Did the house name of the royal dynasty in Portugal get hyphenated, as a result of the marriage of Queen Maria II and Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Kohary)?
The reason for my asking is that the house name of the Brazilian dynasty DID get hyphenated, as a result of the marriage of Isabel, the Princess Imperial (the queen's niece) and Gaston of Orléans: it became Orléans-Braganza.
House/dynasty names were rarely codified until more recently... they just happened.
I’m pretty sure that the Brazilians bear the titular dignity of Prince(ss) of Orléans and Braganza (Orleans e Bragança) which is *informally* hyphenated in title form; in reckoning of their house as Orléans-Braganza makes genealogical sense (Braganza branch of the house of Orléans) but I doubt it was formally decreed as such.
In Portugal, they were the Braganza branch of the Koháry branch of the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha branch of the House of Wettin but, again, I doubt there was ever a formal decree of house name.
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