Maria Pia of Savoy
✶October 16, 1847
†July 5, 1911
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✶October 16, 1847
†July 5, 1911
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Dona Maria Pia was by birth an Italian princess of the House of Savoy and by marriage Queen of Portugal as the wife of King Luís I of Portugal. On the day of her baptism, Pope Pius IX, her godfather, gave her a Golden Rose. Maria Pia was married to Luís on 6 October 1862 in Lisbon. She was the grand mistress of the Order of Saint Isabel. She was the third queen of the House of Savoy on the Portuguese throne after Mafalda and Marie-Françoise of Savoy-Nemours.
Queen of Portugal from 1862 to 1889
Biography from the article Maria Pia of Savoy on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.