Miguel of Braganza Miguel of Braganza "Dom" Michael of Braganza () was a Portuguese infante, illegitimate son of King Pedro II of Portugal and of the French lady Anne Armande Pastre de Verger (sometimes called "du Vergé"). He was born in Lisbon on 15 October 1699 and died drowned in the Tagus River on 13 January 1724. He married "Dona" Luísa Casimira de Sousa Nassau e Ligne, Princess of Ligne by her father, and, through her mother, heiress of a rich noble family: she was 30th. Lady of the House of Sousa, 6th. Countess of Miranda do Corvo and honorary Duchess of Lafões.
House of Orléans-Braganza Duchess of Braganza married Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, heir to the Portuguese throne in 1942. In 1937 the son of Luís Prince Pedro Henrique marries Princess Maria Elisabeth of Bavaria, granddaughter of Ludwig III, the last King of Bavaria in Germany. They fled the country to avoid the Nazi and went to live in a palace in France where they start to have children. The couple moved to Brazil in 1945 soon after the end of the war giving a definite end to the exile. In 1908 Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará wanted to marry Countess Elisabeth Dobržensky