Manifestis Probatum
12th-century papal bull by Pope Alexander III / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Manifestis Probatum is a papal bull dated 23 May 1179,[1] in which Pope Alexander III officially recognised the ruler and self-proclaimed king Afonso Henriques as the first sovereign King of Portugal.
The Papacy did not at first recognize the legitimacy of Afonso's adoption of the royal title in 1139, instead continuing to regard him as a vassal of the kingdom of León. The switch in papal policy in 1179 was justified by Afonso's reconquest of lands to the south of the Iberian Peninsula to which no other Christian monarch had claim.[2]