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Infanta Antónia of Portugal
Princess consort of Hohenzollern
Tenure	2 June 1885 – 8 June 1905
Born	(1845-02-17)17 February 1845 Belém Palace, Lisbon, Portugal
Died	27 December 1913(1913-12-27) (aged 68) Sigmaringen, German Empire
Spouse	Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern ​ ​(m. 1861; died 1905)​
Issue	William, Prince of Hohenzollern Ferdinand I of Romania Prince Karl Anton
Names Portuguese: Antónia María Fernanda Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Francisca de Assis Ana Gonzaga Silvina Júlia Augusta de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança
House	Braganza
Father	Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Mother	Maria II of Portugal

Infanta Antónia of Portugal (or of Braganza; Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐ̃ˈtɔniɐ]; Antónia Maria Fernanda Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Francisca de Assis Ana Gonzaga Silvéria Júlia Augusta de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança; 17 February 1845 – 27 December 1913) was a Portuguese infanta (princess) of the House of Braganza, daughter of Queen Maria II of Portugal and her King consort Ferdinand II of Portugal. Through her father, she also held the titles of Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duchess of Saxony.

Life

Antónia was born in 1845 at the Palace of Belém, she was the sixth child of twelve, and the third girl. She married Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen on 12 September 1861. They had three sons;

• William (1864–1927), who succeeded as Prince of Hohenzollern; married (1) Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (2) Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria
• Ferdinand (1865–1927), later King of Romania; married Princess Marie of Edinburgh
• Karl Anton (1868–1919), married Princess Josephine Caroline of Belgium

Princess Marie of Edinburgh, her daughter-in-law, described her appearance in her memoirs:

"Antonia, or Antoinette, had been one of the great beauties of her time; one of those old-fashioned, classic-featured beauties, whom one associates with the crinoline. Her profile was Grecian, her shoulders sloping, her hands long and delicate, her feet very small and useless. But her figure somehow could not fit in with the clothes of the day, there was a disproportion between the bust and the legs. The crinoline was missing. Superbly aristocratic, she moved slowly with a curious swinging of the hips. She loved fine clothes and jewels and, though leading almost an invalid's life, was always very smartly dressed." Later, Marie also wrote on their complicated relationship and views on her mother-in-law's character: "She was a curious mixture of dignity and childish futility, vain, self-centered, small in her judgements of others. She lived so protected, so out of the world, hedged in by her Church, nursing her delicate health , everybody serving her, spoiling her, she was more like an exigent child than a woman who had lived a real woman's life. I really think she liked me then, but there was also something else in this; I was to be shown off as a favourite to spite Mädi, her eldest daughter-in-law."

Antónia of Braganza died in the German Empire in 1913.

Honours and awards

•  Kingdom of Portugal:
  • Dame of the Order of Queen Saint Isabel
  • Grand Cross of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa
• Kingdom of Prussia:
  • Dame of the Order of Louise, 1st Division
  • Cross of Merit for Women and Girls, 26 June 1871
•  Austria-Hungary: Dame of the Order of the Starry Cross, 1st Class
• Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order
•  Kingdom of Romania: Dame of the Decoration of the Cross of Queen Elisabeth
•  Spain: Dame of the Order of Queen Maria Luisa, 23 October 1855

Ancestry

References

1. ^ "While remaining patrilineal dynasts of the duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha according to pp. 88, 116 of the 1944 Almanach de Gotha, Title 1, Chapter 1, Article 5 of the 1838 Portuguese constitution declared, with respect to Ferdinand II of Portugal's issue by his first wife, that 'the Most Serene House of Braganza is the reigning house of Portugal and continues through the Person of the Lady Queen Maria II'. Thus their mutual descendants constitute the Coburg line of the House of Braganza"
2. Marie, Queen (1934). The story of my life [by] Marie, queen of Romania. State Library of Pennsylvania. C. Scribner's sons. p. 218.
3. Marie, Queen (1934). The story of my life [by] Marie, queen of Romania. State Library of Pennsylvania. C. Scribner's sons. p. 220.
4. ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Preußen (1908), Genealogy p. 6
5. "Königlich Preussische Ordensliste", Preussische Ordens-Liste (in German), 3, Berlin: 1255, 1877 – via hathitrust.org
6. "Real orden de Damas Nobles de la Reina Maria Luisa". Guía Oficial de España (in Spanish). 1887. p. 166. Retrieved 21 March 2019.

v t e House of Braganza-Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
1st generation	Pedro V Luís I Infanta Maria Infante João, Duke of Beja Infanta Maria Ana, Princess George of Saxony Infanta Antónia, Princess of Hohenzollern Infante Fernando Infante Augusto Infante Leopoldo Infanta Maria da Glória Infante Eugénio
2nd generation	Carlos I Infante Afonso, Duke of Porto
3rd generation	Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal Infanta Maria Ana Manuel II Maria Pia (claimant)
The House of Saxe-Coburg and Braganza was not a recognized house in the former Kingdom of Portugal and monarchs following Maria II and Ferdinand II officially continued to be members of the House of Braganza

• 1845 births
• 1913 deaths
• Nobility from Lisbon
• Portuguese infantas
• House of Braganza-Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• Princesses of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
• Dames of the Order of Saint Isabel
• Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa
• 19th-century Portuguese people
• 19th-century German women
• Daughters of kings
• Daughters of queens regnant
• Mothers of Romanian monarchs