Manuel Pinto da Fonseca
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Manuel Pinto da Fonseca was a Portuguese nobleman, the 68th Grand Master of the Order of Saint John, from 1741 until his death.
Portrait by Pierre Bernard (1704-1777)
Pinto as 67th Grand Master in Cronologia dei gran maestri dello spedale della sacra religione militare di S. Gio. Gerosolimitano e dall' Ordine del Santo Sepolcro oggi detti di Malta (1776?)
Part of the façade of Auberge de Castille (1741–45), showing Pinto's bust and coat of arms
30 tarì coin minted in 1757
Suppression of the Society of Jesus
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The suppression of the Society of Jesus was the removal of all members of the Jesuits from most of Western Europe and their respective colonies beginning in 1759 along with the abolition of the order by the Holy See in 1773; the papacy acceded to said anti-Jesuit demands without much resistance. The Jesuits were serially expelled from the Portuguese Empire (1759), France (1764), the Two Sicilies, Malta, Parma, the Spanish Empire (1767) and Austria, and Hungary (1782).
The Marquis of Pombal, Portugal's prime-minister at the time, oversaw the suppression of the Jesuits in Portugal and its empire. Painting by Louis-Michel van Loo, 1766.
Charles III of Spain, who ordered the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spanish realms
Motín de Esquilache, Madrid, attributed to Francisco de Goya (c. 1766, 1767)
Manuel de Roda, adviser to Carlos III, who brought together an alliance of those opposed to the Jesuits