List of Portuguese royal consorts facts for kids

Portugal has a fascinating history, and its queens played a big part in shaping the country! While kings usually ruled, some queens held the power themselves. These were called queens regnant. Other queens were the wives of kings, known as queens consort. Many of these queens consort were very important. They sometimes ruled the country when their children were too young to be king, or they had a lot of influence over their husbands.

Only two women officially ruled Portugal as queens: Maria I and Maria II. There were also two other powerful women, Beatriz in the 1300s and Teresa in the 1100s, who some historians consider early rulers of Portugal.

One famous queen consort was Elizabeth of Aragon, who was married to King Denis. People believed she performed miracles after her death, and she was later made a saint!

When a queen regnant ruled, her husband could only become king if they had a child together. Portugal had two "princes consort" (husbands of queens regnant) for Queen Maria II. The first, Auguste de Beauharnais, sadly died before they had children, so he never became king. Maria II's second husband, Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, became a "jure uxoris" king (meaning "by right of his wife") after their first child, Pedro V, was born. Maria I's husband, Pedro III, became king right away because they already had children when she became queen.

King John I's marriage to Philippa of Lancaster

Queens of the House of Burgundy (1139–1383)

Picture	Name	Father	Birth	Marriage	Became Queen	Stopped Being Queen	Death	Husband
	Maud of Savoy	Amadeus III, Count of Savoy (Savoy)	1125	January/June 1146		4 November 1157		Afonso I
	Dulce of Aragon	Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (Barcelona)	1160	1174–5	6 December 1185 husband became king	1 September 1198		Sancho I
	Urraca of Castile	Alfonso VIII of Castile (Ivrea)	1186 – 28 May 1187	1206	26 March 1212 husband became king	3 November 1220		Afonso II
	Mécia Lopes de Haro	Lope Díaz II de Haro (Haro)	1215	1246		4 January 1248 husband died	1270	Sancho II
	Matilda II, Countess of Boulogne	Renaud I, Count of Dammartin	1202	1235	4 January 1248 husband became king	1253 divorced	14 January 1259, 1260, or 1262	Afonso III
	Beatrice of Castile	Alfonso X of Castile (Ivrea)	1242	1253		16 February 1279 husband died	27 October 1303
	Elizabeth of Aragon	Peter III of Aragon (Barcelona)	4 January 1271	2 February/24 June 1282		7 January 1325 husband died	4 July 1336	Dinis I
	Beatrice of Castile	Sancho IV of Castile (Ivrea)	8 March 1293	12 September 1309	7 January 1325 husband became king	28 May 1357 husband died	25 October 1359	Afonso IV
	Inês de Castro	Pedro Fernández de Castro (Castro)	1325–7	1346 secretly 1 January 1354 openly	-		7 January 1355	Pedro I
	Leonor Teles	Martim Afonso Telo de Meneses	c. 1350	May 1372		22 October 1383 husband died	c. 1405/06	Fernando I

Queens of the House of Aviz (1385–1580)

Picture	Name	Father	Birth	Marriage	Became Queen	Stopped Being Queen	Death	Husband
	Philippa of Lancaster	John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (Lancaster)	31 March 1360	11 February 1387		19 July 1415		João I
	Eleanor of Aragon	Ferdinand I of Aragon (Trastámara)	2 May 1402	22 September 1428	14 August 1433 husband became king	9 September 1438 husband died	19 February 1445	Duarte I
	Isabella of Coimbra	Peter, Duke of Coimbra (Aviz)	6 May 1447		1 March 1432	2 December 1455		Afonso V
	Joanna la Beltraneja	Henry IV of Castile (Trastámara)	21 February 1462	30 May 1475		1479 divorced	12 April 1530
	Eleanor of Viseu	Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu (Aviz)	2 May 1458	22 January 1471	28 August 1481 husband became king	25 October 1495 husband died	17 November 1525	João II
	Isabella of Aragon	Ferdinand II of Aragon (Trastámara)	2 October 1470	30 September 1497		28 August 1498		Manuel I
	Maria of Aragon		29 June 1482	30 October 1500		7 March 1517
	Eleanor of Austria	Philip I of Castile (Habsburg)	15 November 1498	16 July 1518		13 December 1521 husband died	25 February 1558
	Catherine of Austria		14 January 1507	10 February 1525		11 June 1557 husband died	12 February 1578	João III

Queens of the House of Habsburg (1580–1640)

Picture	Name	Father	Birth	Marriage	Became Queen	Stopped Being Queen	Death	Husband
	Anna of Austria	Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (Habsburg)	2 November 1549	4 May 1570	12 September 1580 husband became king	26 October 1580		Filipe I
	Margaret of Austria	Charles II of Austria (Habsburg)	25 December 1584	18 April 1599		3 October 1611		Filipe II
	Elisabeth of France	Henry IV of France (Bourbon)	22 November 1602	25 November 1615	31 March 1621 husband became king	1 December 1640 husband lost the throne	6 October 1644	Filipe III

Queens of the House of Braganza (1640–1910)

Picture	Name	Father	Birth	Marriage	Became Queen	Stopped Being Queen	Death	Husband
	Luisa de Guzmán	Juan Manuel Pérez de Guzmán, 8th Duke of Medina Sidonia (Guzmán)	13 October 1613	12 January 1633	1 December 1640 husband became king	6 November 1656 husband died	27 February 1666	João IV
	Maria Francisca of Savoy	Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours (Savoy)	21 June 1646	2 August 1666		24 March 1668 divorced	27 December 1683	Afonso VI
				1668	12 September 1683 husband became king	27 December 1683		Pedro II
	Maria Sophia of Neuburg	Philip William, Elector Palatine (Wittelsbach)	6 August 1666	11 August 1687		4 August 1699
	Maria Anna of Austria	Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (Habsburg)	7 September 1683	27 October 1708		31 July 1750 husband died	14 August 1754	João V
	Mariana Victoria of Spain	Philip V of Spain (Bourbon)	31 March 1718	19 January 1729	31 July 1750 husband became king	24 February 1777 husband died	15 January 1781	José I
	Carlota Joaquina of Spain	Charles IV of Spain (Bourbon)	25 April 1775	8 May 1785	20 March 1816 husband became king	10 March 1826 husband died	7 January 1830	João VI
	Maria Leopoldina of Austria	Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (Habsburg-Lorraine)	22 January 1797	6 November 1817	26 March 1826 husband became king	2 May 1826 husband gave up the throne	11 December 1826	Pedro IV
	Auguste de Beauharnais, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg	Eugène de Beauharnais, 1st Duke of Leuchtenberg (Beauharnais)	9 December 1810	1 December 1834 by proxy 26 January 1835 in person		28 March 1835		Maria II
	Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha	Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha)	29 October 1816	1 January 1836		16 September 1837 became King	15 December 1885

Queens of the House of Braganza-Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1853–1910)

Picture	Name	Father	Birth	Marriage	Became Queen	Stopped Being Queen	Death	Husband
	Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen	Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern (Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen)	15 July 1837	18 May 1858		17 July 1859		Pedro V
	Maria Pia of Savoy	Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (Savoy)	14 February 1847	6 October 1862		19 October 1889 husband died	5 July 1911	Luís I
	Amélie of Orléans	Prince Philippe, Count of Paris (Orléans)	28 September 1865	22 May 1886	19 October 1889 husband became king	1 February 1908 husband died	25 October 1951	Carlos I

See also

• List of Portuguese monarchs