King John 1 or King Joao 1 of Portugal, [11th April1358-14th August 1433] was the Black King, of the House of Avis who married Dona Filippa de Lancastre.
The wedding of João I of Portugal, 11 February 1387 with Fiilippa de Lancastre, by 15th Century manuscript illuminator Master of Wavrin.
Early Life: Prince Joao was born in the Royal Castelo De Sao Jorge in Lisbon. His father was King Pedro I de Portugal and his mother Queen Ines de Castro, [it is often alleged that he was bastard by Europeans]. His parents are believed to have married in secret in 1354.
As he was not inline for the Throne, Prince Joao having a elder half-brother Ferdinand 1, was conferred the title Grand Master of the Order of Aviz. In 1385 Prince Joao became King of Portugal following the death of his brother Ferdinand 1, a period of crisis ensued with no King on Portugal’s throne. This was averted when the ‘Council of the Kingdom,’ declared Prince Joao King of Portugal as King Pedro 1 only surviving male heir.
It was well attested that the entire Iberian peninsula was in past times originally inhabited by Black tribes who had migrated out of Africa and settled and established Kingdoms and Monarchies on European shores, these are referred to by 1.historians, as ‘black’ in complexion, with this word later translated to read dusky. However, it is significant, that Strabo, Herodotus and others referred to Ethiopians as having curly hair!!! And about which common sense informs us, there was nothing ‘unusual’ at all! Historians have also referred to the ancient Celts as Aborigine. So nothing Caucasian there. The oldest history of Ireland, itself attest that the original inhabitants were a Black race2 who terrorised the first wave of Caucasus immigrants. Consequently we cannot get around the fact, that Portugal, France, the United Kingdom and Spain’s original inhabitants were comprised of Black tribes, and this was well attested until revisionist histories began rewriting the facts. That said, King Joao of Portugal, could not have been Black without Black parents. Furthermore, a Black King in one century, does not become Caucasian in a later time, and it would be against the law in all civilized Countries, to depict Black People as Caucasians under Racial Hatred Legislation.
King Joao at his wedding feast
Acclaim: Following the death of John 1 of Castile King Joao diplomatic skills managed to preserve Portugal’s independence from Castile and prevent her being embroiled in yet another European conflict. This King was a scholar and a theologian, he was so well versed in law, that he was able to purge the corrupt Portuguese Courts and transform them into the most progressive of his time. King Joao initiated Portuguese expansionism abroad and a expedition against Ceuta, which largely failed. He understood the value of imparting knowledge and promoting culture heritage to his numerous Children which Fillipa bore and which in turn became the fruit of a golden era, often called the illustrious generation. He built the Abbey of Batalha and wrote a book on hunting called Book of the Mount, [Livro da montaria]. King Joao is the first King of Portugal to be known by the title of Lord of Ceuta. Historical reference accords him the non de plume of John the Good and John the Great, [O Principe de Boa Memória, or João de Aviz, João o Grande].
King Joao of Portugal is most likely referred to today in images, as, ‘head of a negro.’ His children were definitely mixed race and this is not reflected in revised histories, when we are told his son Prince Edward succeeded him as King of Portugal in 1433.
I often think these are his descendants labelled Kongo
1. S Baring Gould: Book of the West, [1900].
Eugene O’ Curry: Lectures On The Manuscripts Materials Of Ancient Irish History. [1861].
Ancient Laws and Institutes of Ireland, 1865, Vol. 1
Aristotle: De Mundo 111, [see E.S Forester 1914 translation at p.393:10].
Alfred J Church: The Agricola of Tacitus [P.8] 1881.
- Lebor Gabaila
New Larousse Enc of Mythology [1972] p.224
Charles Squire: The Mythology of Ancient Britain and Ireland,[1906].
