, house =
Braganza
, father =
Miguel of Portugal
, mother =
Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
, house = Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
, father = Constantine, Hereditary Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
, mother = Princess Agnes of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Kleinheubach, Kingdo ...
, birth_date =19 March 1857
, birth_place =Schloss
Bronnbach
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, death_date =
, death_place =
Vienna
en, Viennese
, iso_code = AT-9
, registration_plate = W
, postal_code_type = Postal code
, postal_code =
, timezone = CET
, utc_offset = +1
, timezone_DST ...
,
Austria
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, burial_place =
Tegernsee Abbey
Tegernsee Abbey (German Kloster Tegernsee, ''Abtei Tegernsee'') is a former Benedictine monastery in the town and district of Tegernsee in Bavaria. Both the abbey and the town that grew up around it, are named after the Tegernsee, the lake on th ...
, religion =
Roman Catholicism
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Infanta Maria José of Portugal (Maria José Joana Eulália Leopoldina Adelaide Isabel Carolina Micaela Rafaela Gabriela Francisca de Assis e de Paula Inês Sofia Joaquina Teresa Benedita Bernardina; 19 March 1857 – 11 March 1943), sometimes known in English as ''Maria Josepha'', was a
Portuguese
Portuguese may refer to:
* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
** Portuguese language, a Romance language
*** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language
** Portu ...
infanta
''Infante'' (, ; f. ''infanta''), also anglicised as Infant or translated as Prince, is the title and rank given in the Iberian kingdoms of Spain (including the predecessor kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, Navarre, and León) and Portugal to th ...
, later Duchess in
Bavaria
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by marriage. She was the maternal grandmother of King
Leopold III of Belgium
Leopold III (3 November 1901 – 25 September 1983) was King of the Belgians from 23 February 1934 until his abdication on 16 July 1951. At the outbreak of World War II, Leopold tried to maintain Belgian neutrality, but after the German invas ...
.
Life
Maria José was the fourth child and third daughter of King
Miguel I of Portugal and his wife
Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
, house = Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
, father = Constantine, Hereditary Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
, mother = Princess Agnes of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Kleinheubach, Kingdo ...
. Among her sisters were
Maria Ana, Grand Duchess of Luxemburg and
Maria Antónia, Duchess of Parma. Her only brother was
Miguel, Duke of Braganza
Prince Miguel Januário of Braganza (; full name Miguel Maria Carlos Egídio Constantino Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga Francisco de Paula e de Assis Januário de Bragança; 19 September 1853 – 11 October 1927) was the Miguelist claimant to the throne ...
.
On 29 April 1874 she married
Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria
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, the younger brother of
Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
The couple lived in
Munich
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, where they founded the Herzog Carl Theodor Eye Clinic, that still exists today.
Maria José died in Vienna at the age of 85, and is buried in
Tegernsee Abbey
Tegernsee Abbey (German Kloster Tegernsee, ''Abtei Tegernsee'') is a former Benedictine monastery in the town and district of Tegernsee in Bavaria. Both the abbey and the town that grew up around it, are named after the Tegernsee, the lake on th ...
.
Children
*
Sophie Adelheid Ludovika Maria (1875–1957), married Count Hans Veit zu
Törring-Jettenbach; their son married
Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark
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Early life
Princess Elizabeth was born on 24 May 1904 at the Tatoi P ...
.
*
Elisabeth Gabriele Valérie Marie (1876–1965), future Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, married
Albert I of Belgium
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Born in Brussels as the fifth child and second son of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders and Princess Marie of Hohenzollern ...
.
*
Marie Gabrielle (1878–1912), married
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria.
*
Ludwig Wilhelm (1884–1968), married Princess Eleonore zu
Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
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Most of the former county is located in the present district of Siegen-Wittgenstein (in the modern state of Nor ...
.
*
Franz Joseph
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(1888–1912).
Ancestry
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maria Josepha Of Portugal, Infanta
1857 births
1943 deaths
House of Braganza
Portuguese infantas
House of Wittelsbach
Duchesses in Bavaria
19th-century Portuguese people
19th-century Portuguese women
Dames of the Order of Saint Isabel
Daughters of kings