Royal male consorts in Portugal

This article is about the Royal Male Consorts in Portugal, which includes both the Princes Consort and the Kings Consort.
According to the Portuguese tradition the title granted to the consort of a reigning Queen was Prince Consort and only after the birth of an heir, his title was upgraded to King Consort.
A particularity in Portugal is that the Kings consort have a reigning name and they are numbered, as shown by the examples of Peter III (Queen Maria I husband) and Ferdinand II (Queen Maria II husband).
In this list of Portuguese reigning Queens it is included not only the two female monarchs who irrefutably were Heads of the Monarchy, queen Maria I and queen Maria II, as well as disputed monarchs such as Teresa of León (a de facto queen) and Beatrice of Portugal (a de jure queen).
Irrefutable Reigning Queens of Portugal and their consorts
Queen Maria I consort (18th century)
Peter of Braganza (1717-1786) was the second son of king John V of Portugal. He was Infante of Portugal and Lord of the House of Infantado.
Once his older brother, King Joseph I, only had female offspring, Peter married his oldest niece, Maria Francisca, Princess of Brazil, in 1760. The Branganza continuity was assured avoiding the inconvenience of a foreigner consort.
When King Joseph I died in 1777, Maria Francisca was proclaimed Queen of Portugal as Maria I and her consort and uncle, was proclaimed king Consort as Peter III, once their first child, Joseph of Braganza, was already born in 1761.
It is known the Marquis of Pombal project to avoid that princess Maria Francisca would succeed his father in the throne. King all mighty minister would have preferred as monarch Maria's older son (Joseph, Prince of Beira, once Maria and the Queen mother were totally against Pombal's politics and they never forgave him for the ruthlessness he displayed against the nobility. But the plan failed and upon Maria and Peter accession to the throne, the new Queen loathed Pombal.
Queen Maria II consorts (19th century)
*Auguste de Beauharnais (1810-1835)
When Emperor Pedro I of Brazil decided to remarried, following his first wife death, the chosen bride was Amélia of Leuchtenberg, daughter of Eugène de Beauharnais. The bride was escorted to South America by his older brother, Auguste, who was created by his new brother-in-law, Duke of Santa Cruz (on 5 November 1829).
Five years later, in December 1834, Auguste became Pedro I's step son, when he was chosen to marry the Emperor's older daughter, the queen Maria II of Portugal. Auguste and Maria II were married by proxy in Munich on 1 December 1834 and later in person in a ceremony in Lisbon, on 26 January 1835, when Auguste officially became the Prince Consort. However Auguste died only two months later, childless, and he never became King Consort.
*Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1816-1885)
On 1 January 1836, Queen Maria II married Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, to whom it was granted the title of Prince Consort. Ferdinand became King Fernando II, on 16 September 1837, upon the birth of their first child (the future Peter V of Portugal), an heir to the throne.
According to the Portuguese laws, the husband of a queen regnant could only be titled king after the birth of any child from that marriage (that was the reason the Queen's first husband, Auguste de Beauharnais, did not have that title).
Ferdinand II reign came to end with the death of his wife, in 1853, but he was regent for his son Peter V (who was only 16 years old) until 1855.
In 1869, 16 years after queen Maria II decease, Ferdinand married morganatically Elise Hensler, a Swiss-German opera singer who was made Countess d'Edla (a Saxe-Coburg title granted by Ernest II in order she could married the former king).
Disputed Reigning Queens of Portugal and their consorts
Queen Beatrice consort (14th century)
When King Ferdinand I of Portugal die in 22 October 1383, his queen dowager, Leonor Telles de Menezes, assumed the regency of the kingdom and, according to the Treaty of Salvaterra, she proclaimed their only daughter, Beatrice, as Queen of Portugal. On 17 May 1383, Beatrice was married to king John I of Castile and, following King Ferdinand's death 5 months later, he became a de jure royal consort.
However the couple's authority was highly challenged, leading to a period of war and politically undefined known as the 1383-1385 Crisis, and nor Beatrice was a de facto Queen, neither John of Castile was a de facto royal Consort.
However, it should be referred that, as queen of Portugal, Beatrice minted her own currency in Santarém: some Real coins with her own image and, in the reverse, the coat of arms of Portugal and of Castile.
According to "Crónica de el-rei D. João I" (Chronicle of King John I), by Fernão Lopes, as soon as the king of Castile heard about the death of his father-in-law, Ferdinand I of Portugal, he included the Portuguese coat of arms in his personal flag, putting it under the coat or arms of Castile and Leon (see this flag on the right).
Tradition says that when the procession, leaded by the Archbishop of Toledo, left the Cathedral with the new flag, a stormy wind just rip apart the flag in two, separating the signs of the two kingdoms. Immediately, people said that it was God's will that Portugal colours could never be under those of Castile .
The royal couple's claim to the Portuguese throne was definitely abandoned following their defeated at the battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385. Beatrice became a widow in 1390 and she died in 1408 in Madrigal, Castile.

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