Johann Maria of Portugal

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John of Portugal, Duke of Beja

Johann (Portuguese Dom João Maria Fernando Pedro de Alcántara Miguel Rafael Gabriel Leopoldo Carlos António Gregorio Francisco de Assis Borja Gonzaga Félix de Saxe-Coburgo-Gotha e Bragança ) of Portugal (born March 16, 1842 in Lisbon ; † December 27, 1861 in Santa Maria de Belém ) was an Infant of Portugal from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and 8th Duke of Beja (Portuguese: Duque de Beja ).

Life

Johann was the third son of Queen Maria II da Gloria of Portugal (1819-1853) from her marriage to Ferdinand II (1816-1885). Johann received military training and achieved the rank of colonel in the cavalry. With his sister Antonia Maria and his brother Louis he spent 1856 as a guest of the Saxon King Johann on Weesenstein . He also traveled to England and France with his brother Ludwig.

His two older brothers, Peter V and Ludwig I, were successively king of Portugal. After Peter's death and Ludwig's accession to the throne on November 11, 1861, Johann became heir to the Portuguese throne. He died just a month later at the age of 19 and unmarried, shortly after his brothers Peter and Ferdinand of an infectious disease, probably typhus .

Johann was the bearer of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and the Sword and the Grand Cross of the Order of Our Lady .

L'Illustration, January 1862, engraving of the funeral of the Duke of Beja

Web links

Commons : Johann Maria von Portugal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Silke Marburg: European nobility: King Johann von Sachsen (1801-1873) and the internal communication of a social formation , Akademie Verlag, 2008, p. 229
  2. Friedrich Maximilian Oertel: The year 1858-66 , 1859, p. 52 ( digitized version )