LISBON, Portugal — A Portuguese woman who lived to see five of her great-great grandchildren born and was believed to have been the world's oldest person died on Friday at the age of 115.

Maria de Jesus died in an ambulance near the central Portuguese town of Tomar.

She had been listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's oldest person. That title now falls to an American, 114-year-old Gertrude Baines, who lives in a Los Angeles nursing home.

Born Sept. 10, 1893, de Jesus was widowed at 57, outlived three of her six children, had 11 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. De Jesus was 115 years and 114 days old.

There are now only 82 women and nine men verified as being 110 or older, according to gerontologist Stephen Coles.