Infante António of Portugal


Infante António of Portugal was a Portuguese infante, the third surviving son of Peter II, King of Portugal, and his wife Maria Sophia of Neuburg.

Life

António Francisco Xavier Benedito Teodósio Leopoldo Henrique was born in Lisbon on March 15, 1695.

Death

He died unmarried and without legitimate issue in the same city on October 20, 1757 and is buried at the Royal Pantheon of the Braganza Dynasty, in Lisbon. Through his natural son, Duarte, he is an ancestor of famous Brazilian lawyer and writer José de Alencar.

Ancestry