Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal
Portuguese noble and diplomat (1699-1782) · Portugal · Politicians · Died at 82
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The Marquis and his brothers, one the Grand Inquisitor and the other Governor-General of Grão-Pará.
1761 decree that prohibited the transport of black slaves from ports in America, Africa and Asia to Portugal.
The Marquis of Pombal examines the plans for the Reconstruction of Lisbon, Miguel Ângelo Lupi, 1883
Portrait of the 1st Marquis of Pombal
Portrait of the Marquis of Pombal, by Louis-Michel van Loo and Claude-Joseph Vernet, 1766. In the background, the Jesuits are expelled from Portugal
The Tavoras executions
Monument to Carvalho e Melo at Marquis of Pombal Square, LisbonAwards
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D. Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal and 1st Count of Oeiras, known as the Marquis of Pombal, was a Portuguese statesman and diplomat who despotically ruled the Portuguese Empire from 1750 to 1777 as chief minister to King Joseph I. A strong advocate for absolutism, and influenced by some of the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment, Pombal led Portugal's recovery from the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and reformed the kingdom's administrative, economic, and ecclesiastical institutions. During his lengthy ministerial career, Pombal accumulated and exercised autocratic power, curtailing individual liberties, suppressing political opposition, and fostering the Atlantic slave trade to Brazil. His cruel persecution of the Jesuits and Portuguese lower classes led him to be known as Nero of Trafaria, after a village he ordered to be burned with all its inhabitants inside, for refusing to follow his orders.
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