Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal
Maria Doroteia of Braganza (Maria Francisca Doroteia Josefa Antónia Gertrudes Rita Joana Efigénia; 21 September 1739 – 14 January 1771), was a Portuguese infanta daughter of King Joseph I of Portugal and his wife Mariana Victoria of Spain.
| Infanta Maria Doroteia | |||||
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 Portrait by Vieira Lusitano | |||||
| Born | 21 September 1739 Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal | ||||
| Died | 14 January 1771 (aged 31) Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal | ||||
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| House | Braganza | ||||
| Father | Joseph I of Portugal | ||||
| Mother | Mariana Victoria of Spain | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||
Biography
Doroteia was born in September 1739 in Lisbon and was the third of four daughters of King Joseph. She was named after her great-grandmother, Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg.
She was a proposed bride for Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans (later known as Philippe Égalité), but she refused to marry him.
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 died in Lisbon on 14 January 1771 and her body was moved to the national pantheon in the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora in Lisbon.
Ancestry
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References
- The Madness of Queen Maria by Jenifer Roberts p.43
- 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.