Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal

Maria of Aragon
Queen consort of Portugal and the Algarves
Reign 30 October 1500 – 7 March 1517
Born (1482-06-29)29 June 1482
Córdoba, Kingdom of Castile
Died 7 March 1517(1517-03-07) (aged 34)
Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal
Burial Jerónimos Monastery, Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal
Spouse Manuel I of Portugal
Issue John III of Portugal
Isabel, Holy Roman Empress
Beatriz, Duchess of Savoy
Luís, Duke of Beja
Ferdinand, Duke of Guarda
Infante Afonso
Henry I of Portugal
Infanta Maria
Duarte, Duke of Guimarães
Infante Antonio
House Trastámara
Father Ferdinand II of Aragon
Mother Isabella I of Castile
Religion Roman Catholic

Maria of Aragon (29 June 1482 – 7 March 1517) was a Spanish infanta, and queen consort of Portugal as the second spouse of Portuguese King Manuel I.

Life

She was born at Córdoba on 29 June 1482 as the third surviving daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (the Catholic monarchs). She was the fourth of their five surviving children, and had a stillborn twin sister named Anna.[1]

Queen

As an infanta of Spain, her hand in marriage was very important in European politics; before her marriage to Manuel I of Portugal, her parents entertained the idea of marrying her off to King James IV of Scotland.[2] This was at a time when her younger sister Catherine's marriage to Arthur, Prince of Wales, was being planned. Ferdinand and Isabella thought if Maria was Queen of Scotland, the two sisters could keep the peace between their husbands. These plans, however, came to nothing. Her eldest sister Isabella, Princess of Asturias, was the first wife of Manuel I, but her death in 1498 created a necessity for Manuel to remarry; Maria became the next bride of the Portuguese king, reaffirming dynastic links with Spanish royal houses.

Manuel and Maria were married in Alcácer do Sal on 30 October 1500,[3] and was granted Viseu and Torres Vedras as her dower. She had 10 children, eight of whom reached adulthood, including King John III of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress Isabella, and Beatrice, Duchess of Savoy.

Queen Maria became known as a fervent Catholic. She supported king Manuel's religious-imperial project, including the plan to conquer the Mamluk's realm, destroy Mecca and Medina and reconquer Christian holy places such as Jerusalem. She co-founded the Jeronimos Monastery in Lisbon.[4]

Maria died in Lisbon on 7 March 1517, and was buried at the Jerónimos Monastery of Belém. She died as a result of her last pregnancy.

Legacy

In 1580, the dynastic links from the marriage led to a succession crisis in Portugal that made Philip II of Spain king of Portugal as Philip I of Portugal.

Ancestry

Children

Her marriage with Manuel produced the following children:

Crown of Castile
Royal dynasties
House of Trastámara
Henry II
Children include
John I
Eleanor, Queen of Navarre
John I
Children include
Henry III
Ferdinand I of Aragon
Henry III
Children include
John II
Maria, Queen of Aragon
John II
Children include
Henry IV
Isabella I
Alfonso, Prince of Asturias
Henry IV
Children
Joanna, Queen of Portugal
Isabella I with Ferdinand V
Children
Isabella, Queen of Portugal
John, Prince of Asturias
Joanna I, Queen of Castile
Maria, Queen of Portugal
Catherine, Queen of England
Joanna I
Children include
Charles I
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
NameBirthDeathNotes
King John III6 June 150211 June 1557succeeded Manuel as King of Portugal. Had issue.
Infanta Isabella24 October 15031 May 1539married Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Had issue.
Infanta Beatrice31 December 15048 January 1538married Charles III, Duke of Savoy. Had issue.
Infante Luis, Duke of Beja3 March 150627 November 1555Unmarried but had illegitimate descendants, one of them being Antonio, Prior of Crato, a claimant of the throne of Portugal in 1580 (See: Struggle for the throne of Portugal).
Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Guarda5 June 15077 November 1534Married Guiomar Coutinho, Countess of Marialva. No surviving issue.
Infante Afonso23 April 150921 April 1540Cardinal of the Kingdom.
King Henrique31 January 151231 January 1580Cardinal of the Kingdom who succeeded his grandnephew King Sebastian (Manuel's great-grandson) as 17th King of Portugal. His death triggered the struggle for the throne of Portugal.
Infanta Maria3 February 1513Died at birth.
Infante Duarte, Duke of Guimarães7 October 151520 September 1540Duke of Guimarães and great-grandfather of John IV of Portugal. Married Isabella of Braganza, daughter of Jaime, Duke of Braganza.
Infante Antonio9 September 1516Died at birth.

Her widowed husband remarried yet once more, in 1518, also this time from her family: Maria's niece Eleanor of Austria.

Notes

  1. ↑ Philippa was the daughter John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster to his first wife Blanche of Lancaster,[15] making her half-sister of Catherine of Aragon's maternal great-grandmother Catherine of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster to his second wife Constance of Castile.

References

  1. ↑ Harris 2017, p. 78.
  2. ↑ Bergenroth 1862, p. 167-180.
  3. ↑ Howe 2008, p. 53.
  4. ↑ Harris 2017, p. 79.
  5. 1 2 Ferdinand I, King of Aragon at Encyclopædia Britannica
  6. 1 2 Wikisource Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "John II of Aragon". Encyclopædia Britannica. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  7. 1 2 Wikisource Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ferdinand V. of Castile and Leon and II. of Aragon". Encyclopædia Britannica. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  8. 1 2 Miron, E. L. (1913). "Doña Leonor of Alburquerque". The Queens of Aragon: Their Lives and Times. Brentano's. p. 265. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Ortega Gato, Esteban (1999). "Los Enríquez, Almirantes de Castilla" [The Enríquezes, Admirals of Castille] (PDF). Publicaciones de la Institución "Tello Téllez de Meneses" (in Spanish). 70: 42. ISSN 0210-7317.
  10. 1 2 "Mariana de Ayala Córdoba y Toledo". Ducal House of Medinaceli Foundation. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  11. 1 2 3 Henry III, King of Castille at Encyclopædia Britannica
  12. 1 2 Isabella I, Queen of Spain at Encyclopædia Britannica
  13. 1 2 Leese, Thelma Anna, Blood royal: issue of the kings and queens of medieval England, 1066–1399, (Heritage Books Inc., 1996), 222.
  14. 1 2 3  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). "Philippa of Lancaster". Dictionary of National Biography. 45. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 167.
  15. ↑ Armitage-Smith, Sydney (1905). John of Gaunt: King of Castile and Leon, Duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster, Earl of Derby, Lincoln, and Leicester, Seneschal of England. Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 77. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  16. 1 2 3 Gerli, E. Michael; Armistead, Samuel G. (2003). Medieval Iberia. Taylor & Francis. p. 182. ISBN 9780415939188. Retrieved 17 May 2018.

Sources

  • Bergenroth, G A, ed. (1862). "Spain: July 1498, 21-31". Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 1, 1485-1509.
  • Harris, Carolyn (2017). Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting. Dundurn Press.
  • Howe, Elizabeth Teresa (2008). Education and Women in the Early Modern Hispanic World. Ashgate Publishing Limited.


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Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal
Born: 29 June 1482 Died: 7 March 1517
Portuguese royalty
Preceded by
Isabella of Aragon		 Queen Consort of Portugal
30 October 1500 – 7 March 1517		 Succeeded by
Eleanor of Austria
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