OUR HISTORY

Everything happened in 1640 in Lisbon, when Portugal became independent of Spain (Treaty of Cordesillas). In 1642 the King died and the throne passed to the queen Adelina II and her son, the prince Enrique Cortés.

The Castelo family wanted the maximum power so they needed to marry their daughter Catarina with the prince and kill the queen. The queen accepted the wedding.

Then the queen Adelina II introduced her best friend, the abbess Noemia, to Catarina. The queen wanted Noemi to take care of Castelos.

One day, the abbess and Catarina went to buy to the market. When they were buying, a young merchant, Danilo da Silva, stole the engagement ring of Catarina. Fortunately, the chief magistrate, Joao Rosiña, saw it and put Danilo into jail.

The Castelo family spoke with the young merchant father, André da Silva, and they agreed that they would bribe the jailer and take his son put out of the jail in Exchange for the merchants to kill the queen.

The da Silva merchants knew a sorcerer, Helder Feiticiana, who made a poison to kill the queen.

The Castelos organized a party in their house because the next day the wedding was going to be celebrated.

The young merchant went to the party, he was the jester of the queen, he would kill Adelina II but the abbess Noemia heard the Castelo plan and she told the queen.

Adelina II angrily cancelled the wedding and the Castelo family was imprisoned. But as Portugal was at war, they could escape and they went to America, to a Brazil village Upon-Açu where they could start a new life.

In 1668 Portugal became independent thanks to the Treaty of Lisbon.