Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal
| Infanta Maria Doroteia | |||||
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 Portrait by Vieira Lusitano | |||||
| Born | 21 September 1739 Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal | ||||
| Died | 14 January 1771 (aged 31) Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal | ||||
| Burial | Royal Pantheon of the Braganza Dynasty | ||||
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| House | Braganza | ||||
| Father | Joseph I of Portugal | ||||
| Mother | Mariana Victoria of Spain | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||
Maria Doroteia of Braganza (Maria Francisca Doroteia Josefa Antónia Gertrudes Rita Joana Efigénia; 21 September 1739 – 14 January 1771), was a Portuguese infanta daughter of King Joseph I of Portugal and his wife Mariana Victoria of Spain.
Biography[]
Doroteia was born in September 1739 in Lisbon and was the third of four daughters of King Joseph. She was named after her great-grandmother, Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg. She was a proposed bride for Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans (later known as Philippe Égalité), but she refused to marry him.
She died in Lisbon on 14 January 1771 and her body was moved to the national pantheon in the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora in Lisbon.
Ancestry[]
References[]
- ^ 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.
Categories:
- 1739 births
- 1771 deaths
- Portuguese infantas
- Portuguese royalty
- People from Lisbon
- 18th-century Portuguese people
- 18th-century Portuguese women
- Burials at the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora
- House of Braganza