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Maria Leopoldina of Austria

Maria Leopoldina of Austria
Maria Leopoldina 1815.jpg
Leopoldina at age 18, 1815
Empress consort of Brazil
Tenure 12 October 1822 – 11 December 1826
Queen consort of Portugal and the Algarves
Tenure 10 March 1826 – 2 May 1826
Born 22 January 1797
Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria, Holy Roman Empire
Died 11 December 1826(1826-12-11) (aged 29)
São Cristóvão Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Empire of Brazil
Burial 1954
Monument to the Independence of Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil
Spouse Pedro I of Brazil and IV of Portugal
Issue
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Full name
German: Caroline Josepha Leopoldine Franziska Ferdinanda
House Habsburg-Lorraine
Father Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
Mother Maria Teresa of Naples and Sicily
Religion Roman Catholicism
Full name
German: Caroline Josepha Leopoldine Franziska Ferdinanda
Styles of
Empress Leopoldina of Brazil
Coat of arms consisting of a shield with a green field with a golden armillary sphere over the red and white Cross of the Order of Christ, surrounded by a blue band with 20 silver stars; the bearers are two arms of a wreath, with a coffee branch on the left and a flowering tobacco branch on the right; and above the shield is an arched golden and jeweled crown
Reference style Her Imperial Majesty
Spoken style Your Imperial Majesty
Alternative style Madam

Dona Maria Leopoldina of Austria (22 January 1797 – 11 December 1826) was an archduchess of Austria, Empress consort of Brazil and Queen consort of Portugal.

She was born in Vienna, Austria, as the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, and his second wife, Maria Teresa of Naples and Sicily. Among her many siblings were Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria and Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. She was also the great-niece, through her paternal Grandfather, of the ill-fated Queen Marie Antoinette of France.

Leopoldina was born on 22 January 1797 in Schönbrunn Palace, in Vienna, Archduchy of Austria. She was given the name Caroline Josepha Leopoldine Franziska Ferdinanda, according to her biographer Carlos H. Oberacker, and confirmed by Bettina Kann in her work "Cartas de uma Imperatriz", who mentioned a contemporary source: the Austrian newspaper Wiener Zeitung of 25 January 1797, who gave the news of the birth of the Archduchess three days before with her full name. According to Oberacker, the name "Maria" wasn't present in the preserved baptismal record of the Archduchess, and she began to use it only during her journey to Brazil, where she began to be named Maria Leopoldina in all documents, including the Juramentation of the Constitution of 1822. According to another theory presented by Oberacker, the Archduchess probably began to use the name "Maria" due to her great devotion to the Virgin Mary and because all her sisters-in-law used this name.


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