Eleonora Ernestina von Daun, Marquise of Pombal

Eleonora Ernestina von Daun, Marquise of Pombal (2 November 1721 – 3 January 1789) was the second wife of Portuguese statesman Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal. Born in Vienna, Austria, she was the daughter of Count Heinrich Reichard Lorenz von Daun (1673–1729) and Countess Maria Josepha Violante von Poymund und Payersberg (1691–1758).[1]

Portrait of Eleanora Ernestina von Daun, Marquise of Pombal

In 1745, Eleanora met Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, a Portuguese diplomat who was in Vienna to serve as a mediator in the solution of a serious quarrel between the Holy Roman empress Maria Theresa and the Vatican; they resolved to marry in December of that year. However, Carvalho e Melo felt the Austrian climate was bad for his health and, at the advice of the physician Gerard van Swieten,[2] he submitted his resignation and returned to Lisbon with his wife as 1749 was coming to an end.[3] In 1759, her husband was made Count of Oeiras and, in 1769, Marquis of Pombal.

The Marquise of Pombal died seven years after her husband, aged 67, in the family palace in Rua Formosa (today called Rua de O Século), in Lisbon.[4]

References
  1. Santos, Maria Alcina R. C. Afonso dos (1982). "A Vida Pública de Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello em Viena de Áustria (1744-1749)" (PDF). Revista de História das Ideias. 4: 29–39. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-11-07. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
  2. Torres, João Romano (1915). "Marquis de Pombal". Portugal - Dicionário Histórico, Corográfico, Heráldico, Biográfico, Bibliográfico, Numismático e Artístico. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  3. Domingues, Mário José. "Marquis de Pombal". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  4. Livro de Registo de Óbitos 1779/1800 (folha 75), Paróquia das Mercês, Lisboa - Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
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