Marquis of Pombal
Marquês de Pombal
chief minister of Portugal · statesman
Eighteenth-century chief minister of Portugal whose measures affected Madeira, including the expulsion of the Jesuits, the conversion of the donatarias into alcaidarias-mores and efforts to lift Porto Santo out of decline. Funchal held thanksgiving ceremonies on 20 January 1776 after he escaped an assassination plot.
1Mentioned in
- Donataries — Minister under whom the donatarias were converted into alcaidarias-mores.
- Câmara (Father Luís Gonçalves da) — Minister blamed for spreading the image of Câmara as corrupter of the king.
- Freemasonry — Chief minister of Portugal who ordered the release of a Madeiran freemason arrested in 1770.
- Princess Maria Amélia Hospice — Member of the hospice council.
- Jesuits — Portuguese minister who ordered the expulsion of the Jesuits, including those in Madeira.
- Judicial administration — Minister whose era closes the period of poorly defined jurisdiction.
- Baleira (town) — Portuguese chief minister whose measures sought to lift Porto Santo out of decline.
- Câmara (Martim Gonçalves da) — Eighteenth-century Portuguese minister cited as the only statesman whose power over a king rivalled Câmara's.
- Porto Santo (raids on the island) — Portuguese chief minister in whose time the fort of São José was built.
- Álvares (Father Manuel) — Minister who banned Alvares's books from teaching.
- Alincourt (Francisco de) — Portuguese chief minister whose instructions led to Alincourt's release and reinstatement.
- Bettencourt (Dr António João de França) — Portuguese statesman whose 1772 university reform is used as a reference point.
- The English — Chief minister whose government Sá Pereira consulted in 1768.
- Entailed foundations — Minister whose 1769 law suppressed many small entails.
- Lyceum — Portuguese chief minister who in 1772 established royal classes in Madeira to replace Jesuit teaching.
- Porto Santo (development, decline and crises) — Portuguese chief minister under whose government the 1770 reform of Porto Santo was enacted.
- Primary Schools — Portuguese chief minister credited with introducing secular primary teaching in Madeira.
- Sá (José Correia de) — Portuguese chief minister whose orders led to the expulsion of the Jesuits from Madeira.
- Sá Pereira (João António de) — Chief minister and relative of Sá Pereira, whose fall preceded his departure.
- São José (fort) — Portuguese chief minister who ordered the building of the São José fort on Porto Santo.
- Brandão (Dom Gaspar Afonso da Costa) — Portuguese minister whose despotic policies, including the expulsion of the Jesuits, the Portuguese higher clergy did not resist.
- St John the Evangelist (college and church) — Portuguese chief minister who ordered the expulsion of the Jesuits from Madeira in 1760.
- Santo António da Serra (parish) — Minister whose relief measures for Porto Santo are mentioned.
2Chronology
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On Pombal's orders the Jesuit college in Funchal was surrounded and the Jesuits confined, ending their teaching; the eighteen Madeiran Jesuits were shipped under arrest to Lisbon on 16 July 1760.
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Pombal's law suppressed many small entails.
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A law reorganised existing entails and restricted the creation of new ones.
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The Marquês de Pombal reformed the University of Coimbra.
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A royal law established secondary classes of Latin, Greek, rhetoric and philosophy in Funchal and the first six public primary schools in Madeira; the Greek class never opened.
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The Real Junta da Fazenda held thanksgiving ceremonies in the Colégio church, Funchal, for Pombal's escape from an assassination plot; Fr. Inácio José de Varona's sermon was published in Lisbon that year.
3Places mentioned
Abroad