Tavora

You spoke of an affair at Evora or Tavora, which is not to be mentioned before ladies.

The Snare Rafael Sabatini 1912

Note 53: Don Juan Nino de Tavora, governor of Jilong in Isla Hermosa, to King Philip IV, letter, Cavite, 1 August 1629, AGI Filipinas, 21, r.

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Note 52: Don Juan Nino de Tavora, governor of Jilong in Isla Hermosa, to King Philip IV, letter, Cavite, 1 August 1629, AGI Filipinas, 21, r.

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See Tavora to Philip IV, letters, 4 August 1630, in Blair and Robertson, The Philippine Islands, 23: 93 – 117, esp.

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Note 46: Don Juan Nino de Tavora, governor of Jilong in Isla Hermosa, to King Philip IV, Manila, letter, 4 August 1630, AGI Filipinas, 8, r.

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The old Marchioness of Tavora, who had been once the handsomest woman at court, and was singularly vein and haughty, was presumed to have received some personal offence, by the rejection of the family claim to a dukedom.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various

But Pombal had been too magnanimous for the court and nobles; and the loss of his power as minister produced a succession of intrigues against him, by the relatives of the Tavora family, and doubtless also by the ecclesiastical influence, which has always been at once so powerful and so prejudicial in Portugal.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various

But the king himself was exposed to one of the most remarkable plots of regicide on record -- the memorable Aveiro and Tavora conspiracy.

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Tavora, himself, his two sons, his four brothers, and his two sons-in-law.

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* The Duke of Aveiro (Joseph Mascareñhas), 1708-1759, with the marquess and marchioness of Tavora, their two sons, and four or five others, were executed in 1759 for an attempt on the life of King Joseph I, September 3, 1758.

Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776 1920