THE HISTORY

Everything begins in 1640 WhenPortugal proclaimed the independenceof Spain, giving end to a period of 60years of mastery of the House of Austriaover Portugal.

In Lisbon, in 1642 the King of Portugaldied and the thunder stayed in hands ofReina Adelina II and of its son princeEnrique Cortés. The noble familyCastelo they wanted to obtain themaximum power and the wealths of thekingdom. So it plunges daughterCatalina was promised by princeEnrique and també they wanted to killthe queen. The queen accepted thewedding with A lot of taste since it wasmeaning joined it with the biggest noblefamily of the area. Adelina decided topresent Caterina in Abbess Noemia,Better friend and adviser add up,because You Help with thearrangements of the wedding andprepare it and educate her to be aprincess Cortés and educated. A goodday, the abbess and the Catarina wentto buy on the market; while they werebuying, 1 young merchant, Danilo givesMiscellany, for lack of Money and to beable to Help to super poor person hegives birth, it stole the engagement ringof the royalty that Catalina was taking,put, fortunately the chief magistrate,Joao Rosiña, the real thing and theyshut it up in the cell.

Young merchant went to speak thefamily Castelo with the father of thoseand those, André gives Miscellany, tocoerce it; THEY would extract son of thecell add up in exchange for the fact thatThe merchants were achieving 1 poisonto kill the queen and of Money. Heeverything accepted worried one, sincehe needed to the Money urgently if Hedid not Want that to they were doing Outof apo theirs housing. The merchants itgives Miscellany they knew THAT asorcerer who is WAS MAKING to passfor a peasant, who knew very well thegrasses and the philters and the poisonobtained them.

The Castelo organized a holiday in its house so that on the following day its daughter Catalina would marry Enrique. During the holiday its big target and that of the merchant Da Silva was to be able to put the poison in the plate of the queen to be able to poison and that dies after 24 hours. But before being able to realize its mission, the Abbess by chance listened to the conversation that there had the Castelo where he felt that they already had it quite prepared to kill the queen; very scared she went to warn quickly the queen of the danger that she was running. Adelina suspended the wedding and the whole family Castelo and Da Silva was imprisoned in the cell by all its life.

Portugal was in conflict and it had clashes with Spain, so many people small contests or small armed conflicts those that ended up by winning and that ended in 1668 with the creation of the Treaty of Lisbon, in which the entire independence of Portugal was recognized. Also Portugal in 1588 suffered the war neerlandoportuguesa that lost it.

During the period, about the year 1647, like that Portugal was suffering very much for the war and they had many destructions and poverty, the family Castelo and Da Silva they could escape and go away to Upaon-Açu to Brazil to begin a new life