Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal

Infanta Maria Doroteia

Portrait by Vieira Lusitano
Born (1739-09-21)21 September 1739
Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal
Died 14 January 1771(1771-01-14) (aged 31)
Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal
Burial Royal Pantheon of the Braganza Dynasty
House House of Braganza
Father Joseph I of Portugal
Mother Mariana Victoria of Spain

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.

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 Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (later known as Philippe Égalité), but she refused to marry him.

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.

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