Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

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Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Stephanie, Queen of Portugal.jpg
Queen consort of Portugal
Tenure18 May 1858 – 17 July 1859
Born15 July 1837
Krauchenwies, Sigmaringen, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Died17 July 1859(1859-07-17) (aged 22)
Necessidades Palace, Lisbon, Portugal
Burial
Pantheon of the Braganzas
SpouseKing Pedro V of Portugal
Names
German: Stephanie Josepha Friederike Wilhelmine Antonia
Portuguese: Estefânia Josefa Frederica Guilhermina Antónia
HouseHohenzollern-Sigmaringen
FatherPrince Charles Anthony, Prince of Hohenzollern
MotherPrincess Josephine of Baden
SignatureStephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen's signature

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[]

  1. ^ Edmund Lodge (1872). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing ... Hurst & Blackett. p. 54.

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Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Cadet branch of the House of Hohenzollern
Born: 15 July 1837 Died: 17 July 1859
Portuguese royalty
Preceded by
Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Queen consort of Portugal
18 May 1858 – 17 July 1859
Succeeded by
Maria Pia of Savoy
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