Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
| Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen | |||||
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| Queen consort of Portugal | |||||
| Tenure | 18 May 1858 – 17 July 1859 | ||||
| Born | 15 July 1837 Krauchenwies, Sigmaringen, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen | ||||
| Died | 17 July 1859 (aged 22) Necessidades Palace, Lisbon, Portugal | ||||
| Burial | Pantheon of the Braganzas | ||||
| Spouse | King Pedro V of Portugal | ||||
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| House | Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen | ||||
| Father | Prince Charles Anthony, Prince of Hohenzollern | ||||
| Mother | Princess Josephine of Baden | ||||
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Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (Stephanie Josepha Friederike Wilhelmine Antonia; Portuguese: Estefânia; 15 July 1837 – 17 July 1859) was the Queen consort of King Peter V of Portugal.
Family[]
Born in Krauchenwies, Sigmaringen, in 1837, Stephanie was the eldest daughter of Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, head of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and his wife Princess Josephine of Baden. Her maternal grandparents were Karl, Grand Duke of Baden, and Stéphanie de Beauharnais, adopted daughter of Napoleon.
She was also a younger sister of Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, older sister of King Carol I of Romania, and aunt of King Albert I of Belgium.
Marriage[]
Stephanie married King Peter V of Portugal by proxy on 29 April 1858 at St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin, where her eldest brother Leopold stood in for the groom. She was then married in person on 18 May 1858 at the Church of St. Dominic in Lisbon. Both bride and groom were a few months short of their twenty-first birthdays. Stephanie was received with much luxury and wrote home that the Portuguese understood luxury better than dignity. During her short period as queen, she made herself a good name from the foundation of hospitals.
There were no children from this marriage. Stephanie fell ill with diphtheria and died only a year later in Lisbon at the age of 22. Her body was interred at the Braganza Pantheon inside the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora in Lisbon.[1]
Pedro never married again and died of cholera on 11 November 1861. He was succeeded by his younger brother Luís.
References[]
- ^ Edmund Lodge (1872). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing ... Hurst & Blackett. p. 54.
External links[]
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- Marek, Miroslav. "A listing of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen". Genealogy.EU.
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- 1837 births
- 1859 deaths
- Burials at the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora
- Deaths from diphtheria
- House of Braganza-Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Dames of the Order of Saint Isabel
- Infectious disease deaths in Portugal
- People from Sigmaringen (district)
- Portuguese queens consort
- Princesses of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
- 19th-century Portuguese people
- 19th-century Portuguese women