Auguste de Beauharnais

Auguste Charles Eugène Napoléon de Beauharnais ( born December 9, 1810 in Milan, † March 28, 1835 in Lisbon ) was the 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg, 2nd Prince of Venice and Grand Duke of Frankfurt, as well as Duke of Santa Cruz and Prince Consort of Portugal.

Life

Auguste was the eldest son of Eugène de Beauharnais (1781-1824) and his wife Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1788-1851), daughter of the first Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph and his first wife Princess Auguste Maria Wilhelmine of Hesse- Darmstadt. He was the paternal grandson of Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of the French. After the fall of Bonaparte, his father got on 14 November 1817 by his father Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria the title of Duke of Leuchtenberg with the same name Landgrafentum and the Principality of Eichstätt awarded as caste domination. When his father died in 1824, he inherited the title.

On November 5, 1834 married Prince Auguste de Beauharnais by proxy in Munich and then in person on January 26, 1835 in Lisbon, the 15 -year-old Queen Maria II of Portugal ( 1819-1853 ), eldest daughter of Emperor Peter I of Brazil and his first wife Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria. After marriage he got the title of Duke of Santa Cruz and Prince Consort of Portugal awarded.

Two months later ill Auguste from angina and died on 28 March 1835 in Lisbon it. His death sparked great unrest in Lisbon, and the rest could be restored only by expending great effort. The Queen had to make about their own feelings, to suppress their pain and negotiate than just widow remarries reasons of state. Auguste was at the time of his death, childless. His younger brother Maximilian de Beauharnais was succeeded as 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg.

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