Maria Pia of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Braganza
Maria Pia von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha and Braganza (in Portuguese: Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo Gotha e Bragança ; born March 13, 1907 in Lisbon , Portugal ; † May 6, 1995 in Verona , Italy ) was a writer who also wrote under the pseudonym Hilda de Toledano . She claimed to be the illegitimate daughter of the Portuguese King Karl (1863-1908), who bequeathed her the claim to the throne. Since 1957, with the support of Portuguese royalists, she tried in vain to enforce her claim to the Portuguese throne politically and judicially. 1985–1987 she renounced her claims and transferred them, despite her own descendants, to the Sicilian businessman Rosario Poidimani.
Life
Maria Pia von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha and Braganza said she was the daughter of the unmarried Maria Amélia Laredó e Murça, daughter of wealthy Brazilian business people. She stated that when she was baptized in Madrid (Spain), her father's name was “D. Carlos de Sassonia-Coburgo y Savoya de la Casa de Braganza de Portugal ”. The baptismal register was lost in the Spanish Civil War.
In 1925 she married a Cuban, with whom she lived briefly in Cuba, before returning to Madrid.
In the early 1930s she published a number of articles in the Spanish newspapers Blanco y Negro and Diario ABC .
In 1937 she published her first book La hora de Alfonso XIII under the pseudonym Hilda de Toledano . In terms of content, it is a defense of King Alfonso XIII. from Spain , who was living in exile at the time. In 1954 she published under the same pseudonym Un beso y ... nada más: confidencia consciente de una pecadora inconsciente . It is a novel, the content of which is clearly related to the author's résumé.
In 1957 she published the Mémoires d'une infante vivante at Del Duca in Paris . She wrote this work in French under the name "Maria Pia von Sachsen-Coburg and Braganza" as an autobiography. It represents Maria Pia's first attempt to convince a wider public of her claims as the illegitimate daughter of King Carlos I of Portugal, although she did not claim the throne of her own in this book, but Isabelle d'Orléans as the eldest child by Henri d'Orléans as a priority entitled heir to the throne.
Works
- Hilda de Toledano: La hora de Alfonso XIII -: ... la que me concedió para España, ... la de la justicia en España, ... la de su regreso a España, ... la de la paz en España . Uscar, Garcia y Compania: Havana 1937
- Hilda de Toledano: Un beso y ... nada más - confidencia consciente de una pecadora inconsciente . Editorial Plenitud: Madrid 1954
- Maria Pia de Saxe-Cobourg Bragance: Mémoires d'une infante vivante . Del Duca: Paris 1957
literature
- Jean Pailler: Maria Pia: A Mulher que Queria Ser Rainha de Portugal . Bertrand, Lisbon 2006, ISBN 972-25-1467-9
- Fernando Luso Soares: Maria Pia, duquesa de Bragança contra Dom Duarte Pio, o senhor de Santar . Minerva, Lisbon 1983
- Francisco de Sousa Tavares: O caso de Maria Pia de Bragança (1983). In: ders., Escritos Políticos , Mário Figuerinhas, Porto 1996, Volume I, pp. 246-251
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jean Pailler 2006, p. 19 "… Sua Alteza Real D. Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo Gotha e Bragança, Princesa herdeira de Portugal"
- ↑ The true biography of Maria Pia von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha Braganza
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Braganza, Maria Pia von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bragança, Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo Gotha e; Toledano, Hilda de (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese author and pretender to the throne |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 1995 |
| Place of death | Verona |