Biography of Peter II King Portugal 1648-1706

In 1633 [his father] John IV King Portugal (age 28) and [his mother] Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal (age 19) were married. She by marriage Duchess Braganza.

On 26th April 1649 Peter II King Portugal was born to John IV King Portugal (age 45) and Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal (age 35).

On 6th November 1656 [his father] John IV King Portugal (age 52) died. His son [his brother] Alfonso (age 13) succeeded King Portuagal.

On 27th February 1666 [his mother] Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal (age 52) died.

On 2nd August 1666 [his brother] Alfonso VI King Portugal (age 22) and [his future wife] Marie Françoise Élisabeth of Savoy Queen Consort of Portugal (age 20) were married. She had arrived in Portugal on the same day. The marriage was not consummated. She subsequently married her brother-in-law Peter II King Portugal (age 17) when he took control of the Portuguese throne; an example of Married to Two Siblings. She by marriage Queen Consort Portugal. She the daughter of Charles Amadeus Duke of Nemours and Élisabeth Bourbon Vendôme. He the son of [his father] John IV King Portugal and [his mother] Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal.

In November 1667 Peter II King Portugal (age 18) forced his brother to effectively abdicate King Portugal and took control.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 13th December 1667. By and by comes out my cozen Roger (age 50) to me, he being not willing to be in the House at the business of my Lord Keeling (age 60), lest he should be called upon to complain against him for his abusing him at Cambridge, very wrongfully and shamefully, but not to his reproach, but to the Chief justice's in the end, when all the world cried shame upon him for it. So he with me home, and Creed, whom I took up by the way, going thither, and they to dine with me, and pretty merry, and among other pieces of news, it is now fresh that the [his brother] King of Portugall (age 24) is deposed, and his brother (age 18) made King; and that my Lord Sandwich (age 42) is gone from Madrid with great honour to Lisbon, to make up, at this juncture, a peace to the advantage, as the Spaniard would have it, of Spain. I wish it may be for my Lord's honour, if it be so; but it seems my Lord is in mighty estimation in Spain.

On 2nd April 1668 Peter II King Portugal (age 18) and Marie Françoise Élisabeth of Savoy Queen Consort of Portugal (age 21) were married. She had, two years before, married his older brother Alfonso VI King Portugal (age 24) who he, Peter, had deposed; an example of Married to Two Siblings. She the daughter of Charles Amadeus Duke of Nemours and Élisabeth Bourbon Vendôme. He the son of John IV King Portugal and Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal.

On 6th January 1669 [his daughter] Infanta Isabel Luísa of Portugal was born to Peter II King Portugal (age 19) and [his wife] Marie Françoise Élisabeth of Savoy Queen Consort of Portugal (age 22).

John Evelyn's Diary. 8th February 1678. Supping at my Lord Chamberlain's (age 60) I had a long discourse with the Count de Castel Mellor, lately Prime Minister in Portugal, who, taking part with his master, [his brother] King Alphonso (age 34), was banished by his brother, Don Pedro (age 28), now Regent; but had behaved himself so uncorruptly in all his ministry that, though he was acquitted, and his estate restored, yet would they not suffer him to return. He is a very intelligent and worthy gentleman.

In 12th September 1683 [his brother] Alfonso VI King Portugal (age 40) died. His brother Peter (age 34) succeeded King Portugal. [his wife] Marie Françoise Élisabeth of Savoy Queen Consort of Portugal (age 37) by marriage Queen Consort Portugal for a second time albeit for three months only.

On 27th December 1683 [his wife] Marie Françoise Élisabeth of Savoy Queen Consort of Portugal (age 37) died.

John Evelyn's Diary. 10th July 1685. The Count of Castel Mellor (age 49), that greate favourite and prime minister of [his brother] Alphonso, late King of Portugal, after several yeares banishment, being now receiv'd to grace and call'd home by Don Pedro the present King (age 36), as having ben found a person of the greatest integrity after all his sufferings, desir'd me to spend part of this day with him, and assist him in a collection of books and other curiosities, which he would carry with him into Portugal. Mr. Hussey (deceased), a young gentleman who made love to my late deare child, but whom she could not bring herselfe to answer in affection, died now of the same cruel disease, for wch I was extreamly sorry, because he never enjoy'd himselfe after my daughter's decease, nor was I averse to the match, could she have overcome her disinclination.

In 1687 Peter II King Portugal (age 37) and Maria Sophia of Neuburg Queen Consort Portugal (age 20) were married. He the son of John IV King Portugal and Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal.

On 22nd October 1689 [his son] John V King Portugal was born to Peter II King Portugal (age 40) and [his wife] Maria Sophia of Neuburg Queen Consort Portugal (age 23).

On 21st October 1690 [his daughter] Infanta Isabel Luísa of Portugal (age 21) died of smallpox.

On 4th August 1699 [his wife] Maria Sophia of Neuburg Queen Consort Portugal (age 32) died.

On 9th December 1706 Peter II King Portugal (age 57) died. His son [his son] John (age 17) succeeded King Portugal.