Princess Francisca of Brazil
Princess of Joinville
Dona Francisca (2 August 1824 – 27 March 1898) was a princess of the Empire of Brazil (as daughter of Emperor Dom Pedro I , who also reigned as King Dom Pedro IV of Portugal , and his first wife Maria Leopoldina of Habsburg ), who became Princess of Joinville upon marrying François d’Orléans , son of the French king Louis Philippe I . The couple had three children. Through their oldest daughter, Francisca and François are the ancestors of Jean, Count of Paris , the present Orléanist pretender to the French throne.
Biography
Francisca of Brazil, Princess of Joinville , 1850s. Painting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Francisca was born on 2 August 1824 in the Palace of São Cristóvão , in Rio de Janeiro , capital of the Empire of Brazil . Her name in full was Francisca Carolina Joana Carlota Leopoldina Romana Xavier de Paula Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Gonzaga. Through her father, Emperor Dom Pedro I , she was a member of the Brazilian branch of the House of Braganza (Portuguese: Bragança ) and was referred to using the honorific "Dona " (Lady ) from birth. Her mother was the Archduchess Maria Leopoldina of Austria , daughter of Franz II , the last Holy Roman Emperor . Through her, Francisca was a niece of Napoleon Bonaparte and first cousin of Emperors Napoleon II of France , Franz Joseph I (Francis Joseph I) of Austria-Hungary and Don Maximiliano I (Maximilian I) of Mexico .
Francisca married Prince François of Orléans , the third son of Louis Philippe I and his Italian Queen Maria Amalia of Naples . François called the Prince of Joinville, and Francisca married in Rio de Janeiro on 1 May 1843. The bride was 19, the groom 25. Her portrait was painted when she arrived in Paris, in 1844, by Ary Scheffer (coll. Musée de la Vie romantique , Paris).
Their only daughter Princess Françoise of Orléans married her first cousin Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres and became the mother of the Orléanist pretender Prince Jean, Duke of Guise . Her son Pierre never married, but had two illegitimate children by a married woman.
When the Orléans family fled France, they settled in England living at Claremont ; It was there that Francisca gave birth to a stillborn daughter in 1849; the next year, the exiled King Louis Philippe I died himself. After the fall of the House of Bonaparte of the Second Empire , the Orléans family returned to France; Francisca herself died in Paris aged 73. Her husband outlived her by two years, dying in Paris in 1900.
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Issue
Princess Françoise of Orléans (14 August 1844 – 28 October 1925) married her cousin Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres and had issue.
Prince Pierre, Duke of Penthièvre (4 November 1845 – 17 July 1919) never married, but had two children with Angélique Lebesgue.
Ancestry
Ancestors of Princess Francisca of Brazil
References
Barman, Roderick J. (1999). Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825–1891 . Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-3510-0 .
Sauer, Arthur (1889). Almanak Administrativo, Mercantil e Industrial (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert & C. OCLC 36598004 .
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* also an infanta of Spain and an archduchess of Austria , ** also an imperial princess of Brazil , *** also a princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchess in Saxony , ◙ Also a princess of Braganza , ƒ title of pretense
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