Manuel, Hereditary Prince of Portugal
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Manuel of Portugal (c. 1568–22 June 1638) was the illegitimate son of
Early life
Manuel was born in Tangier to Portuguese pretender António, Prior of Crato and one Anna Barbosa. Due to his religious office, António of Crato was not allowed to marry. After a failed attempt to gain the throne in 1580, António used to live in France and England. His son Manuel of Portugal is also known as Emanuel I, in his Dutch context.
Acclamation as prince
After the death of
Family
First marriage
On 7 November 1597, Manuel wed
- Maria Belgica (born before 12 October 1598;[1] died 28 July 1647), married in June 1629 to Colonel Theodor Croll (died 1640 in Venice [murdered]), Quartermaster general of Duke Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma,
- Manuel António (born 24 February 1600 in Delft; died 27 October 1666 in Schagen), married Johanna of Hanau-Münzenberg; two daughters,
- Emilia Louise (born June 1603 in Delft; died 29 October 1670), unmarried,
- Christopher William Louis (1604–7 July 1660); a military person, commander of the guards of Maurice of Nassau in 1624, Knight of Malta, married to Donna Anna Maria di Capece-Galeoti de Monteleone.
- Anna Louise (born before 3 May 1605;[1] died 5 April 1669), unmarried,
- Juliana Catherine (c. 1607–22 June 1680), unmarried,
- Mauritia Eleonora (born before 10 May 1609;[1] died 25 June 1674), married Count George Frederick of Nassau-Siegen on 4 June 1647 in The Hague; no children.
- Sabina Delphica (1612–20 July 1670), unmarried.
Because of the circumstances of the wedding, Manuel and Emilia used to live in a permanent shortage of money during the first years of their marriage. Only in 1608,
The fate of this family was moreover overshadowed by a scandal. The first daughter Maria Belgica was originally meant to marry a Margrave of Baden but rather she escaped with the margrave's Colonel Theodor Croll – a fact that reduced the chances to marriage of her sisters to a minimum at the times. Eleonora Mauritia became the only exception.
Second marriage
After the death of his first wife, Manuel married for a second time, on 3 April 1630 in Brussels. His bride Luísa Osório was a lady-in-waiting of Isabella. The two of them held prominent positions at Isabella's court.
Death
Manuel died on 22 June 1638 in Brussels and was buried there. He was survived by his second wife.
References
- Citations
- General references
- Dek, Anders W. E. (1968). "De afstammelingen van Juliana of Stolberg tot aan het jaar van de Vrede van Munster" [The Offsprings of Juliana van Stolberg until the Year of the Peace of Münster]. Spiegel der Historie (in Dutch). 3 (7/8).
- Suchier, Reinhard (1894). "Genealogie des Hanauer Grafenhauses" [Genealogy of the Counts of Hanau]. Festschrift des Hanauer Geschichtsvereins zu seiner fünfzigjährigen Jubelfeier am 27. August 1894 [Memorial Publication of the Hanau Historical Society on the Occasion of its 50th Anniversary on 27 August 1894] (in German). Hanau.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Van Kamp, J. L. J. (September 1957). "Nog een tak afstammelingen van Willem de Zwijger" [More Offsprings of William the Silent]. De Nederlandsche Leeuw (in Dutch). LXXIV (9). columns 266–287; 306–316. ISSN 0028-226X.