What is your FAVORITE heroe/Leader/warrior in history?
Mine is Dom Afonso Henriques - The Conqueror.
For who dont know he was the first King of Portugal, He fougth his own mom to have Portugal, and battled the moors to regain all the territory. He was the master warrior, like the heroe in "braveheart" but didn´t knew how to read lol.
Read his Biography, its a very good text made by a brazilian woman and tranlated, so it´s not Boring
Português: http://www.vidaslusofonas.pt/d.afonso_henriques.htm
English: http://www.vidaslusofonas.pt/afonso_henriques2.htm
Some extracts:
"She doesn't understand her son, a child who, at 13, already shows signs of genius, in the good as well as in the bad sense of the word. At that tender age, he simply ignores the cardinal who conducts the ceremony at which he is to knighted, and proclaims himself a knight. He refuses divine intervention. Just like Napoleon, a few centuries later. Pity that he doesn't speak French, the language of sophisticated folk, so that his gesture would not be left out of the history books"
This one makes me cry of pride:
"It's a mistake to believe that Afonso Henriques does nothing but promote political intrigues, making and destroying alliances. The man is more like a wild animal. He fights alongside his soldiers, fighting as an equal, without any hierarchical privileges. His troops do far more than respect him: they revere him. They will obey any order he gives."
Mine is Dom Afonso Henriques - The Conqueror.
For who dont know he was the first King of Portugal, He fougth his own mom to have Portugal, and battled the moors to regain all the territory. He was the master warrior, like the heroe in "braveheart" but didn´t knew how to read lol.
Read his Biography, its a very good text made by a brazilian woman and tranlated, so it´s not Boring
Português: http://www.vidaslusofonas.pt/d.afonso_henriques.htm
English: http://www.vidaslusofonas.pt/afonso_henriques2.htm
Some extracts:
"She doesn't understand her son, a child who, at 13, already shows signs of genius, in the good as well as in the bad sense of the word. At that tender age, he simply ignores the cardinal who conducts the ceremony at which he is to knighted, and proclaims himself a knight. He refuses divine intervention. Just like Napoleon, a few centuries later. Pity that he doesn't speak French, the language of sophisticated folk, so that his gesture would not be left out of the history books"
This one makes me cry of pride:
"It's a mistake to believe that Afonso Henriques does nothing but promote political intrigues, making and destroying alliances. The man is more like a wild animal. He fights alongside his soldiers, fighting as an equal, without any hierarchical privileges. His troops do far more than respect him: they revere him. They will obey any order he gives."
