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Amélie de Beauharnais

Amélie of Leuchtenberg
Duchess of Braganza
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Empress consort of Brazil
Tenure 2 August 1829 – 7 April 1831
Born (1812-07-31)31 July 1812
Milan, Kingdom of Italy
Died 26 January 1873(1873-01-26) (aged 60)
Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal
Burial Monument to the Independence of Brazil, São Paulo
Spouse Pedro I of Brazil
Issue Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil
Full name
Amélia Augusta Eugénia Napoleona de Beauharnais
House Beauharnais
Father Eugène de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg
Mother Princess Augusta of Bavaria
Religion Roman Catholicism
Full name
Amélia Augusta Eugénia Napoleona de Beauharnais
Styles of
Empress Amélia of Brazil
Imperial Monogram of Empress Amélia of Brazil.svg
Reference style Her Imperial Majesty
Spoken style Your Imperial Majesty
Alternative style Madam

Princess Amélie of Leuchtenberg (Portuguese: Amélia Augusta Eugénia de Leuchtenberg; French: Amélie Auguste Eugénie de Leuchtenberg), (31 July 1812 – 26 January 1873) was Empress of Brazil as the wife of Pedro I of Brazil.

She was the granddaughter of Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of the French. Her father, Eugène de Beauharnais, was the only son of Empress Josephine and her first husband Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais. He thus became a stepson of Napoleon Bonaparte when his mother married the future emperor. The mother of Empress Amélie was Princess Augusta, daughter of Maximilian I, King of Bavaria.

Amélie was the fourth child of General Eugène de Beauharnais and his wife Princess Augusta of Bavaria. Her father was the son of Joséphine de Beauharnais and her first husband, Viscount Alexandre de Beauharnais. When Joséphine remarried, to Napoleon Bonaparte, Eugène was adopted by the latter and made viceroy of the Kingdom of Italy. Amélie's mother was the daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and his first consort, Landgravine Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt. Among Amélie's siblings were Josephine of Leuchtenberg, queen consort of King Oscar I of Sweden, and Auguste de Beauharnais, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg, prince consort of Queen Maria II of Portugal (stepdaughter of Amélie). Napoleon III was Amélie's first cousin.


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