Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza
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Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza (born Pedro de Alcántara Gastão João Maria Felipe Lourenço Humberto Miguel Gabriel Raphael Gonzaga de Orléans e Bragança on 19th February 1913 in Eu, France) is the titular 6th Prince of Grão Pará, and head of the Petrópolis branch of the Brazilian Imperial House. Should Brazilians vote to restore the monarchy, he would be offered the crown.[1]
| Pretender: Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza | |
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| Born | 19th February 1913 |
| Regnal name claimed | None |
| Title(s) if any | Prince of Grao Para |
| Throne claimed | Brazil |
| Pretend from | {{{pretend from}}} |
| Monarchy abolished | 1889 |
| Last monarch | Pedro II |
| Connection with | Great Grandson |
| Royal House | House of Orléans-Braganza |
| Father | Prince Pedro de Alcantara of Orléans-Braganza |
| Mother | Countess Elisabeth Dobrženský z Dobrženicz |
He spent his youth in Eu and at his family's Parisian home in the Boulogne sur Seine suburb: "I have very good memories of my grandparents...In exile in France I was always brought up thinking of Brazil not France or Portugal."[2]
He represents a rival claim to that of his cousin's son, Prince Luiz of Orleans-Braganza, to be the heir of the deposed Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, despite the renunciation signed by his father in 1908 when he married, without dynastic approval, a Bohemian noblewoman.
In 1945 Pedro relinquished to his sister Princess Maria Francisca of Orléans-Braganza and her heirs his claim to the title Duke of Braganza. The title had been created in 1816 in favor of his great-great-grandfather Emperor Pedro I of Brazil. It had, in fact, been claimed and used in exile as a title of pretence by the Miguelist pretenders to the Portuguese throne since 1834. It is currently borne by the eldest son of Francesca by her late husband, Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza.
[edit] Marriage and Children
He married Infanta Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, a daughter of Infante Carlos of Sicily and Princess Louise of Orléans-Paris, on 18 December 1944 in Seville, Spain, and had six children:
- Prince Pedro Carlos of Orléans-Braganza (born 31 October 1945)
- Princess Maria da Gloria of Orléans-Braganza (born 13 December 1946)
- Prince Alfonso Duarte of Orléans-Braganza (born 25 April 1948)
- Prince Manoel Alvaro of Orléans-Braganza (born 17 June 1949)
- Princess Cristina Maria of Orléans-Braganza (born 16 October 1950)
- Prince Francesco Humberto of Orléans-Braganza (born 9 December 1956)
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Forefathers - John VI of Portugal - Queen Carlota Joaquina First generation - Pedro I - Empress Leopoldina - Princess Amélie of Leuchtenberg Fourth generation - Prince Luiz of Orleans-Braganza - Princess Maria Pia Fourth generation - Prince Pedro de Alcantara of Orléans-Braganza - Countess Elisabeth Dobrzensky |
