Afonso, Duke of Porto
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Infante Afonso | |
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Luis I of Portugal | |
Mother | Maria Pia of Savoy |
Early life
When threats on the life of his brother, Carlos, became known to him, he adopted the habit of arming himself with a revolver, night and day, making himself ready to defend his family whenever it might be necessary. He urged his nephew, the Prince Royal, Luís Filipe, to carry a weapon as well.
Dom Afonso was a
Dom Afonso was also a lover of automobile races, and he was responsible for the first motor races in Portugal, where he was one of the first drivers. After the proclamation of the
Marriage
Suffering, like his mother, the dowager Queen Maria Pia of Savoy, from debilitating mental and emotional health after the Regicide of 1908, Afonso de Bragança married, in Rome on 26 September 1917, a twice-divorced, and once-widowed, American heiress Nevada Stoody Hayes. This was a politically significant event, at least to those Portuguese royalists who clung to the hope of a restoration of the House of Braganza: as significant funding for any power grab was urgently needed.
As of 1917, the Portuguese
In Portugal,
Dom Afonso was the fourth husband of Nevada Stoody Hayes. They were unable to marry religiously in Italy, where the king of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, like the Pope, chose not to recognize the validity of a previous trial marriage in Rome. She convinced Afonso to marry her again at a Madrid hotel, where a consular officer of the Portuguese Republic performed the civil ceremony, with no family or friends as witnesses. Some believe that the Portuguese consul in Madrid was as cooperative as he was because the Republican government in power at Lisbon was delighted to see one of the last of the Braganzas do such an unpopular thing.[citation needed] A religious marriage ceremony was performed in Madrid on 23 November 1917.[1]
The Prince had previously tried to get the king's approval for his marriage, but he found that his nephew and the rest of the royal family were vehemently opposed to it. After his marriage, his pension was cut by Manuel II, and Dom Afonso, also rejected by his relatives in the Italian royal family, began to live in obscurity and sickness during his final days. He finally died alone, in Naples, on 21 February 1920. Only one Portuguese servant remained with him until the end.
Even though the terms of a morganatic marriage exclude the surviving spouse from inheriting any of the titles or privileges that are the prerogatives of royalty, they do not exclude the survivor from inheriting property. In his will, Dom Afonso left his entire estate to Nevada Stoody Hayes.
After he and Manuel II had both died (1932), his widow demanded that the Portuguese government recognize her rights to a substantial part of the House of Braganza's patrimony. Her husband had named her his sole legal heir in his last will. As the marriage, and the will, was legally disputed in Lisbon, Nevada was briefly arrested shortly after she arrived at Lisbon to claim her inheritance. Eventually, however, she proved a substantial portion of her claim, and she was officially granted the right to remove many objects of art and expensive goods from the Portuguese royal palaces.
The 35-year-old former Duchess of Porto traveled to Portugal from Italy with the body of her late husband, and she arranged for its installation in the Braganza pantheon in Lisbon.
Honors
He received the following awards:[3][4]
- Grand Cross of the Sash of the Two Orders (Portugal)
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa (Portugal)
- Grand Cross of the Order of St. Stephen, 1888 (Austria-Hungary)[5]
- Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order, 1885 (Ernestine duchies)[6]
- Knight of the Annunciation, 15 June 1893 (Italy)[7]
- Knight of the Black Eagle (Prussia)
- Knight of the Rue Crown (Saxony)
- Knight of the Siam)[8]
- Knight of the Golden Fleece, 11 December 1883 (Spain)[9]
- Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III, 11 December 1886 (Spain)[10]
- Sweden-Norway)[11]
- Honorary Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, 7 April 1903 (United Kingdom)[12]
Ancestry
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See also
- Lisbon regicide
- Proclamation of the Portuguese Republic
References
- ^ a b Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh (ed.) Burke's Royal Families of the World (1977), volume 1, page 449
- ^ a b "While remaining patrilineal dynasts of the duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha according to pp. 88, 116 of the 1944 Almanach de Gotha, Title 1, Chapter 1, Article 5 of the 1838 Portuguese constitution declared, with respect to Ferdinand II of Portugal's issue by his first wife, that 'the Most Serene House of Braganza is the reigning house of Portugal and continues through the Person of the Lady Queen Maria II'. Thus their mutual descendants constitute the Coburg line of the House of Braganza"
- ^ Marquis of Ruvigny, The Titled Nobility of Europe (Harrison and Sons, London, 1914) p. 120
- ^ Albano da Silveira Pinto (1883). "Serenissima Casa de Bragança". Resenha das Familias Titulares e Grandes des Portugal (in Portuguese). Lisbon. p. xv.
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- ^ Staatshandbücher für das Herzogtum Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1890), "Herzogliche Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden" p. 43
- ^ Italia : Ministero dell'interno (1898). Calendario generale del Regno d'Italia. Unione tipografico-editrice. p. 54.
- Royal Thai Government Gazette (11 June 1899). "พระราชทานเครื่องราชอิสริยาภรณ์ที่ประเทศยุโรป (ต่อแผ่นที่ ๑๐ หน้า ๑๓๖)" (PDF) (in Thai). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2019.)
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(help - ^ "Caballeros de la insigne orden del Toison de Oro". Guía Oficial de España (in Spanish). 1887. p. 147. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- ^ "Real y distinguida Orden den Carlos III". Guía Oficial de España (in Spanish). 1887. p. 157. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- ^ Sveriges statskalender (in Swedish), 1905, p. 440, retrieved 6 January 2018 – via runeberg.org
- ^ Shaw, Wm. A. (1906) The Knights of England, I, London, p. 426