(Redirected from Auguste Charles Eugène Napoléon de Beauharnais)'Auguste (Charles Eugène Napoléon) de Beauharnais, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg' (
9 December,
1810 -
28 March,
1835) was the first
Prince consort of
Maria II of Portugal.
Family
Born in
Milan,
Lombardy, he was the eldest son of
Eugène de Beauharnais and
Princess Augusta Amalia Ludovika Georgia of Bavaria. His maternal grandparents were
Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and his first wife
Marie Wilhelmine Auguste Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt.
His maternal grandmother Marie Wilhelmine Auguste was a daughter of Georg Wilhelm of Hesse-Darmstadt, younger son of
Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.
He was also a brother of
Josephine of Leuchtenberg,
Queen consort of
Oscar I of Sweden.
Duke of Leuchtenberg
His maternal grandfather Maximilian of Bavaria appointed Eugène de Beauharnais, 1st Duke of Leuchtenberg on
14 November,
1817. The title came with the effective administration of the Principality of
Eichstätt. Auguste was named "Prince of Leuchtenburg" and as the eldest son became the heir to his father.
Eugène died on
21 February,
1824 and Auguste became the second Duke of Leuchtenberg at this point. A decade later, Maria II of Portugal had been restored on her throne. She negated her betrothal to her own paternal uncle
Miguel of Portugal and sought a more suitable husband. She settled on Auguste.
Prince Consort of Portugal
Auguste and Maria II were married by proxy in
Munich on
1 December,
1834. The groom was almost twenty-four years old and the bride only fifteen years old. Auguste was named Duke of Santa Cruz on the date of this marriage.
He arrived in Portugal shortly there after and the couple were married in person in a new ceremony. The ceremony took place in Lisbon on
26 January,
1835 and Auguste officially became the Prince Consort. However Auguste fell ill and died only two months later.
Auguste was childless at the time of his death. His younger brother became
Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg as his successor. A year later Maria II married
Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, a son of
Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 4th Prince of Kohary, who would become her second Prince Consort and later her
King Consort.
External links
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A Beauharnais geneology
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A listing of the Ducal family of Leuchtenberg
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