Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal (1843–1884)

Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal
Crown Princess of Saxony
Spouse	George of Saxony
Issue
Princess Maria Johanna Princess Elisabeth Princess Mathilde Frederick Augustus Princess Maria Josepha Prince Johann Georg Prince Maximilian Prince Albert
Full name
Portuguese: Maria Ana Fernanda Leopoldina Micaela Rafaela Gabriela Carlota Antónia Júlia Vitória Praxedes Francisca de Assis Gonzaga de Saxe-Coburgo-Gotha e Bragança
House	House of Braganza-Saxe-Coburg and Gotha House of Wettin
Father	Ferdinand II of Portugal
Mother	Maria II of Portugal
Born	21 August 1843(1843-08-21) Lisbon
Died	5 February 1884(1884-02-05) (aged 40) Dresden
Burial	Katholische Hofkirche
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Infanta Maria Ana of Portugal (or of Braganza; Portuguese pronunciation: [mɐˈɾiɐ ˈɐnɐ]; 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, 21 August 1843 – Dresden, 5 February 1884) was a Portuguese infanta (princess), 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.

Life

Marriage

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:

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 1932	married Princess Louise of Tuscany (1870–1947), later divorced, had issue
Maria Josepha Luise Philippine Elisabeth Pia Angelica Margarethe	31 May 1867	28 May 1944	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 Duchess Maria Isabella of Württemberg (1871–1904) and second Princess Maria Immaculata 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.

Ancestry

Persondata
Name	Maria Anna Of Portugal, Infanta
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	21 August 1843
Place of birth	Lisbon
Date of death	5 February 1884
Place of death	Dresden