Coimbra county
The county of Coimbra was a temporary institution that was created in 878 after the Christian conquest of the city of Coimbra , for military-tactical considerations, to defend the border of the Kingdom of León against the Moorish militias during the Reconquista .
In 987 the city was lost to the Moors , with the defense of the borders of the county of Porto further north . The places Viseu , Lamego and Feira also belonged to the county of Coimbra .
The city was finally fortified in 1064 by the Christian troops of King Ferdinand I of León and Castile , whose confidante Sesnando Davides became regent of the county. The county of Coimbra was later integrated into the county of Portugal (second Portuguese county), which was restored in 1096 .
After the final reconquest and the proclamation of the Kingdom of Portugal in 1139 by Afonso Henriques ( Alfonso I (Portugal) ), the Moors continued to live in the area - only the small political elite fled.
List of the Counts of Coimbra
- Hermenegildo Mendes ( 878 -?)
- Hermenegildo Guterres (? - 911 )
- Arias Mendes ( 911 - 924 )
- Gonçalo Moniz ( 928 - 981 )
- Sisnando davides ( 1064 - 1068 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walther L. Bernecker, Horst Pietschmann: History of Portugal. 1st edition, Verlag CHBeck, Munich 2001, page 10 ( ISBN 3-406-44756-2 )
- ↑ www.rootsweb.ancestry.com , accessed November 12, 2012
- ↑ António Henrique de Oliveira Marques : History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 385). Translated from the Portuguese by Michael von Killisch-Horn. Kröner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-520-38501-5 , pp. 18ff.