Princess Maria Antonia de Braganca

Princess Maria Antónia of Braganca, Infanta of Portugal (Maria Antónia Micaela Rafaela Gabriela Adelaide Xavier Josefa Expedita Gregoria) (12 March 1903, Viareggio, Lucca, Toscana, Italy – 6 February 1973, Water Mill, Suffolk, New York) was an Infanta of Portugal and a member of the House of Braganca. She married Sidney Ashley Chanler, the grandson of John Winthrop Chanler and Margaret Astor Ward.

Family[]

Maria Antónia was born to Miguel II, Duke of Braganza, and Princess Maria Theresa of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, who were the Miguelists claimants to the deposed Portuguese throne. Maria Antónia was thus an aunt to Johannes, 11th Prince of Thurn and Taxis and Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, as well as a first cousin, twice removed to Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, King Albert of Belgium II and Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg.

Marriage and issue[]

Maria Antónia married American heir Sidney Ashley Chanler (1907-1994) on June 13, 1934, at Burg Seebenstein.^[1][2] Chanler was the son of novelist, politician, and explorer Rep. William A. Chanler and stage actress Minnie Ashley, thus making him a relative of the Stuyvesant family, the Astor family, the Livingston family, the Schuyler family, and the Dudley-Winthrop family, as well as a descendant of John Jacob Astor, Samuel Ward, Jr., Gen. John Armstrong, Gov. William Greene, Gov. William Greene Jr., Samuel Gorton, Robert Livingston, Gov. Richard Ward, Peter Stuyvesant, and others.^[3] They later divorced in December 1948. She never remarried, though he remarried twice.

• Maria Mafalda Teresa de Bragança Chanler (1 Apr 1935 in Barrytown, New York-), who married and divorced Baron Emanuel von Pereira-Arnstein (1931-1976) in 1962. She later wed Andrei Ivanovich Stenbock-Fermor on November 24, 1967. From this marriage, they had two children: Count Alexis Stenbock Fermor, born 1968, and Countess Xenia Stenbock-Fermor, born 1969. She and Camillo Costa have one child, Alexandre Costa, born on September 21, 1997, in Nice, France.
• Antony de Bragança Chanler (21 Feb 1938 in New York City - 23 Dec 2016), died unmarried and without issue^[4]
• Robert Alain de Bragança Chanler (12 May 1941 in New York City - 2014 at the Casa Da Infanta in Ferragudo, Portugal), died unmarried and without issue

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