Biography of Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal 1613-1666
On 13 Oct 1613 Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal was born to Manuel Perez de Guzman y Silva 8th Duke of Medina Sidonia (age 34).
On 29 Nov 1630 Teodosio II Duke of Braganza (age 62) died. His son [her future husband] John IV King Portugal (age 26) succeeded Duke Braganza.
In 1633 John IV King Portugal (age 28) and Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal (age 19) were married. She by marriage Duchess Braganza.
In 1636 [her father] Manuel Perez de Guzman y Silva 8th Duke of Medina Sidonia (age 56) died.
On 25 Nov 1638 [her daughter] Catherine of Braganza Queen Consort England was born to [her husband] John IV King Portugal (age 34) and Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal (age 25) in Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa, Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Vila Viçosa.
On 01 Dec 1640 [her husband] John IV King Portugal (age 36) was created IV King Portugal by popular revolt ending the sixty year period of the Iberian Union where Spain and Portugal had the same ruler. Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal (age 27) by marriage Queen Consort Portugal.
On 21 Aug 1643 [her son] Alfonso VI King Portugal was born to [her husband] John IV King Portugal (age 39) and Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal (age 29).
On 26 Apr 1649 [her son] Peter II King Portugal was born to [her husband] John IV King Portugal (age 45) and Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal (age 35).
On 06 Nov 1656 [her husband] John IV King Portugal (age 52) died. His son [her son] Alfonso VI King Portugal (age 13) succeeded King Portuagal.
On 21 May 1662 [her son-in-law] King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 31) and [her daughter] Catherine of Braganza Queen Consort England (age 23) were married at Portsmouth, Hampshire [Map]. She by marriage Queen Consort England. She the daughter of John IV King Portugal and Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal (age 48). He the son of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria Bourbon Queen Consort England (age 52).
Pepy's Diary. 24 May 1662. That the [her son] King of Portugall (age 18) is a very fool almost, and his mother (age 48) do all, and he is a very poor Prince.
On 27 Feb 1666 Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal (age 52) died.
Pepy's Diary. 28 Mar 1666. Thence set them down at Pierces, and we home, where busy and at my chamber till 12 at night, and so to bed. This night, I am told, the Queene of Portugall (deceased), the mother to our Queene (age 27), is lately dead, and newes brought of it hither this day1. 29th. All the morning hard at the office.
Note 1. Donna Luiza (deceased), the Queen Regent of Portugal. She was daughter of the Duke de Medina Sidonia and widow of [her former husband] Juan IV. The Court wore the deepest mourning on this occasion. The ladies were directed to wear their hair plain, and to appear without spots on their faces, the disfiguring fashion of patching having just been introduced.- Strickland's Queens of England, vol. viii., p. 362.
Pepy's Diary. 01 Apr 1666. Thence meeting Dr. Allen, the physician, he and I and another walked in the Parke, a most pleasant warm day, and to the Queene's chappell; where I do not so dislike the musique. Here I saw on a post an invitation to all good Catholiques to pray for the soul of such a one departed this life. The Queene (age 56), I hear, do not yet hear of the death of her mother, she being in a course of physique, that they dare not tell it her.
Pepy's Diary. 22 Apr 1666. Lord's Day. Up, and put on my new black coate, long down to my knees, and with Sir W. Batten (age 65) to White Hall, where all in deep mourning for the Queene's (age 27) mother. There had great discourse, before the Duke (age 32) and Sir W. Coventry (age 38) begun the discourse of the day about the purser's business, which I seconded, and with great liking to the Duke (age 32), whom however afterward my Lord Bruncker (age 46) and Sir W. Pen (age 44) did stop by some thing they said, though not much to the purpose, yet because our proposition had some appearance of certain charge to the King (age 35) it was ruled that for this year we should try another the same in every respect with ours, leaving out one circumstance of allowing the pursers the victuals of all men short of the complement. I was very well satisfied with it and am contented to try it, wishing it may prove effectual.
