Infante Alexandre | |||||
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Born | Ribeira Palace, Lisbon, Portugal | 24 September 1723||||
Died | 2 August 1728 Ribeira Palace, Lisbon, Portugal | (aged 4)||||
Burial | Royal Pantheon of the House of Braganza, Lisbon, Portugal | ||||
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House | House of Braganza | ||||
Father | John V of Portugal | ||||
Mother | Maria 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.[1]
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.[2]
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.[2]
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.[2]