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.[1]

Reign of Maria I

Image Name Regency start Regency end
Regent during the incapacitation of Queen Maria I.
John 16 December 1815 20 March 1816
Death of Queen Maria I.

Reign of John VI

Image Name Regency start Regency end
Regent after the King John VI left Brazil.
Pedro 22 April 1821 12 October 1822
Accession as Emperor 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.

Image Name Regency start Regency end
Provisional Triumviral Regency
Francisco de Lima e Silva
Nicolau Vergueiro
José Carneiro de Campos		 7 April 1831 18 June 1831
Permanent Triumviral Regency
Francisco de Lima e Silva
José da Costa Carvalho
João Bráulio Muniz		 18 June 1831 12 October 1835
Regency of Priest Feijó
Diogo Antônio Feijó 12 October 1835 18 September 1837
Regency of Araújo Lima
Pedro de Araújo Lima 19 September 1837 23 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.

Image Women Regents Monarch
Maria Leopoldina of Austria Pedro I of Brazil
Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil Pedro II of Brazil

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 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."
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