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Catherine of Austria (Portuguese: Catarina; 14 January 1507 – 12 February 1578) was Queen of Portugal as wife of King John III, and regent during the minority of her grandson, King Sebastian, from 1557 until 1562.
Infanta Catherine of Portugal by Dirk Stoop, 1660–1661. Catherine was born at the Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa as the second surviving daughter of John, 8th Duke of Braganza, and his wife, Luisa de Guzmán. [4] Following the Portuguese Restoration War, her father was acclaimed King John IV of Portugal on 1 December 1640.
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 ...
Infanta Catherine of Portugal, Duchess of Braganza by marriage (Portuguese: Catarina; Portuguese pronunciation: [kɐtɐˈɾinɐ], 18 January 1540 – 15 November 1614) [1] was a Portuguese infanta (princess) claimant to the throne during the Portuguese succession crisis of 1580.
Queen Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II of England, credited with introducing the English to tea-drinking, popular with the Portuguese nobility. By 1640 the wise policies of D. Philip I in respect of Portugal were long past.
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Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal (1507–1578), wife of John III of Portugal; Catherine Parr (1512–1548), sixth and last wife of Henry VIII of England; Catherine de' Medici (1519–1589), wife of Henry II of France; Catherine Howard (c.1523–1542), fifth wife of Henry VIII of England; Catherine Stenbock (1535–1621), third wife of ...