Henrique Lopes de Mendonça

Template:Use dmy dates Template:More citations needed Template:Portuguese name Template:Infobox person Template:Wikisource/outer core{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|showblankpositional=1|unknown=|1|2|3|diagnose|has|italic|italics|lang|nocat|position|title|wislink|works|wslink}} Henrique Lopes de Mendonça (3 July 1856 – 24 August 1931) was a Portuguese poet, playwright, novelist, novella and short story writer, and naval officer.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He wrote several plays, and with his friend, the composer Alfredo Keil, he wrote the lyrics of the future Portuguese national anthem, A Portuguesa, which was officially adopted in 1911.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Family

He married Maria Amélia Bordalo Pinheiro, daughter of famous painter Manuel Gustavo Bordalo Pinheiro and wife Augusta Maria do Ó de Carvalho Prostes, and had issue, three children:

• Virgínia Bordalo Pinheiro Lopes de Mendonça (1881–1969), twin, a short story writer and playwright, unmarried and without issue
• Vasco Bordalo Pinheiro Lopes de Mendonça (1881–1963), twin, married to Maria Adelaide dos Santos, and had issue, two children:
  • Manuel Vasco dos Santos Lopes de Mendonça, unmarried and without issue
  • Maria da Graça dos Santos Lopes de Mendonça, married on 11 May 1939 to Jorge Maia Ramos Pereira (Vila Praia de Âncora, 6 April 1901 – Lisbon, 16 March 1974), an Officer of the Portuguese Navy, without issue
• Alda Bordalo Pinheiro Lopes de Mendonça, unmarried and without issue

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