Luisa de Guzmán

Luisa Guzmán ( in Portuguese: Luisa de Gusmão ) (* 1613 in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, † November 6, 1666 in Lisbon ) was a Spanish nobleman and from 1640 to 1656 Queen of Portugal ( as a wife, not as a sovereign in its own right ).

She was born as the daughter of the Spanish nobleman Johann Manuel Pérez de Guzmán, the eighth Duke of Medina Sidonia and Johana Lourença Gómez de Sandoval y la Cerda. In 1633 she married John II, the eighth Duke of Braganza. This ascended in 1640 after a riot had ended Spanish rule in Portugal (see Philip III. In Portugal, personal union of Portugal with Spain). Portuguese throne, Luisa was Queen of Portugal

She was the mother of seven children, including the Portuguese kings Alfonso VI. and Peter II and Catherine Henrietta, Queen of England ( the wife of Charles II )