Pierre of Orleans-Bragance

The prince Pierre d' Alcantara Louis Philippe Marie Gaston Michel Gabriel Raphaël Gonzague of Orleans-Bragance , prince of the Grão-Para then prince of Orleans-Bragance, was born on October 15th 1875 in Petropolis and is deceased in this same city on January 29th 1940. He was the heir apparent to the Brazilian imperial throne then the chief of the Branche of Petropolis of the House of Orleans-Bragance.

Family

Dom Pierre of Orleans-Bragance is the oldest son of Isabelle de Bragance (1846-1921), imperial princess of Brazil and several times Régente of his country, and her husband Gaston of Orleans (1842-1922), count of Have.

November 14th, 1908, Pierre contracts a union (disapproved by Isabelle de Bragance) with the Czech countess Elisabeth Dobrzensky de Dobrzenicz (1875-1951), girl of the count Jean Wenceslas Dobrzensky de Dobrzenicz and of his wife the countess Elisabeth Kottulinsky de Kottulin.

From this union (disapproved by claiming with the throne) are born five children:

Isabelle of Orleans-Bragance (1911-2003), “princess of Orleans-Bragance”, which marries in 1931 Henri of Orleans (1909-1999), “count de Paris” and applicant orleanist with the throne of France. From where eleven children.

Pierre Gaston of Orleans-Bragance (1913), “prince of Orleans-Bragance” and, of its own boss, “imperial prince of Brazil”, which marries in 1944 Spanish the Espérance of Bourbon (“Bourbon-Siciles”) (1914-2005). From where six children.

Francoise of Orleans-Bragance (1914-1968), “princess of Orleans-Bragance”, which marries, in 1942, Edouard de Bragance (1907-1976), “duke of Bragance”. From where three children.

Jean of Orleans-Bragance (1916-2005), “prince of Orleans-Bragance”, which marries, in 1949, Fatima Scherifa Chirine (1923-1990), which he divorces in 1971. In 1990, it remarie with Teresa Leite (1929). From where a child of the first marriage.

Therese of Orleans-Bragance (1919-1957), “princess of Orleans-Bragance”, which marries Ernest Martorell there Caldero (1921-1985). From where posterity.

In France, Pierre of Orleans-Bragance east thus the grandfather of current the “count de Paris”, Henri of Orleans (1933-).

Biography

Dom Pierre of Orleans-Bragance, then prince of the Grão-Para, passes his childhood to the Palate Isabelle (current Palais Guanabara), with Rio de Janeiro, the Brésil. He and his/her younger brothers, dom Louis and dom Antoine, are then surrounded by a cloud of tutors, whose chief is the baron de Ramiz Galvão.

But, on November 15th, 1889, a coup d'etat takes place against the emperor Pierre II and its daughter, the regent Isabelle. The republic is proclaimed and, little time after, the deposed sovereigns is condemned to the exile in Europe. Dom Pierre is then 14 years old and the events to which it assists mark it deeply.

In Europe, the imperial family is established initially in Portugal, then in France, with the castle of Have, property of prince Gaston. Thereafter, Pierre of Orleans-Bragance leaves to make his studies and his military service in Austria. It is there that it meets that which will become his wife, the Czech countess Elisabeth Dobrzensky de Dobrzenicz.

Elisabeth is not resulting from a sovereign House, which displeases with the Isabelle princess who, as “a Chief of the Imperial House”, disapproves what she regards as a misalliance.

The Isabelle princess decides despite everything to authorize the marriage of the two in love ones. However, it places a condition at the celebration of the marriage: renunciation by Pierre of his rights to the crown of Brazil. In front of the stubbornness of his mother, prince Pierre accepts and abdicates then his dynastic rights in favor of his younger brother, the prince Louis (1908). It is then decided that Pierre of Orleans-Bragance will lose his title of prince of Brazil but will preserve his predicate of imperial and royal highness and its quality of elder of the imperial House of Brazil. It will receive moreover the title of prince of Orleans-Bragance. As for his/her children to be born, they will carry the predicate of royal highness as well as the title of prince or princess of Orleans-Bragance.

After the abolition of the Law of exile by the president of the Brazilian Republic Epitácio Pessoa in 1920, prince Pierre carries out several voyage of hunting in its native land. Accompanied by his secretary, the journalist and Austrian photographer Mario Baldi, the prince carries out, in 1926-1927, one of the most famous voyages from the time: a long-distance car trek of 4.000 km enters Bolivia and the town of Rio, on almost impracticable roads. Of this forwarding, one preserved several reports published by Mario Baldi in newspapers and reviews illustrated Brazilian and European. Many photographs were also taken during this voyage and they form the collection Mario Baldi today, of the secretariat to the culture of Teresopolis.

In 1936, prince Pierre sets out again, during several months, in forwarding in the Sertão with two of his children, Pierre-Gaston and Francoise, his secretary, Mario Baldi, a friend, Georges Sampaio, and a missionary French, the father Hippolyte Chauvelon. This time, the voyage consists of the discovery of the indigenous tribes of the Mato Grosso and the review " In Noite Illustrada" publish several photoreportages of Mario Baldi. In the years 1930, the prince and his family definitively turn over to live in Brazil, in the palate of Grão-Pará, in Petrópolis. It then becomes a figure impossible to circumvent of the commemorations and other local ceremonies.

It is in the town of Petrópolis that prince Pierre dies at the 65 years age. Its body is initially buried in the local cemetery, where it is buried with the honors of a Head of State. But, in 1990, its remainders and those of his wife are transferred in the Imperial Mausoleum from the cathedral from São Pedro de Alcântara. The prince thus rests today at the sides of the tombs of his parents and grandparents.

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