Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza
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Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza (19 February 1913 – 27 December 2007)[1] was the Head of the Petrópolis branch of the House of Orléans-Braganza and a claimant to the defunct Brazilian throne in opposition to the Vassouras branch claim led by his cousins Princes Pedro Henrique and Luiz.[2]
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Prince Pedro Gastão | |||||
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Head of the Imperial House of Brazil (disputed) | |||||
Reign | 29 January 1940 – 27 December 2007 | ||||
Successor | Prince Pedro Carlos | ||||
Born | 19 February 1913 Eu, Seine-Maritime, France | ||||
Died | 27 December 2007(2007-12-27) (aged 94) Villamanrique de la Condesa, Seville, Spain | ||||
Spouse |
Princess Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
(m. 1944; died 2005) | ||||
Issue | Prince Pedro Carlos Princess Maria da Glória Prince Afonso Prince Manuel Princess Cristina Prince Francisco | ||||
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House | Orléans-Braganza | ||||
Father | Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará | ||||
Mother | Countess Elisabeth Dobrzensky of Dobrzenicz |
Pedro Gastão was born during the exile of the Brazilian Imperial Family, being the second child and first son of Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará, sometime heir to the throne of the Empire of Brazil, and Countess Elisabeth Dobrzensky of Dobrzenicz. Never having accepted his father's 1908 renunciation as valid, he actively claimed the Brazilian throne from his father's death in 1940 until his own in 2007.
Pedro Gastão was also uncle to the pretenders to the thrones of Portugal (Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza) and France (Henri, Count of Paris) and grandfather to the heir apparent to the defunct Yugoslav throne (Philip, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia).