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María of Portugal Queen of Castile
- Preferred Name: María of Portugal Queen of Castile[1] [2] [3] [4]
- Alternate Name: De Castilla
- Alternate Name: Queen Consort Of Castile And León
- Alternate Name: Maria de Portugal
- Gender: F
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 1328 with note: Description: Queen of Castile
- Clan Name: with note: Description: Casa de Borgoña
- Death: 18 JAN 1357 in Évora, Évora, Portugal at LATI: N8.5711 LONG: E7.91 with note: Wikipedia
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Princesa de Portugal
- Birth: 9 FEB 1313 in Évora, Évora, Portugal at LATI: N8.5711 LONG: E7.91
- Religion: Roman Catholicism
- House: with note: Description: Portuguese House of Burgundy/Afonsine Dynsty
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Reina consorte de la Corona de CastillaBET 1328 AND 1350
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Marquesa consorte de Tortosa
- Burial: JAN 1357 in Royal Monastery of San Clemente, Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain at LATI: N7.447 LONG: E5.6961
- FSID: L19K-YYV
- Maria+of+Portugal: 18 JAN 1357 in Sevilla, Provincia de Sevilla, Andalucia, Spain at LATI: N7.3871 LONG: E5.9845 with note: GEDCOM data
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Infanta de Portugal1313
- Matrimonio+sin+descendencia+: with note: Description: (María era estéril)
Wikipedia
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Infanta Maria of Portugal (9 February 1313-18 January 1357) was a Portuguese infanta (princess), Queen consort of Castile upon her marriage to Alfonso XI in 1328, and mother of King Peter of Castile. She was the first daughter of King Afonso IV of Portugal and his first wife Beatrice of Castile. Her maternal grandparents were Sancho IV of Castile and María de Molina.
«b»Life«/b»
In 1328, Maria married King Alfonso XI. As part of the dower, King Alfonso gave her Guadalajara, Talavera de la Reina and Olmedo.
The relationship between Maria and Alfonso was unhappy: from 1327 before their marriage, Alfonso had a relationship with Leonor de Guzmán who gave him ten children, including the future King Henry II of Castile. Maria did not participate in the affairs of the court, being relegated by the royal mistress Leonor and it is quite likely that she spent long periods secluded at the Royal Monastery of San Clemente in Seville.
In 1335, Maria returned to her father in Évora, who demanded that Alfonso separated from Leonor by use of alliances with the Pope, the Muslims and rebels inside Castile, and finally by an invasion. In the peace treaty of Seville in July 1340, Alfonso agreed to have Leonor imprisoned in a convent, thereby securing the support of the king of Portugal in the Battle of Río Salado which was fought on 30 October 1340, although, once the military conflict had been resolved, he returned to his lover and did not fulfill the promise he had made to the Portuguese monarch.
At the death of Alfonso 26 March 1350, Maria secured a power position by exerting influence upon the leader of her son's council, João Afonso de Albuquerque. She participated in the rebellion against her son in 1354, and turned over Toro to the rebels, which caused his imprisonment. After this, she returned to Portugal.
«b»Children«/b»
1.) Fernando (1332-1333). He was buried in the monastery of San Clemente de Sevilla.
2.) Peter of Castile (1334-1369), king of Castile and León at the death of his father in 1350. He married Maria de Padilla, Blanche of Bourbon and Jeanne de Castro. His remains lie today in the crypt of the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Seville.
«b»Death and Burial
«/b»María had executed a will in Valladolid on 8 November 1351 in which she asked to be buried at the Royal Chapel of the Cathedral of Seville where her husband Alfonso XI had been buried and that, if his remains were transferred to another church, hers should also be transferred and buried alongside her husband.
She died in Évora on 18 January 1357 and was buried there until, against the wishes expressed in her will, her remains were transferred to the Royal Monastery of San Clemente in Seville. In 1371, King Henry II had ordered that his father, King Alfonso XI, should receive burial at the Royal Collegiate Church of Saint Hippolytus in Córdoba and at the same time, he probably decided that María, who had been responsible for his mother's death, should be buried at the monastery in Seville. The gravestone made of simple tiles at the monastery mentions that she is buried there with two "tender infants".
