Infante Alexandre of Portugal

Infante Alexandre
Born(1723-09-24)24 September 1723
Ribeira Palace, Lisbon, Portugal
Died2 August 1728(1728-08-02) (aged 4)
Ribeira Palace, Lisbon, Portugal
Burial
Names
Portuguese: Alexandre Francisco José António Nicolau de Bragança
English: Alexander Francis Joseph Anthony Nicholas
HouseHouse of Braganza
FatherJohn V of Portugal
MotherMaria Anna of Austria

Infante Alexandre of Portugal (Alexandre Francisco José António Nicolau; English: Alexander Francis Joseph Anthony Nicholas, 24 September 1723 – 2 August 1728) was a Portuguese infante, the sixth and last child of King John V of Portugal and his wife Maria Anna of Austria.

Biography

Born on 24 September 1723 in the Ribeira Palace, in Lisbon, the infante was baptized on 6 December as Alexandre Francisco José António Nicolau de Bragança.

In his short life, he revealed an advanced intelligence for his age, through his prompt and ingenious observations, as described by the genealogist António Caetano de Sousa.

He died in the same Palace where he was born on 2 August 1728, at the age of 4, victim of smallpox. He is buried in the Royal Pantheon of the House of Braganza.

Ancestry


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