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Duarte Pio was born on 15 May 1945 in Bern, Switzerland, as the first of three sons of Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, and Princess Maria Francisca of Orléans-Braganza. Duarte Pio uses a full name ending with Miguel Gabriel Rafael , a naming tradition of the House of Braganza that honors the three archangels in the Catholic Church .
The title Duke of Braganza (Portuguese: Duque de Bragança) in the House of Braganza is one of the most important titles in the peerage of Portugal.Starting in 1640, when the House of Braganza acceded to the throne of Portugal, the male heir of the Portuguese Crown were known as Duke of Braganza, along with their style Prince of Beira or (from 1645 to 1816) Prince of Brazil.
In 1942, Duarte Nuno, now Duke of Braganza, married a great-granddaughter of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, uniting the two lines of the House. [48] He remained the Braganza pretender until his death in 1976. In 1950 Portugal repealed the law of exile against the Braganzas, [49] and D. Duarte Nuno moved to the country in 1952. [48]
Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, created the Portuguese Council of Nobility during the Republic to study the former monarchy's laws and grants of nobility, and to update the genealogies of ennobled families, maintaining records on the transmission of hereditary titles in accordance therewith. The predominant activity of the Council was the ...
Still, the monarchist Integralismo Lusitano movement supported (since 1920 as miguelist) and acclaimed Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza as King of Portugal in 1932, at the death of Manuel II. Their justification, ironically, included the fact that both branches had met to determine the line of succession in Dover and Paris, even though those ...
In 1942 the Miguelist pretender Duarte Nuno of Braganza married Maria Francisca de Orléans e Bragança, a great-granddaughter of Pedro II of Brazil. The current pretender Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, is therefore descended from both of the feuding brothers Pedro IV of Portugal and Miguel I of Portugal.
6 Duarte Nuno as Duke of Braganza? 2 comments. 7 The Brazilian branch as Dukes of Braganza? 2 comments. 8 File: ...
João I, Duke of Braganza [14] 9. Isabel de Lencastre [14] 2. Teodósio II, Duke of Braganza: 10. Duarte, Duke of Guimarães [14] 5. Catarina of Portugal [14] 11. Isabel of Braganza [14] 1. John IV of Portugal: 12. Íñigo, 4th Duke of Frías: 6. Juan, 5th Duke of Frías: 13. Ana de Guzmán y Aragón: 3. Ana de Velasco y Girón: 14. Pedro, 1st ...