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Ferdinand the Holy Prince ((:fɨɾˈnɐ̃du); (ポルトガル語:Fernando o Infante Santo); 29 September 1402 – 5 June 1443), sometimes called the "Saint Prince" or the "Constant Prince", was an ''infante'' of the Kingdom of Portugal. He was the youngest of the "Illustrious Generation" of 15th-century Portuguese princes of the House of Aviz and was lay administrator of the Knightly Order of Aviz. In 1437, Ferdinand participated in the disastrous Siege of Tangier led by his older brother Henry the Navigator. In the aftermath, Ferdinand was handed over to the Marinid rulers of Morocco as a hostage for the surrender of Ceuta, terms negotiated in a treaty by Henry. At first, Ferdinand was held in relative comfort as a noble hostage in Asilah, but when it became apparent that the Portuguese authorities had no intention of fulfilling the terms of the treaty and yielding Ceuta, Ferdinand's status was downgraded and he was transferred to a prison in Fez, where he was subjected to much harsher incarceration conditions and humiliations by his Moroccan jailers. Negotiations for his release continued on-and-off for years, but came to naught, and Ferdinand eventually died in captivity in Fez on 5 June 1443. A popular cult quickly developed in Portugal around the figure of "the Holy Prince" (''O Infante Santo''), strongly encouraged by the House of Aviz. Ferdinand remains a "popular saint" by Portuguese tradition, neither beatified nor canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. == Early life == Ferdinand was the sixth and youngest son of King John I of Portugal and his wife Philippa of Lancaster. Ferdinand and his brothers Edward of Portugal, Peter of Coimbra, Henry the Navigator and John of Reguengos, plus sister Isabella of Burgundy and half-brother Afonso of Barcelos, constitute what Portuguese historians have traditionally labelled the 'illustrious generation' (''Ínclita Geração''). Ferdinand was born in Santarém on 29 September 1402, the feast day of St. Michael, a saint to whom he would remain affectionately attached.〔Álvares (p.5-6)〕 He had a complicated birth, and would remain a sickly child throughout much of his youth.〔Álvares (p.7); Cacegas and Sousa ((p.312 ))〕 Relatively sheltered because of his illnesses, Ferdinand had a quiet and very pious upringing, a favorite of his mother, Philippa of Lancaster, from whom Ferdinand acquired a preference for the Sarum Rite of Salisbury in the religious liturgy of masses he attended.〔Alvares (p.8)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ferdinand the Holy Prince」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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