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  Catherine of Braganza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Catherine of Braganza (November 25, 1638 – November 30, 1705) (Catherine Henrietta, Portuguese: Catarina Henriqueta de Bragança), was the queen consort of King Charles II of England.
Born in Lisbon, she was the second surviving daughter of King John IV of Portugal (at the time Duke of Braganza) and his wife, Louise of Guzman (Medina-Sidonia).
Although some have claimed that Queens borough of New York City was named after Catherine of Braganza, her name is not mentioned in the first 200 years of historical documents that have been preserved in the county archives.
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 Catherine, Duchess of Braganza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She was the second daughter of Duarte, Duke of Guimarães (Sixth son of Manuel I of Portugal) and was married to Duke John I of Braganza, a descendant of earlier Portuguese monarchs, and an important feudal prince in Portugal.
The Duchess had several children, of whom dom Teodosio de Braganza, was her eldest surviving son.
Catherine had married the Duke of Braganza, John, who himself as a grandson of the late Duke Jaime of Braganza was a legitimate heir of Portugal.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Catherine of Braganza   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Catherine of Braganza [1] (25 November 1638 – 30 November 1705) (Catherine Henrietta, in Portuguese Catarina Henriqueta de Bragança), was the queen consort of King Charles II of England.
Manuel of Braganza or Manuel of Portugal (pron.
Alfonso Carlos de Bourbon, Duke of San Jaime (1849 - 1936) was the Legitimist claimant to the throne of France and the Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain.
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 Braganza - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Braganza (Portuguese Bragança), name of the former royal family of Portugal and Brazil, and of the ducal house from which the family was descended....
Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705), daughter of John IV of Portugal and wife of Charles II of England.
The Prado was founded in 1819 by King Fernando VII at the initiative of his wife, Doña Isabel of Braganza.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Braganza
Braganza, royal house that ruled Portugal from 1640 to 1910 and Brazil from 1822 to 1889.
Catherine of Braganza, 1638-1705, queen consort of Charles II of England, daughter of John IV of Portugal.
The daughter of an exiled Scottish physician, she was educated in France and returned to England as maid of honor to Charles's queen, Catherine of Braganza.
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 Catherine of Braganza - TheBestLinks.com - Catherine de Braganza, Anglican, James II of England, Lisbon, ...
Catherine of Braganza - TheBestLinks.com - Catherine de Braganza, Anglican, James II of England, Lisbon,...
Catherine de Braganza, Catherine of Braganza, Anglican, James II of England...
She was a daughter of King John IV of Portugal (at the time Duke of Braganza) and his wife, Louise of Guzman, in Lisbon, Portugal.
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 Drew Spencer Family Tree - aqwg240
Catherine of Braganza [Parents] was born 25 Nov 1638 in Vila Vicosa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Catherine of Braganza was born 25 Nov 1638 and died 31 Dec 1705.
Catherine of Aragon [Parents] was born 15 Dec 1485 in Near Madrid, Spain.
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 Catherine of Braganza
Executive summary: Consort of English King Charles II Queen consort of Charles II of England, daughter of João IV of Portugal, and of Louisa de Gusman, daughter of the duke of Medina Sidonia, was born on the 15/25 of November 1638 at Vila Viçosa.
Catherine possessed several good qualities, but had been brought up in a conventual seclusion and was scarcely a wife Charles would have chosen for himself.
Her personal charms were not potent enough to wean Charles away from the society of his mistresses, and in a few weeks after her arrival she became aware of her painful and humiliating position as the wife of the selfish and licentious king.
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 Britannia: Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Catherine is believed to have spent most of her youth in a convent close by the royal palace where she remained under the watchful eye of her protective mother.
Catherine's critics were soon hopeful that there might yet be a neat solution to the problem of the succession when on her return to Whitehall in October 1663 she fell dangerously ill and was soon reported to be close to death.
Catherine may have proved incapable of producing an heir but in all other respects she was a faultless wife and one whom he loved and admired.
www.britannia.com /history/biographies/catherine_braganza.html   (6498 words)

