Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Queen of Portugal from 1858 to 1859

Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Stephanie c. 1858

Queen consort of Portugal
Tenure| 18 May 1858 – 17 July 1859

Born| 15 July 1837
Krauchenwies, Sigmaringen, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Died| 17 July 1859(1859-07-17) (aged 22)
Necessidades Palace, Lisbon, Portugal
Burial|

Pantheon of the Braganzas

Spouse|

Pedro V of Portugal

(m. 1858)​

| Names

German: Stephanie Josepha Friederike Wilhelmine Antonia
Portuguese: Estefânia Josefa Frederica Guilhermina Antónia
House| Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Father| Charles Anthony, Prince of Hohenzollern
Mother| Princess Josephine of Baden
Signature|

Stephanie Josepha Friederike Wilhelmine Antonia of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (Portuguese: Estefânia; 15 July 1837 – 17 July 1859) was Queen of Portugal from her marriage to King Peter V on 18 May 1858 until her death the following year.

## Family

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Born in Krauchenwies Castle in Krauchenwies, Sigmaringen, in 1837, Stephanie was the eldest daughter of Prince Karl Anton 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, adopted daughter of Napoleon.

She was also a younger sister of Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern, older sister of King Carol I of Romania, and aunt of King Albert I of Belgium.

## Marriage

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Stephanie married King Peter V of Portugal by proxy on 29 April 1858 at St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin, where her eldest brother Leopold stood in for the groom. She was then married in person on 18 May 1858 at the Church of St. Dominic in Lisbon. Both bride and groom were a few months short of their twenty-first birthdays. Stephanie was received with much luxury and wrote home that the Portuguese understood luxury better than dignity. During her short period as queen, she became known for her role in founding new hospitals.

There were no children from this marriage. Stephanie fell ill with diphtheria and died only a year later in Lisbon at the age of 22. Her body was interred at the Braganza Pantheon inside the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora in Lisbon.[1]

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

## Archives

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Stephanie's letters from Portugal to her mother, Josephine of Baden, between 1858 and 1859 are preserved in the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family archive, which is in the State Archive of Sigmaringen (Staatsarchiv Sigmaringen) in the town of Sigmaringen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.[2]

Stephanie's letters from Portugal to her brother, Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, between 1858 and 1859 are also preserved in the State Archive of Sigmaringen (Staatsarchiv Sigmaringen).[3]

## References

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1. ^ Edmund Lodge (1872). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing ... Hurst & Blackett. p. 54.
2. ^ "Korrespondenz der Königin Stephanie von Portugal, geb. Prinzessin von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen". Staatsarchiv Sigmaringen. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
3. ^ "Korrespondenz der Königin Stephanie von Portugal, geb. Prinzessin von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen". Staatsarchiv Sigmaringen. Retrieved 2 October 2021.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.

* Marek, Miroslav. "A listing of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen". Genealogy.EU.

Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Cadet branch of the House of Hohenzollern

Born: 15 July 1837 Died: 17 July 1859

Portuguese royalty
Preceded by

Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
as prince consort

|  Queen consort of Portugal
18 May 1858 – 17 July 1859  | Succeeded by

Maria Pia of Savoy

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* Maria Pia of Savoy (1862–1889)
* Amélie of Orléans (1889–1908)

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Princesses of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha by marriage

1st generation|

* Princess Maria Antonia Koháry of Csábrág and Szitnya*
* Princess Louise of Orléans

2nd generation|

* Princess Alexandrine of Baden
* Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom
* Maria II, Queen of Portugal and the Algarves
* Princess Clémentine of Orléans
* Archduchess Marie Henriette of Austria**
* Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen**

3rd generation|

* Princess Alexandra of Denmark***
* Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia***
* Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia***
* Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont***
* Princess Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
* Princess Maria Pia of Savoy
* Princess Louise of Belgium
* Princess Leopoldina of Brazil
* Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma
* Princess Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz
* Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria**

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* Princess Victoria Mary of Teck***
* Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife***
* Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg***
* Princess Amélie of Orléans
* Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria
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* Princess Giovanna of Savoy
* Princess Astrid of Sweden**
* Lilian Baels**

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* Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth
* Princess Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern
* Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela
* Fabiola de Mora y Aragón
* Paola Ruffo di Calabria**
* Léa Wolman**

6th generation|

* Miriam Ungría y López
* María del Rosario Nadal y Fuster de Puigdórfila
* Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz**
* Claire Coombs**

7th generation|

* Kelly Rondestvedt^

* *princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld by marriage until 1826
* **also a princess of Belgium by marriage
* ***also a British princess by marriage
* ^did not have a royal or noble title by birth

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