Fernando II of Portugal : biography
Dom Fernando II (English: Ferdinand II) (29 October 1816 – 15 December 1885), was King of Portugal as husband of Queen Dona Maria II of Portugal from the birth of their son in 1837 to her death in 1853.
In keeping with Portuguese law, only after the birth of his son in 1837 did he acquire the title of King. His reign came to end with the death of his wife in 1853, but he was regent for his son Dom Pedro V to 1855. He was born a German prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Marriages and descendants
Fernando II married Maria II, Queen-regnant of Portugal, daughter of King Dom Pedro IV (and also Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil). Later in his life, after the death of Maria, he married in Lisbon on 10 June 1869 actress Elisa HenslerSister of Anton Hensler, children of Jean Conrad Hensler (Röschitz, c. 1797 – Vienna, 14 April 1872) and wife Josephe Hechelbacher (Wallerstein, c. 1805 – aft. 1872), paternal grandchildren of Michael Hensler and wife Katharina Prauneis and maternal grandchildren of Karl Hechelnbacher and wife Theresia Schretzmayer. (Neuchâtel, 22 May 1836 – Lisbon, Coração de Jesus, 21 May 1929), created Gräfin von Edla, without issue.She had a daughter by an unknown father named Alice Hensler (Paris, 25 December 1855 – Lisbon, Benfica, 18 June 1941), who married in Lisbon, Alcântara, on 30 September 1883 Portuguese Navy Officer Azorian Manuel de Azevedo Gomes (Pico, São Roque do Pico, Santo Amaro, 19 October 1848 – Cascais, São Domingos de Rana, Casa das Pedras, 14 July 1907), by whom she had issue.
He outlived eight of his eleven children.
Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
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By Maria II of Portugal (4 April 1819 – 15 November 1853; married on 9 April 1836) | |||
Pedro V | 16 September 1837 | 11 November 1861 | Who succeeded his mother as Peter V, the King of Portugal. |
Luís I | 31 October 1838 | 19 October 1889 | Who succeeded his brother Peter as the King of Portugal. |
Infanta Maria | 4 October 1840 | 4 October 1840 | |
Infante João | 16 March 1842 | 27 December 1861 | Duke of Beja. Died of cholera in 1861. |
Infanta Maria Ana | 21 August 1843 | 5 February 1884 | Married King George of Saxony and was mother of King Frederick August III of Saxony, and grandmother of Charles I, the last Emperor of Austria. |
Infanta Antónia | 17 February 1845 | 27 December 1913 | Married Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Singmaringen and was the mother of King Ferdinand I of Romania. |
Infante Fernando | 23 July 1846 | 6 November 1861 | Died of cholera in 1861. |
Infante Augusto | 4 November 1847 | 26 September 1889 | Duke of Coimbra. |
Infante Leopoldo | 7 May 1849 | 7 May 1849 | |
Infanta Maria da Glória | 3 February 1851 | 3 February 1851 | |
Infante Eugénio | 15 November 1853 | 15 November 1853 | |
Notes
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Later life
In 1869 he rejected an offer to assume the throne of Spain.