Infanta Maria das Neves of Portugal

Infanta Maria das Neves
Photographed in c. 1877
Consort of the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne and the Legitimist claimant to the French throne
Pretence	2 October 1931 – 29 September 1936
Born	(1852-08-05)5 August 1852 Kleinheubach
Died	15 February 1941(1941-02-15) (aged 88) Vienna, Nazi Austria
Burial	Puchheim Castle
Spouse	Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime ​ ​ (m. 1871; died 1936)​
Names Portuguese: Maria das Neves Isabel Eulália Carlota Adelaide Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Gonzaga de Paula de Assis Inês Sofia Romana
House	Braganza
Father	Miguel I of Portugal
Mother	Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg

Infanta Maria das Neves of Portugal (Portuguese: Maria das Neves Isabel Eulália Carlota Adelaide Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Gonzaga de Paula de Assis Inês Sofia Romana, Infanta de Portugal) (5 August 1852 – 15 February 1941) was the eldest child and daughter of exiled Miguel I of Portugal and Adelaide of Löwenstein.^[1]

Maria das Neves was born in Kleinheubach, an Infanta of Portugal and member of the House of Braganza by birth. She was the eldest daughter of the former Infante Miguel I of Portugal and Princess Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg. Like her siblings, she was born in exile in the German Empire, as her father had been deposed and perpetually banished from Portugal following the Liberal Wars and the signing of the Convention of Evoramonte.

Disregarding the claims of her two half-sisters legitimized by Miguel I and born during his effective reign, Maria Assunção de Bragança and Maria de Jesus de Bragança, she assumed the position of heiress to her father's claim to the throne of Portugal until the birth of her brother, Miguel Januário de Bragança. During this time, she claimed the title of "Princess Royal of Portugal" (de jure), though it was a title of pretense given her father's deposition in 1834.

Her family included much of Europe's royalty; her paternal grandparents were King John VI of Portugal and Infanta Carlota Joaquina of Spain. She was the niece of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil, and a first cousin of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil and Queen Maria II of Portugal. Through her marriage to Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime, the Carlist claimant to the Spanish throne, Maria was also the titular Queen consort of Spain, France, and Navarre.

Maria married Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime, second son of Infante Juan, Count of Montizón and his wife Archduchess Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este, on 26 April 1871 in Kleinheubach.^[1] Alfonso Carlos was her first cousin once removed, as Maria's father (Miguel I of Portugal) and his paternal grandmother (Infanta Maria Francisca of Portugal) were siblings. Their union produced only a son who died some hours after his birth, in 1874. They were unable to have more children and died childless.^[1] Maria died in Vienna, Austria, aged 88.

• Descendants of Miguel I of Portugal