  
 Catherine of Braganza: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
Catherine of Braganza (November 25, 1638 - November 30, 1705) was the queen consort of King Charles II of England.
She was born Catherine Henrietta, daughter of King John IV of Portugal (then Duke of Braganza), in Lisbon, Portugal.
She was not a particularly popular choice of queen, being a Roman Catholic, and her religion prevented her ever being crowned, since she could not take part in an Anglican service.
www.encyclopedian.com /ca/Catherine-of-Braganza.html   (215 words)

  
 Pepys' Diary: Queen Catherine’s Illness and Court Politics
It is not clear if Catherine returned from this journey carrying a child or not, as historians have different views on this, with Sousa and Mackay stating that she was pregnant, miscarried and became ill, perhaps as the result of the loss of the child.
Catherine, grateful for her husband’s attention and believing that she was dying, kept her regard for her husband in the forefront of her thoughts as she prepared to depart this world.
Catherine, in spite of being so profound a devotee, replied to him that it was not so, but that it must rather be laid to the prayers of her husband.
www.pepysdiary.com /indepth/archive/2006/08/30/queen_catherines_il.php   (3621 words)

  
 UK Tea Council: Tea 4 You : Catherine of Braganza
While it is not true to say that Catherine of Braganza, the queen-consort of Charles II of England, actually introduced tea to Britain, she certainly had much to do with it becoming a fashionable and widely drunk beverage.
The marriage of Queen Catherine and Charles II in fact was not an altogether happy union.
But while though Catherine's experience as queen of England may not have been an entirely successful or happy one in many ways, it is this young foreign princess whom we have to thank for the development of the British taste for tea.
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 Queen Catherine of Baganza
King Charles II of England married Catherine, Infanta of Portugal, by proxy in Lisbon, on 23rd April 1662.
Catherine had all the foregoing qualities, and she may have identified particularly with the Good Shepherd in her duties as leader of the Catholic faith in England.
When Charles II died in 1685, Catherine, as Queen Dowager, had three years of openly practising her religion without fear while the Catholic James II was on the throne.
www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk /queen_of_reg/catherine.html   (1701 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Catherine
Parr, Catherine 1512-48, sixth queen consort of Henry VIII of England.
Howard, Catherine 1521?-1542, fifth queen consort of Henry VIII of England.
During Catherine's reign foreign policy was determined largely by the empress, and Bezborodko generally went along with her schemes.
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 Catherine of Braganza
Catherine of Braganza (November 25, 1638 - November 30, 1705), or Catarina de Bragança was the queen consort of King Charles II of England.
She was born in Lisbon, Portugal, daughter of King John IV of Portugal (at the time Duke of Braganza) and his wife, Louise of Guzman.
Following the restoration of Portuguese independence from Spain, and her father's acession to the throne on December 1 1640, Catherine was engaged to Charles II.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Catherine
Catherine of Siena, Saint, 1347-80, Italian mystic and diplomat, a member of the third order of the Dominicans, Doctor of the Church.
Catherine de' Medici, 1519-89, queen of France, daughter of Lorenzo de' Medici, duke of Urbino.
Catherine of Valois, 1401-37, queen consort of Henry V of England, daughter of Charles VI of France.
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 Catherine of Braganza: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Catherine de Medici--Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France--1519-1589
Quite apart from his doll-like queen, Catherine of Braganza, who was unable to bear children, the King enjoyed the attentions of a string of mistresses whom he ran as a kind...
CATHERINE OF BRAGANZA br gan z, 1638 1705, queen consort of Charles II of England, daughter of John IV of Portugal.
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 Firs Queen of Bristol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Catherine's father, Dom John, the Eighth Duke of Braganza, along with 40 revolutionaries (Restauradores), gloriously restored the independence of Portugal on the morning of December 1st, 1640.
Catherine was not fluent with the English language and therefore always conversed with her husband in Spanish.
If Queen Catherine of Braganza were to visit America she would learn that Portuguese is the tenth most spoken language in U. Portuguese is the second most spoken in the State of Rhode Island.
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 Howard Catherine - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Norfolk, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of: Catherine of Aragón
Catherine of Aragón (1485-1536), queen of England (1509-1533), who, as the first wife of King Henry VIII, occupies a prominent place in history...
Henry VIII’s reign was dominated by his decision to marry his brother’s widow, Catherine of Aragón, and to keep control of foreign and religious...
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 Braganza — FactMonster.com
John, 6th duke of Braganza, married a niece of King John III, and when the Portuguese threw off Spanish rule in 1640, their grandson became king as John IV.
The house of Braganza ruled Portugal until the establishment of a republic in 1910.
Catherine of Braganza - Catherine of Braganza, 1638–1705, queen consort of Charles II of England, daughter of John...
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 December 21st
The woman of rank is a subject for perpetual remark among those of her own class, the journals of the day keep the public well informed as to the minutest particulars of her history, and the rabble at the corners of every street shrug their shoulders as she passes.
Reared in a palace, beautiful, possessed of ample dowry, the daughter of one king and the wife of another, loving her husband devotedly, and not herself unpleasing in his eyes, she must have cast no unhopeful glance into the future; yet at that very minute, fortune's wheel was turning.
Catherine survived the Revolution, remaining in England till the arrival of the Prince of Orange, and ultimately died at Lisbon on 21
www.thebookofdays.com /months/dec/21.htm   (2763 words)

