Infanta Francisca Josefa of Portugal

Infanta Francisca Josefa Maria Xaviera^[1](Portuguese pronunciation: [fɾɐ̃ˈsiʃkɐ ʒuˈzɛfɐ]; English: Frances Josepha) (30 January 1699 – 15 July 1736) was a Portuguese infanta (princess) and the last of eight children of King Peter II of Portugal and his second wife Marie Sophie of Neuburg.

Francisca Josefa
Born	30 January 1699 Ribeira Palace, Lisbon, Portugal
Died	15 July 1736 (1736-07-16) (aged 37) Ribeira Palace, Lisbon, Portugal
Burial	Pantheon of the House of Braganza, Lisbon, Portugal
House	Braganza
Father	Peter II of Portugal
Mother	Maria Sophia of Neuburg

Francisca Josefa was born and died in Lisbon. Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia was proposed as a possible marriage for the infanta in 1720–21, but nothing came of it. She never married nor had issue and she died when she was 37 years old. She is buried at the Royal Pantheon of the Braganza Dynasty.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Infanta Francisca Josefa of Portugal

8. Teodósio II, Duke of Braganza 4. John IV of Portugal 9. Ana de Velasco y Girón 2. Peter II of Portugal 10. Manuel, 8th Duke of Medina Sidonia 5. Luisa de Guzmán 11. Juana de Sandoval y de la Cerda 1. Francisca Josefa of Braganza 12. Wolfgang William, Count Palatine of Neuburg 6. Philip William, Elector Palatine 13. Magdalene of Bavaria 3. Maria Sophia of Neuburg 14. George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt 7. Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt 15. Sophia Eleonore of Saxony

Bibliography

• Raggi, Giuseppina (2019). "The Lost Opportunity: Two Projects of Filippo Juvarra Concerning Royal Theaters and the Marriage Policy between the Courts of Turin and Lisbon (1719-1722)". Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography. 44 (1–2): 119–137. ISSN 1522-7464.