Infanta Doroteia of Braganza

Infanta Doroteia
Portrait by Vieira Lusitano
Born(1739-09-21)21 September 1739
Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal
Died14 January 1771(1771-01-14) (aged 31)
Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal
Burial
Names
Portuguese: Maria Francisca Doroteia Josefa Antónia Gertrudes Rita Joana Efigénia de Bragança
HouseBraganza
FatherJoseph I of Portugal
MotherMariana Victoria of Spain

Doroteia of Braganza (21 September 1739 – 14 January 1771) was a Portuguese infanta as the daughter of King Joseph I of Portugal and Mariana Victoria of Spain.

Life

Doroteia was born on 21 September 1739 in Lisbon. She was the third of four daughters of Joseph I of Portugal and Mariana Victoria of Spain. She was named after her great-grandmother, Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg.

Doroteia was a proposed bride for Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans (later known as Philippe Égalité), but her mother refused to consent to the match.

In 1764, she became ill in a condition described as “hysteric, accompanied by an almost total lack of appetite which has reduced her to a state of extreme weakness.”[1] She was subjected to numerous bleedings before dying in Lisbon on 14 January 1771.[citation needed] Her body was moved to the national pantheon in the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora, in Lisbon.

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ Roberts 2009, p. 43.
  2. ^ Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 14.

Bibliography

  • Roberts, Jennifer (2009). The Madness of Queen Maria: The Remarkable Life of Maria I of Portugal. Templeton Press. p. 43.

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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