Maria Adelaide de Bragança
Maria Adelaide de Bragança | |
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Princess Maria Theresa of Löwenstein |
Infanta Maria Adelaide of Portugal, Princess of Braganza
Life
Princess Maria Adelaide was born in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France. Her godparents were King Manuel II, the last reigning king of Portugal (deposed in 1910), and his mother Queen Amélie. She was educated at the Sacre Coeur College in Riedenburg, Germany. She was married in Vienna, 13 October 1945, to Dr. Nicolaas van Uden (Venlo, 5 March 1921 – Lisbon, 5 February 1991) who was Dutch and who became a naturalized Portuguese citizen in 1975. Son of Adrian van Uden (Gerwen, 7 May 1893 – 24 December 1959) and wife Cornelia Antonia Baaijeens (Gorinchem, 7 September 1897 – 15 June 1979), daughter of Nicolaas Baaijeens and wife Helena Dam, Nicolaas van Uden was a medical biochemist and a great scientific authority in the field of yeast development.
Princess Maria Adelaide lived in
In 1949, Princess Maria Adelaide settled in Portugal. Meanwhile, her husband graduated in medicine from the University of Vienna and specialized in diseases of the skin. But when Dr. Nicolaas van Uden arrived in Portugal his qualifications were not recognised as equivalent to the Portuguese ones, and therefore he could not practice medicine[citation needed]. As there was no other solution, he went to work for a small research laboratory at the Faculty of Science and stayed there for several years, until the opportunity to work in partnership with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation arose. Due to such a collaboration the Gulbenkian Science Institute was born and it promotes scientific research in various areas since the 1950s to date.
The van Uden family originally lived in the Quinta do Carmo, in
Her nephew D. Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, is the present head of the House of Braganza and, therefore, a claimant to the former Portuguese throne. She was the last surviving grandchild of Miguel I of Portugal and last surviving great-grandchild of John VI of Portugal.
Issue
Name | Birth | Notes |
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Adriano Sérgio de Bragança van Uden | 9 April 1946 | Married Maria de Jesus de Saldanha de Sousa e Menezes |
Nuno Miguel de Bragança van Uden | 2 September 1947 | Married Maria do Rosário Cayolla Bonneville |
Francisco Xavier Damiano de Bragança van Uden | 8 September 1949 | Married Maria Teresa Henriques Gil |
Filipa Teodora de Bragança van Uden | 22 June 1951 | Married António Manuel d'Atouguia da Rocha Fontes |
Miguel Inácio de Bragança van Uden | 31 July 1953 | Married Maria do Carmo Leão Ponce Dentinho |
Maria Teresa de Bragança van Uden | 24 June 1956 | Married João Ricardo da Câmara Chaves |
Honours
- Portuguese Royal Family: Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Isabel[2]
- Portuguese Republic: Grand Officer of the Order of Merit (31 January 2012)[3]
Ancestry
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References
- ISBN 978-0-691-11863-5. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
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- ^ "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
Bibliography
- Ochoa, Raquel, A Infanta Rebelde, Oficina do Livro, 2011.