Posted on 01/13/2021 7:32:26 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
Two and a half centuries ago today, Portugal’s noble Tavora family was extirpated in Belem....Seems someone got the idea that the Tavoras tried to kill (and more problematically, failed to kill) Portuguese king Joseph I.
Circumstantial, torture-adduced evidence put the scheming Marchioness Eleonora de Tavora and clan behind an apparent assassination attempt, wherein a couple of assailants had shot at the king’s unmarked carriage as it returned on a little-used road from a rendezvous with his mistress. (One of the circumstances was that the mistress was a Tavora, which put the accused in a position to know the king’s secret travel plans. Others argue the gunmen might have just been common highwaymen who had no idea they were setting upon the royal person.)
Whatever the facts of the matter, obscure behind a quarter-millennium, its attribution to the Tavoras and the spectacular revenge thereupon visited was effected by the king’s competent and ruthless minister, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, the future Marquis de Pombal....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
When you strike at a king, you must kill him...................Ralph Waldo Emerson..............
I guess they weren’t staying alive, staying alive.
Interesting history
In 2022, let us watch the counting...and let's take over the house...
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