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{{Short description|Queen of Portugal from 1447 to 1455}}
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| image        = Isabel de Coimbra.PNG
| caption      = Detail of the ''[[Saint Vincent Panels]]'' masterpiece by [[Nuno Gonçalves]]
| succession   = [[List of Portuguese consorts|Queen consort of Portugal]]
| reign        = 6 May 1447 – 2 December 1455
| birth_date   = 1 March 1432
| birth_place  = [[Coimbra]]
| death_date   = {{death date and age|1455|12|2|1432|3|1|df=yes}}
| death_place  = [[Évora]]
| burial_place = [[Batalha Monastery]]
| spouse       = [[Afonso V of Portugal]]
|issue         = {{ubl |[[John, Hereditary Prince of Portugal (1451)|John, Hereditary Prince of Portugal]] | [[Joanna, Princess of Portugal]] | [[John II of Portugal]] }}
| house        = [[House of Aviz|Aviz]]
| father       = [[Peter, Duke of Coimbra]]
| mother       = [[Isabella of Urgell, Duchess of Coimbra|Isabella of Urgell]]
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'''Infanta Isabel of Coimbra''' (Isabella of Portugal) (1 March 1432 – 2 December 1455){{sfn|Pereira|Rodrigues|1904|p=1005}} was a Portuguese [[infanta]] and [[queen consort of Portugal|Queen of Portugal]] as the first spouse of King [[Afonso V of Portugal]].

== Life ==
Born in Coimbra in 1432, Isabella was a daughter of the [[Infante Peter, Duke of Coimbra]], and [[Isabella of Aragon, Countess of Urgel]].{{sfn|Freitas|2011|p=17}}{{sfn|Rogers|1961|p=59}} Her paternal grandfather was King [[John I of Portugal]] and her maternal grandfather was [[James II of Urgell|James II, Count of Urgel]].

Isabella received a comprehensive Renaissance education influenced by the works of [[Christine de Pizan]].{{sfn|Freitas|2011|pages=18-19}}

===Queen===
Isabella's father was the regent for her cousin Afonso V during his minority. In 1441, Pedro arranged the betrothal of Isabella and Afonso V.{{sfn|Rogers|1961|p=59}} Their engagement caused a conflict between Peter of Coimbra and Duke [[Afonso, 1st Duke of Braganza|Afonso of Braganza]], who had wished for the monarch to marry his granddaughter.{{sfn|Rogers|1961|pages=60, 86}}

Isabella and Afonso V were married on 6 May 1447.{{sfn|Rogers|1961|p=59}} Isabella was given the income of [[Santarém, Portugal|Santarém]], [[Alvaiázere]], [[Sintra]] and [[Torres Vedras]] at her wedding.{{citation needed |date=September 2024}}

In 1448, the king took Afonso of Braganza as his advisor. Isabella's father rebelled and was killed in the [[Battle of Alfarrobeira]] in 1449,{{sfn|Rogers|1961|p=62}} and her brothers [[John of Coimbra, Prince of Antioch|John]] and James were exiled. Isabella herself did not fall out of favour with the king, however, and she took control of the duchy of Coimbra until her brother John returned to Portugal in 1454.

In 1455, Isabella had her father honoured with a grand ceremony of exoneration at court and had him re-buried in a grand way.<ref>{{harvnb|Rogers|1961|pages=68–69 }}. "In 1455 Queen Isabela persuaded her husband, greatly pleased by the birth of his son João, to give her father the burial he merited. The King ignored the opposition from the Duke of Bragança and his son the Count of Ourém (now also Marquis of Valença), and brought the body to the Monastery of the Trinity in Lisbon. It was next moved to the Monastery of St. Eligius (Eloi) and finally transferred to Batalha, where it was interred with great pomp in the Chapel of the Founder."</ref> Shortly after this, she died at age twenty-three, possibly from [[poison]]ing.<ref>{{harvnb| Commire|Klezmer|2000|p=792}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Rogers|1961|p=69}}. "Queen Isabel, twenty-three years old, soon joined her father in Batalha, for she died at the end of the same year. There were those who insinuated that she had been poisoned by her father's enemies."</ref> In her will, she left her inheritance to her sister, [[Philippa of Coimbra]].{{sfn|Rogers|1961|p=28}}

== Issue ==
Isabella had three children:

*[[John, Prince of Portugal (1451)|John, Prince of Portugal]] (29 January 1451)
*[[Joan, Princess of Portugal]] (6 February 1452 – 12 May 1490): Known as Saint Joan of Portugal or Saint Princess Joan. She was beatified in 1693 by [[Pope Innocent XII]].
*[[John II of Portugal]] (3 March 1455 – 25 October 1495): Succeeded his father as 13th King of Portugal.

==Ancestry==
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| 1= 1. '''Isabel of Coimbra'''
| 2= 2. [[Peter, Duke of Coimbra]]
| 3= 3. [[Isabella of Urgell, Duchess of Coimbra|Isabella of Urgell]]
| 4= 4. [[John I of Portugal]]
| 5= 5. [[Philippa of Lancaster]]
| 6= 6. [[James II, Count of Urgell]]
| 7= 7. [[Isabella of Aragon, Countess of Urgell|Isabella of Aragon]]
| 8= 8. [[Peter I of Portugal]]
| 9= 9. [[Teresa Lourenço]]
|10= 10. [[John of Gaunt|John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster]]
|11= 11. [[Blanche of Lancaster]]
|12= 12. [[Peter II, Count of Urgell]]
|13= 13. [[Margaret Paleologa (1364–1420)|Margaret of Montferrat]]
|14= 14. [[Peter IV of Aragon]]
|15= 15. [[Sibila de Fortià]]
<!-- |16= 16. [[Afonso IV of Portugal]]
|17= 17. [[Beatrice of Castile (1293–1359)|Beatrice of Castile]]
|18= 18. Lourenço Martins
|19= 19. Sancha Martins
|20= 20. [[Edward III of England]]
|21= 21. [[Philippa of Hainault]]
|22= 22. [[Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster]]
|23= 23. [[Isabel of Beaumont]]
|24= 24. [[James I, Count of Urgell]]
|25= 25. Cécile of Comminges
|26= 26. [[John II, Marquis of Montferrat]]
|27= 27. [[Isabella of Majorca]]
|28= 28. [[Alfonso IV of Aragon]]
|29= 29. [[Teresa d'Entença]]
|30= 30. Berenguer de Fortià
|31= 31. Francesca de Vilamarí -->
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==References==
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===Sources===
*{{cite book |first=Anne |last=Commire|first2=Deborah|last2=Klezmer|title=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gDsOAQAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Yorkin Publications|isbn=978-0-7876-4066-8}}
*{{cite book |last=Freitas |first=Isabel Vaz |title=D. Isabel de Coimbra: Insigne Rainha |year=2011 |publisher=Quidnovi |language=Portuguese}} 
*{{cite book |last1=Pereira |first1=Esteves |last2=Rodrigues |first2=Guilherme |title=Portugal: diccionario historico, chorographico, heraldico, biographico, bibliographico, numismatico e artistico |date=1904 |publisher=J. Romano Torres |location=Lisboa|url=https://archive.org/details/portugaldicciona03pere|volume=III |language=Portuguese}}
*{{cite book |title=The Travels of the Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal |first=Francis M. |last=Rogers |year=1961 |location=Cambridge |publisher=Harvard University Press |series=Harvard Studies in Romance Languages |volume=XXVI}}

==External links==
* [http://www.geneall.net/P/per_page.php?id=1937 Genealogical Information on Isabel of Coimbra (in Portuguese)]

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