Infanta Maria Teresa of Braganza ( or ; 29 April 1793 – 17 January 1874) was the firstborn child of
John VI of Portugal
, house = Braganza
, father = Peter III of Portugal
, mother = Maria I of Portugal
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Queluz Palace, Queluz, Portugal
, death_date =
, death_place = Bemposta Palace, Lisbon, Portugal
, ...
and
Carlota Joaquina of Spain
Doña
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, and
heir presumptive
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...
to the throne of
Portugal
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between 1793 and 1795, until her short-lived brother António Pio was born.
Early life
''Maria Teresa Francisca de Assis Antónia Carlota Joana Josefa Xavier de Paula Micaela Rafaela Isabel Gonzaga'' was born in
Ajuda
Ajuda () is a ''freguesia'' (civil parish) and district of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Ajuda is located in western Lisbon, northeast of Belém and west of Alcântara. The population in 2011 was 15,617.[Lisbon
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in 1793. As the eldest child of the heir to the Portuguese monarch, she was granted the title
Princess of Beira
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(given to the son of the heir to the throne). Maria Teresa was the eldest daughter of
King
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*In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the tit ...
John VI of Portugal
, house = Braganza
, father = Peter III of Portugal
, mother = Maria I of Portugal
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Queluz Palace, Queluz, Portugal
, death_date =
, death_place = Bemposta Palace, Lisbon, Portugal
, ...
, then the heir-apparent of the reigning queen
Maria I of Portugal
, succession = Queen of Portugal
, image = Maria I, Queen of Portugal - Giuseppe Troni, atribuído (Turim, 1739-Lisboa, 1810) - Google Cultural Institute.jpg
, caption = Portrait attributed to Giuseppe Troni,
, reign ...
, and his wife
Carlota Joaquina
Don (honorific), Doña Carlota Joaquina Teresa Cayetana of Spain (25 April 1775 – 7 January 1830) was List of Portuguese royal consorts, Queen of Portugal and List of Brazilian royal consorts, Brazil as the wife of King Dom John VI of Portugal, ...
, daughter of
Charles IV of Spain
, house = Bourbon-Anjou
, father = Charles III of Spain
, mother =Maria Amalia of Saxony
, birth_date =11 November 1748
, birth_place =Palace of Portici, Portici, Naples
, death_date =
, death_place = ...
.
Marriage
She was married on 13 May 1810 in
Rio de Janeiro
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(where the royal family was exiled because of the
Napoleonic wars
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) to her cousin Infante
Pedro Carlos, Prince of Spain and Portugal
Don Pedro Carlos (Pedro Carlos Antonio Rafael José Javier Francisco Juan Nepomuceno Tomás de Villanueva Marcos Marcelino Vicente Ferrer Raimundo; 18 June 1786 – 4 July 1812) was an Infante of Spain and Portugal.
Family
Infante Pedro Carlos ...
. She was widowed on 26 May 1812, soon after giving birth to her only child, a son,
Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain
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(1811–1875).
Very conservative, she was an ally of her younger brother
Miguel I of Portugal in his attempts to obtain the throne of Portugal (civil war 1826–1834), and of her brother-in-law and uncle Infante Don
Carlos, Count of Molina in his attempts to obtain the Spanish throne. In the last years of the reign of her uncle
Ferdinand VII of Spain
, house = Bourbon-Anjou
, father = Charles IV of Spain
, mother = Maria Luisa of Parma
, birth_date = 14 October 1784
, birth_place = El Escorial, Spain
, death_date =
, death_place = Madrid, Spain
, burial_plac ...
(died 1833), Teresa lived in Madrid and plotted to strengthen Don Carlos' position in succession. She participated in the
First Carlist War
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(1833–1839), being a leading supporter of Carlism, church and reactionary interests. Her sister
Francisca, Titular Queen of Spain, wife of Carlos, died in 1834.
Spanish succession
On 15 January 1837, the Cortes of Spain legislated her excluded from the Spanish succession, rights belonging to her in descent from her mother, on grounds of her being a rebel along with Don Carlos. Her son Sebastian's rights were similarly excluded, but he was later, in 1859, restored in Spain. Also don Carlos' sons and Teresa's brother Miguel I of Portugal were excluded at the same law.
The next year she married again, in 1838, to her brother-in-law, uncle and longtime ally, Infante Carlos of Spain (1788–1855), whom she viewed as the rightful king of Spain; the widower of her sister
Maria Francisca. The second marriage remained childless, but she took care of her stepsons, who were also her nephews and cousins.
They soon left Spain because of unsuccess in the civil war, and never returned. She died in
Trieste
Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into provi ...
on 17 January 1874, having survived her second husband by nineteen years.
Honours
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Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa
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Dame of the Order of Queen Saint Isabel
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Dame of the Order of Queen Maria Luisa
Ancestry
References
La Princesa de Beira y los Hijos de Don Carlos by Conde de Rodezno (1938)
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