ELEANOR OF PORTUGAL, HOLY ROMAN EMPRESS
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'Eleanor of Portugal' (pron. ; English: ''Eleanor''), was a Princess of Portugal, daughter of King Edward of Portugal and his wife Leonor of Aragon. Leonor was born in Torres Vedras on September 18 1434.
On 16 March 1452 she married the German King Frederick III and the two were crowned Holy Roman Emperor and Empress three days later, on 19 March 1452. Her dowry was used by her husband to alleviate his financial problems.
With Frederick III she had five children:
★ Christopher, Archduke of Austria (1454-1455)
★ Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (1459-1519)
★ Helen, Archduchess of Austria (1460-1461)
★ Kunigunde of Austria (1465-1520), married Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria
★ John, Archduke of Austria (1466-1467)
It is in Empress Leonor that the Portuguese line of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor resides.
Leonor died in Wiener Neustadt on September 3 1467, and is buried in the same city in the Monastery of the Order of Cister.
Her tombstone in the Neukloster of Wiener Neustadt.

Leonor of Portugal by a disciple of Hans Burgkmair the Elder
'Eleanor of Portugal' (pron. ; English: ''Eleanor''), was a Princess of Portugal, daughter of King Edward of Portugal and his wife Leonor of Aragon. Leonor was born in Torres Vedras on September 18 1434.
On 16 March 1452 she married the German King Frederick III and the two were crowned Holy Roman Emperor and Empress three days later, on 19 March 1452. Her dowry was used by her husband to alleviate his financial problems.
With Frederick III she had five children:
★ Christopher, Archduke of Austria (1454-1455)
★ Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (1459-1519)
★ Helen, Archduchess of Austria (1460-1461)
★ Kunigunde of Austria (1465-1520), married Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria
★ John, Archduke of Austria (1466-1467)
It is in Empress Leonor that the Portuguese line of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor resides.
Leonor died in Wiener Neustadt on September 3 1467, and is buried in the same city in the Monastery of the Order of Cister.
Her tombstone in the Neukloster of Wiener Neustadt.
Eneias Silvio Piccolomini (the future Pope Pius II celebrating the marriage between Frederick III and Leonor.
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