Maria Anna of Portugal
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Infanta Maria Ana of Portugal (or of Braganza) (pron. IPA: [mɐ'ɾiɐ 'ɐnɐ]; full name: Maria Ana Fernanda Leopoldina Micaela Rafaela Gabriela Carlota Antónia Júlia Vitória Praxedes Francisca de Assis Gonzaga of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Braganza; English: Mary Anne; German: Maria Anna) (Lisbon, August 21, 1843 – Dresden, February 5, 1884) was a Portuguese infanta, the eldest surviving daughter of Queen Maria II of Portugal and her King consort Ferdinand II of Portugal, born Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Kohary.
Her mother died in 1853. She married in Lisbon at the Belém Palace on 11 May 1859 to Prince George of Saxony (1832-1904), second son of King John I of Saxony, a kinsman from the Catholic Albertine branch of her father's Wettin dynasty.
In Portugal, her second brother Luís I soon succeeded her eldest brother Peter V as king.
Her husband's elder brother Albert succeeded her father-in-law as King of Saxony and gradually it became clear that he was not able to have children of his own. Maria Anna's eldest son would almost certain to one day succeed to the throne.
Eight children were born of her marriage:
[edit] Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marie Johanna Amalie Ferdinande Antonie Luise Juliane | 19 June 1860 | 2 March 1861 | died in childhood, no issue |
| Elisabeth Albertine Karoline Sidonie Ferdinande Leopoldine Antonie Auguste Clementine | 14 February 1862 | 18 May 1863 | died in childhood, no issue |
| Mathilde Marie Auguste Viktorie Leopoldine Karoline Luise Franziska Josepha | 19 March 1863 | 27 March 1933 | died unmarried, no issue |
| Frederick Augustus Johann Ludwig Karl Gustav Gregor Philipp | 25 May 1865 | 18 February 1832 | married Princess Louise of Tuscany (1870-1947) , later divorced, had issue |
| Maria Josepha Luise Philippine Elisabeth Pia Angelica Margarethe | 31 May 1867 | 28 May 1844 | married to her cousin second degrees Archduke Otto Franz of Austria (1865-1906) , had issue |
| Johann Georg Pius Karl Leopold Maria Januarius Anacletus | 10 July 1869 | 24 November 1938 | married first Isabella, Duchess of Württemberg (1871-1904) and second Maria, Immacolata Princess of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1874–1906), |
| Maximilian Wilhelm August Albert Karl Gregor Odo | 17 November 1870 | 12 January 1951 | died unmarried, no issue |
| Albert Karl Anton Ludwig Wilhelm Viktor | 25 February 1875 | 16 September 1900 | died umarried, no issue |
Princess Maria Anna predeceased her father Ferdinand, her husband George, and her brother-in-law King Albert of Saxony. In 1902 George succeeded his childless brother as king, and on his death in 1904 Maria Anna's eldest son became King of Saxony as Frederick Augustus III.
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