Ludwig von Portugal

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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Luís of Portugal
| title = Duke of Beja
| image = Portrait of Infante Luis, Duke of Beja, Belem Collection.JPG
| spouse =
| issue = [[António, Prior of Crato]]<br>Juan Gomez de Portugal<br>Joanes Gomez de Portugal
| house = [[House of Aviz]]
| father = [[Manuel I of Portugal]]
| mother = [[Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal|Maria of Aragon]]
| birth_date =
| birth_place = [[Abrantes]], [[Kingdom of Portugal]]
| death_date =
| death_place = [[Marvila (Lisbon)|Marvila]], Kingdom of Portugal
| burial_date =
| burial_place =
| religion = [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholicism]]
}}

'''Infante Luís of Portugal, Duke of Beja''' (3 March 1506, in [[Abrantes]] – 27 November 1555, in [[Marvila (Lisbon)|Marvila]], in [[Lisbon]]) was the second son of King [[Manuel I of Portugal]] and his second wife [[Maria of Aragon (1482-1517)|Maria of Aragon]] (the third daughter of the [[Catholic Monarchs]]). He participated in the Conquest of Tunis.

== Early life ==
[[Image:Príncipe D. Luís, duque de beja.jpg|thumb|left|Luís in the ''Triptych of the Infantes''; by the [[Master of Lourinhã]], 1516.]]
Luís succeeded his father as the [[Duke of Beja]] and was also made Constable of the Kingdom (Portuguese: ''Condestável do Reino'') and [[Prior]] of the [[Sovereign Military Order of Malta|Order of Saint John of Jerusalem]], with its Portuguese headquarters in the town of [[Crato, Portugal|Crato]].

== Conquest of Tunis ==
In the [[Conquest of Tunis (1535)]] Luís, brother-in-law of [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]], commanded the Portuguese army. The Portuguese galleon ''São João Baptista'', also known as ''[[Botafogo (galleon)|Botafogo]]'' was specifically requested by Charles V, and it was the most powerful ship in the world at the time, with 366 bronze cannons. It was the ''Botafogo'' [[spur ram]] that broke up the chains at [[La Goletta]], which defended the port entrance of [[Tunis]], allowing the Christian allied fleet to reach and conquer the city.<ref>Panorama (1841) Vol.5 [https://books.google.pt/books?pg=PA384&id=OTQ9AQAAIAAJ], pp.384.</ref>

== Family ==
He did not marry but had a natural son by Yolande Gomes, ''a Pelicana'' (the she-[[pelican]]), a [[New Christian]], who is said to have died a [[Nun]] in [[Almoster]], [[Santarém, Portugal|Santarém]], on 16 July 1568, daughter of Pedro Gomes, from [[Évora]]. Some say they eventually married perhaps at [[Évora]], thus legitimating their issue for every purpose.

Their son [[António, Prior of Crato]], would be one of the claimants to the throne after the death of King [[Sebastian of Portugal]] in the disastrous [[Battle of Alcácer Quibir]] and the subsequent [[1580 Portuguese succession crisis|dynastic crisis]] that followed, and, according to some historians, the King of Portugal for approximately a month in the year 1580.

They may have also had other sons named Juan Gomez de Portugal (1536-1610), and Joanes Gomez de Portugal (b.1540). Juan would become one of the founders of Villa de Santa María de los Lagos, Nueva Galicia (later renamed [[Lagos de Moreno]]) in present-day Jalisco, Mexico on 31 March 1563.

==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Luís of Portugal'''
|2= 2. [[Manuel I of Portugal]]
|3= 3. [[Maria of Aragon (1482-1517)|Maria of Aragon]]
|4= 4. [[Infante Fernando, Duke of Viseu]]
|5= 5. [[Beatriz of Portugal (1430-1506)|Infanta Beatriz of Portugal]]
|6= 6. [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]]
|7= 7. [[Isabella I of Castile]]
|8= 8. [[Edward of Portugal]]
|9= 9. [[Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal|Eleanor of Aragon]]
|10= 10. [[Infante João, Lord of Reguengos]] (= 30)
|11= 11. [[Isabella of Barcelos]] (= 31)
|12= 12. [[John II of Aragon]]
|13= 13. [[Juana Enríquez]]
|14= 14. [[John II of Castile]]
|15= 15. [[Isabella of Portugal, Queen of Castile|Isabella of Portugal]]
|16= 16. [[John I of Portugal]] (= 20)
|17= 17. [[Philippa of Lancaster]] (= 21)
|18= 18. [[Ferdinand I of Aragon]] (= 24)
|19= 19. [[Eleanor of Alburquerque]] (= 25)
|20= 20. [[John I of Portugal]] (= 16)
|21= 21. [[Philippa of Lancaster]] (= 17)
|22= 22. [[Afonso, 1st Duke of Braganza]]
|23= 23. [[Beatriz Pereira de Alvim]]
|24= 24. [[Ferdinand I of Aragon]] (= 18)
|25= 25. [[Eleanor of Alburquerque]] (= 19)
|26= 26. [[Fadrique Enríquez de Mendoza]]
|27= 27. [[Mariana Fernández de Córdoba y Ayala]]
|28= 28. [[Henry III of Castile]]
|29= 29. [[Katherine of Lancaster]]
|30= 30. [[Infante João, Lord of Reguengos]] (= 10)
|31= 31. [[Isabella of Barcelos]] (= 11)
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==See also==
*[[Duke of Beja]]
*[[Conquest of Tunis (1535)]]
*[[Botafogo (galleon)]]
*[[Descendants of Manuel I of Portugal]]

==References==
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==Bibliography==
''Nobreza de Portugal e do Brasil'' – Vol. I, pages 382/384. Published by Zairol Lda., Lisbon 1989.

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