Marriage contract no. 170: Portugal - Kurpfalz

  • Date of contract conclusion: 22. Mai 1687
  • Place of contract conclusion: Mannheim

Groom

  • Name: Peter II., König von Portugal
  • GND: 119241838
  • Year of Birth: 1648
  • Year of Death: 1706
  • Dynasty: Braganza
  • Confession: Katholisch

Bride

  • Name: Marie Sophie Elisabeth von der Pfalz (-Neuburg)
  • GND: 189551283
  • Year of Birth: 1666
  • Year of Death: 1699
  • Dynasty: Wittelsbach (Pfalz)
  • Confession: Katholisch

Actors of the Groom

  • Name: Peter II., König von Portugal
  • GND: 119241838
  • Dynasty: Braganza
  • Relationship: /

Actors of the Bride

  • Name: Philipp Wilhelm, Kurfürst von der Pfalz
  • GND: 118742221
  • Dynasty: Wittelsbach (Pfalz)
  • Relationship: Vater

Contract content

Article 1: Dowry determined, payment regulated, electoral estates designated as security

Article 2: After consummation of the marriage: Marie Sophie Elisabeth to be endowed with the estates and rights of a Queen of Portugal, estates of the Portuguese Crown designated as security

Article 3: Widow’s pension regulated in the event of a childless marriage and if Marie Sophie Elisabeth remains in Portugal, right of ownership of dowry and property acquired during marriage regulated

Article 4: Widow’s pension regulated in the event of a childless marriage and if Marie Sophie Elisabeth returns to the Palatinate, right of ownership of dowry and right to take movable property acquired during marriage regulated

Article 5: Widow’s allowance in the event of a marriage with children and the bride’s return to the Palatinate, division of the dowry and property acquired during the marriage, Marie Sophie Elisabeth’s lifelong rights of use of acquired property in Portugal

Article 6: Widow’s allowance in the event of a marriage with children and residence in Portugal

Article 7: In the event of Marie Sophie Elisabeth’s death without children: inheritance of the dowry regulated

Article 8: In the event of Marie Sophie Elisabeth’s death with children: inheritance rights of these descendants to her estate regulated

Article 9: Marie Sophie Elisabeth’s renunciation of inheritance regulated in accordance with the custom applicable in the Holy Roman Empire: following the example of the Empress and the Duke of Orleans

Article 10: Marriage regulated: to be performed by a procurator in Heidelberg as soon as possible

Article 11: Transfer of Marie Sophie Elisabeth to Portugal regulated: from Rotterdam with six English warships

Articles 12-14: Mutual ratification of the treaty regulated, time frame regulated

Separate article: due to time pressure: summary validity of unspecified individual points agreed: as ratified

Regulations on inheritance law

Article 7: In the event of Marie Sophie Elisabeth’s death without children: inheritance of the dowry regulated

Article 8: In the event of Marie Sophie Elisabeth’s death with children: inheritance rights of these descendants to her estate regulated

Article 9: Marie Sophie Elisabeth’s renunciation of her paternal inheritance regulated in accordance with the custom prevailing in the Holy Roman Empire: following the example of the Empress and the Duke of Orleans

Ratifications, confirmations, approvals

Articles 12-14: mutual ratification of the treaty regulated, time frame regulated

Text reference to past events

Reference to the marriage contract between the Empress and the Duke of Orleans (?)

References

  • Print reference: CTS 18, S. 123-130
  • Contract language print: Latin