Catherine de Portugal

Catherine de Portugal (Portuguese: Catarina de Bragança; 25 November 1638 – present) Native to a region suppressed under the rule of the Habsburg Kings of Spain, at the time of her birth her father, John, reigned not as King of Portugal but as the eighth Duke of Braganza alongside his assiduous wife, Luisa de Guzmán (Luisa María Francisca). In 1640, heading a revolt against Spain to secure an independent monarchical state, Catherine's parents were enthroned as the King and Queen-Consort of a rebelling nation state, having broken free from a sixty year personal union since 1580 AD. Despite their rebel status, the lingering European states turned on Spain, allowing Portugal to rise an international superpower in its genesis. For Catherine, now a Princess of Portugal, this meant she would be expected to marry well — a prince, a king, an emperor, which she'd soon accomplish upon her marriage in 1652 to Henri Augustin de Grandelumière, Dauphin turned Emperor, similarly cementing her position with the consummation of their marriage.