Background
Manuel Inácio Martins Pamplona Corte Real was born in Angra do Heroismo on July 3, 1760 to André Diogo Martins Pamplona Corte Real and Josefa Jacinta Merens de Távora.
Manuel Inácio Martins Pamplona Corte Real was born in Angra do Heroismo on July 3, 1760 to André Diogo Martins Pamplona Corte Real and Josefa Jacinta Merens de Távora.
He began his military career as a cadet in the Cavalry Regiment of Santarém. Pamplona Corte Real was a freemason showed sympathy for the ideals of the French Revolution, after adhering to the liberal movement, though always in the militant wing conservative. In June 1828, he was arrested by the express order of King Miguel I of Portugal and held incommunicado at Belém Tower.
He was later moved and imprisoned at Graça Fort in Elvas.
lieutenant was there that he later in that prison on 16 October 1832.