BIO
BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/PORTUGAL.htm#AffonsoIVdied1357B as of 3/28/2016
Infanta dona MARIA de Portugal (1313-poisoned Evora 18 Jan 1357, bur Seville). The Livro Velho names "a rai
=== Dower from King Alfonso ===
Gave her Guadalajara, Talavera de la Rein and Olmedo
=== My PAF Notes ===
from thepeerage.com, 5/2009:
Maria de Portugal1
F, #113444, b. 1313, d. 1357
Maria de Portugal|b. 1313\nd. 1357|p11345.htm#i113444|Afonso IV de Bourgogne, Rei de Portugal|b. 1291\nd. 1357|p11338.htm#i113377|Beatriz de Castilla|b. 1293\nd. 1359|p11345.htm#i113442|Deniz de Bourgogne, Rei de Portugal|b. 1261\nd. 1325|p11336.htm#i113356|Isabel de Aragón|b. 1271\nd. 1336|p11336.htm#i113355|Sancho I., Rey de Castilla y León|b. 1258\nd. 1296|p10240.htm#i102393|Maria de Molina|d. 1321|p11344.htm#i113435|
Last Edited=10 May 2003
Consanguinity Index=4.17%
Maria de Portugal was born in 1313.1 She was the daughter of Afonso IV de Bourgogne, Rei de Portugal and Beatriz de Castilla.1 She married Alfonso XI, Rey de Castilla y León, son of Fernando IV, Rey de Castilla y León and Constanza de Portugal , in 1328.1 She died in 1357.1
Child of Maria de Portugal and Alfonso XI, Rey de Castilla y León
Pedro I, Rey de Castilla y León + b. 30 Aug 1334, d. 13692
Citations
[S16 ] Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 47. Hereinafter cited as Lines of Succession.
[S16 ] Louda and MacLagan, Lines of Succession, table 48.
=== !EWH, p.305; ===
!EWH, p.305;
=== THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 ===
THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 D2T) P.34; BETHAMIS GENEALOGICAL TABLES (GS NUMBER Q929.2 B465G) TAB 235; ANDERSON'S ROYAL GENALOGIES (GS NUMBER Q929.2 AN23R) TAB 460, 461; KEISER UND KOENIG HISTOIRE UND GENEALOGIE (GS NUMBER Q940 D22L) TAB 25; GENEALOGISHE TABELLIN (GS NUMBER ESQ940 D2U) TAB 23; SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.48; GEORGE'S GENEALOGICAL TABLES (GS NUMBER ES940 D2Q) TAB 25, 36; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
=== ! Vol. 3 Tafel 125A. ===
! Vol. 3 Tafel 125A.
=== DEATH: Poisoned (Royal Index) ===
DEATH: Poisoned (Royal Index)
Preferred Parents:
Father: Afonso o Bravo Rei de Portugal IV, b. 8 de fevereiro de 1291 in Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal d. 28 de maio de 1357 in Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Mother: Beatriz Sancha Princess Of Castile and Leon, b. 8 MAR 1293 in Toro, Provincia de Zamora, Castilla y León, Spain d. 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 1359 in Igreja São Cristóvão e São Lourenço, Lisbon, Portugal
Family 1: Alfonso de Castilla XI, b. 13 AUG 1311 in Salamanca, Castilla y León, Spain d. 26 MAR 1350 in Gibraltar-Spain neutral zone, Spain
- m. 24 JUN 1328 in Alfaiates, Guarda, Portugal
- Pedro I, b. 30 de agosto de 1334 in Burgos, Castilla y León, España d. 23 MAR 1369 in Montiel, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Sources:
- Title: Maria of Portugal, "Find A Grave Index"
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV23-PPYC : 12 December 2022), Maria of Portugal, ; Burial, Sevilla, Provincia de Sevilla, Andalucia, Spain, Sevilla Cathedral; citing record ID 65937900, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV23-PPYC;
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Infanta de Portugal D.Maria - Published information: birth-name: Maria Henriques Penafiel
Note: Published information: birth-name: Maria Henriques Penafiel
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3244603584
- Title: PARES portal de archivos y registros Españoles
Author: http://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/description/3949434
Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/167754371;
- Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current
Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/collections/9289/records/5299669;
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