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Pedro Gastão Of Orléans-Braganza
Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza (19 February 191327 December 2007) was the Head of the Petrópolis branch of the House of Orléans-Braganza and a claimant to the defunct Brazilian throne in opposition to the Vassouras branch claim led by his cousins Princes Pedro Henrique and Luiz. Pedro Gastão was born during the exile of the Brazilian Imperial Family, being the second child and first son of Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará, sometime heir to the throne of the Empire of Brazil, and Countess Elisabeth Dobrzensky of Dobrzenicz. Never having accepted his father's 1908 renunciation as valid, he actively claimed the Brazilian throne from his father's death in 1940 until his own in 2007. Pedro Gastão was also uncle to the pretenders to the thrones of Portugal ( Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza) and France ( Henri, Count of Paris) and grandfather to the heir apparent to the defunct Yugoslav throne (Philip, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia). Early life Pedro Gastão, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eu, Seine-Maritime
Eu () is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. Eu is located near the coast in the eastern part of the department, near the border with Picardy. Its inhabitants are known in French as the ''Eudois''. Geography Eu is situated at the junction of the RD 1015, the RD 925, the RD 940 and the RD 1314 roads, in the steep-sided valley of the river Bresle, whose mouth is away to the north-west in Le Tréport. Eu station has rail connections to Beauvais and Le Tréport. Etymology The name of the commune is related to that of the river on which it stands. Before being called the ''Bresle'', this small river was known in the Middle Ages under the name of ''Ou'', which then became ''Eu''. History The County of Eu was created in 996 by Duke Richard I of Normandy for his illegitimate son Geoffrey, Count of Brionne. It was a march protecting Normandy from invasion from the east. In 1050, William, Duke of Normandy, the future William th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel, Princess Imperial Of Brazil
, house = Braganza , father = Pedro II of Brazil , mother = Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies , birth_date = , birth_place = Palace of São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil , death_date = , death_place = Château d'Eu, Eu, France , burial_date = , burial_place = Cathedral of São Pedro de Alcântara, Petrópolis, Brazil , signature = Isabel princess imperial signature.png , signature_alt = Cursive signature in ink , religion = Roman Catholic ''Dona'' Isabel (29 July 1846 – 14 November 1921), nicknamed "the Redemptress", was the Princess Imperial (heir presumptive to the throne) of the Empire of Brazil and the Empire's regent on three occasions. Born in Rio de Janeiro as the eldest daughter of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil and Empress Teresa Cristina, she was a member of the Brazilian branch of the House of Braganza (Portuguese: ''Bragança''). After the deaths of her two brothers in infancy, she was recognized as her fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Dom Pedro Tiago
A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The female equivalent is a princess. The English word derives, via the French word ''prince'', from the Latin noun , from (first) and (head), meaning "the first, foremost, the chief, most distinguished, noble ruler, prince". Historical background The Latin word (older Latin *prīsmo-kaps, literally "the one who takes the first lace/position), became the usual title of the informal leader of the Roman senate some centuries before the transition to empire, the ''princeps senatus''. Emperor Augustus established the formal position of monarch on the basis of principate, not dominion. He also tasked his grandsons as summer rulers of the city when most of the government were on holiday in the country or attending religious ritua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
