Maria II

Maria II

▪ queen of Portugal
in full  Maria Da Glória  
born April 4, 1819, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
died Nov. 15, 1853, Lisbon, Port.

      queen of Portugal (1834–53).

      Maria was the daughter of Peter I of Brazil, IV of Portugal, who, on inheriting both countries from his father, entered a conditional abdication of Portugal in her favour (1826). His plan was that she should marry his younger brother Michael, who would accept and apply Peter's constitution, the Charter. But Michael seized power, declaring himself king; and only upon abdicating the Brazilian empire (1831) was Peter able to proceed to Europe, occupy the island of Terceira in the Azores, and launch an expedition to conquer the mainland in Maria's name. He seized Porto (Oporto) and took Lisbon in 1834, when Michael went into exile. Peter died (September 1834), and Maria was declared of age at 14. She was married and widowed almost at once; with her second husband, Ferdinand (Ferdinand II) of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, she had 11 children.

      Maria regarded her father's Charter as the guarantee of her throne and depended on the Charter's champion, the duque de Saldanha. Her reign was marked by struggles between moderates and conservatives on the one hand, who supported the principle of constitutional monarchy established by the Charter, and democratic and radical elements on the other hand, who sought to reinstate an earlier, more democratic constitution. The conflict was not resolved until Saldanha, at the head of the reform movement known as the Regeneration, modified the Charter with the Additional Act (1852). This remained the Portuguese constitution until 1910.

      Maria died in childbirth, leaving the throne to her eldest son, Peter V, to whose education she had devoted much care.

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