Leonor of Portugal, Sacred Roman Empress was born in Torres Vedras

Leonor of Portugal, Sacred Roman Empress

Leonor de Portugal by Hans Burgkmair the Elder, 1473-1531

Leonor de Portugal ( or  Lyanor /Lianor) (Torres Vedras, 18th September 1434 - Wiener Neustadt, September 3rd, 1467) was a Portuguese princess of the House of Aviz, daughter of King Duarte of Portugal and his wife Leonor of Aragon.
 She was married to Frederich III.
On  November 19th  1451, D. Leonor went to Siena. She was received at the city gates by Archduke Albert VI of Austria, younger brother of the Emperor and King of Hungary and Duke of Austria Ladislaus Posthumus, a cousin of her husband. Only after transposing the gates  D. Leonor met her husband Frederick III. This meeting was celebrated for eternity by the hand of Pinturicchio.

 Eneias Sílvio Piccolomini (the future Pope Pio II) celebrating the marriage of Frederich III, Imperor of the Sacred Empire, with the Portuguese princess D. Leonor (fresco of Pinturicchio).

The Emperor gave to his wife, by letter dated March 16, 1461, the vicedomínio of Laibach, in the Duchy of Carniola (now Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia).