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Maria of Aragon (1482–1517)
| Maria of Aragon | |
|---|---|
_-_1510-1513.png) Stained-glass window of the Batalha Monastery depicting Maria of Aragon, made by Francisco Henriques. | |
| Queen consort of Portugal Infanta of Aragon and Castile | |
| Reign | 30 August 1500 – 7 March 1517 |
| Predecessor | Isabella of Aragon |
| Successor | Eleanor of Austria |
| Born | 29 June 1482 Alcázar of the Christian Monarchs, Córdoba, Córdoba |
| Died | 7 March 1517 (aged 34) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Burial | |
| Spouse | Manuel I of Portugal |
| Issue | See below |
| House | House of Trastámara |
| Father | Ferdinand II of Aragon |
| Mother | Isabella I of Castile |
Maria of Aragon (Córdoba, Kingdom of Córdoba, 29 June 1482 – Lisbon, Portugal, 7 March 1517), fourth daughter of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, was Queen of Portugal as the second wife of Manuel I, who died in 1521.[1]
Biography
Maria was born in the Alcázar of the Christian Monarchs of Córdoba on 29 June 1482, a city to which her mother Isabella had moved, coinciding with the beginning of the Granada War, while pregnant with twins. As it disturbed her days of pregnancy, Queen Isabella had the Albolafia waterwheel dismantled because of the noise it made.[2] The first to be born was Maria, while the second, male or female, was stillborn.[3] The first documented bullfight in the city of Córdoba was held on account of the birth of the Infanta, and she was baptized in the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba on 7 July. Like her siblings, she received a careful education at the hands of scholars such as Alejandro Giraldino and Andrés de Miranda, with Maria excelling in literature and classical languages.[4]
Although her parents, the Catholic Monarchs, at first tried to marry her to James IV of Scotland, since her sister Catherine was betrothed to Arthur Tudor, and it was hoped that the Spanish wives would calm the enmity between the husbands, the plans were ultimately discarded.[5]
Queen of Portugal
The premature death in 1498 of her sister Isabella of Aragon, who had been married to Manuel I of Portugal, led to Maria being betrothed to the newly widowed Monarch. One of the requirements for the wedding to take place was the forced conversion to Christianity of the Jews in Portugal, since many had fled to the Portuguese country after their expulsion from Castile and Aragon.[6] The wedding was celebrated on 30 October 1500 in Alcácer do Sal, when she was 18 years old, and it was a happy marriage, thus continuing the policy of successive marriages between the Portuguese and Castilian-Aragonese royal families, in the attempt to unite the Iberian kingdoms, which at that time comprised Portugal, Aragon and Castile, under one crown.[1]
In addition to other privileges and donations, the King granted her the towns of Viseu and Torres Vedras as a dowry. The couple had ten children, among whom King John III of Portugal, Isabella of Portugal, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, and Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy, stand out.
Maria became a fervent supporter of her husband Manuel's imperial project of destroying the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina, annexing the Mamluk Sultanate and conquering the holy places of Christendom, especially Jerusalem.[7]
She died on 7 March 1517 in Lisbon, greatly weakened after her last childbirth, from which a boy named Antonio was born on 9 September 1516, who lived only a few days. Her life had already been in danger when she was pregnant with her last child, because of the previous childbirths, which had given her 9 children.
She was buried in the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon, of which she had been one of the founders.
Issue
From her marriage to her second cousin once removed Manuel I of Portugal, ten children were born:
- John III, King of Portugal (1502–1554).
- Isabella of Portugal (1503–1539), married to her cousin Charles I of Spain, mother of Philip II of Spain, Philip I of Portugal from 1580.
- Beatrice (1504–1538), married to Charles III, Duke of Savoy, who was stripped of almost all his states in 1544 by Francis I of France; mother of Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy, one of the heroes of the Battle of St. Quentin.
- Luís of Portugal, Duke of Beja (1506–1555), secretly married to Violante Gómez la Pelícana, a Jewish woman, who died as a nun (other sources state that there was never such a marriage between them). From this relationship was born António (1531–1595), who claimed the rights to the Portuguese throne in 1580 against the claims of Philip II of Spain, despite being illegitimate.
- Ferdinand, Duke of Guarda and Trancoso (1507–1534), married to Guiomar Coutinho, Countess of Marialva.
- Afonso of Portugal, Cardinal of Portugal (1509–1540).
- Maria (1511–1513)
- Henry I, King of Portugal (1512–1580).
- Edward of Portugal, 4th Duke of Guimarães (1515–1540), married to Isabella of Braganza, whose daughter the Duchess Catherine disputed the succession rights to the Portuguese throne of her first cousin, Philip II of Spain, Philip I of Portugal. Edward and Isabella were great-grandparents of John IV of Portugal.
- Antonio (1517)
Ancestors
Ancestors of Maria, Infanta of Aragon
- 1. Maria of Aragon
- 2. Ferdinand II of Aragon
- 3. Isabella I of Castile
- 4. John II of Aragon
- 5. Juana Enríquez
- 6. John II of Castile
- 7. Isabella of Portugal
- 8. Ferdinand I of Aragon
- 9. Eleanor of Alburquerque
- 10. Fadrique Enríquez
- 11. Marina Fernández de Córdoba
- 12. Henry III of Castile
- 13. Catherine of Lancaster
- 14. John of Portugal
- 15. Isabella of Barcelos
- 16. John I of Castile
- 17. Eleanor of Aragon
- 18. Sancho of Castile
- 19. Beatrice of Portugal
- 20. Alfonso Enríquez
- 21. Juana de Mendoza
- 22. Diego Fernández de Córdoba
- 23. Inés de Ayala
- 24. John I of Castile
- 25. Eleanor of Aragon
- 26. John of Gaunt
- 27. Constance of Castile
- 28. John I of Portugal
- 29. Philippa of Lancaster
- 30. Afonso I of Braganza
- 31. Beatriz Pereira de Alvim
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Maria (D.)". Portugal - Dicionário Histórico, Corográfico, Heráldico, Biográfico, Bibliográfico, Numismático e Artístico (in português). pp. 823–824. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
- ↑ Córdoba, El Día de (2 November 2008). "La infanta cordobesa que reinó en Portugal". El Día de Córdoba (in español). Retrieved 20 February 2019.
- ↑ Liss, Peggy K. (1998). Isabel la Católica: su vida y su tiempo (in español). Nerea. p. 192. ISBN 84-89569-27-4. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
- ↑ Córdoba, El Día de (8 January 2017). "La reina de Portugal que nació en Córdoba". El Día de Córdoba (in español). Retrieved 20 February 2019.
- ↑ Bergenroth, G A, ed. (1862). "Spain: July 1498, 21-31". Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 1, 1485-1509.
- ↑ lab.rtve.es. "Personaje María de Aragón en la serie Isabel, interpretado por Susana Abaitua". Mapa de personajes de la tercera temporada de la serie Isabel - Lab RTVE.es (in español). Retrieved 20 February 2019.
- ↑ Harris, Carolyn (2017). Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting. Dundurn Press.
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