Isabel of Barcelos (October 1402 – 26 October 1466), also known as Isabel of Braganza, was a lady of the

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nobility during the

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. She was the daughter of

Afonso I, Duke of Braganza Dom Afonso I of Braganza (; 10 August 1377 – 15 December 1461) was the first duke of Braganza and the eighth count of Barcelos. He founded the House of Braganza, the most powerful and wealthy dynasty in Portugal. His descendants became high-ran ...

and

Beatriz Pereira de Alvim Beatriz Pereira de Alvim (1380–1414) was a Portuguese noblewoman, the only child of Nuno Álvares Pereira and his wife Leonor de Alvim. On 8 November 1401, she married Afonso, Count of Barcelos, illegitimate son of king John I of Portugal. Sh ...

, and she married Infante John, Lord of Reguengos de Monsaraz, her half-uncle, son of John I of Portugal.

Issue

Isabel and Infante John had four children: *Infante Diogo of Portugal (1425–1443) – 4th

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and 11th Master of the Order of St. James; *Infanta Isabella of Portugal (1428–1496), married

John II of Castile John II of Castile ( es, link=no, Juan; 6 March 1405 – 20 July 1454) was King of Castile and León from 1406 to 1454. He succeeded his older sister, Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, as Prince of Asturias in 1405. Regency John was the ...

, mother of Isabella I of Castile *Infanta

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(1430–1506), married

Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu and Beja (or ''Fernando,'' , 17 November 1433 – 18 September 1470) was the third son of Edward, King of Portugal and his wife Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, Eleanor of Aragon. Biography Ferdinand w ...

, mother of

Manuel I of Portugal Manuel I (; 31 May 146913 December 1521), known as the Fortunate ( pt, O Venturoso), was King of Portugal from 1495 to 1521. A member of the House of Aviz, Manuel was Duke of Beja and Viseu prior to succeeding his cousin, John II of Portuga ...

*Infanta Phillipa of Portugal (1432–1444), Lady of

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Isabel died in the town of

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on 26 October 1466 at the age of sixty-four. She was buried in the

Batalha Monastery The Monastery of Batalha ( pt, Mosteiro da Batalha) is a Dominican convent in the municipality of Batalha, in the district of Leiria, in the Centro Region of Portugal. Originally, and officially, known as the ''Monastery of Saint Mary of the V ...

alongside her husband.

Ancestry

References

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