Princess Maria da Gloria, Duchess of Segorbe

Princess Maria da Gloria, Duchess of Segorbe
Maria da Glória
Марија да Глорија
Duchess of Segorbe
Spouse Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia (m. 1972; div. 1985)
Ignacio de Medina y Fernández de Córdoba, Duke of Segorbe (m. 1985)
Issue
Peter, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia
Prince Philip of Yugoslavia
Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia
Sol de Medina y Fernández de Córdoba
Luna de Medina y Fernández de Córdoba
Father Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza
Mother Princess Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Born 13 December 1946 (1946-12-13) (age 64)
Brazilian Imperial Family
(Petrópolis branch)
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This box: view · Serbian: Марија да Глорија од Орлеана и Браганце born 13 December 1946) is a distant member of the Brazilian Imperial Family and the wife of the Duke of Sergorbe. She is also the former wife of Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia.[1]

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Life and marriages

Born at Petrópolis, Brazil, she is the daughter of Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza (1913–2007) and Princess Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1914–2005). She is the first cousin of King Juan Carlos I of Spain, whose mother was the Duchess's mother's sister.

On 1 July 1972, she married first at Villamanrique de la Condesa, near Seville, Spain, Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia. They divorced on 19 February 1985. She has three sons from her first marriage:

On 24 October 1985, she married secondly at Seville, Spain, Ignacio de Medina y Fernández de Córdoba, 19th Duke of Segorbe, son of Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli. With him, she has two daughters:

  • Sol de Medina Orléans-Braganza y Fernández de Córdoba, 54th Countess of Ampurias (born 1986), heiress apparent to the Dukedom of Segorbe
  • Luna de Medina Orléans-Braganza y Fernández de Córdoba, 17th Countess of Ricla (born 1988)

Ancestry

The Duchess of Sergorbe is a matrilineal 9th-generation descendant of Marie Leszczyńska, Queen consort of France, through an almost-three-century-long unbroken line of eight Bourbon princesses who all married into their own house.

Zofia Czarnkowska → Catherine Opalińska, Queen of Poland → Marie Leszczyńska, Queen of France → Louise Élisabeth of France, Duchess of Parma → Maria Luisa of Parma, Queen of Spain → Maria Isabella of Spain, Queen of the Two Sicilies → Maria Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Queen of Spain → Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain, Duchess of Montpensier → Princess Marie Isabelle d'Orléans, Countess of Paris → Princess Louise d'Orléans, Princess of the Two Sicilies → Princess Maria de la Esperanza of the Two Sicilies, Princess of Orléans-Braganza → Princess Maria da Gloria of Orléans-Braganza, Duchess of Segorbe.

She is also a descendant of many kings and emperors. Through her father she is a 2nd great-granddaughter of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil and a 3rd great-granddaughter of King Francis I of the Two Sicilies. Through her mother she is a 2nd great-granddaughter of King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, 3rd great-granddaughter of King Ferdinand VII of Spain, and 4th great-granddaughter of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor. Via her father, as well her mother, she is through multiple lines a 3rd great-granddaughter of King Louis Philippe I of the French.

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Titles in pretence
Vacant
Title last held by
Alexandra of Greece and Denmark
— TITULAR —
Queen consort of Yugoslavia
1 July 1972– 1985
Reason for succession failure:
Kingdom abolished in 1945
Vacant
Title next held by
Katherine, Crown Princess of Yugoslavia
Preceded by
Princess Maria Isabel
Petrópolis Line of succession to the Brazilian throne
13th position
Succeeded by
Princess Cristina

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