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Hace 2 días · The House of Braganza produced 15 Portuguese monarchs and all four Brazilian monarchs, numerous consorts to various European kingdoms, such as Catherine of Braganza (wife of Charles II of England who introduced tea to Britain) and Maria Isabel of Braganza (wife of Ferdinand VII of Spain who founded the El Prado Museum), as well as ...
- 1442; 581 years ago
- Afonso I, Duke of Braganza
Hace 5 días · Despite the Protestant marriage, fears of a potential Catholic monarch persisted, intensified by the failure of Charles II and his wife, Catherine of Braganza, to produce any children. A defrocked Anglican clergyman, Titus Oates , spoke of a " Popish Plot " to kill Charles and to put the Duke of York on the throne. [61]
- 6 February 1685 – 23 December 1688
- Henrietta Maria of France
Hace 5 días · Perhaps most pointedly, in the aftermath of Catherine of Braganza’s inability to provide King Charles II with a child, royal subjects in Britain and rulers on the continent watched with bated breath as the monarchy grappled with the possibility of a Catholic ruler that gave rise to the Exclusion Crisis.
Hace 5 días · Queens. The name of Queens County was assigned by the English when they also labeled Kings County in 1683. While Kings County was named for King Charles II, Queens County was allegedly named for...
Hace 1 día · The settlement was named after the English Queen and Portuguese royal princess Catherine of Braganza (1638–1705). From 1683 to 1899, the County of Queens included what is now Nassau County. Queens became a borough during the consolidation of New York City in 1898, combining the towns of Long Island City , Newtown , Flushing , Jamaica , and western Hempstead . [12]
- Queens (coterminous)
- Catherine of Braganza
Hace 4 días · In 1683 Queens county was established as one of the 12 counties of the province of New York and was named to honour the queen consort of Charles II, Catherine of Braganza. Queens was primarily rural during the 19th century, but some of its shore communities began attracting summer vacationists.
Hace 3 días · WINE from the Kingdom of Navarre in northern Spain. Samuel Pepys wrote of it as a 'new sort of wine lately found out', _ 'which I tasted, and is, I think, good wine' [Diaries (Pepys)]. It was probably introduced to Britain at the return of King Charles II to England in 1660; his first wife, Catherine of Braganza, was Portuguese.
