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Maria of Portugal (nun)

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House
  
House of Burgundy

Name
  
Maria Portugal

Religion
  
Roman Catholicism

Mother
  
Beatrice of Castile

Father
  
Afonso III


Maria of Portugal (nun)

Died
  
6 June 1304(1304-06-06) (aged 39) Coimbra, Kingdom of Portugal

Burial
  
Santa Cruz Monastery, Coimbra, Portugal

Infanta Maria of Portugal (Coimbra, 21 November 1264 – Coimbra, 6 June 1304; [mɐˈɾiɐ]) was a Portuguese infanta (princess) daughter of King Afonso III of Portugal and his second wife Beatrice of Castile

Maria was born on November 21, 1264 in Coimbra was for the majority of her life a nun in the Convent of the Lady Canons of Saint John (Convento das Donas Cónegas de São João), near the Monastery of Santa Cruz of Coimbra. She died in the same city on June 6, 1304.

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