Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg
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Prince Auguste | |||||
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Maximilian de Beauharnais | |||||
Born | Milan, Lombardy | 9 December 1810||||
Died | 28 March 1835 Lisbon, Portugal | (aged 24)||||
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Beauharnais | |||||
Father | Eugène de Beauharnais | ||||
Mother | Princess Augusta of Bavaria | ||||
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Auguste Charles Eugène Napoléon de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg (9 December 1810 – 28 March 1835) was the first
Family
Being born in
Duke of Leuchtenberg
His maternal grandfather,
On 4 February 1831 Leuchtenberg was one of three candidates for the throne of the newly independent
He escorted his sister Amélie to Brazil for her marriage to Emperor Pedro I and was created by his new brother-in-law, Duke of Santa Cruz on 5 November 1829.[1]
Prince consort of Portugal
On 26 May 1834, young Queen
Maria's childhood betrothal to Dom Miguel was broken so that a more pliant husband could be found to beget a new Portuguese dynasty, one whose loyalty might prove more trustworthy if he had no other prospects, such that he would be entirely beholden for his dynastic fortune to Portugal's constitutional regime. The Queen obligingly settled on Auguste de Beauharnais who, once again, proved unthreatening to the Great Powers because of his lack of membership in an already reigning dynasty and lack of conflicting foreign obligations or ambitions. He was also the eldest brother of Maria's stepmother Empress Amélie.
Auguste and Maria II were married by proxy in Munich on 1 December 1834. The groom was almost twenty-four years old and the bride fifteen years old. On his wedding day his bride conferred upon him the Portuguese style of "His Royal Highness The Prince Consort of Portugal".[2]
He arrived in Portugal shortly thereafter, and the couple were wed in person in Lisbon on 26 January 1835. However Auguste fell ill and died only two months later. The suddenness of this upon his arrival led to rumors that he had been poisoned, however no names of any suspects were ever produced.
Childless at the time of his death, Auguste left as heir in Bavaria his younger brother, who became the
A year later Maria II married Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, a nephew of the Coburg prince who had beat out her first husband in competition for the constitutional crown of Belgium.[2]
Because Auguste died before fathering an heir to the Portuguese throne, he never became Maria's co-monarch, which Maria's next husband did in 1837, allowing Maria to continue the Braganza Dynasty.
Honours
- Kingdom of Portugal:
- Grand Cross of the Sash of the Three Orders, 1 December 1834 – wedding gift of his bride, Queen Maria II[3]
- Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword[4]
- Kingdom of Spain: Knight of the Golden Fleece, 1835[5]
- Sweden-Norway: Knight of the Seraphim, 14 March 1824[6]
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References
- ^ "Colecção de Atos do Poder Imperial" (PDF). Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil. 5 November 1829. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
- ^ ISBN 972-97256-9-1.
- ^ Bragança, Jose Vicente de (2014). "Agraciamentos Portugueses Aos Príncipes da Casa Saxe-Coburgo-Gota" [Portuguese Honours awarded to Princes of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]. Pro Phalaris (in Portuguese). 9–10: 4. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
- ^ Image Wikimedia
- ^ Boettger, T. F. "Chevaliers de la Toisón d'Or - Knights of the Golden Fleece". La Confrérie Amicale. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ISBN 91-630-6744-7.)
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External links
- Marek, Miroslav. "A Beauharnais genealogy". Genealogy.EU.
- "A listing of the Ducal family of Leuchtenberg". Archived from the original on 28 October 2009. Retrieved 3 July 2009.
- "Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg" (in German). Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte.