Alzira Costa Explained

Alzira Costa
Birth Name:Alzira Coelho de Campos de Barros de Abreu
Birth Date:20 April 1875
Birth Place:Oliveira do Hospital, Coimbra, Portugal
Death Place:Nossa Senhora de Fátima, Lisbon, Portugal
Signature:Assinatura Alzira Costa.svg

Alzira Coelho de Campos de Barros de Abreu Costa (20 April 1875 – 21 February 1970) was the wife of Portuguese politician Afonso Costa.

Biography

Alzira de Barros de Abreu was born in 1875, in Oliveira do Hospital, in Coimbra, the daughter of Albano Mendes de Abreu, a medical doctor, and his wife, Emília de Barros Coelho de Campos.[1] She was the sister of the writer and politician José de Barros Mendes de Abreu, who was born on 20 July 1878.[2]

She married Afonso Costa in the New Cathedral of Coimbra, on 15 September 1892.[1] In 1916, she was one of the founders of the Portuguese Women's Crusade.[3]

She died at the age of 94, in Nossa Senhora de Fátima, Lisbon.[1]

Notes and References

  1. [:File:Assento de baptismo, Alzira Costa (27 Junho 1875).png|Livro de Registo de Baptismos 1872/1878 (folha 44-44 v.), Paróquia de Oliveira do Hospital]
  2. Web site: José de Abreu . RevelarLx . Câmara Municipal de Lisboa . 2018-07-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180704063527/http://revelarlx.cm-lisboa.pt/gca/index.php?id=1267 . 2018-07-04 . dead .
  3. Web site: Women's Mobilization for War (Portugal) . Samara . Maria Alice . 2014-11-11 . 1914-1918-online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War . Freie Universität Berlin . 2018-07-03 .