João Carlos de Bragança, 2nd Duke of Lafões
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| Minister Assistant to the Dispatch | |
| In office 6 January 1801 – 21 May 1801 | |
| Monarch | John, Prince Regent |
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| Born | João Carlos de Bragança e Ligne de Sousa Tavares Mascarenhas da Silva 6 March 1719 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Died | 10 November 1806 (aged 87) Lisbon, Portugal |
A founding member of the Academia Real das Ciências of Lisbon, he briefly held the office of minister assistant to the dispatch (Prime Minister) of Portugal, between 6 January and 21 May 1801. He was dismissed from office after the entry of the Spanish forces in the Alentejo, although he remained marshal of the army.
Early life
He studied Humanities and Philosophy, having entered the
Adulthood
His father was the legitimized son of
He left Portugal in May 1757, heading for London and then, in January 1758, Vienna. He left Portugal with honours of Duke with an unknown purpose, but possibly with the intention of proposing a marriage to the Habsburg emperor
To reach Vienna, with the Seven Years' War underway, he enlisted in the Austrian army, where Manuel, Count of Ourém, his uncle, as well as brother of King John V, had been general. He was a superior officer of an Infantry Regiment of the Prince of Ligne, his relative, and participated in the war's final campaigns. After the war, in February 1763, he visited Switzerland, Italy, France, and the East, Greece and Egypt. He later visited Prussia and Poland. In 1766, he proposed to rejoin the Austrian army, with the rank of major-general, but the Portuguese crown never authorized him to do so. In 1770, Gluck dedicated his Paride ed Elena to the Duke of Lafões, a specialist on mythology and music.[1]
In 1778, due to the death of King
Due to the danger of war with Spain, in January 1801 Bragança was appointed minister assistant to the Prime Minister, and the Secretary of State for War. With the formal declaration of war in March he became head of the Army. He did not want to cede command to the marshal of the Army, Count de Goltz. In May he went to Alentejo, scene of the major military actions of the War of the Oranges. He was in Abrantes, with the Army, when he received the notification that he had been removed from his military and political posts.
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References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-300-22609-6.
- OCLC 29085645.