Person noble foreign visitor
D. Amélia de Leuchtenberg, Imperatriz do Brasil
d. 1873
noble · foreign visitor
Empress of Brazil and widow of D. Pedro IV. She stayed in Funchal in 1852–53 with her daughter Princess D. Maria Amélia, who died there of tuberculosis, and that death led to the founding of the Hospício da Princesa D. Maria Amélia. The empress died in Lisbon in 1873.
1Mentioned in
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- Nóbrega (Januário Justiniano de) — Widowed Empress of Brazil whose visit to Madeira Nóbrega described in a posthumous book.
2Chronology
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Empress Amélia of Brazil and Princess Maria Amélia, who travelled on medical advice, arrived in Funchal aboard the frigate D. Fernando, accompanied by Dr Barral; the council named a street after the princess.
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Januário Justiniano de Nóbrega's account of the visit of the Empress of Brazil and of the hospice was published posthumously in Funchal, edited by João da Silva Carvalho.
3Places mentioned
Abroad