House of Orléans-Braganza
| House of Orléans-Braganza Casa de Orleães-Bragança |
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House of Orléans House of Braganza |
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| Founded | 1864 |
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Isabel of Braganza, Princess Imperial of Brazil and Prince Gaston of Orleans, Count of Eu |
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Vassouras branch: Prince Luiz of Orléans-Braganza Petrópolis branch: Prince Pedro Carlos of Orléans-Braganza |
| Ethnicity | Brazilian, French |
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Brazilian Imperial Family (Vassouras branch) |
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Brazilian Imperial Family (Petrópolis branch) |
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The House of Orléans-Braganza (Portuguese: Casa de Orleães-Bragança) is a imperial and royal house, of French and Brazilian origin. It is a cadet branch of the House of Orléans, of France, and the House of Braganza, of Portugal and Brazil. The house was founded with the marriage between Isabel of Braganza, Princess Imperial of Brazil, and Prince Gaston of Orléans, Count of Eu. The house was never a reigning house, as Brazil's pure Braganza monarch, Pedro II, was deposed in 1889. The House's members are the current claimants to the Brazilian throne since 1921 as part of the Imperial House of Brazil. The house is also the second in the Orleanist line of succession to the French royal throne
On 1864, the Emperor Pedro II of Brazil was looking for a match to his daughters. The Emperor's sister, Princess of Joinville suggested her nephews, Prince Gaston, Count of Eu, and Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, both grandsons of King Louis Philippe of France, as suitable choices for the imperial princesses. The two young men traveled to Brazil in August 1864 so that the prospective brides and grooms could meet before a final agreement to the marriage. Isabel and Leopoldina were not informed until Gaston and August were mid-Atlantic. Arriving in early September, Gaston described the princesses as "ugly", but thought Isabel less so than her sister. For her part, Isabel in her own words "began to feel a great and tender love" for Gaston.[65] The two couples: Gaston and Isabel; August and Leopoldina; were engaged on 18 September. On 15 October 1864 at Rio de Janeiro, Prince Gaston married Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil and heiress of the Empire.
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