Infante Fernando | |
Full Name: | Fernando Maria Luís |
House: | House of Braganza |
Father: | Fernando II of Portugal |
Mother: | Maria II of Portugal |
Birth Date: | 23 July 1846 |
Birth Place: | Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal |
Death Place: | Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal |
Burial Place: | Royal Pantheon of the Braganza Dynasty |
Infante Fernando of Portugal (Fernando Maria Luís de Saxe-Coburgo-Gotha e Bragança; 23 July 1846 - 6 November 1861) was the fourth son of Queen Maria II of Portugal and King-consort Fernando II and a member of the House of Braganza.
Fernando was born in Lisbon on 23 July 1846. He was a lieutenant in the Fifth Battalion of Caçadores, and received the Grand Cross of the Order of Our Lady of the Conception of Vila Viçosa. Along with two of his brothers, King Pedro V and Infante João, Duke of Beja, Fernando died of typhoid fever or cholera in late 1861.[1] He was buried in the Royal Pantheon of the Braganza Dynasty.