This is a list of Brazilian regents, a regent, from Latin regens, "one who reigns", is a person selected to act as head of state (ruling or not) because the ruler is a minor, not present, or debilitated.The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term as "A person appointed to administer a State because the Monarch is a minor, is absent or is incapacitated."
Reign of Maria I Portrait Name Regency start Regency end Regent during the incapacitation of Queen Maria I.John, Prince of Brazil16 December 181520 March 1816Death of Queen Maria I.
Reign of John VI Portrait Name Regency start Regency end Regent after King John VI left Brazil.Pedro, Prince Royal22 April 182112 October 1822Independence of Brazil.
Reign of Pedro II Regents during the minority of Emperor Pedro II The regencies took place from 1831 to 1840, between the abdication of Pedro I of Brazil until the majority of Pedro II legally declared by the Senate at the age of 14 on July 23, 1840. Portrait Name Regency start Regency end Provisional Triumviral RegencyFrancisco de Lima e SilvaNicolau VergueiroJosé Carneiro de Campos7 April 183118 June 1831 Permanent Triumviral RegencyFrancisco de Lima e SilvaJoão Bráulio MunizJosé da Costa Carvalho18 June 183112 October 1835 Regency of Priest FeijóDiogo Antônio Feijó12 October 183518 September 1837 Regency of Araújo LimaPedro de Araújo Lima19 September 183723 July 1840
Women heads of state during the Empire In addition to the regencies listed above, two other people held the Head of State of Brazil during the imperial period, Maria Leopoldina and Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil. D. Leopoldina who acted as regent in 1822 and had a great influence on Brazil's independence process, having been responsible for signing the decree that separated Brazil from Portugal.
D. Isabel, heir presumptive to the throne, who was Regent of Brazil in various periods (1870–1871, 1876–1877 and 1887–1888) while her father, Emperor Pedro II, performed foreign visits. During her last regency she sanctioned on 13 May 1888, the Golden Law (Imperial Law n.º 3.353), which was the law that extinguished slavery in Brazil, considered a great milestone in the history of Brazil.
Portrait Women regents MonarchMaria Leopoldina of AustriaPedro I of BrazilIsabel, Princess Imperial of BrazilPedro II of Brazil
See also Regency List of regents President of Brazil Prime Minister of Brazil Monarchy of Brazil Regency period (Empire of Brazil)
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