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Infanta Doroteia of Braganza

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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

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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

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References

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  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

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