The Marriage Treaty, or Anglo-Portuguese Treaty, was a treaty of alliance that was agreed between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Portugal and concluded on 23 June 1661.[1]
It led to the marriage of Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza, the daughter of John IV of Portugal. It was a marriage of state, as was common in the era.
The treaty also renewed the medieval Anglo-Portuguese Alliance.
- ^ Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Materials towards a statistical account of the town and island of Bombay (3 vols.) v. 1. History. v. 2. Trade and fortifications. v. 3. Administration, Volume 1. Bombay: Government Central Press. 1893. p. 1.