Sri Lankan Prince who built a Church in Portugal!
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Over 400 years ago, a Sri Lankan prince was exiled, stripped of his royal birthright, and taken across the seas-not to reclaim his throne, but to become a Catholic priest in Portugal. Was this a strategic move by the Portuguese to erase his claim to the Kandyan throne, or was he truly devoted to his faith? This fascinating story takes us from the royal courts of Sri Lanka to the heart of Lisbon, where the prince left behind an unexpected legacy-a church he built that still stands today.
Was Dom João, the so-called Black Prince of Kandy, a prisoner in disguise or a priest by choice? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below!
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This video contains historical images and artwork, most of which are used under fair use for educational and informational purposes. Many of the paintings featured in this video were created by renowned Sri Lankan artist Prasanna Weerakkody, whose work beautifully brings Sri Lanka’s history to life. All credit for these paintings goes to him. If you are the rightful owner of any content used and have concerns, please contact me via email tuancareem@gmail.com
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As a Sri lankan catholic i appreciate your wonderful work.Thanks for this and may God bless you abundantly.
The government of Sri Lanka should recognise your talent and promote your work Dr Careem. You have started a wonderful endeavour which is truly impressive. Talented historian !!! God bless you.
Are you from madugalle family......what is your surname
Oo this is Don juwan darmapala
@@YouMolMusic This video is about DOM JOAO of Kandy NOT Dom Joao Dharmapala. Please note the difference. Dom Joao of Kandy is the son of Yamasinha Bandara. Please watch the video before asking such questions.
Dr Careem, you are truly the best historian in Sri Lanka. Such wonderful stories, narrated with such passion and national pride. A sad fate for Prince Dom Phillip, whose future was cleverly designed by the Portuguese, who looted riches and our princes. Thanks, Dr Careem, keep up your good work.
You told everything very clearly .Thank you.From Sri lanka catholics 🇱🇰
Yes, this is a story that many people do not know
In the book by Queiroz, there is an illustration of Prince Joao and his grand mother Queen Dona Maria fleeing with a set of Portuguese Soldiers to Kotte. King Vimaladharmasuriya the 1st did not kill them but abdicated them from the Kingdom.
Queen Margarida or Santana Devi who was married to Dom Juan Dhramapala was a half sister of Dona Maria, Joao's grand mother. They lived in Kotte temporarily but King Dharamapala was planning to grant the entire Kotte Kingdom to Portuguese and having Princes with a claim to the throne in the palace was not a good idea.
This was the reason why Dom Joao and Prince Nikapitiye were sent to India.
Dom Joao's father was Dom Phillipoe Jamasinghe Bandara and mother Dona Catherina (not Queen Kusumasana Devi, but her cousin who was from Seven Korale)
A detailed account about the story of these Royals is given in my book "Five Sri Lankan Royal Families"
From where can I get a copy of your book? I have a great interest in this period as I am a descendant of Senerat Mudali, a General in Rajasinghe's army.
@damianvirajdealwis2937 Was this Kannimahara Senerat Mudali of Sitawaka Rajasinghe?
Good information
Zameer, you are a wonderful historian. I have my my respect my for you. 🇺🇸🇱🇰
Dr careem thank you very much for this amazing story
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Fantastic narration of a story very few of us know about Dr Careem. Keep up the good work. We Sri Lankans need to hear more stories like this.
This is the I First time came to know there was a descendant of sitawaka rajasingha 😮. Thank you for this video. Look forward for more similar content.
This is a true srilankan man
Dr Careem has many interesting stories about 🇱🇰👍👏👍
interesting video. not only this, all videos are interesting! waiting for the next one...😍
This gentleman need more subscribers he is doing a great job
Hon Sir, you deserve the top most position in Sri Lanka as a historian to advise on the preservation of Sri Lankan history
Excellent insight Dr.Zameer
Thank you Dr Careem
Great work sir! Please do a video on the Portuguese destruction of temples especially Thiruketeshwara
Amazing hidden history 😮😮😮😮
Awesome video
Thank you for the knowledge you have given ❤❤
Bro this is literally awesome.
