On 13th October 1613 Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal was born to Manuel Perez de Guzman y Silva 8th Duke of Medina Sidonia [aged 34].
On 29th November 1630 Teodosio II Duke of Braganza [aged 62] died. His son [her future husband] John [aged 26] succeeded Duke Braganza.
In 1633 John IV King Portugal [aged 28] and Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal [aged 19] were married. She by marriage Duchess Braganza.
In 1636 [her father] Manuel Perez de Guzman y Silva 8th Duke of Medina Sidonia [aged 56] died.
On 25th November 1638 [her daughter] Catherine of Braganza Queen Consort England was born to [her husband] John IV King Portugal [aged 34] and Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal [aged 25] in Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa, Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Vila Viçosa. She married 21st May 1662 King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland, son of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria Bourbon Queen Consort England.
On 1st December 1640 [her husband] John IV King Portugal [aged 36] was created IV King Portugal by popular revolt ending the sixty year period of the Iberian Union where Spain and Portugal had the same ruler. Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal [aged 27] by marriage Queen Consort Portugal.
On 21st August 1643 [her son] Alfonso VI King Portugal was born to [her husband] John IV King Portugal [aged 39] and Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal [aged 29]. He married 2nd August 1666 Marie Françoise Élisabeth of Savoy Queen Consort of Portugal, daughter of Charles Amadeus Duke of Nemours and Élisabeth Bourbon Vendôme.
On 26th April 1649 [her son] Peter II King Portugal was born to [her husband] John IV King Portugal [aged 45] and Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal [aged 35]. He married (1) 2nd April 1668 Marie Françoise Élisabeth of Savoy Queen Consort of Portugal, daughter of Charles Amadeus Duke of Nemours and Élisabeth Bourbon Vendôme, and had issue (2) 1687 Maria Sophia of Neuburg Queen Consort Portugal and had issue.
On 6th November 1656 [her husband] John IV King Portugal [aged 52] died. His son Alfonso [aged 13] succeeded King Portuagal.
On 21st May 1662 [her son-in-law] King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 31] and Catherine of Braganza Queen Consort England [aged 23] were married at Portsmouth, Hampshire [Map]. She by marriage Queen Consort England. She the daughter of John IV King Portugal and Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal [aged 48]. He the son of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria Bourbon Queen Consort England [aged 52].
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 24th May 1662. That the [her son] King of Portugall [aged 18] is a very fool almost, and his mother [aged 48] do all, and he is a very poor Prince.
On 27th February 1666 Luisa de Guzman Queen Consort Portugal [aged 52] died.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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Samuel Pepys' Diary. 28th March 1666. Thence set them down at Pierces, and we home, where busy and at my chamber till 12 at night, and so to bed. This night, I am told, the Queene of Portugall [deceased], the mother to our Queene [aged 27], is lately dead, and newes brought of it hither this day1. 29th. All the morning hard at the office.
Note 1. Donna Luiza, the Queen Regent of Portugal. She was daughter of the Duke de Medina Sidonia and widow of Juan IV. The Court wore the deepest mourning on this occasion. The ladies were directed to wear their hair plain, and to appear without spots on their faces, the disfiguring fashion of patching having just been introduced.- Strickland's Queens of England, vol. viii., p. 362.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 1st April 1666. Thence meeting Dr. Allen, the physician, he and I and another walked in the Parke, a most pleasant warm day, and to the Queene's chappell; where I do not so dislike the musique. Here I saw on a post an invitation to all good Catholiques to pray for the soul of such a one departed this life. The Queene [aged 56], I hear, do not yet hear of the death of her mother, she being in a course of physique, that they dare not tell it her.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 22nd April 1666. Lord's Day. Up, and put on my new black coate, long down to my knees, and with Sir W. Batten [aged 65] to White Hall, where all in deep mourning for the [her daughter] Queene's [aged 27] mother. There had great discourse, before the Duke [aged 32] and Sir W. Coventry [aged 38] begun the discourse of the day about the purser's business, which I seconded, and with great liking to the Duke, whom however afterward my Lord Bruncker [aged 46] and Sir W. Pen [aged 44] did stop by some thing they said, though not much to the purpose, yet because our proposition had some appearance of certain charge to the [her son-in-law] King [aged 35] it was ruled that for this year we should try another the same in every respect with ours, leaving out one circumstance of allowing the pursers the victuals of all men short of the complement. I was very well satisfied with it and am contented to try it, wishing it may prove effectual.
