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Ferdinand II around age 24, standing next to a bust of King Pedro IV, c. 1840 According to Portuguese law, the husband of a queen regnant could only be titled king after the birth of an heir from that marriage; this was the reason Maria II's first husband, Auguste de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg , never acquired the title of king.
Urraca of Portugal (Portuguese pronunciation:; 1148 – 1211) was the queen of León from 1165 until 1175 as the wife of King Ferdinand II. She was the daughter of the first Portuguese king, Afonso I, and the mother of Alfonso IX. After her marriage to Ferdinand was annulled, the former queen became a nun.
King Ferdinand II and the Countess of Edla, c. 1882. Elise, Countess of Edla (born Elise Friederike Hensler; 22 May 1836 – 21 May 1929) was a Swiss-born American soprano, and the morganatic second wife of the former King Ferdinand II of Portugal.
Ferdinand was born in Coimbra, the second but eldest surviving son of Peter I and his wife, Constanza Manuel. [2] [3] On the death of Peter of Castile in 1369, Ferdinand, as great-grandson of Sancho IV by his grandmother Beatrice, laid claim to the vacant Castilian throne.
The husband of a Portuguese queen regnant could only be titled king after the birth of any child from that marriage. Portugal had two princes consort – Auguste de Beauharnais, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg and Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – both consorts to Maria II. The first one died leaving his wife childless, and therefore never became ...
Queen María Luisa (wife of King Charles IV), née Princess Maria Luisa of Parma; 1816-1818: 2nd Grand Mistress and 101st Dame. Queen Maria Isabel (2nd wife of King Ferdinand VII), née Infanta Maria Isabel of Portugal; 1819-1829: 3rd Grand Mistress and 180th Dame.
When Ferdinand I died, a succession crisis occurred between 1383 and 1385. Ferdinand's daughter Beatrice of Portugal was proclaimed queen and her husband John I of Castile proclaimed king by the right of his wife. Her legitimacy as a monarch is disputed. [1] [2]
Beatrice (Portuguese: Beatriz, pronounced [bi.ɐˈtɾiʃ]; 7–13 February 1373 – c. 1420) was the only surviving legitimate child of King Ferdinand I of Portugal and his wife, Leonor Teles. She became Queen consort of Castile by marriage to King John I of Castile.