Uma manobra estratégica de D. Dinis na criação da ordem de Cristo

Abstract

This work proposes to analyze the Order of Christ, heiress of the Templar Order. This last one was "extinct", due to having acquired much power and wealth. Understanding the transition from the Templar Order to the Order of Christ, and the relationship of these two orders with the Catholic Church and the Portuguese monarchy is fundamental for the contextualization of the Portuguese maritime expansion and understanding of the success achieved by Portugal in territorial navigations and discoveries. The religious element was decisive factor for the creation of these two Orders, the Templar Order; created to fight the Muslims in the East and the Order of Christ; to combat Muslims in Portugal. Dinis king of Portugal in the beginning of the fourteenth century was able to carry out a strategic maneuver when he obtained papal authorization to create the Order of Christ, which became over the centuries the core of Portuguese territorial expansion overseas. The present research is not restricted to the preparation of the master's dissertation to obtain the title of master, we developed a virtual learning object composed of two items: comic book in PDF format developed through the Pixton Platform and a quiz in HTML format elaborated through the Freeware Hot Potatoes meeting the norms of the Postgraduate Program in Iberian History - PPGHI of the Federal University of Alfenas / MG making it available to the program at the end of the research.