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Infante Alexandre of Portugal

Infante Alexandre of Portugal

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Infante Alexandre of Portugal (Alexandre Francisco José António Nicolau; English: Alexander Francis Joseph Anthony Nicholas, 24 September 1723 – 2 August 1728) was a Portuguese infante, the sixth and last child of King John V of Portugal and his wife Maria Anna of Austria.[1]

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Biography

Born on 24 September 1723 in the Ribeira Palace, in Lisbon, the infante was baptized on 6 December as Alexandre Francisco José António Nicolau de Bragança.[2]

In his short life, he revealed an advanced intelligence for his age, through his prompt and ingenious observations, as described by the genealogist António Caetano de Sousa.[2]

He died in the same Palace where he was born on 2 August 1728, at the age of 4, victim of smallpox. He is buried in the Royal Pantheon of the House of Braganza.[2]

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References

  1. "Biografias - Alexandre Francisco de Bragança". monarquiaportuguesa.blogs.sapo.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-07-21.
  2. Sousa, António Caetano de (1735–1749). Historia genealogica da Casa Real Portugueza (PDF) (in Portuguese). Lisbon. pp. 373–376.
  3. Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 13.



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