Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará

Prince Pedro de Alcântara
Prince of Grão-Pará
Head of the Imperial House of Brazil (disputed)
Tenure14 November 1921 – 29 January 1940
PredecessorIsabel
SuccessorPedro Gastão
Born15 October 1875
Petrópolis, Empire of Brazil
Died29 January 1940(1940-01-29) (aged 64)
Petrópolis, Brazil
Burial
Spouse
IssuePrincess Isabelle, Countess of Paris
Prince Pedro Gastão
Princess Maria Francisca, Duchess of Braganza
Prince João Maria
Princess Teresa
Names
Pedro de Alcântara Luiz Filipe Maria Gastão Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga de Orleans e Bragança
HouseOrléans-Braganza
FatherPrince Gaston, Count of Eu
MotherIsabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil
Signature

Dom Pedro de Alcântara of Orléans-Braganza, Prince of Grão Pará (15 October 1875 29 January 1940) was the first-born son of Dona Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil and Prince Gaston of Orléans, Count of Eu, and as such, was born second-in-line to the imperial throne of Brazil, during the reign of his grandfather, Emperor Dom Pedro II, until the empire's abolition. He went into exile in Europe with his mother when his grandfather was deposed in 1889, and grew up largely in France, at a family apartment in Boulogne-sur-Seine, and at his father's castle, the Château d'Eu in Normandy. In 1908 he renounced his claim to the defunct throne of Brazil in an act whose legal validity is continually disputed, by virtue of which some royalists recognize him as having been Head of the Imperial House of Brazil.