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Maria Teresa of Braganza

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Maria Teresa of Braganza

Birth
Ajuda, Lisboa Municipality, Lisboa, Portugal
Death
17 Jan 1874 (aged 80)
Trieste, Provincia di Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
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Princess of Beira. She was the firstborn child of John VI of Portugal and Carlota Joaquina of Spain, and heir to the throne of Portugal between 1793 and 1795, until her short-lived brother António Pio was born. She was married on 13 May 1810 in Rio de Janeiro (where the royal family was exiled because of the Napoleonic wars) to her cousin Infante Pedro Carlos, Prince of Spain and Portugal. She was widowed on 26 May 1812, soon after giving birth to her only child, a son, Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain. She married again, in 1838, to her brother-in-law, uncle and longtime ally, Infante Carlos of Spain, 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 failures in the civil war, and never returned. She died in Trieste on 17 January 1874, having survived her second husband by nineteen years.
Princess of Beira. She was the firstborn child of John VI of Portugal and Carlota Joaquina of Spain, and heir to the throne of Portugal between 1793 and 1795, until her short-lived brother António Pio was born. She was married on 13 May 1810 in Rio de Janeiro (where the royal family was exiled because of the Napoleonic wars) to her cousin Infante Pedro Carlos, Prince of Spain and Portugal. She was widowed on 26 May 1812, soon after giving birth to her only child, a son, Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain. She married again, in 1838, to her brother-in-law, uncle and longtime ally, Infante Carlos of Spain, 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 failures in the civil war, and never returned. She died in Trieste on 17 January 1874, having survived her second husband by nineteen years.

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