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excellent post
Thank you. Caucasian’s can never explain why Caucasian’s would have depicted themselves BLACK…
Thank you.
the whole post is wrong. D.João I was the first of his dinasty, so of course his father wasnt the king. He Came from the Avis Family. and of course, he was not black. not even a bit. white as you can be. like all Portuguese people. pls learn portuguese history before posting such shit with so many false information. this is very offensive to my culture and history. fuck you. before slavery you where nobody.. deal with it
“Before slavery you were nothing…” Implies that post slavery the black races became something!!! The history is correct, deal with your nations racizm and revisionizm. The reality is, before black slavery, YOU were NOTHING, and now, nothing more than a murderous thief who built your cites on the blood of ethnic peoples by raping 65% of the civilized world, and stealing our treasure, religion, history, culture and traditions. Let us review:
From the black man, (Canaan/Phoenicians/Cabiri) you LEARNT TO WRITE, build ships and trade.
From the black man, (ancient Egypt) you stole a calendar and found out what time and day it was.
From, the black man, (Moors) you learnt architecture and received culture and civilization.
From the black man, (Coa Valley, Sahara and Blombos caves) you learnt art.
I can go on and on, but prefer you to take your ignorant, uneducated limited vocabulary to other rednecks in Portugal and enjoy your shared national delusion.
BTW, before slavery my people were Ashan, renamed Ashanti, of the Tribe of Judah. Read your bible, we’re mentioned in it, and may Shaddai curse you, for it is written, Cursed are they that curse you.
Oh please, read a good book?
Truth speaks volumes. Great research and thank you.
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It is time to readjust, individual bravery not group politics. The same attitude as this David fellow can be found in Scottish history. When you actually look into history, things we were taught do not add up. There should be no dialogue with these kinds of people. They believe the mainstream like its gospel. Keep posting there is only one thing these people hate more than a lie, the truth.
So true
Thank you. European’s have been so ‘deliberately’ dumbed down, its not funny.
This entire article on racist lies. The idea that the Celts and Iberians were descended from Africans was a pseudo-scientific theory made up by racist English imperialists to claim that the Irish and Hispanics weren’t “pure white”, and as such where inferior to them. That way they could justify atrocities against those groups. Also, “Aborigine” isn’t a racial term, it just means “native”. As the Celts were native to the British Isles and Gaul, Romans and Greeks migrating to these regions would call them “Aborigines”.
Your analysis that people who steal other peoples history are racist, is only partially true. It’s a bit more than that Chuck Ferrel.
You do not appear to know that the African Moslem Moors invaded Spain and ruled her for several hundred years, including the period we call Middle Ages. They did not invade primitive Spain in-order to allow the primitives to rule themselves silly.
“For nearly eight centuries, under her Mohammedan rulers, Spain set to all Europe a shining example of a civilized and enlightened State. Her fertile provinces, rendered doubly prolific by the industry and engineering skill of her conquerors, bore fruit an hundredfold. Cities innumerable sprang up in the rich valleys of the Guadelquivir and the Guadiana, whose names, and names only, still commemorate the vanished glories of their past. Art, literature, and science prospered, as they then prospered nowhere else in Europe. Students flocked from France and Germany and England to drink from the fountain of learning which flowed only in the cities of the Moors. The surgeons and doctors of Andalusia were in the van of science : women were encouraged to devote themselves to serious study, and the lady doctor was not unknown among the people of Cordova. Mathematics, astronomy and botany, history, philosophy and jurisprudence were to be mastered in Spain, and Spain alone.” The Moors In Spain: Stanley Lane- Poole, 1888
I am unaware of any academic who would challenge these historical facts Chuck, but If you know one, please feel free to invite him or her along. Its time I think you woke up to your primitive, and may I say barbaric origins. I hear the first step is actually admitting it.
The Mauri/Moors who invaded Spain, then delivered civilisation and culture to Europe did so in the 7th Century Anno Domini. If Europe could not civilise itself, what exactly do you imagine it brought to the table?
Can I just say thank you for this information and to those of you who do come across this page please take copies of every thing you uncover, save on either a USB stick or hard drive. Our history was stollen from us once before, we have a duty to make sure that never happens again.
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