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Biography

Born at the Imperial Palace

Paço de São Cristóvão

Paço de São Cristóvão is a palace located in the Quinta da Boa Vista park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the former residence of the Emperors of Brazil...

 of Saint Christopher, her youngest brother was the future Pedro II of Brazil

Pedro II of Brazil

Dom Pedro II , nicknamed "the Magnanimous", was the second and last ruler of the Empire of Brazil, reigning for over 58 years. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he was the seventh child of Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil and Empress Dona Maria Leopoldina and thus a member of the Brazilian branch of...

. As such, she was the aunt of Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil

Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil

Dona Isabel , nicknamed "the Redemptress", was the heiress presumptive to the throne of the Empire of Brazil, bearing the title of Princess Imperial....

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She was also a first cousin of Princess Maria Carolina of the Two Sicilies, Napoleon II of France

Napoleon II of France

Napoléon II , after 1818 known as Franz, Duke of Reichstadt, was the son of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, and his second wife, Marie Louise of Austria...

 and Franz Joseph I of Austria

Franz Joseph I of Austria

Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I was Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, King of Croatia, Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Galicia and Lodomeria and Grand Duke of Cracow from 1848 until his death in 1916.In the December of 1848, Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria abdicated the throne as part of...

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Francisca married François d'Orléans

Prince François, Prince of Joinville

François-Ferdinand-Philippe-Louis-Marie d'Orléans, prince de Joinville was the third son of Louis Philippe, duc d'Orléans, afterwards king of the French and his wife Marie Amalie of Bourbon-Sicilies. He was notable as an admiral of the French Navy.-Life:He was born at the Château de Neuilly, in...

, the third son of Louis Philippe I

Louis-Philippe of France

Louis Philippe I was King of the French from 1830 to 1848 in what was known as the July Monarchy. His father was a duke who supported the French Revolution but was nevertheless guillotined. Louis Philippe fled France as a young man and spent 21 years in exile, including considerable time in the...

 and his Italian Queen Maria Amalia of Naples. François, called the prince de Joinville, and Francisca married in Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

 on 1 May 1843. The bride was 19, the groom 25.

Their only daughter Princess Françoise d'Orléans married her first cousin Robert, Duke of Chartres

Robert, Duke of Chartres

Prince Robert Philippe Louis Eugène Ferdinand of Orléans, Duke of Chartres was the son of Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans and thus grandson of King Louis-Philippe of France. He fought for the Union in the American Civil War, and then for France in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War...

 and became the mother of the Orléanist pretender Prince Jean, Duke of Guise. It is unknown whether her son Pierre ever married, even though he lived in his seventies.
When the Orléans family fled France, they settled in England living at Claremont

Claremont (country house)

Claremont, also known historically as 'Clermont', is an 18th-century Palladian mansion situated less than a mile south of Esher in Surrey, England...

; It was there that Francisca gave birth to a still born daughter in 1849; the next year, the exiled King Louis Philippe I died himself. During the rule of the House of Bonaparte of the Second Empire

Second French Empire

The Second French Empire or French Empire was the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, between the Second Republic and the Third Republic, in France.-Rule of Napoleon III:...

, the Orléans family returned to France; Francisca herself died in Paris aged 73. Her husband outlived her by two years dying in Paris in 1900.

Issue

• Princess Françoise-Marie Amélie of Orléans
  Princess Françoise of Orléans (1844–1925)
  Françoise of Orléans was a member of the House of Orléans and by marriage Duchess of Chartres.-Princess of Orléans:...
  
   (14 August 1844 – 28 October 1925) married her cousin Robert d'Orléans and had issue;
• Prince Pierre-Philippe Jean Marie of Orléans, Duke of Penthièvre (4 November 1845 – 17 July 1919) never married;
• Princess Marie-Léopoldine of Orléans (30 October 1849) stillborn daughter born and died at Claremont
  Claremont (country house)
  Claremont, also known historically as 'Clermont', is an 18th-century Palladian mansion situated less than a mile south of Esher in Surrey, England...
  
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Ancestry

Titles and styles

• 2 August 1824 – 1 May 1843 Her Imperial and Royal Highness
  Imperial and Royal Highness
  Imperial and Royal Highness is a style possessed by someone who either through birth or marriage holds two individual styles, Imperial Highness and Royal Highness....
  
  Princess Francisca of Brazil, Infanta of Portugal.
• 30 May 1837 – 27 March 1898 Her Imperial and Royal Highness
  Imperial and Royal Highness
  Imperial and Royal Highness is a style possessed by someone who either through birth or marriage holds two individual styles, Imperial Highness and Royal Highness....
  
  The Princess of Joinville
  Princess of Joinville
  -House of Vaudémont, 1417-1551:- House of Guise, 1551/2-1641:-House of Guise, 1654-1688:-House of Bourbon, 1654-1693:-House of Orléans, since 1693:-See also:*Duchess of Aumale*Duchess of Mayenne*Duchess of Lorraine*Duchess of Guise*Duchess of Orléans...
  
  , Princess of Orléans, Princess of Brazil.

See also