Maria Of Portugal (nun)
Infanta Maria of Portugal (Coimbra, 21 November 1264 – Coimbra, 6 June 1304; ) was a Portuguese infanta (princess) daughter of King Afonso III of Portugal and his second wife Beatrice of Castile
Maria was born on November 21, 1264 in Coimbra was for the majority of her life a nun in the Convent of the Lady Canons of Saint John (Convento das Donas Cónegas de São João), near the Monastery of Santa Cruz of Coimbra. She died in the same city on June 6, 1304.
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