But he was not a charismatic figure, and with his cause compromised by his illegitimacy, he faced an opponent with perhaps the better claim, in the eyes of the Portuguese nobles of the Cortes, Catherine, Duchess of Braganza.
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Maria Francisca died in Lisbon was buried at the Chagas de Cristo (Jesus's Five Sacred Wounds) Convent, in Vila Viçosa, the pantheon of the duchesses of Braganza.