Constituted following a royalist coup at Porto inspired by Henrique Mitchel de Paiva Couceiro; proclaimed the restoration of Manuel II Maria Filipe Carlos Amélio Luís Miguel Rafael Gabriel Gonzaga Xavier Francisco de Assis Eugénio de Bragança, who had no contact with this enterprise; reestablished entire machinery of the monarchy; its authority extended at times all the way to Viseu and over everything north of that latitude, with the notable exception of Chaves, in the extreme North.