Everything about Dom Miguel totally explained
Miguel I (
Miguel Maria do Patrocínio João Carlos Francisco de Assis Xavier de Paula Pedro de Alcântara António Rafael Gabriel Joaquim José Gonzaga Evaristo de Bragança e Bourbon;
Lisbon,
October 26,
1802 -
Karlsruhe,
November 14,
1866) was the second son of King
John VI of Portugal and
Charlotte of Spain, and the 30th (or 31st according to some historians)
King of
Portugal and the
Algarves between
1828 and
1834, during the Portuguese civil war.
Life
He was given the Lordship of
Infantado as his appanage.
Miguel was an avowed conservative and admirer of the
Austrian Empire under the guidance of
Klemens Wenzel von Metternich. He led two revolts against his father in the
1820s, earning himself a sentence of
exile at one point. In
1826 he was betrothed to his young niece
Maria II. Miguel subsequently proclaimed himself
regent (
February 26 1828) and then took the throne as sole monarch (
June 23 1828) at which time he overthrew his brother
Pedro IV's constitution.
Miguel sought to gain international backing for his regime, but the government of
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland fell in
1830 just before it could afford formal recognition. In
1831 Miguel's brother Pedro abdicated the throne of
Brazil and occupied the
Azores from which he launched naval attacks on Portugal. After a
three-year civil war, Miguel was forced to
abdicate at
Évora Monte (
May 26,
1834) and was sent into exile by the victorious Pedro.
The last Monarchic Constitution of 1838, never revoked, in the article 98 categorically excluded the collateral line of the king Miguel of Portugal and all his descendants.
Miguel lived the rest of his life in exile. He eventually died in
Karlsruhe,
Germany on
November 14,
1866.
Also Spain, by law of Cortes on 15 January 1837 in midst of the
First Carlist War (1833-39), excluded Miguel from the Spanish succession, on grounds of him being with the rebellion of his uncle don
Carlos, the first
Carlist pretender of Spain. Miguel's eldest sister Teresa, and his nephews (three sons of late infanta Francisca, and Sebastian, son of Teresa) were so excluded.
Ancestors
Marriages and descendants
In
1851, when already 48, he married Princess
Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, by whom he'd six daughters and a son. In a similar fashion to
Queen Victoria, he'd become known as the
grandfather of Europe, however this occurred after his own death. His widow succeeded in securing advantageous marriages for their daughters.
| Name |
irth |
eath |
otes |
| By Adelheid of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (April 3 1831-December 16 1909; married in 1851) |
| Maria das Neves |
August 5 1852 |
February 15 1941 |
Married Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime, Infante of Spain. Pretender to the Spanish Throne (See: Carlism) |
| Miguel (II) |
September 19 1853 |
October 11 1927 |
Duke of Braganza. Grandfather of the present day throne claimant Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza. |
| Maria Teresa |
August 24 1855 |
February 12 1944 |
Married Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria as his third wife. |
| Maria José |
March 19 1857 |
March 11 1943 |
Married Duke Karl-Theodor in Bavaria (brother of Empress Elisabeth of Austria) as his second wife. |
| Aldegundes, Duchess of Guimaraes |
November 10 1858 |
April 15 1946 |
Married Enrico of Parma, Count di Bardi, son of Charles III of Parma. |
| Maria Ana |
July 13 1861 |
July 31 1942 |
Married Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg. |
| Maria Antónia |
November 28 1862 |
May 14 1959 |
Married Robert I, Duke of Parma as his second wife. |
| Illegitimate offspring |
| Maria da Assunção do Carmo de Bragança |
March 1831 |
Brazil, November 18 1910 |
Natural daughter from a relationship with a Lady of the Portuguese nobility living in Rome named Dona Antónia Francisca Ribeiro do Carmo, daughter of the Duke of Algarve. Recognized as his child in 1839, thereby being semi-legitimized. According to public records, she died in Minas Gerais State, Brazil in 1910. Offspring unknown. |
| Maria de Jesus de Bragança e Bourbon |
Santarém, 1834 |
|
Natural daughter from a relationship with a woman from the Portuguese peasantry living in Santarém at the time the King was living there during the end of the civil war. She was however never acknowledged. She married D. Tomás José Fletcher de Melo Homem, born in Moita, February 23 1836 and died in Lisbon, October 3 1905, and had female issue now extinct at the generation of her two grandsons. |
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