It's such a cool coincidence that I made my term presentation on a similar postcolonial reading of the life of Dom João for my Sri Lankan archeology Seminar on 28th Jan! Feels very validating to see this! ❤
Thank you Dr.
Thank you ❤❤❤
GREAT, DR CAREEM, TRULY GREAT!
Hi Dr. Careem, Need an informative video on foreign influenced foods in Sri Lanka. As I heard dodol, lumprais, sambol and many more foods were influenced in dutch period from indonesia. I have seen same dishes in Indonesian foods. Correct me if I am wrong. Can you do a video on this. I am also interesting in learning historical things. Thanks. Really enjoyed your videos.
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very nice!
History for me was always a boring subject for me added to the agony our history teachers monotonous voice would often lullaby us 😂but with u n Ur energetic voice for once is making me eager to know history lots of love doctor ❤
Some "srilankans" are going to be mad because no "srilanka" exist in 16th century.
Sri Lanka existed since 6th century BCE which historically known as 'Sinhala' and 'Lanka'. It was known to Europeans as 'Ceylon', 'Seilan', etc.
Wow
Please Do a Video about King Parakramabahu 2 of the medieval Dambadeniya kingdom who defeated both Kalingha Magha and Javaka Chandrabanu
ඒ මොකටද හුට්ටො ඒ, උබ හිතුවද ඌට ලන්කාව ගැනම කර කර ඉන්න වෙන වැඩ නෑ කියල. පිස්සු හුට්ටෙක් උබ
All I can tell is these Royals were spineless and had no leadership character compared to the great kings of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa time
Can you please give me the sources for this story for further studies?
Please read Paul E. Pieris´s book, ´Ceylon of the Portuguese Era´ (1913), Fr. S. G. Perera´s work ´A History of Ceylon for Schools, the Portuguese and Dutch Periods´ (1949) and ´Historical Gleanings´ (1992) by Rt. Rev. W. L. A. Don Peter. There are also books that have been published in the recent years that delve into this topic, like “The Black Prince’s Chapel” by Sagara Jayasinghe
@@ZameerCareemTheHistorian thank you!
Our later nobility were no better than the Portuguese! 😁
Heroism exists in Sinhala blood, yet a few cowardice, a nation that can turn the tide in any circumstance
Which "nation" are you taking about? 🤔
Really Dom Juan Dharmapala had written a deed of gift conferring his kingdom to Portuguese king & allowing Franciscan priests to propagate the Roman Catholicism here.
This country which christianity exists since 1521 now has become a definite force to thos nation
My ancestors came to Ceylon from South India together with Sapumal kumaraya and his brother Ambulugala kumaraya who became Kings in the Kotte kingdom.
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Fo Juan wrote Sri Lanka in a deed to the king of Portugsl
What do you think of the current men: writing off North to Indians; South to Chinese; Colombo to Middle easterners? Just for the survival of another day as the ruler, telling thousand and one lies!.
Level of stoopidity 😂 do you even think what you are writing lol
Very interesting. Thanks for bringing it into light. Only thing I'd say is, there was no Sri Lanka at that time. It was Sinhale.
can you prove it ?
Sitawaka Rajasinhagen kawa neda ? 😂😂😂
Sri Lanka has always been a unique blend of different cultures and social systems since Ancient times! But most people in our country are obsessed with the narrow minded myth that Sri Lanka is a sinhala Buddhist county ❤❤❤💙💙💙💚💚💚⭐️⭐️⭐️⛵️⛵️⛵️🌈🌈🌈 Modern day scholars of the 21st century generation has a great responsibility when it comes to reversing these attitudes and rebuild a more secular Sri Lanka🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰🍃🍃🍃🌳🌳🌳🌾🌾🌾🌏🌏🌏
How can you deny Sri Lanka’s Buddhist heritage? You obviously don’t know or don’t care about the troubles that the Sinhalese had undergone to preserve the Buddha dhamma in the island. I think foreigners know and appreciate more about our Buddhist legacy than people in this country! Sri Lanka being a mixture of cultures does not mean you can negate the existence of Buddhism even prior to Arahant Mahinda in Sri Lanka. And how do you account for sixteen million out of twenty two million being Buddhist in Sri Lanka? Even in Europe and America, they identify themselves as Christians despite being multi ethnic and multi cultural. Isn’t that why those countries, especially in Europe, have taken a stance against Islamist propaganda? However, when it comes to Sri Lanka and Buddhism, in spite of the larger than life monuments and numerous inscriptions and other forms of literature, it becomes a ‘myth’ that the younger generation should not acknowledge. What a sad state of affairs!
