Potential brides for Dom Afonso of Brazil?

ByzantineCaesar

ByzantineCaesar

Let's say Dom Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil (b. 1845), survives his childhood and grows to be a healthy man. Aside from the political ramifications a male heir would have on the Emperor, who could be potential consorts for the next monarch?

Afonso is from the House of Bragança. His mother was a Sicilian Bourbon and (paternal) grandmother an Austrian Habsburg.
 

Emperor Constantine

Well there are many choices so here's a list
Princess Marguerite Adélaïde Marie of Orléans- in OTL her brother married the princess Imperial Maria Pia of the Two Sicilies- Dom Alfonso's first cousin, and related to the ruling houses of France and Spain
Infanta Antónia of Portugal- first cousin on Fathers side, could go far to reuniting the Brazilian and Portuguese Branches of the House of Braganza
Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, an archduchess, daughter of the Archduke of Teschen so she would have a large dowryI'll look for more later.
 
ByzantineCaesar

ByzantineCaesar

Emperor Constantine said:
Well there are many choices so here's a list
Princess Marguerite Adélaïde Marie of Orléans- in OTL her brother married the princess Imperial Maria Pia of the Two Sicilies- Dom Alfonso's first cousin, and related to the ruling houses of France and Spain
Infanta Antónia of Portugal- first cousin on Fathers side, could go far to reuniting the Brazilian and Portuguese Branches of the House of Braganza
Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, an archduchess, daughter of the Archduke of Teschen so she would have a large dowryI'll look for more later.
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Good list, I had forgotten about Maria Theresa. But Marguerite's brother Gaston de Orléans, the Count of Eu, married Princess Imperial Isabel and was actually the father in law of Maria Pia, the wife of Prince Dom Luiz Maria. Here are other candidates as well:

Princess Maria Luise von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, OTL wife of the Count of Flanders and mother of King Albert I of Belgium.

Teresa von Wittelsbach, daughter of Prince Regent Leopold of Bavaria.
 

Gonzaga

IOTL who arranged the marriages of princesses Isabel and Leopoldina was their aunt Francisca, who was married to François, Prince of Joinville. Probably her influence wouldn't be changed ITTL. So, his bride would more likely be an Orleans or a Saxe-Coburg daugther of Prince August. Here some options:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Clotilde_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Amalie_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Marguerite_Adelaide_of_Orléans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Marie_Isabelle_d'Orléans
 
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