Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza

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Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria
Marquise of Loulé,
Countess of Vale de Reis
Mafra
Died22 June 1857(1857-06-22) (aged 50)
Rome
SpouseNuno José Severo de Mendonça Rolim de Moura Barreto, 2nd Marquis of Loulé
Issue
Names
Ana de Jesus Maria Luís Gonzaga Joaquina Micaela Rafaela Francisca Xavier de Paula
HouseBraganza
FatherJohn VI of Portugal and Brazil
MotherCarlota Joaquina of Spain

Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza (

infanta and youngest daughter of King John VI and his wife, Carlota Joaquina of Spain. [1][2]

Life

Portrait of Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza; Nicolas Antoine Taunay.

On 5 December 1827, she married Dom

Ajuda Palace and was a scandal at the time. Although Loulé was a nobleman and remote descendant of Portugal's royal dynasty, Dona Ana de Jesus was the first infanta of Portugal since the Middle Ages
to marry a man who was not of royal rank.

The reasons for the marriage were probably not political, considering the couple's first child was born on 27 December 1827, twenty-two days after the ceremony. The marriage had not been approved by D. Ana's father, King John VI, prior to his death (strictly, Portuguese law at the time only stated that the marriage of the heir presumptive required the sovereign's consent, a position D. Ana never held). Nor were either of her brothers present in the country at the time of the wedding (both claimed the kingship from abroad).

The designated

elopement, as the royal family
was aware of the couple's intention to marry and D. Ana's mother facilitated rather than sought to prevent the marriage before her daughter gave birth.

With the restoration of absolutism in Portugal in 1831 the couple was exiled and began extended travel through Europe. They had several other children abroad. The marriage ended with a de facto separation in 1835. The infanta died before her husband was created a duke.

D. Ana's heir, and the head of the Loulé ducal line is her great-great-great-grandson D. Pedro Folque de Mendoça Rolim de Moura Barreto, 6th Duke of Loulé. He is considered by some to be the rightful pretender to the defunct Portuguese throne by virtue of his ancestors' uninterrupted Portuguese citizenship and uninterrupted domicile on Portuguese soil.

Issue

The couple has five children: [4]

  • D. Ana Carlota de Mendóça Rolim de Moura Barreto, later
    Countess of Linhares
  • D. Maria do Carmo de Mendóça Rolim de Moura Barreto, later
    Countess of Belmonte
  • D. Pedro José de Mendóça Rolim de Moura Barreto, later 2nd Duke of Loulé
  • D. Maria Amália de Mendóça Rolim de Moura Barreto
  • D. Augusto Pedro de Mendóça Rolim de Moura Barreto, later 3rd Count of Azambuja

Nuno da Câmara Pereira, a member of the

People's Monarchist Party (PPM) in the Assembly of the Republic
, descends illegitimately from D. Ana. He promotes restoration of the monarchy under the House of Loulé.

See also

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ Jorge Pedreira e Fernando Dores Costa. D. João VI. Círculo de Leitores.
  2. ^ MatrizNet. "Infanta D. Ana de Jesus Maria".
  3. ^ Filipe Folque de Mendoça. A Casa Loulé e suas Alianças. Livraria Bizantina.
  4. ^ "Livro de registo de óbitos da paróquia de Cascais (1879 a 1884)". digitarq.arquivos.pt. Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo. p. 8.
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