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Prince Pedro Gastão
Titular Prince of Orléans-Braganza
Pedro Gastão with his paternal grandfather, Gaston of Orléans during First World War.
Head of the Imperial House of Brazil (disputed)
Reign29 January 1940 – 27 December 2007
SuccessorPrince Pedro Carlos of Orléans-Braganza
Born19 February 1913
Eu, Seine-Maritime, France
Died27 December 2007(2007-12-27) (aged 94)
Villamanrique de la Condesa, Seville, Spain
SpousePrincess Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
IssuePrince Pedro Carlos
Princess Maria da Gloria
Prince Alfonso Duarte
Prince Manuel Álvaro
Princess Cristina Maria
Prince Francisco Humberto
Names
Pedro de Alcântara Gastão João Maria Filipe Lourenço Humberto Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga de Orléans e Bragança
HouseHouse of Orléans-Braganza
FatherPrince Pedro de Alcântara of Orléans-Braganza
MotherCountess Elisabeth Dobržensky de Dobrženicz
Styles of
Prince Pedro Gastão
Reference styleHis Imperial and Royal Highness
Spoken styleYour Imperial and Royal Highness
Alternative styleSir

Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza (born Pierre-d’Alcantara Gaston Jean Marie Philippe Laurent Hubert d’Orléans et Bragance ; in Portuguese, Pedro de Alcântara Gastão João Maria Filipe Lourenço Humberto Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga de Orléans e Bragança e Dobrzensky de Dobrzenicz) (19 February 1913 – 27 December 2007)[1] was one of two claimants to the Brazilian throne and head of the non-dynastic Petrópolis branch of the Brazilian Imperial House.[2]

Biography

Prince Pedro Gastão was the son of Prince Pedro de Alcântara of Orléans-Braganza and his morgantic wife Countess Elisabeth Dobržensky de Dobrženicz. He was born in Eu, France. He spent his youth in Europe 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."[3]

A few years before his death Pedro Gastão’s father Prince Pedro de Alcântara told a Brazilian newspaper:

“My resignation was not valid for many reasons: besides, it was not a hereditary resignation.”[4]

Following the death of his father supported by Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria and Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona he declared himself head of the Imperial Family of Brazil.[4] His position was supported by Francisco Morato the professor of the faculty of Law at the University of São Paulo who concluded the resignation of Pedro Gastão’s father was not a valid legal or monarchical act[citation needed]. Professor Paulo Napoleão Nogueira da Silva in the 1990s published a report saying that the resignation of his father was invalid under all possible aspects of Brazilian Law.[4]

He represented a rival claim to that of his cousin's son, Prince Luiz of Orléans-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.[5]

Pedro Gastão died aged 94 on 27 December 2007.

Marriage and children

He married Princess Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1914–2005), a daughter of Prince Carlos of the Two Sicilies and Princess Louise of Orléans, on 18 December 1944 in Seville, Spain, and had six children:[6]

  • Prince Pedro Carlos of Orléans-Braganza (born 31 October 1945), succeeded to his father's claim as Emperor on 27 December 2007.
  • Princess Maria da Gloria of Orléans-Braganza (born 13 December 1946), former Crown Princess of Yugoslavia.
  • Prince Alfonso Duarte of Orléans-Braganza (born 25 April 1948)
  • Prince Manuel Álvaro of Orléans-Braganza (born 17 June 1949)
  • Princess Cristina Maria of Orléans-Braganza (born 16 October 1950)
  • Prince Francisco Humberto of Orléans-Braganza (born 9 December 1956)

Ancestors

Family of Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza
16. Louis-Philippe of the French
8. Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours
17. Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies
4. Prince Gaston, Count of Eu
18. Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
9. Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
19. Maria Antonia Koháry de Csábrág
2. Prince Pedro de Alcântara of Orléans-Braganza
20. Pedro I of Brazil
10. Pedro II of Brazil
21. Maria Leopoldina of Austria
5. Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil
22. Francis I of the Two Sicilies
11. Teresa of the Two Sicilies
23. Maria Isabella of Spain
1. Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza
24. Count Johann Wenzel Dobrzensky de Dobrzenicz
12. Count Johann Nepomuk Dobrzensky de Dobrzenicz
25. Maria Anna Pergler von Perglas
6. Count Johann Dobrzensky de Dobrzenicz
26. Josef Joachim Wanczura von Rzehnicz
13. Maria Friederike Wanczura von Rzehnicz
27. Maria Friederike La Motte von Frintropp
3. Countess Elisabeth Dobržensky de Dobrženicz
28. Count Josef Johann Kottulinsky von Kottulin
14. Count Josef Kottulinsky von Kottulin
29. Josefa Katzianer von Katzenstein
7. Countess Elisabeth Kottulinsky von Kottulin
30. Franz Anton von Attems-Heiligenkreuz
15. Adelheid von Attems-Heiligenkreuz
31. Countess Ernestine Khuen of Belasi of Lichtenberg and Gandegg

References

  1. ^ Morre na Espanha dom Pedro Gastão de Orléans e Bragança
  2. ^ Handler, Bruce (5 March 1989). "Brazil to Decide on Return of Monarchy". Los Angeles Times: 34.
  3. ^ Bailey, Anthony (January 1998). "Dom Pedro and the lost empire". Royalty: 54–59.
  4. ^ a b c Bodstein, Astrid (2006). "The Imperial Family of Brazil". Royalty Digest Quarterly (3). Archived from the original on 16 October 2007. Retrieved 28 December 2007.
  5. ^ Archived 2006-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Genealogy of Prince Pedro Gastão
Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza
Cadet branch of the House of Orléans
Born: 19 February 1913 Died: 27 December 2007
Titles in pretence
Preceded by
—
 — TITULAR —
Emperor of Brazil
Petrópolis pretender to the Brazilian throne
29 January 1940 – 27 December 2007
Reason for succession failure:
Empire abolished in 1889 		Succeeded by

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