Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza
Head of the Imperial House of Brazil (disputed) · France · On the map · Lived 1913 to 2007 · aged 94
Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza was a Brazilian prince and dynastic claimant who served as head of the Petrópolis branch of the House of Orléans-Braganza.
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Prince Pedro Gastão with his grandfather Gaston, Count of Eu, 1915.
Pedro Gastão along with his sisters Isabelle (to his right) and Teresa Teodora, among others, at the exhibition of the coffin of their ancestor, Emperor Pedro I of Brazil, at the Palace of São Cristóvão in Rio de Janeiro, 1972
Pedro's eldest daughter: Princess Maria da Gloria of Orléans-Braganza, Duchess of Segorbe, former Crown Princess of Yugoslavia.Awards
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From 1940 until his death, he claimed the symbolic headship of the former Brazilian throne, in opposition to the rival claim of the Vassouras branch led by his cousins Pedro Henrique and later Luiz.