Peace treaty of Tui, whereby Prince Afonso Henriques acknowledges himself as vassal to King Alfonso VII of Castile and León, through the possession of Astorga. Prince Afonso Henriques would never keep his acknowledgement of vassal to King Alfonso VII.
King Afonso I of Portugal retakes Leiria from the Moors and the town receives its foral (compilation of feudal rights) to stimulate the colonisation of the area.
Siege of Lisbon (1142): A group of Anglo-Norman crusaders aid King Afonso I Henriques attempt to conquer Lisbon. However, the combined forces are insufficient and the siege failed.[1]
June 16, The crusaders fleet arrives at the northern city of Porto, and are convinced by the bishop, Pedro II Pitões, to continue to Lisbon.
July 1, The Siege of Lisbon begins, after the armies of King Afonso I of Portugal were joined by the crusaders.
October 21, The Moorish rulers of Lisbon agree to surrender to King Afonso I of Portugal, basically due to the hunger that was felt inside the city walls. The terms of surrender indicated that the Muslim garrison of the city would be allowed to flee.
October 25, The city of Lisbon opens its doors to the Christian armies. As soon as the Christians enter the city the terms of surrender were broken. Many Muslims were killed, and the city was thoroughly plundered before King Afonso I of Portugal finally was able to stop the onslaught.
The towns of Almada and Palmela, just south of Lisbon, are taken from the Moors.
Some of the crusaders that had helped King Afonso I of Portugal conquer Lisbon settle in the newly captured city, and Gilbert of Hastings is elected bishop of the renovated Diocese of Lisbon, but most of the crusaders' fleet continues to the east.
King Afonso I of Portugal is wounded by a fall from his horse in Badajoz, and is captured by the competing forces of King Ferdinand II of León. As ransom King Afonso I was obliged to surrender almost all the conquests he had made in Galicia in the previous years as well as Badajoz, that the Leonese gave back to the Almohads as a vassal territory.
1176 - Coruche is granted to the Order of Calatrava.
1178 - Prince Sancho leads a great raid into Muslim territory that reaches Seville.
1179
Pope Alexander III, in the Papal bullManifestis Probatum, recognizes Afonso I as King and Portugal as an independent country with the right to conquer lands from the Moors. With this papal blessing, Portugal was at last secured as a country and safe from any Leonese or Castilian attempts of annexation.
1185-1212 - Sancho I of Portugal founds several new towns and villages and takes great care in populating remote areas in the northern Christian regions of Portugal, notably with Flemings and Burgundians.
1249 – Afonso III conquers Faro, Loulé, Albufeira, Porches and Aljezur from the Moors, thus removing all Muslim communities from Portuguese soil and ending the Portuguese Reconquista.
1254 – First official reunion of the Cortes, the kingdom's general assembly.
1255 - The city of Lisbon becomes the capital-city of Portugal.
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