Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Stephanie (Josepha Friederike Wilhelmine Antonia) (Portuguese: Estefânia) of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (15 July, 1837, Krauchenwies, Sigmaringen - 17 July, 1859, Lisbon) was Queen consort of Pedro V of Portugal.

Family

She was the eldest daughter of Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, Head of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and his wife Princess Josephine of Baden. Her maternal grandparents were Karl, Grand Duke of Baden and Stéphanie de Beauharnais.

She was also a younger sister of Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern and an older sister of Carol I of Romania.

Marriage

On 18 May, 1858, Stephanie married Pedro V of Portugal. Both bride and groom were a few months short of their twenty-first birthdays. However she fell ill with diphtheria and died only a year later. There were no children from this marriage. Her body was intruded at the Braganza Pantheon inside the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora in Lisbon.

Pedro never married again and died of cholera on 11 November, 1861. He was succeeded by his younger brother Luís I of Portugal.

Ancestry

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1= 1. Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
2= 2. Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
3= 3. Josephine of Baden
4= 4. Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
5= 5. Antoinette Murat
6= 6. Karl, Grand Duke of Baden
7= 7. Stéphanie de Beauharnais
8= 8. Anton Aloys, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
9= 9. Amalie Zephyrine of Salm-Kyrburg
10= 10. Peter Murat
11= 11. Louise d'Astorg
12= 12. Karl Ludwig, Hereditary Prince of Baden
13= 13. Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt
14= 14. Claude de Beauharnais
15= 15. Claude Françoise de Lezay

External links

* [http://genealogy.euweb.cz/hohz/hohenz12.html#SKA A listing of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen]