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Map of the Iberian Peninsula around 1060, with Coimbra near the southern border of Galicia.
The County of Coimbra (Portuguese: Condado de Coimbra) was a political entity consisting of the lands of Coimbra, Viseu, Lamego and Santa Maria da Feira, in modern Portugal.
It arose within the Kingdom of Asturias following the reconquest of the region, when the lands were granted to Hermenegildo Gutiérrez, who over the next four decades was largely responsible for the resettlement of the depopulated province. He and his immediate successors were counts, and held Coimbra, but were not explicitly counts of Coimbra, although they are sometimes referred to as such retrospectively.
The first nobleman specifically to be called count of Coimbra was Gonzalo Muñoz, who was probably a scion of the family of Hermenegildo. Becoming count around 959, he was one of the most powerful noblemen in the western part of the kingdom until he rose in rebellion against King Bermudo II of León and was probably killed during the region's subjugation. The degree to which his successors were alienated from their monarch can be seen when, following the region's recapture in 987 by the Moors of Al-Mansur, Gonzalo's sons joined that general in his sack of Santiago de Compostela in 997.
The city of Coimbra was permanently secured by the Christians in 1064, having been taken by the troops of King Ferdinand I of León, led by the mozarab Sisnando Davides who would then be named its count.
It ceased to be an independent political entity when it was incorporated in the territory of the Second County of Portugal at the time of the latter's restoration in 1096 under Henry of Burgundy, and subsequently formed part of the newly founded Kingdom of Portugal under Henry's son, Afonso I.
The CountyofCoimbra (Portuguese: Condado de Coimbra) was a political entity consisting of the lands ofCoimbra, Viseu, Lamego and Santa Maria da Feira...
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Coimbra to Lisbon. After the Battle of São Mamede, Afonso Henriques took over the government of the countyof Portugal. In 1135 founded the Castle of...
received as dowry the government of the Kingdom of Galicia (which included the Countyof Portugal and the CountyofCoimbra), although shortly after, in 1095...
military leader of the Reconquista, born in Tentúgal, near Coimbra. He was a contemporary and acquaintance of El Cid, but his sphere of activity was in...
of his parents. This was accepted by most Portuguese scholars until 1990, when Torquato de Sousa Soares proposed Coimbra, the center of the countyof...
regions. Lords of the cities ofCoimbra and Porto fought with Braga's clergy and demanded the independence of the reconstituted county. Portugal traces...
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a Mozarab of unknown background and certainly not of noble lineage, who was appointed by King Ferdinand governor of the countyofCoimbra and who never...
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Academy of Cincinnati, a private college Association of American Colleges known today as the American Association of Colleges and Universities Coimbra Academic...
Ciência Viva, the Science Museum of the University ofCoimbra, the National Museum of Natural History at the University of Lisbon, and the Visionarium. The...
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Portugal, who died on 4 January 1248. Afonso was born in Coimbra. As the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal, he was not expected to inherit the throne...
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