Miguel of Braganza They had two sons and two daughters. 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
House of Orléans-Braganza had 3 surviving sons which were the first to use the surname "Orléans-Braganza": Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará, Prince Luís and Prince Antônio. Both Prince Pedro and Prince Luís have children. Today they are the present claimants to the throne of the former Empire of Brazil, which became extinct with the Brazilian proclamation of the republic, on 15 November 1889 after a military coup d'état headed by Marshall Deodoro da Fonseca, the 1st President of Brazil. After the death of Princess Isabel on 1921, the House of Orléans-Braganza became the claimant of the Brazilian throne under Prince Pedro Henrique