  
 Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705), Queen of Charles II
Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705), Queen of Charles II Sitter
Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705), Queen of Charles II Sitter associated with 38 portraits
The Roman Catholic queen of Charles II and daughter of John, Duke of Braganza, afterwards King of Portugal, Catherine came to England in 1662, bringing a dowry of Tangier, Bombay and £300,000.
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 Catherine of Aragón - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Catherine of Aragón (quotations): Divorce: I came not into this realm as merchandise,…
I came not into this realm as merchandise, nor yet to be married to any merchant.
Catherine of Aragón died on January 8, 1536.
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 Queens Tribune Feature Story
In 1988, plans were set in motion to erect a 35-foot statue of Queen Catherine of the Braganza in Hunters Point – the Queen for which some believe the borough is to have been named after in 1683.
As the daughter of the King of Portugal, Catherine of Braganza was handed over in marriage in 1660 to King Charles II of England, with a dowry that included Bombay.
The Friends of Queen Catherine and Tallix resolved their differences in January 1999 and Tallix agreed to assemble and finish the statue for it to be shipped.
www.queenstribune.com /archives/featurearchive/feature2001/0614/feature_story.html   (1439 words)

  
 Somerset House - the Tudor palace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Here she was befriended by Henrietta Maria, who obtained an appointment for her as Lady of the Bedchamber to her daughter-in-law, Catherine of Braganza, who had married Charles II in 1662.
A Bill was introduced to Parliament to limit the number of Catherine's Roman Catholic servants, and she was warned not to agitate against his government.
Just as matters were becoming extremely uncomfortable for Catherine, she was asked to become Regent of Portugal and left England in 1693, the last queen to inhabit the palace.
www.somerset-house.org.uk /history/tudorpalace   (2416 words)

  
 Casa Alta Royal Lodge - "Guest Book"
In 1648, King John IV, remodeled the Lodge and soon after, his daughter Queen Catherine of Braganza, Regent of Portugal, came to live here in 1661 on retreat before embarking to England to marry King Charles II.
The current Rector's personal office was the former Queen's Sitting Room where it is written the Duchess of Braganza took tea in the afternoons with bread and marmalade and spent evenings playing cards with her ladies in waiting.
Catherine of Braganza is recalled for introducing tea into England, as well as folding fans, parquet flooring, and the singing of the Adestes Fidelis at Christmas Mass.
www.casaaltaroyallodge.com /guest.htm   (593 words)

  
 Catherine of Braganza - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Catherine of Braganza - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Braganza: American county named for Catherine of Braganza
Queens County was organized in 1683 as an administrative division of the English province of New York and was named for Catherine of Braganza, queen...
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 Covent Garden History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Few streets in Covent Garden can rival Catherine Street for its elegant, workmanlike demeanour, it is much like Catherine of Braganza, after whom it is named: resolute and unprepossessing in an atmosphere of frenzy.
Art’s greatest memorial to Catherine Street is William Hogarth’s “The Rake’s Progress” (left) the scene shows an orgy of drunkenness and debauchery at the Rose Tavern (which was demolished in 1775 to make way for an extension to the Theatre Royal).
Drinking establishments have always been a feature of Catherine Street, the best pub on the street these days is The Nell of Old Drury which occupies the building where Nell Gwynne would have taken a glass of pleasure during the reign of her suitor Charles II.
www.coventgarden.uk.com /catherine.html   (735 words)

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