Duchess of Braganza
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House of Braganza

Picture Name Father Birth Marriage Became Duchess Ceased to be Duchess Death Spouse
Constance of Noronha Alfonso, Count of Gijón and Noronha
(Noronha)
1395 1420 1442
husband's accession
15 December 1461
husband's death
26 January 1480 Dom Afonso I
Afonso, 1st Duke of Braganza
Dom Afonso I, the 1st Duke of Braganza was the eighth Count of Barcelos, the 2nd Count of Neiva, 2nd Lord of Faria and the first Duke of Braganza.-Origins:...

Joana de Casro João de Castro, 2nd Lord of Cadaval
(Castro
House of Castro
The House of Castro, is believed to have had its origins in Castile, the name deriving from the town of Castrogeriz , and had deep branches in Galicia.-Origins and Brief History:...

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1410 28 December 1429 15 December 1461
husband's accession
1 April 1478
husband's death
28 December 1429 Dom Fernando I
Fernando I, Duke of Braganza
Ferdinand was the second son of Afonso, 1st Duke of Braganza and of his wife, Beatriz Pereira de Alvim .-Life:...

Isabella of Viseu
Isabella of Viseu
Isabella of Viseu was a daughter of Infante Fernando, Duke of Viseu and his wife and cousin Infanta Beatrice, Duchess of Viseu. She was a member of the House of Aviz and later, House of Braganza.-Family:...

Infante Fernando, Duke of Viseu
Infante Fernando, Duke of Viseu
The Infante Ferdinand, Prince of Portugal, Duke of Beja and Duke of Viseu was the third son of the Portuguese King Edward of Portugal and his wife Eleanor of Aragon.- Biography :...


(Aviz-Beja)
1459 1472 1 April 1478
husband's accession
1483
husband's death
1521 Dom Fernando II
Fernando II, Duke of Braganza
Ferdinand II was the older son of Fernando I, 2nd Duke of Braganza and of his wife, Doña Joana de Castro....

Eleonor de Mendoza Juan Alfonso Pérez de Guzmán, 3rd Duke of Medina Sidonia
Juan Alfonso Pérez de Guzmán, 3rd Duke of Medina Sidonia
Don Juan Alfonso Pérez de Guzmán y Afán de Ribera, 3rd Duke of Medina Sidonia inherited the title in 1492, aged 28. In 1502, as Gibraltar was transferred to the Crown, the Marquisate of Gibraltar disappeared....


(Guzmán)
- 1502 1512 Dom Jaime I
Joana de Mendoça Diego de Mendoça
(Mendoça
Mendoza (disambiguation)
Mendoza is a surname of Basque origin, also occurring as a place name. It means Cold Mountain, from words in the Basque language, mendi and otz + definite article '-a' . When related to Spain, it usually applies to the descendants of the Mendoza family, an old basque noble family originally from...

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- 1520 20 September 1532
husband's death
1580
Isabel of Lencastre Diniz de Portugal-Castro, Count of Lemos
(Aviz-Lancastre
House of Aviz
The House of Aviz is a dynasty of kings of Portugal. In 1385, the Interregnum of the 1383-1385 crisis ended with the acclamation of the Master of the Order of Aviz, John, natural son of king Peter I and Dona Teresa Lourenço as king...

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1513 25 June 1542 24 August 1558 Dom Teodósio I
Teodósio I, Duke of Braganza
Teodósio I of Braganza was the 5th Duke of Braganza. He was son of Jaime, 4th Duke of Braganza, and succeeded his father in the House of Braganza when he died, in 1532....

Brites de Lancastre Luís de Lencastre, Grand Commander of Aviz
(Aviz-Lancastre
House of Aviz
The House of Aviz is a dynasty of kings of Portugal. In 1385, the Interregnum of the 1383-1385 crisis ended with the acclamation of the Master of the Order of Aviz, John, natural son of king Peter I and Dona Teresa Lourenço as king...

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1542 4 September 1559 1563
husband's death
12 June 1623
Infanta Catherine of Guimarães Infante Edward, 4th Duke of Guimarães
(Aviz-Beja)
18 January 1540 1563 1583
husband's death
15 November 1614 Dom João I
John, 6th Duke of Braganza
John, Duke of Braganza may also mean John II, 8th Duke of BragançaJohn I, 6th Duke of Braganza KGF was the eldest son of Teodósio I, 5th Duke of Braganza....

Ana de Velasco y Téllez-Girón
Ana de Velasco y Girón
Ana de Velasco y Téllez-Girón was a Spanish noblewoman and mother of John IV of Portugal, the first Portuguese King of the Braganza Dynasty....

Juan Fernández de Velasco, 5th Duke of Frías
Juan Fernández de Velasco, 5th Duke of Frias
Juan Fernández de Velasco, 5th Duke of Frías was a Spanish nobleman and diplomat.Juan Fernández de Velasco was the son of Íñigo Fernández de Velasco; and of Maria Angela de Aragón y Guzmán El Bueno. He inherited his father's title of Constable of Castile, and was present at the signing of the...


