Duke Miguel of Braganza and his family

Children of King Michael of Portugal and Princess Adelaide of Lowenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg:

*Maria das Neves m. Infante Alfonso of Spain, Duque de San Jaime.  No children.
*Michael m. 1.) Princess Elisabeth of Thurn und Taxis. children: Michael and Maria Theresa, m. 2.) Princess Theresa of Lowenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg. children: Isabel, Maria Anna, Duarte (father of present pretender), and Maria Adelaide.
*Maria Theresa m. Archduke Charles Louis of Austria. children: Maria Annunciata and Elisabeth.
*Maria Josepha m. Charles Theodore, Duke in Bavaria. children: Sophie, Elisabeth, Maria Gabriella, Ludwig Wilhelm.
*Maria Anna m. William, Grand Duke of Luxemburg. children: Adelaide, Charlotte, Hilda, Antoinette, Elisabeth, and Sophie.
*Maria Antonia m. Robert, Duke of Parma, as his second wife, and bore him the second dozen of his children, including the future Empress Zita of Austria.

There is a lovely portrait of Queen Adelheid as a young woman in Eduardo Nobre's book Familia Real as well as a picture of her with her husband and 2 eldest children. I am very sorry I have the book but no scanner. Maybe someone else has and could post the pics.

Later in life she became a nun...

Here's a pic

María de las Nieves. I'm no expert, but she seems to be wearing the Carlist attire (Carlists wore a red cap, like or similar to that one).



I wonder what the sisters were like? María de las Nieves seems to me to have posessed a very strong will.

Dom Miguel, born in 1853:

María Teresa, future Archduchess of Austria-Hungary, wife of Archduke Karl Ludwig.



She has a peaceful, somewhat childish look in her eyes... All sisters seem to me to have been very different from one another...

María Josefa, Duchess in Bavaria:

Adelgundes, Countess of Bardi; her husband Enrico was Roberto I of Parma's brother; while Roberto had 24 children (12 with his second wife, her sister), Adelgundes and Enrico never had any children (she is the only one of her siblings not to have had any children of her own).:

María Anna of Luxemburg. There is a thread dedicated to her beautiful daughters in the Benelux section.

María Antonia, duchess of Parma; she had twelve children with her sexually ardent husband, Roberto I of Parma, a VERY rich man who only lacked a land to reign over.



She had to become stepmother to her husband's nine children from his first marriage, six of whom were mentally retarded (check Italian section)

Miguel's sons-in-law:

Alfonso Carlos de Borbón, Duke of San Jaime:




Karl Ludwig, Archduke of Austria-Hungary:




Karl Theodor of Wittelsbach, Duke in Bavaria:




Enrico of Bourbon-Parma, Count of Bardi:




Willem IV of Luxemburg, Grand Duke of Luxemburg:




Roberto I of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma and Piacenza:

Portrait of Infanta Maria Theresa,later Archduchess of Austria...

The present Duke of Bragança is not only the legal heir of the Miguelist Branch but also the last King of Portugal. Through his mother he is a descendent of King Dom Pedro IV of Portugal earlier known as Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil.

In 1920, Dom Miguel resigned his dynastic rights in favour of his only son Dom Duarte Nuno by his wife Dona Theresa, daughter of Carl Prince von Lowenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg.

Two years later, in 1922, The Pact of Paris was signed by the representatives of both already married but heirless King Manuel II and Dom Duarte Nuno which resolved the future Headship of the Royal House of Portugal. The Pact of Paris stated:

It has been declared:

A. by the first signatory (for H.M. King Dom Manuel II) that His August Head in default of a direct heir will accept the successor indicated by the general Cortes of the Portuguese nation.

B. Equally he (H.M. King Dom Manuel II) will accept the resolution of the same Cortes as to the political constitution of the restored Monarchy.

C. With the agreement of the Holy See the religious question will be resolved by means of a diploma which is to be submitted to the Cortes.

By the second Signatory (for H.R.H. Dom Duarte Nuno) it was said before the proceeding Declaration His August Head (H.R.H. Dom Duarte Nuno) would ask and recommend to all His supporters that they would accept as King of Portugal Dom Manuel II, and that they would unite loyally under the same Flag that shelters Monarchists. That is the Flag of the Motherland and that Flag shall save Portugal.

In 1927, Dom Miguel died leaving Dom Duarte Nuno as the male heir of King Miguel I. Five years later, King Manuel II died without issue leaving Dom Duarte Nuno as the legitimate Chief of the Royal House of Bragança.

Dom Duarte Nuno married Princess Dona Maria Francisca of Brazil, the daughter of Dom Pedro Prince of Grão Para, in 1942. This union resulted in the birth of three sons: Dom Duarte Pio João Miguel Gabriel Rafael (the present Duke of Bragança), Dom Miguel Rafael Gabriel Xavier Teresia Maria Felix (the present Duke of Viseu) and Dom Henrique Nuno João Miguel (the present Duke of Coimbra). To conform to the Royal House Laws requiring royal princes to be born on Portuguese soil, all three sons were born inside of the Portuguese Embassy in Switzerland. The Royal Family was invited to return to Portugal in 1950 at the request of the benevolent dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar who was President of the Council of Ministers of the National Assembly of the Republic of Portugal (the legislative body which replaced the Cortes).

Dom Duarte Nuno died in 1976 leaving his eldest son Dom Duarte Pio João Miguel Gabriel Rafael de Orleans e Bragança as the Chief of the Royal House of Portugal and the Most Serene House Bragança. His godparents at Baptism were His Holiness Pope Pius XII and Her Majesty Queen Amelia, the widow of King Carlos I and mother of King Manuel II.

The full style and titles of Dom Duarte Pio are: His Royal Highness, the Most Serene Lord, Duke of Bragança, of Guimarães and of Barcelos, Marquis of Vila Viçosa, Count of Arraiolos, of Ourém, of Barcelos, of Faria, of Neiva and of Guimarães, Sovereign of the Royal Order of Saint Isabel, Grand Master of the Order of Our Lady of Conception of Vila Viçosa and Grand Master by Birth of the Order of Saint Michael of the Wing and Judge of the Royal Brotherhood of Saint Michael of the Wing.

David

As I do not know where else these pictures should be posted, the topic of Dom Miguel's family seems close enough. Below are the obverse and reverse of campaign medals awarded to soldiers who served King Dom Miguel I during the War of the Brothers also known as the Portuguese Civil War, 1831-1834.

Obverse:



Reverse: