Maria Antonia of Portugal
Maria Antonia Adelheid of Portugal (Portuguese Dona Maria Antónia Adelaide Camila Carolina Eulália Leopoldina Sofia Inês Francisca de Assis e de Paula Micaela Rafaela Gabriela Gonzaga Gregória Bernardina Benedita Andreia de Bragança ) (born November 28, 1862 in Bronnbach an der Tauber, now: Wertheim ; † May 14, 1959 in Colmar-Berg , Luxembourg ) was an infanta of Portugal from the House of Braganza .
Life
Maria Antonia was the youngest daughter of King Michael I of Portugal and his wife Princess Adelheid von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg .
She married Duke Robert I of Parma from the House of Bourbon-Parma , son of Duke Karl III , on October 15, 1884 at Fischhorn Castle near Zell am See . of Parma and Louise Marie Thérèse d'Artois , royal princess of France. The marriage had twelve children. With the death of her husband on November 16, 1907, Maria Antonia became a widow. Later, during the time in exile, she lived with her daughter Zita . After the beginning of the Second World War, she moved to Québec with Zita and her family in 1940 , where she lived in modest circumstances. After the war ended, she settled in Berg Castle , the residence of her daughter-in-law, Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg , where she celebrated her 90th birthday in 1952. There she died on May 14, 1959 at the age of 96. She found her final resting place in the Puchheim Castle Church in Attnang-Puchheim (Upper Austria). In 1982 her daughter Zita, the last empress of Europe, visited the tomb at the age of 90 after decades of exile.
Three of Maria Antonia's daughters - Adelheid, Franziska and Maria Antonia - became nuns, whereby Adelheid entered the monastery of St. Cäcile on the English island of Wight as a Benedictine in 1907 , where her widowed grandmother Adelheid von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg was the prioress.
progeny
- Adelheid Erika Pia Antonia (1885−1959) , nun as sister Benedikta
- Sixtus Ferdinand Maria Ignazio Alfons Robert (1886−1934) ⚭ 1919 Princess Hedwig de la Rouchefoucauld
- Franz Xaver Karl Maria Anna Ludwig (1889−1977) ⚭ 1927 Princess Madeleine von Bourbon-Busset
- Franziska Giuseppa Maria Teresa Elisabetta Sofia Anna Luisa Eulalia Micaela Raffaela Gabriella (1890−1978) , nun
- Zita Maria delle Grazie Micaela Raffaela Gabriella Josepha Antonia Luisa Agnes (1892−1989) ⚭ 1911 later Emperor Karl I of Austria-Hungary
- Felix Maria Vincenz (1893−1970) ⚭ 1919 Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg
- René Karl Maria Joseph (1894−1962) ⚭ 1921 Princess Margarethe of Denmark , daughter of Prince Waldemar of Denmark
- Maria Antonia Sofia Ludovika Josepha Micaela Gabriella Raffaela Anna (1895−1977) , nun
- Isabella Maria Anna (1898−1984)
- Ludwig Karl Maria Leopold Robert (1899−1967) ⚭ 1939 Princess Maria of Italy, daughter of King Viktor Emanuel III.
- Henrietta Anna Maria Immacolata Ludovika Antonia (1903−1987)
- Gaetano Maria Joseph Pius (1905−1958) ⚭ 1931–1955 Princess Margarethe Marie Therese von Thurn und Taxis
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Source on the three nuns among the daughters ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Maria Antonia of Portugal |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bragança, Maria Antonia Adelheid de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Infanta of Portugal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bronnbach an der Tauber |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1959 |
| Place of death | Colmar-Berg , Luxembourg |