Pierre Gaston of Orleans-Bragance

Pierre of Alcântara Gaston Jean Marie Philippe Laurent Humbert Michel Gabriel Raphaël of Orleans-Bragance , “Prince de Grão Para”, was born on February 19th 1913, with the castle of Have, in Normandy. It is the chief of the connects of Petrópolis of the House of Orleans-Bragance and, as such, one of the two applicants to the throne of Brazil.

Family

Pierre Gaston of Orleans-Bragance is the first wire and the second child of Pierre d' Alcântara of Orleans-Bragance (1875-1940) and his wife Morganatique, the Czech countess Elisabeth Dobrzensky de Dobrzenicz (1875-1951).

Pierre-Gaston is thus, inter alia, the brother of Isabelle of Orleans-Bragance (1911-2002), “countess of Paris”, and Francoise of Orleans-Bragance (1914-1968), “duchess of Bragance”.

In 1944, Pierre-Gaston of Orleans-Bragance marries, in Seville, Espérance of Bourbon (1914-2005), princess of Deux-Siciles and sister of Marie of the Graces of Bourbon (1910-2000), countess of Barcelona.

From this union are born 6 children:

Pierre Charles of Orleans-Bragance (1945), which marries, in 1975, Rony Kuhn da Suza (1938-1979). Become widowed, this one marries, in second weddings, in 1981, Patricia Alexandra Brascombe (1964). From where posterity of the two marriages.

Maria da Gloria of Orleans-Bragance (1946), which marries, in 1972, Alexandre of Yugoslavia, and which she divorces in 1985. The same year, Maria da Gloria remarie with Ignacio de Medina there Fernandez de Cordoba (1947), duke of Segorbe. From where posterity of the two unions.

Alphonse-Edouard of Orleans-Bragance (1948]), which marries, in 1973, Maria Parejo (1954), and which he divorces in 2002. The same year, he marries Sylvie Amélie de Hungria Machado. From where posterity of the first marriage.

Manual of Orleans-Bragance (1949), which marries, in 1977, Marguerite Haffner (1945), and which he divorces in 1995. From where posterity.

Christine of Orleans-Bragance (1950), which Marie, in 1980 in Jean-Paul Sapicha-Rozanski (1935-1992), and which it divorces in 1992. In second weddings, she marries Jose Carlos Calmon de Brito, which she also divorces in 1996. From where posterity.

François Humbert of Orleans-Bragance (1956), which marries, in first weddings, in 1978, Christina Schmidt (1953), then, in second weddings, in 1980, Rita de Cássia Pires. From where posterity.

Biography

Like his brothers and sisters, Pierre-Gaston of Orleans-Bragance spends the first years of his childhood to Normandy, at the sides of his parents and his grandparents, the count and the countess of Have.

In fact, he visits for the first time Brazil at the 7 years age, in 1920, when the Loi of exile concerning its family is repealed by the president Epitácio Pessoa. Thereafter, Pierre-Gaston returns in his country in 1922, at the time of the festival of the centenary of the independence of Brazil.

He carries out then most of his studies in Europe. But, in 1936, it takes part with his sister Francoise in the forwarding which his/her father in the Mato Grosso organizes to come into contact with the indigenous tribes and to discover the still wild areas of his country.

Starting from the Second world war, Pierre-Gaston of Orleans-Bragance and his family leave France definitively and go back food to Brazil. And even if it is in Spain that he marries Espérance of Bourbon in 1944, Pierre-Gaston turns over thereafter to live in the country to which he estimates himself to be the “heir to the throne”.

Until the end of the years 1990, Pierre-Gaston of Orleans-Bragance directs the Real Company of Petrópolis, which manages the family inheritance of the former imperial family of Brazil.

Currently, it resides in the property of Orleans of Spain, with Villamanrique of Condesa.

Discusses

For part of the Brazilian monarchists and itself, Pierre Gaston of Orleans-Bragance is the “chief of the imperial House of Brazil” since the death of his father in 1940. However, this last had given up its dynastic rights by marrying a woman resulting from a nonsovereign family and always recognized its nephew, Pierre-Henri of Orleans-Bragance, like single “the heir to the Brazilian throne”. But Pierre Gaston of Orleans-Bragance considers this renunciation null and without legal authenticity.

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