A Surviving Crown Prince Joseph of Portugal

@Kynan: Wow, nice family tree. Just two questions, how do you contract a proxy marriage with a 6-year-old while your wife (her aunt) is still alive? And what do you mean by "never met in person" when the five children born from the marriage seem to imply otherwise? But otherwise I like it:D

The bride in question that applied to was Maria Amalia, not Maria Ludovica. An thank you :)
 
The bride in question that applied to was Maria Amalia, not Maria Ludovica. An thank you :)

You're welcome. And I think it would be plausible - if a touch icky, for José to marry Maria Ludovica and perhaps José III to marry her younger sister, the OTL Empress of Brazil. Although, Austria might not see the point in putting all its eggs in one basket. And would Portugal still be a catch by 1810?
 
@Kynan, would you mind perhaps extending the family tree as for José's aunts' alt-marriages to the Holy Roman Emperor Josef II and King Poniatowski? I'd try, but I'm not really good at this.
 
Joseph I of Portugal (b.1714: d.1777) m. Mariana Victoria of Spain (b.1718: d.1781) (a)
1a) Mary I of Portugal (b.1734: d.1816) (a) m. Peter III of Portugal
1a) Joseph II of Portugal (b.1761: d.1828) m. Benedita of Portugal (b.1746: d.1786) (a), Elisabeth of France (b.1764: d.1796) (b), Maria Amalia of Austria (b.1780: d.1798) (c) -by proxy in 1797, never met in person-, Maria Ludovica of Austria (b.1791: d.1847)
1a) Miscarriage (c.1781)

2a) Miscarriage (c.1786)

3b) John of Portugal (b.1791: d.1791)

4b) Joseph III of Portugal (b.1792)

5b) Maria Elisabeth of Portugal (b.1793)

6b) John of Portugal (b.1795: d.1796)

7b) Miscarriage (c.1796)

8d) John of Portugal (b.1811)

9d) Miscarriage (c.1813)

10d) Maria Emmanuella of Portugal (b.1816: d.1817)

11d) Catherine of Portugal (b.1818: d.1820)

12d) Maria Juliana of Portugal (b.1822)

2a) John of Brazanga (b.1762: d.1762)

3a) John Francis of Brazanga (b.1763: d.1763)

4a) John, Duke of Brazanga (b.1767) m. Carlota Joaquina of Spain (b.1775: d.1830) (a)
1a) Maria Theresa of Brazanga (b.1793)

2a) Francis Antony of Brazanga (b.1795: d.1801)

3a) Maria Isabel of Brazanga (b.1797)

5a) Peter, Duke of Brazanga (b.1798)

6a) Maria Francisca (b.1800)

7a) Isabel Maria (b.1801)

8a) Miguel of Brazanga (b.1802)

9a) Maria of Brazanga (b.1805)

10a) Anna de Jesus Maria of Brazanga (b.1806)

5a) Mariana Victoria of Brazanga (b.1768) m. Gabriel of Spain (b.1752) (a)
1a) Pedro Carlos of Spain (b.1786)

2a) Maria Carlota of Spain (b.1787)

3a) Carlos Jose of Spain (b.1788)

6a) Maria Clementina of Brazanga (b.1774: d.1776)

7a) Maria Isabel of Brazanga (b.1776: d.1777)

2a) Maria Anna Francisca of Portugal (b.1736: d.1805) m. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (b.1741: d.1790) (a)
1a) Miscarriage (c.1766)

2a) Maria Carolina of Austria (b.1769) - nun

3a) Stillborn Boy (c.1771)

4a) Maria Victoria of Austria (b.1774: d.1789) m. Franz II, Holy Roman Emperor (b.1768: d.1835) (a)
1a) Ludovica Elisabeth of Austria (b.1788)

2a) Maria Luisa of Austria (b.1788: d.1789)
5a) Maria Anna of Austria (b.1777: d.1779)
3a) Maria Doroteia of Portugal (b.1739: d.1798) m. Stanisław August Poniatowski, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (b.1732: d.1798) (a)
1a) Michael Poniatowski, King of Poland (b.1760: d.1832) m. Elisabeth of Wurttemberg (b.1767 d.1799) (a)
1a) Augustus Poniatowski, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (b.1791)

