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The Story of the Nations

Note 3 — III. PORTUGAL BECOMES A KINGDOM. THE REIGN OF AFFONSO HENRIQUES.

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Some writers have ascribed the five “inescutcheons” on the shield of Portugal to the five Moorish kings killed at Ourique, the version adopted by Camoens in “The Lusiads,” canto iii. stanza 53.

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