Joana, Princess of Beira (18 September 1635 – 17 November 1653; ; ) was a Portuguese ''

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'' (princess), and the eldest surviving daughter of John IV,

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(the first of the

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) and his wife Luisa de Guzmán.

Life

Joana was born in

Vila Viçosa Vila Viçosa () is a town and a municipality in the Évora (district), District of Évora, Alentejo in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 8,319, in an area of 194.86 km². The municipal holiday is August 16. Parishes Administratively, th ...

on 18 September 1635. Her father created her Princess of Beira, a title subsequently used by the eldest daughter of the monarch. She died unmarried in

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at the age of 18 on 17 November 1653. She was first buried at the

Jerónimos Monastery The Jerónimos Monastery or Hieronymites Monastery (, ) is a former monastery of the Hieronymites, Order of Saint Jerome near the Tagus river in the parish of Santa Maria de Belém, Belém, in the Lisbon Municipality, Portugal. It became the nec ...

and then moved to the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora.

Ancestry

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