Infanta Isabel of Coimbra (Isabella of Portugal) (1 March 1432 – 2 December 1455) was a Portuguese

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and

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as the first spouse of King

Afonso V of Portugal Afonso V () (15 January 1432 – 28 August 1481), known by the sobriquet the African (), was King of Portugal from 1438 until his death in 1481, with a brief interruption in 1477. His sobriquet refers to his military conquests in Northern Afri ...

Life

Isabella was a daughter of the

Infante Peter, Duke of Coimbra Infante D. Pedro, Duke of Coimbra KG (; en, Peter), (9 December 1392 – 20 May 1449) was a Portuguese ''infante'' (prince) of the House of Aviz, son of King John I of Portugal and his wife Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaun ...

, and Isabella of Aragon, Countess of Urgel. Her paternal grandfather was King

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and her maternal grandfather was James II, Count of Urgel.

Queen

Isabella's father was the regent for her cousin Afonso V during his minority. Reportedly, Isabella and Afonso fell in love with each other. They were engaged in 1445, which caused a conflict between Peter of Coimbra and Duke Afonso of Braganza, who had wished for the monarch to marry his grandchild. Isabella was given the income of Santarém, Alvaiázere,

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and

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at her wedding. Isabella and Afonso V were married on 6 May 1447. Both the bride and groom were fifteen. In 1448, the king took Afonso of Braganza as his advisor. Isabella's father died (suspected to have been killed), and her brother

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was exiled. Isabella herself did not fall out of favour with the king, however, and she took control of the duchy of Coimbra until her brother returned to Portugal in 1454. In 1455, Isabella had her father honoured with a grand ceremony of exoneration at court and had him re-buried in a grand way. Shortly after this, she died at age twenty-three, possibly from

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ing.

Issue

Isabella had three children: * John, Prince of Portugal (29 January 1451) * Joan, Princess of Portugal (6 February 1452 – 12 May 1490): Known as Saint Joan of Portugal or Saint Joan Princess. Beatified in 1693 by

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. *

John II of Portugal John II ( pt, João II; ; 3 March 1455 – 25 October 1495), called the Perfect Prince ( pt, o Príncipe Perfeito, link=no), was King of Portugal from 1481 until his death in 1495, and also for a brief time in 1477. He is known for re-establishi ...

(3 March 1455 – 25 October 1495): Succeeded his father as 13th King of Portugal.

Ancestry

References

External links

Genealogical Information on Isabel of Coimbra (in Portuguese)
1432 births 1455 deaths House of Aviz Portuguese infantes Portuguese queens consort 15th-century Portuguese people 15th-century Portuguese women {{Portugal-royal-stub