Background
Prince Pedro Gastão was the son of Prince Pedro de Alcântara of Orléans-Braganza and his wife Countess Elisabeth Dobržensky de Dobrženicz. He was born in Eu, France.
Prince Pedro Gastão was the son of Prince Pedro de Alcântara of Orléans-Braganza and his wife Countess Elisabeth Dobržensky de Dobrženicz. He was born in Eu, France.
A few years before his death Pedro Gastão’s father Prince Pedro de Alcântara told a Brazilian newspaper: “My resignation was not valid for many reasons: besides, it was not a hereditary resignation.” Following the death of his father supported by Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria and Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona he declared himself head of the Imperial Family of Brazil. His position was supported by Francisco Morato the professor of the faculty of Law at the University of São Paulo who concluded the resignation of Pedro Gastão’s father was not a valid legal or monarchical acting Professor Paulo Napoleão Nogueira da Silva in the 1990s published a report saying that the resignation of his father was invalid under all possible aspects of Brazilian Law.
Pedro Gastão died aged 94 on 27 December 2007.
