The Younger Brother
Godhand Void
Banned
Prince Pedro of Portugal was a willful young man, and his early life in Rio de Janeiro, away from the big battles happening in Europe, gave rise to a strong desire to take part in great events. When the Pernambucan Revolution came in 1817, defying the rule of this father in the Americans, the young Prince jumped to the chance to fulfil his role as a martial leader, the same way as the man he was so keen to emulate did in Europe, Napoleon Bonaparte.
While his marriage to the Archduchess of Austria, daughter of the last Holy Roman Emperor, was already arranged, the ceremony by proxy having already taken place in Vienna, this didn’t prevent the young prince from convincing his indecisive father to allow him to accompany the Kingdom’s troops to Recife to crush the revolt.
A decision the old monarch would regret.
While the revolt was dutifully and swiftly crushed by the Crown’s troops, Portuguese and Brazilian alike, Prince Pedro of Portugal, the Crown Prince of the United Kingdom of Brazil, Portugal and Algarves, perished from a wound infection after confronting the rebels during the taking of Recife, another would-be monarch butchered by liberal iron in an already troubled epoch.
The news of the death of the heir of the Portuguese Empire created shockwaves through the whole Empire, from Rio de Janeiro to Lisbon. His father, grieving the loss of his eldest son, cracked down with extreme brutality on the leaders of the revolt, executing men like Frei Caneca, Cipriano Barata and Manoel de Carvalho, among many which held liberal sympathies in the Kingdom of Brazil.
In Lisbon, while the liberal fervour was already starting to boil together with the resentment for the continuous presence of the monarch in Rio de Janeiro, the death of the Heir apparent at the hands of the republican rebels would considerable stain the constitutional movement in the European homeland.
Most important of all, the death of Pedro would make way for his younger brother, Dom Miguel, who different from his older brother, was closer to his mother Carlota Joaquina than to his father the king. Miguel would be officially declared heir of the United Kingdom soon after the death of his brother, and his marriage to the recently widowed Princess Leopoldina, who had never even meet her deceased husband, would take place a few months after her arrival in Rio de Janeiro, to respect her official mourning period.
While Dom Pedro held sympathies for liberalism and held Napoleon in great esteem, even while being an enemy of the Bragança, Dom Miguel was much more conservative in his political ideals, being an adherent of the old regime, disdainful of parliaments and liberal ideas, and a great admirer of Metternich, a position which would only by confirmed by the death of his brother at the hands of the republican dogs.
While his marriage to the Archduchess of Austria, daughter of the last Holy Roman Emperor, was already arranged, the ceremony by proxy having already taken place in Vienna, this didn’t prevent the young prince from convincing his indecisive father to allow him to accompany the Kingdom’s troops to Recife to crush the revolt.
A decision the old monarch would regret.
While the revolt was dutifully and swiftly crushed by the Crown’s troops, Portuguese and Brazilian alike, Prince Pedro of Portugal, the Crown Prince of the United Kingdom of Brazil, Portugal and Algarves, perished from a wound infection after confronting the rebels during the taking of Recife, another would-be monarch butchered by liberal iron in an already troubled epoch.
The news of the death of the heir of the Portuguese Empire created shockwaves through the whole Empire, from Rio de Janeiro to Lisbon. His father, grieving the loss of his eldest son, cracked down with extreme brutality on the leaders of the revolt, executing men like Frei Caneca, Cipriano Barata and Manoel de Carvalho, among many which held liberal sympathies in the Kingdom of Brazil.
In Lisbon, while the liberal fervour was already starting to boil together with the resentment for the continuous presence of the monarch in Rio de Janeiro, the death of the Heir apparent at the hands of the republican rebels would considerable stain the constitutional movement in the European homeland.
Most important of all, the death of Pedro would make way for his younger brother, Dom Miguel, who different from his older brother, was closer to his mother Carlota Joaquina than to his father the king. Miguel would be officially declared heir of the United Kingdom soon after the death of his brother, and his marriage to the recently widowed Princess Leopoldina, who had never even meet her deceased husband, would take place a few months after her arrival in Rio de Janeiro, to respect her official mourning period.
While Dom Pedro held sympathies for liberalism and held Napoleon in great esteem, even while being an enemy of the Bragança, Dom Miguel was much more conservative in his political ideals, being an adherent of the old regime, disdainful of parliaments and liberal ideas, and a great admirer of Metternich, a position which would only by confirmed by the death of his brother at the hands of the republican dogs.
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