2a) Miscarriage (c.1792)

3a) Sophia of Poland (b.1795: d.1795)

4a) Hedwig of Poland (b.1795: d.1796)
2a) Stillborn Girl (c.1763)

3a) Maria Magdalena of Poland (b.1765: d.1790) m. Frederick I of Wurttemberg (b.1754: d.1816) (a)
1a) Miscarriage (c.1790)
4a) Hedwig of Poland (b.1770: d.1777)

5a) Stillborn Boy (c.1771)

6a) Sophia of Poland (b.1772) - abbess

7a) Miscarriage (c.1774)

8a) Miscarriage (c.1775)

9a) Miscarriage (c.1777)

10a) Stillborn Boy (c.1778)

11a) Stillborn Girl (c.1780)

12a) Miscarriage (c.1782)

4a) Benedita of Portugal (b.1746: d.1786) m. Joseph II of Portugal (b.1761: d.1828) (a)
1a) Miscarriage (c.1781)

2a) Miscarriage (c.1786)
 
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:) Thanks Kynan. Marry Maria Carolina of Austria off to Francis II and we're sorted (since I can't think Josef will marry her anywhere else). Poland looks interesting though.
 
:) Thanks Kynan. Marry Maria Carolina of Austria off to Francis II and we're sorted (since I can't think Josef will marry her anywhere else). Poland looks interesting though.

I went through and added some stuff. And I decided that Maria Carolina would be better off as a nun (due to her many deformities and general ill-health, which is something I've imagined for her), so Maria Victoria is the Holy Roman Empress.
 
From a biography on the "lovely" Carlota Joaquina, wherein a mention is made of Mme Élisabeth's possible marriage to Prince José:

During D.José's reign and under the firm hand of his Prime-Minister the Marquis of Pombal, Portugal stretched its alliance with Britain. It was a time when Portuguese and Spanish interests were completely opposite, with Spain following France against Britain namely in the Seven Years War.
After the king's death, his daughter D.Maria I approached Madrid, possibly influenced by her mother D.Maria Ana Victoria, Carlos III's sister.

Shortly after the king's death, Portugal and Spain signed the Treaty of San Ildefonso treaty, regulating their South American borders. One year later, in 1778, a new treaty - Treaty of Prado - aimed for a "more intimate and unbreakable friendship between the two countries".
It was the beginning for a true Iberian alliance.

To cement this new friendship, as always, a wedding project was dealt:
Infante D.João would marry Infanta Carlota Joaquina and Infante Gabriel of Spain would marry D.João's sister Infanta Maria Ana Victoria.

London and Versailles, who took for granted the discord of their two allies, were not happy and did all they could not to lose their influence. The French ambassador approached the heir to the throne Pr. D.José, Prince of Brazil, who was married to his aunt D. Maria Benedita, reproaching her for the fact that after all those years of marriage the couple remained childless, and induced him to ask for a divorce. In turn France would gladly agree that the Prince would marry Madame Elizabeth, Louis XVI's sister.

But the plan aborted as the Spanish ambassador, the count of Fernan Nuñez heard of it and ran to the the Princess of Brazil warning her of what the french ambassador was planning

His letter to Madrid reveals his purposes:
"We had to do all in our power, both in Lisbon and in other courts, to prevent the divorce or if that was not possible, that the Prince of Brazil would marry a Spanish Infanta".

The problem is that to married, they had to receive the Papal Dispensation, because they had parental ties too close for the Canon Law... so it would be a bit strange that before they asked for permission to get married and then after asked to annul the marriage...
It would be intriguing to think about how they could handle a possible heir mentally retarded and handicapped in the body ... the Prince Joao would have been Regent, as he was for his mother Maria I? that there would be implications? At the end everything would be as it happened in reality?

Also, apparently when the Vatican granted the dispensation for José's marriage to his aunt, they didn't dot all the i's and cross the t's, since the dispensation was granted for him to marry his cousin (which she was through his father), rather than his aunt (which she was through his mother). IDK if this oversight could be used as a reason to have the dispensation declared invalid.
 
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