Infante Pedro Carlos of Spain and Portugal

Infante Pedro Carlos
Born	(1786-06-18)18 June 1786 Aranjuez, Kingdom of Spain
Died	Rio de Janeiro, Kingdom of Portugal
Spouse	Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira
Issue	Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain
Full name Pedro Carlos Antonio Rafael José Javier Francisco Juan Nepomuceno Tomás de Villanueva Marcos Marcelino Vicente Ferrer Raimundo
House	Bourbon-Braganza
Father	Infante Gabriel of Spain
Mother	Infanta Maria Ana Vitória of Portugal

Don Pedro Carlos (Pedro Carlos Antonio Rafael José Javier Francisco Juan Nepomuceno Tomás de Villanueva Marcos Marcelino Vicente Ferrer Raimundo; 18 June 1786 – 4 July 1812) was an Infante of Spain and Portugal.

Family

Infante Pedro Carlos was a son of Infante Gabriel of Spain and Infanta Maria Ana Vitória of Portugal. His paternal grandfather was King Charles III of Spain and his maternal grandfather was King Peter III of Portugal. Pedro Carlos was the only surviving child of the couple and an orphan at the age of two.

Life

His father, a very intelligent man, was King Charles III's favorite son, but he and his wife died in 1788 of Smallpox. When King Charles III also died the same year, his successor Charles IV of Spain sent the child away to Portugal, replying to Maria I of Portugal request. In fact, Queen Maria I was worried about the Braganza's succession and Pedro Carlos was, in that moment, her only grandchild. The child was raised there by his grandmother Maria I of Portugal. From this moment the little prince also became infante of Portugal.

Pedro Carlos had inherited a large fortune of his father and was welcomed in Portugal. In 1792, his grandmother was officially declared insane and her son John, uncle of Pedro Carlos, became Regent of Portugal.

When in 1807 the Portuguese royal family had to abandon Portugal because of the Franco-Spanish invasion led by Napoleon Bonaparte, Pedro Carlos left on November 29 on board the "Príncipe Real" with his grandmother and uncles for Brazil.

They arrived in Salvador de Bahía on January 2, 1808, and headed from there to Río de Janeiro, where the infante occupied the São Cristovão Palace.

Marriage

In Brazil Pedro Carlos was engaged to his cousin Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira, daughter of Carlota Joaquina of Spain and John VI of Portugal, and they married on May 13, 1810 in Rio de Janeiro.

The couple was very happy during their two years of marriage, after which Pedro Carlos became ill and died in Alto da Boa Vista on July 4, 1812.

The couple had one child:

• Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain, born in Río de Janeiro on November 4, 1811.

Ancestry

Family of Infante Pedro Carlos of Spain and Portugal

16. Louis, Dauphin of France               8. Philip V of Spain (=30)                       17. Maria Anna of Bavaria               4. Charles III of Spain                             18. Odoardo II Farnese               9. Elisabeth of Parma (=31)                       19. Dorothea Sophie of the Palatinate               2. Infante Gabriel of Spain                                   20. Augustus II the Strong               10. Augustus III of Poland                       21. Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth               5. Maria Amalia of Saxony                             22. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor               11. Maria Josepha of Austria                       23. Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick               1. Infante Pedro Carlos of Spain and Portugal                                         24. Peter II of Portugal               12. John V of Portugal (=28)                       25. Maria Sofia of the Palatinate               6. Peter III of Portugal                             26. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor               13. Maria Anna of Austria (=29)                       27. Eleonor Magdalene of the Palatinate               3. Infanta Maria Ana Vitória of Portugal                                   28. John V of Portugal (=12)               14. Joseph I of Portugal                       29. Maria Anna of Austria (=13)               7. Maria I of Portugal                             30. Philip V of Spain (=8)               15. Mariana Victoria of Spain                       31. Elisabeth of Parma (=9)

See also

• House of Bourbon-Braganza