@@sujeevadealwis5513 the issue with the people calling this island Buddhist country wouldn't even accept that many other cultures too contributed to sri lankan culture lol.
Specially the south indian culture.
The reason you wear the sarong is due to the influence of Indonesian and java culture. The lamprais you eat is cuz of the dutch.
The way the traditional houses in sri lanka is built similar to the kerala.
This level of deep insecurity that Buddhist culture will lose to others is what's wrong with this country no one is trying to invade here so stop with the fake drama. If you look around you how many Buddhist people follow the 5 core principles of Buddhism no ones does. So the issue is with your own people not the people of the other religion
@ If you take all these into account, then there’s no culture that is unique. Even Indonesia was Buddhist before the Islamic invasion and also was influenced by the Indian culture. 😁 It was wiped out because of radicalism in Islam. Buddhists tolerate other cultures and that’s why they prevailed here. South Indian is one culture? Go do your research!
@@sujeevadealwis5513 islam invaded Indonesia??? 😂😂 you don't know history buddy, people just embraced islam as their wish and that's how it spread.
Anyways you are just a brainrot go clean your insecurity.
Tolerate other cultures is a joke. The last thing I saw is that prophet Jerome couldn't built his church in nawalapitiya.
@sujeevadealwis5513 to begin with Buddhism isn't even a religion.
I bet you won't even follow the 5 principles of Buddhism it's such a shame
Betraywr, he wrote the Sri Lanka to Portugal. With a deed .
Do you mean the Kanyan kingdom?
@Bravo.6 no dithawaka kotte, as you see this was in the 1500 da 300 before the Kandiam ki from fall.. Job and darmapsla wrote Sri Lanka win a deed to kill ng of Portugal the bastard ,
@Bravo.6 Kandiam kingdom was in the 1800 DS, TJ a during the Portuguese colonization and destruction of all Hi fus and Buddjis roles and literature and burning g of Buddjis and Hindu temples to exterminate Budfism like what they did in Indonesia the Philippines etc.
@@warsil3735Who's the betrayer?? do your research LOL 😂
@pradeepakrish go and read your history ., what can you tell.a guy who writes his country and it's citizen to a foreign king with a deed. Have you ever studied history. .the famous feed by Fon Juan..
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Dear Dr. Please send your email to send you a request receved.
If you know any historian who specialises on the Dutch period can help.
tuanzameerwrites@gmail.com
The prince you are talking about is king darmapala of kotte. He never left Sri Lanka. And if he ever did why his grave is still in Sri Lanka ? I think you need to get more acceptable and historically accurate resources about Sri lanka.becuz this prince you speak about his whole story is in mahawanshaya which they don't even talk about whatever you said. So I can strongly say that your video is fake and misleading
He is speaking about Dom Joao (son of Yamasinha Bandara), NOT DHARMAPALA. Don't you UNDERSTAND ENGLISH. What a stupid food you are. Gosh, shame that you don't know simple history. Please check your facts before commenting like a big fat genius
He isnt talking about KING DHARMAPALA, it is another Prince called DOM JOAO, son of Dom Philip Yamasinha of Kandy. Please watch the video, understand the basics, before lashing out. As a Sinhalese, you should know your history, and appreciate someone who is sharing it. Rather than spitting venom on this platform.