Marie-Therese de Bragance

Marie-Therese de Bragance , born in 1855 and died in 1944 is the girl of Michel Ier of Portugal and Adelaide de Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg. In 1873, it married already twice Charles-Louis de Habsbourg 22 years its elder widowed and father.

From this union was born:

  • Annonciade of Habsbourg-Lorraine (1876-1961), religious

Having and noble-hearted woman, orphan of father at 11 years, having received a demanding catholic education (his/her mother will die religious), become many mother at 18 years hardly, it dealt with the children of her husband (of which the elder one only eight years old less than it was) with much of devotion, knowing to gain their confidence and their affection.

Widow in 1896, profiting from the confidence and the regard of her brother-in-law the emperor François-Joseph, it supported her beautiful son François-Ferdinand at the time of her marriage morganatic and this one did not lose its rights to the throne. (1900). After the assassination with Sarajevo the June 28th 1914 of the archduke François-Ferdinand of Austria and Sophie Chotek, Duchess of Hohenberg, Marie-Therese de Bragance collected their orphan children. In 1916, it will go even until requiring - vainly of Guillaume II the re-establishment of the sovereignty of the Lorraine with " Max" the elder one of wire of François-Ferdinand and Sophie like duke, in order to level the Franco-German dispute.

In the same way, it gave its support for the new emperor Charles Ier (grandson of its husband) whom it followed in exile to Madeira and accompanied until its premature end (1922). She had a diploma for the occupation of nurse.

Sources

  • Genealogies of the kings and the princes of Jean-Charles Volkmann Edict. Jean-Paul Gisserot (1998)

  • "Charles of Austria, the last empereur." Dugast-Rusted Michel, roots, Brussels (2003).

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