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Cardinal-Infante Afonso of Portugal

1509 - 1540

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Cardinal-Infante Afonso (23 April 1509 – 21 April 1540; Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈfõsu]; English: Alphonzo) was a Portuguese infante (prince), son of King Manuel I of Portugal and his wife Maria of Aragon. Because he was the fourth son, after the infantes John, Luís, and Ferdinand, he was assigned by his father to religious life, and he accumulated numerous ecclesiastical benefits even though he did not have the canonical age required to exercise these dignities. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cardinal-Infante Afonso of Portugal has received more than 53,838 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Cardinal-Infante Afonso of Portugal is the 13,205th most popular politician (down from 11,859th in 2019), the 302nd most popular biography from Portugal (down from 260th in 2019) and the 115th most popular Portuguese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Cardinal-Infante Afonso of Portugal ranks 13,205 out of 19,576Before him are Alfonso López Pumarejo, Lascăr Catargiu, Enoch Powell, Loki Schmidt, Aegidius Tschudi, and Manius Acilius Glabrio. After him are Pete Rose, Carlos Soublette, Murtala Mohammed, Dobri Bozhilov, Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, and Arcesilaus I of Cyrene.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1509, Cardinal-Infante Afonso of Portugal ranks 19Before him are Ippolito II d'Este, Melchor Cano, Isabel Moctezuma, Pasquale Cicogna, Giovanni Morone, and Federico Commandino. After him is Domingo Martínez de Irala. Among people deceased in 1540, Cardinal-Infante Afonso of Portugal ranks 19Before him are Barthel Beham, Duarte, Duke of Guimarães, Fernão de Loronha, Francisco de Ulloa, Dawit II, and Hans Leonhard Schäufelein.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Cardinal-Infante Afonso of Portugal ranks 302 out of 633Before him are Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal (1739), Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage (1765), José Malhoa (1855), Infanta Maria da Assunção of Braganza (1805), Gonçalo Velho Cabral (1400), and António Ribeiro (1928). After him are Fernão Lopes (1385), Manuel Cardoso (1566), António Marto (1947), Miguel Corte-Real (1448), Diogo Freitas do Amaral (1941), and Fernando Chalana (1959).

Among POLITICIANS In Portugal

Among politicians born in Portugal, Cardinal-Infante Afonso of Portugal ranks 115Before him are John of Coimbra, Prince of Antioch (1431), Francisco Pinto Balsemão (1937), João de Castro (1500), Pedro Passos Coelho (1964), Infanta Maria Ana Francisca of Portugal (1736), and Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal (1739). After him are Diogo Freitas do Amaral (1941), António Manoel de Vilhena (1663), Elisa Ferreira (1955), Pedro Santana Lopes (1956), Alfredo Nobre da Costa (1923), and Jerónimo de Sousa (1947).