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Birth of Catherine of Austria

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Birth of Catherine of Austria

Historical milestone · Torquemada, El Cerrato, Palencia

The infanta Catherine, future queen of Portugal, was born in Torquemada on 14 January 1507, the sixth and posthumous daughter of Philip the Handsome and Joanna the Mad; as the queen had no midwife, it was her lady-in-waiting María de Ulloa who attended her during the birth. Her father was provisionally buried in the town's parish church before his definitive transfer. She grew up alongside her mother in the castle of Tordesillas, where she suffered privations at the hands of her guardians, and in 1525 she married by proxy in Salamanca her cousin John III of Portugal. On his death, in 1557, she assumed the regency of the kingdom in the name of her grandson Sebastian, then a child, a role she held until 1562. She died in Lisbon in 1578, at the age of 71.

14 de enero de 1507

Photo: L. Vadillo - MaLéPhotoSpain (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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