House of Bourbon-Braganza
The House of Bourbon-Braganza was an Iberian noble family formed by a royal marriage in 1785 between Gabriel of Bourbon, Infante of Spain, and Mariana Victoria of Braganza, Infanta of Portugal. It combines the Capetian Bourbon line through Bourbon-Spain with the Braganza line from Portugal.
The family held several ducal titles, including Duke of Marchena, Duke of Durcal, Duke of Hernani, and Duke of Ansola.
Their surviving son, Infante Pedro Carlos of Spain and Portugal (1786–1812), was raised in Portugal. Until 1793 he was the only grandson of Queen Maria I and was seen as a potential heir to the Portuguese throne. He married his cousin Infanta Maria Teresa of Portugal (1793–1874), and they had one child, Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain (1811–1875). Sebastian became a Portuguese Infante in 1812 and was recognized as a Spanish Infante in 1824, though he was a distant descendant of King Charles III.
When the Portuguese royal family returned to Europe, Sebastian lived in Spain, but he supported the Carlist pretender and moved back to Portugal in 1865, where King Luís I welcomed him.
The male line ended with Manfredo, 1st Duke of Hernani, in 1979. The last member of the family, Leticía Fernanda de Borbón y Bosch-Labrús, died in 2008. There are still distant female-line descendants among Spanish nobility, with the titles of Dukes of Marchena, Durcal, and Ansola.
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