House of Braganza Maria Isabel of Braganza (wife of Ferdinand VII of Spain who founded the El Prado Museum), as well as sometime candidates for the thrones of Poland and Greece, Infante Manuel, Count of Ourém and Pedro, Duke of Braganza, respectively, and numerous other notable figures in the histories of Europe and the Americas. The Braganzas were deposed from their thrones in Europe and the Americas at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries, when Emperor Pedro II was deposed in Brazil, in 1889, and when King Manuel II was deposed in Portugal, in 1910. Following the reign of King John VI of
Luiz Philippe of Orléans-Braganza Luiz Philippe of Orléans-Braganza Luiz Philippe of Orléans-Braganza (; born 3 April 1969) is a Brazilian political scientist, activist, entrepreneur, and member of the House of Orléans-Braganza. He was elected Federal Deputy for São Paulo in the 2018 Brazilian elections for the Social Liberal Party with 118,457 votes. Luiz Philippe was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1969, the son of Prince Eudes of Orléans-Braganza and Ana Maria Bragança. Luiz Philippe is the grandson of Prince Pedro Henrique of Orléans-Braganza, who was the great-grandson of Pedro II, the last Emperor of Brazil. Luiz Philippe studied business at Fundação Armando Álvares