Catherine of Portugal (nun)

Portuguese princess and nun
Catarina
Infanta Catarina in Genealogia dos Reis de Portugal (António de Holanda; 1530-1534)
Born26 November 1436
Died17 June 1463(1463-06-17) (aged 26)
Burial
Carmo Convent, Lisbon
HouseAviz
FatherEdward, King of Portugal
MotherEleanor of Aragon
ReligionRoman Catholicism

Infanta Catarina (1436–1463); (Portuguese pronunciation: [kɐtɐˈɾinɐ]; English: Catherine) was a Portuguese infanta (princess), daughter of King Edward of Portugal and his wife Eleanor of Aragon.

Life

Catherine was born in Lisbon on 26 November 1436. Like her sisters Joan and Eleanor she was considered ambitious, shrewd and willful. She was promised to marry Charles IV of Navarre but he died before the marriage could take place and her brother, after securing the marriages of her sisters to the King of Castile and the Holy Roman Emperor, had no further need of marriage alliances with other houses. Thus, Catherine turned to a religious life in the Convent of Saint Claire. She was a cultivated author of many books regarding morality and religion. She died on 17 June 1463 and is buried in Lisbon at the Carmo Convent.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Catherine of Portugal
8. Peter I of Portugal[3]
4. John I of Portugal[1]
9. Teresa Lourenço[3]
2. Edward, King of Portugal
10. John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster[4]
5. Philippa of Lancaster[1]
11. Blanche of Lancaster[4]
1. Catherine of Portugal
12. John I of Castile[2]
6. Ferdinand I of Aragon[2]
13. Eleanor of Aragon[2]
3. Eleanor of Aragon
14. Sancho of Castile[2]
7. Eleanor of Alburquerque[2]
15. Beatrice of Portugal[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Stephens, Henry Morse (1903). The Story of Portugal. G.P. Putnam's Sons. p. 139. ISBN 9780722224731. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e f de Sousa, Antonio Caetano (1735). Historia genealogica da casa real portugueza [Genealogical History of the Royal House of Portugal] (in Portuguese). Vol. 2. Lisboa Occidental. p. 497.
  3. ^ a b John I, King of Portugal at the Encyclopædia Britannica
  4. ^ a b Armitage-Smith, Sydney (1905). John of Gaunt: King of Castile and Leon, Duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster, Earl of Derby, Lincoln, and Leicester, Seneschal of England. Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 21. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
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The generations indicate descent form Afonso I, and continues through the House of Aviz, the House of Habsburg through Infanta Isabel, Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Spain, and the House of Braganza through Infanta Catarina, Duchess of Braganza.
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  • Infanta Branca, Lady of Las Huelgas
  • Infanta Sancha
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* also an infanta of Spain and an archduchess of Austria,  ** also an imperial princess of Brazil,  *** also a princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchess in Saxony,  ◙ Also a princess of Braganza,  ƒ title of pretense
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João I (1385–1433)
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Duarte I (1433–1438)
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Afonso V (1438–1481)
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João II (1481–1495)
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Manuel I (1495–1521)
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João III (1521–1557)
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Sebastião I (1557–1578)
Henrique I (1578–1580)
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The House of Aviz is a cadet branch of the House of Burgundy and was succeeded by the House of Habsburg
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