Maria Anna of Portugal

Infanta Maria Ana of Portugal (or of Braganza) (pron. IPA2|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:

Children

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.