GRÃ BRETANHA E PORTUGAL - BRITANNIA ET LUSITANIA - GREAT BRITAIN AND PORTUGAL

Prime Minister of United Kingdom with his Wife, like so many Persons of Great Britain love Portugal!

Great Britain and Portugal have the oldest alliance of the World that gave to Portugal it Freedom. The linkage begun with the support for the conquer of Lisbon in 1147 after Christ by Afonso Henriques, the first king of Portugal. Later in 1308 and leaded by the great king Dinis, Portugal make a commercial agreement with England.

In 1373 the decisive Anglo-Portuguese Treaty said:
«In the first place we settle and covenant that there shall be from this day forward... true, faithful, constant, mutual and perpetual friendships, unions, alliances, and needs of sincere affection, and that as true and faithful friends we shall henceforth, reciprocally, be friends to friends and enemies to enemies, and shall assist, maintain, and uphold each other mutually, by sea and by land, against all men that may live and die.»

In 1385 the decisive Battle of Aljubarrota was a realization of the Alliance: Portugal have the support of English forces against continental forces of Castile and France, when the strategy of the minority won again the brutality of the majority, like later in Azincourt (1415).

In 1386 the Treaty of Windsor turn more deep the Alliance with the marriage between Philippa of Lancaster and John, king of Portugal:
«It is cordially agreed that if, in time to come, one of the kings or his heir shall need the support of the other, or his help, and in order to get such assistance applies to his ally in lawful manner, the ally shall be bound to give aid and succour to the other, so far as he is able (without any deceit, fraud, or pretence) to the extent required by the danger to his ally’s realms, lands, domains, and subjects; and he shall be firmly bound by these present alliances to do this.»

Great Britain and Portugal, shared maritime ponts of view

The Portuguese discover of sea ways open to Great Britain the World ...