(Velasco
Dukedom of Frías
Duke of Frías is a hereditary title created in 1492 by King Ferdinand II of Aragon. It became one of the most important titles in Spain.The House of Velasco was one of the most powerful and influential noble Castilian families of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Era. Its original...

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1585 17 June 1603 7 November 1607 Dom Teodósio II
Teodósio II, Duke of Braganza
Teodósio II of Bragança , was the 7th Duke of Braganza. He was the son of John I, 6th Duke of Bragança by his wife, Infanta Catherine of Guimarães ....

Luisa de Guzmán Juan Manuel Pérez de Guzmán, 8th Duke of Medina Sidonia
Juan Manuel Pérez de Guzmán, 8th Duke of Medina Sidonia
Juan Manuel Pérez de Guzmán y Silva , was a Spanish noble and 8th Duke of Medina Sidonia.He was the son of Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, commander-in-chief of the Spanish Armada and Ana de Silva y Mendoza, daughter of Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Éboli.He married in 1598, aged...


(Guzmán)
13 October 1613 12 January 1633 1 December 1640
became Queen consort
27 February 1666 Dom João II
John IV of Portugal
|-|John IV was the King of Portugal and the Algarves from 1640 to his death. He was the grandson of Catherine, Duchess of Braganza, who had in 1580 claimed the Portuguese crown and sparked the struggle for the throne of Portugal. John was nicknamed John the Restorer...

Princess Maria Francisca of Nemours
Maria Francisca of Savoy
Maria Francisca of Savoy was a Princess of Savoy and a Queen consort of Portugal. She was the younger daughter of Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours, and Élisabeth de Bourbon. Maria Francisca was actually the consort of two Portuguese kings...

Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours
(Savoy
House of Savoy
The House of Savoy was formed in the early 11th century in the historical Savoy region. Through gradual expansion, it grew from ruling a small county in that region to eventually rule the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 until the end of World War II, king of Croatia and King of Armenia...

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21 June 1646 2 April 1668 12 September 1683
became Queen consort
27 December 1683 Dom Pedro I
Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain
Mariana Victoria of Spain
Mariana Victoria of Spain was an Infanta of Spain and Queen consort of Portugal as wife of King Joseph I. The mother of Queen Maria I of Portugal, she also acted as Regent of Portugal during the last months of her husband's life and advisor to her daughter during her reign.-Background:Mariana...

Philip V of Spain
Philip V of Spain
Philip V was King of Spain from 15 November 1700 to 15 January 1724, when he abdicated in favor of his son Louis, and from 6 September 1724, when he assumed the throne again upon his son's death, to his death.Before his reign, Philip occupied an exalted place in the royal family of France as a...


(Bourbon
House of Bourbon
The House of Bourbon is a European royal house, a branch of the Capetian dynasty . Bourbon kings first ruled Navarre and France in the 16th century. By the 18th century, members of the Bourbon dynasty also held thrones in Spain, Naples, Sicily, and Parma...

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31 March 1718 19 January 1729 31 July 1750
became Queen consort
15 January 1781 Dom José I
Infanta Benedita of Portugal
Infanta Benedita of Portugal
Benedita of Portugal was a Portuguese infanta and the youngest daughter of King Joseph I of Portugal and his wife Mariana Victoria of Spain.- Biography :Benedita was born in Lisbon she was named after Pope Benedict XIV...

Joseph I of Portugal
(Braganza
House of Braganza
The Most Serene House of Braganza , an important Portuguese noble family, ruled the Kingdom of Portugal and its colonial Empire, from 1640 to 1910...

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25 July 1746 21 February 1777 24 February 1777
became Princess
11 September 1788
husband's death
18 August 1829 Dom José II
Infanta Charlotte of Spain
Charlotte of Spain
Doña Carlota Joaquina of Spain was a Queen consort of Portugal as wife of John VI...

Charles IV of Spain
Charles IV of Spain
Charles IV was King of Spain from 14 December 1788 until his abdication on 19 March 1808.-Early life:...


(Bourbon
House of Bourbon
The House of Bourbon is a European royal house, a branch of the Capetian dynasty . Bourbon kings first ruled Navarre and France in the 16th century. By the 18th century, members of the Bourbon dynasty also held thrones in Spain, Naples, Sicily, and Parma...

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25 April 1775 8 May 1785 11 September 1788
brother-in-law's death
20 March 1816
became Queen
7 December 1830 Dom João IV
John VI of Portugal
John VI John VI John VI (full name: João Maria José Francisco Xavier de Paula Luís António Domingos Rafael; (13 May 1767 – 10 March 1826) was King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves (later changed to just King of Portugal and the Algarves, after Brazil was recognized...

Archduchess Maria Leopoldina of Austria
Maria Leopoldina of Austria
Maria Leopoldina of Austria was an archduchess of Austria, Empress consort of Brazil and queen consort of Portugal....

Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
Francis II was the last Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1792 until 6 August 1806, when he dissolved the Empire after the disastrous defeat of the Third Coalition by Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz...


(Habsburg-Lorraine)
22 January 1797 6 November 1817 26 March 1826
became Queen
11 December 1826 Dom Pedro II
Amélie of Leuchtenberg Eugène de Beauharnais
Eugène de Beauharnais
Eugène Rose de Beauharnais, Prince Français, Prince of Venice, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Italy, Hereditary Grand Duke of Frankfurt, 1st Duke of Leuchtenberg and 1st Prince of Eichstätt ad personam was the first child and only son of Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais and Joséphine Tascher de la...


(Beauharnais
House of Beauharnais
The House of Beauharnais or Beauharnois is a French noble house. It is now represented by the Duke of Leuchtenberg, descendant in male line of Eugène de Beauharnais.-History:...

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31 July 1812 2 August 1829 7 April 1831
husband's abdication
24 September 1834
husband's death
26 January 1873
Princess Amélie d'Orléans
Amélie d'Orléans
Amélie of Orléans was the last Queen consort of Portugal, known to her husband's subjects as "Maria Amélia"...

Prince Philippe, Count of Paris
(Bourbon-Orléans
House of Orleans
Orléans is the name used by several branches of the Royal House of France, all descended in the legitimate male line from the dynasty's founder, Hugh Capet. It became a tradition during France's ancien régime for the duchy of Orléans to be granted as an appanage to a younger son of the king...

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28 September 1865 22 May 1886 19 October 1889
became Queen
25 October 1951 Dom Carlos I
Carlos I of Portugal
-Assassination:On 1 February 1908 the royal family returned from the palace of Vila Viçosa to Lisbon. They travelled by train to Barreiro and, from there, they took a steamer to cross the Tagus River and disembarked at Cais do Sodré in central Lisbon. On their way to the royal palace, the open...


House of Braganza

Picture Name Father Birth Marriage Became Duchess Ceased to be Duchess Death Spouse
Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
Princess Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg was the wife of King Miguel of Portugal but only following his deposition. As a widow, she secured advantageous marriages for their six daughters.-Family:...

Constantine, Hereditary Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
Constantine, Hereditary Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
Constantine Josef of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg was the eldest son and heir of Karl Thomas, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg by his wife Sophie of Windisch-Graetz...


(Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg)
3 April 1831 24 September 1851 14 November 1866
husband's death
16 December 1909 Dom Miguel I
Miguel of Portugal
Dom Miguel I, sometimes Michael , was the King of Portugal between 1828 and 1834, the seventh child and second son of King John VI and his queen, Charlotte of Spain....

Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis
Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis
Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis -Life:...

Maximilian Anton Lamoral, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis
Maximilian Anton Lamoral, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis
-Titles and styles:*28 September 1831 – 26 June 1867: His Serene Highness The Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis-Honours:*Knight of the Austrian Order of the Golden Fleece -Ancestry:-References:...


(Thurn and Taxis)
28 May 1860 17 October 1877 7 February 1881 Dom Miguel II
Princess Maria Theresa of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
Princess Maria Theresa of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
Princess Maria Theresa of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg was a Princess of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg and a member of the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg by birth and an Infanta of Portugal, Duchess consort of...

Charles, 6th Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
(Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg)
4 January 1870 8 November 1893 11 October 1927
husband's death
17 January 1935
Princess Francisca of Orléans-Braganza
Princess Francisca of Orléans-Braganza
Dona Maria Francisca, Princess of Orléans-Braganza, Duchess of Braganza , was a great-granddaughter of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil through his daughter Isabel, Princess Imperial and titular Empress....

Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará
(Orléans-Braganza)
8 September 1914 15 October 1942 15 January 1968 Dom Duarte Nuno
Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza
Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza was a claimant to the throne of Portugal from 1920 until his death.-Birth:...

Isabel de Castro Curvelo de Herédia Jorge de Herédia 22 November 1966 13 May 1995 Incumbent Dom Duarte Pio
Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza
Dom Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza , is the 24th Duke of Braganza and a pretender to the throne of Portugal.-Birth and education:...


See also

  • Princess of Portugal
    Princess of Portugal
    This is a list of Princesses of Portugal, since 1388, both by marriage and birth. In 1645, the title became Princess of Brazil.-By birth:This is a list of Princess of Portugal who held the title by their own rights:-By marriage:...

  • Princess of Brazil
    Princess of Brazil
    This is a list of Princesses of Brazil, from 1645 to 1815, both by marriage and birth. The title was preceded by the titles Princess of Portugal and succeed by Princess Royal of Portugal....

  • Princess Royal of Portugal
    Princess Royal of Portugal
    This is a list of Princesses Royal of Portugal is, since 1815 , both by marriage and birth...

  • List of Portuguese consorts
  • List of Brazilian consorts
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