| Country | Brazil |
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| Ancestral house | House of Orléans (France) House of Braganza (Portugal and Empire of Brazil) |
| Titles | Prince of Orléans-Braganza |
| Founder | Gaston of Orléans, Count d'Eu and Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil |
| Current head | Prince Luís of Orléans-Braganza (Vassouras branch) Prince Pedro Carlos of Orléans-Braganza (Petrópolis branch) |
| Founding | 1864 (year of the marriage between Dona Isabel of Braganza, Princess Imperial of Brazil, and Gaston of Orléans, count d'Eu), or 1875 (year of the born of the first Orléans-Braganza, Dom Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará), or 1909 (date of the creation of the title of Prince of Orléans-Braganza, even the title not being recognized by the royal House of France, with the title is inherently linked), or 1912 (when Dona Isabel of Braganza, now head of the Imperial House of Brazil - Empress of Brazil de jure -, died, and one of her children - therefore one Orléans-Braganza -, became the head of the Imperial House of Brazil) |
On September 7, 1822, Dom Pedro of Braganza, Prince Royal of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves, member of the House of Braganza, heir apparent to the Portuguese throne and the King's representative in Brazil, declared the country's independence from the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves and proclaimed himself Emperor of Brazil. The imperial title was officially bestowed upon him on October 12, 1822. This resulted in the Brazilian Declaration of Independence. In 1825, signing the treaty of Rio de Janeiro of this date, his father, King João VI, recognized the independence of the new state, the former Portuguese dominion, now Empire of Brazil.
Brazil, from 1530 to 1815 a colony of the Portuguese Empire, had been officially elevated to the status of United Kingdom (with Portugal) in 1815, in the reign of Queen Maria I of Portugal, by the Prince Regent Dom João of Braganza (future John VI). Between 1815 and 1822, the kingdom was known officially as the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves.
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The Empire of Brazil remained a constitutional monarchy until 1889 - when the republic was proclaimed after a military coup d'état, and had two reigning emperors, both from the House of Braganza:
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