tangier, together with a huge amount of gold. - Her first request when she arrived in England was a cup of tea. Unfortunately, tea was unknown to the English and they could not offer her anything else but beer (!). The Portuguese Princess is known to have introduced the five o'clock tea custom in England! - The borough of Queens in New York was named in 1664 in honour of Catarina de Braganca. - She was a very strong catholic believer just like Charles II mother and brother James (of England) (the heir to the throne of England after Charles II). - Charles II was very unfaithful and had several children with other women but Catarina never divorced him. In the end, she was his strength and power more than anything else. She helped him to dissolve the parliament and restore order in England. Even though she did not give him any children, he always treated her as the Queen of England. - Charles II re-converted to Catholicism in his deathbed with the help of his lawful Queen Catarina.
Best wishes Paulo.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alfred de Tavares Sent: 15 June 2004 13:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Goanet]Re (goanet) At Home, in Rome
>From: "Nasci Caldeira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [Goanet]Re (goanet) At Home, in Rome >Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:04:53 +1000
> >Hi Fred and everyone, >Fr Rufus is not of Goan origin; he is and has been a great priest, and a >world renowned leader in the Catholic Charismatic movement. > >He hails from Bombay; he belongs to the Bombay Christians who are >Christians since the time that the group of seven islands that now >comprises Bombay was governed by "The East India Company'. These Christians >of Bombay origin are always referred to as "East Indian Christians' because >of this history. > > Earlier than that Nasci, much earlier!
Portuguese had possession of the cluster of islands that comprise the Bombay/Mumbai of our times, of which Bombay is just one constituent; other important ones being Bassein and Salssete.
Very soon after the Portuguese made Goa the capital of their eastern empire, in 1510, they realized the necessity of strategiacally vantage locations
along the coast that would offert shelter to their fleet during monsoons and selected Diu Damao, Bombay, Calicut and a few others for the purpose.
It was a century later that the East India Company felt the same and in 1613 obtained permission from Emperor Jehangir to establish a factory in Surat., and later on rented Bombay from the Portuguese, for the sum of 12 Engish
pounds annually, for the same purpose.
The asset proved so valuable in dealing with the Marathas that when negotiating the dowry that D. Catarina de Braganza would bring Charles I of England, when she married him June 23 1661, the Brittish diplomats cannily managed to include Bombay (also Tangier).
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