Princess Francisca | |||||
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Princess of Joinville | |||||
Portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1846.
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Born |
Palace of São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, Empire of Brazil |
2 August 1824||||
Died | 27 March 1898 Paris, France |
(aged 73)||||
Burial | Royal Chapel, Dreux, France | ||||
Spouse | Prince François, Prince of Joinville (m. 1843–1898; her death) | ||||
Issue Detail |
Princess Françoise, Duchess of Chartres Prince Pierre, Duke of Penthièvre Princess Marie Léopoldine |
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House | Braganza | ||||
Father | Pedro I of Brazil | ||||
Mother | Maria Leopoldina of Austria | ||||
Religion | Roman Catholic | ||||
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Full name | |
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Francisca Carolina Joana Carlota Leopoldina Romana Xavier de Paula Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Gonzaga |
Dona Francisca (2 August 1824 – 27 March 1898) was a princess of the Empire of Brazil. She was a daughter of Emperor Dom Pedro I, who also reigned as King Dom Pedro IV of Portugal, and his first wife, Dona Maria Leopoldina. She married a son of Louis Philippe I and had three children. Through her only surviving daughter, she is an ancestor of Prince Henri, Count of Paris, the present Orléanist pretender to the French throne.
Francisca was born on 2 August 1824 in the Palace of São Cristóvão, in Rio de Janeiro, capital of the Empire of Brazil. Her name in full was Francisca Carolina Joana Carlota Leopoldina Romana Xavier de Paula Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Gonzaga. Through her father, Emperor Dom Pedro I, she was a member of the Brazilian branch of the House of Braganza (Portuguese: Bragança) and was referred to using the honorific "Dona" (Lady) from birth. Her mother was the Archduchess Maria Leopoldina of Austria, daughter of Franz II, the last Holy Roman Emperor. Through her, Francisca was a niece of Napoleon Bonaparte and first cousin of Emperors Napoleon II of France, Franz Joseph I (Francis Joseph I) of Austria-Hungary and Don Maximiliano I (Maximilian I) of Mexico.