Pedro José Folque de Bragança

Dom Pedro José, Duke of Loulé (Pedro José Folque de Mendoça Rolim de Moura Barreto Bragança e Bourbon; born in Lisbon on the 30th April 1958) is a claimant to the defunct Portuguese throne, as the head of the House of Braganza and Duke of Loulé.[1]

Pedro José
Duke of Loulé
Dom Pedro José in robes of the Sovereign and Grand Master of the Order of Saint Michael of the Wing
Duke of Loulé
Tenure2003
PredecessorAlberto Nuno Carlos
Born (1958-04-30) 30 April 1958
Names
Pedro José Folque de Mendoça Rolim de Moura Barreto Bragança e Bourbon
HouseBraganza
ReligionRoman Catholicism

Personal life

Born in Lisabon in 1958, he is married to Maria João Correia Sequeira Franco in 1997 with whom he has a child.

Claims to the throne

With the fall of the Kingdom of Portugal in 1910 and the death of the King Manuel II of Portugal the Dukes of Loulé became senior pretenders and claimants to the throne of Portugal and headship of the House of Braganza.[2] This began the dispute with the Miguelist Braganzas which are currently headed by Duarte Pio, but whose claim is invalid. In 1951[3] This is due to the fact that the whole Miguelist line was disinherited by the law of 1834. On 27 May 1950, the Portuguese National Assembly revoked both the laws of exile from 19 December 1834, which banned the Miguelist Braganzas, and the laws of exile from 15 October 1910, which banned the Legitimist Braganzas. Duarte Pio's claim is now valid.[4] After the death of Alberto Nuno Carlos in 2003, Dom Pedro José headed the title of the Duke of Loulé as pretence on the headship of the Royal House of Portugal.

Honours

Foreign orders

Sovereign and Grand Master

References
  1. Borella, Andrea (2017). La successione e le leggi dinastiche della real casa del Portogallo (The succession and dynastic laws of the royal house of Portugal). Rome: Societas Internationalis Studiorum Dynasticorum. pp. 24–30.
  2. Borella, Andrea (2017). La successione e le leggi dinastiche della real casa del Portogallo (The succession and dynastic laws of the royal house of Portugal). Rome: Societas Internationalis Studiorum Dynasticorum. pp. 24–30.
  3. Pereira, Nuno da Câmara: O Usurpador-o poder sem pudor, Lisboa : Livros d'Hoje, 2008
  4. Borella, Andrea (2017). La successione e le leggi dinastiche della real casa del Portogallo (The succession and dynastic laws of the royal house of Portugal). Rome: Societas Internationalis Studiorum Dynasticorum. pp. 15–16.
  5. Borella, Andrea (2017). La successione e le leggi dinastiche della real casa del Portogallo (The succession and dynastic laws of the royal house of Portugal). Rome: Societas Internationalis Studiorum Dynasticorum. p. 257.
  6. Borella, Andrea (2017). La successione e le leggi dinastiche della real casa del Portogallo (The succession and dynastic laws of the royal house of Portugal). Rome: Societas Internationalis Studiorum Dynasticorum. p. 272.
  7. Borella, Andrea (2017). La successione e le leggi dinastiche della real casa del Portogallo (The succession and dynastic laws of the royal house of Portugal). Rome: Societas Internationalis Studiorum Dynasticorum. p. 280.
  8. Borella, Andrea (2017). La successione e le leggi dinastiche della real casa del Portogallo (The succession and dynastic laws of the royal house of Portugal). Rome: Societas Internationalis Studiorum Dynasticorum. p. 280.
  9. Borella, Andrea (2017). La successione e le leggi dinastiche della real casa del Portogallo (The succession and dynastic laws of the royal house of Portugal). Rome: Societas Internationalis Studiorum Dynasticorum. p. 287.
  10. Borella, Andrea (2017). La successione e le leggi dinastiche della real casa del Portogallo (The succession and dynastic laws of the royal house of Portugal). Rome: Societas Internationalis Studiorum Dynasticorum. p. 288.
  11. Borella, Andrea (2017). La successione e le leggi dinastiche della real casa del Portogallo (The succession and dynastic laws of the royal house of Portugal). Rome: Societas Internationalis Studiorum Dynasticorum. p. 294.
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