Infanta Antónia of Portugal

Infanta Antónia of Portugal (or of Braganza; Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐ̃ˈtɔniɐ]; Antónia Maria Fernanda Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Francisca de Assis Ana Gonzaga Silvéria Júlia Augusta de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança; 17 February 1845 – 27 December 1913) was a Portuguese infanta (princess) of the House of Braganza,[1] daughter of Queen Maria II of Portugal and her King consort Ferdinand II of Portugal. Through her father, she also held the titles of Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duchess of Saxony.

Infanta Antónia
Princess consort of Hohenzollern
Tenure2 June 1885 – 8 June 1905
Born(1845-02-17)17 February 1845
Belém Palace, Lisbon, Portugal
Died27 December 1913(1913-12-27) (aged 68)
Sigmaringen, German Empire
Spouse
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(m. 1861; died 1905)​
IssueWilliam, Prince of Hohenzollern
Ferdinand I of Romania
Prince Karl Anton
Names
Portuguese: Antónia María Fernanda Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Francisca de Assis Ana Gonzaga Silvina Júlia Augusta de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança
HouseBraganza[1]
FatherFernando II of Portugal
MotherMaria II of Portugal
ReligionRoman Catholicism

Life
Princess Antonia of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, 1866

Antónia was born in 1845 at the Palace of Belém, she was the sixth child of twelve, and the third girl. She married Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen on 12 September 1861. They had three sons;

Princess Marie of Edinburgh, her daughter-in-law, described her appearance in her memoirs:

"Antonia, or Antoinette, had been one of the great beauties of her time; one of those old-fashioned, classic-featured beauties, whom one associates with the crinoline. Her profile was Grecian, her shoulders sloping, her hands long and delicate, her feet very small and useless. But her figure somehow could not fit in with the clothes of the day, there was a disproportion between the bust and the legs. The crinoline was missing. Superbly aristocratic, she moved slowly with a curious swinging of the hips. She loved fine clothes and jewels and, though leading almost an invalid's life, was always very smartly dressed."[2] Later, Marie also wrote on their complicated relationship and views on her mother-in-law's character: "She was a curious mixture of dignity and childish futility, vain, self-centered, small in her judgements of others. [...] She lived so protected, so out of the world, hedged in by her Church, nursing her delicate health , everybody serving her, spoiling her, she was more like an exigent child than a woman who had lived a real woman's life. [..] I really think she liked me then, but there was also something else in this; I was to be shown off as a favourite to spite Mädi, her eldest daughter-in-law."[3]

Antónia of Braganza died in the German Empire in 1913.


Honours and awards

Ancestry

References
  1. "While remaining patrilineal dynasts of the duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha according to pp. 88, 116 of the 1944 Almanach de Gotha, Title 1, Chapter 1, Article 5 of the 1838 Portuguese constitution declared, with respect to Ferdinand II of Portugal's issue by his first wife, that 'the Most Serene House of Braganza is the reigning house of Portugal and continues through the Person of the Lady Queen Maria II'. Thus their mutual descendants constitute the Coburg line of the House of Braganza"
  2. Marie, Queen (1934). The story of my life [by] Marie, queen of Romania. State Library of Pennsylvania. C. Scribner’s sons. p. 218.
  3. Marie, Queen (1934). The story of my life [by] Marie, queen of Romania. State Library of Pennsylvania. C. Scribner’s sons. p. 220.
  4. Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Preußen (1908), Genealogy p. 6
  5. "Königlich Preussische Ordensliste", Preussische Ordens-Liste (in German), Berlin, 3: 1255, 1877 – via hathitrust.org
  6. "Real orden de Damas Nobles de la Reina Maria Luisa". Guía Oficial de España (in Spanish). 1887. p. 166. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
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