Pedro José Folque de Mendoça

Born in Lisbon in 1958, he married D.ª Margarida Corrêa de Barros Vaz Pinto in 1997, with whom he has a son and a daughter.

The current claimant to the Portuguese throne is the Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza's great-great-great-grandson, Pedro José Folque de Mendoça Rolim de Moura Barreto. He is styled 6th Duke of Loulé in Dom Filipe Folque de Mendoça work on the "A Casa de Loulé e suas Alianças" book, but he is the 4th duke according to Portugal's post-monarchic titular convention, which considers the title only properly renewed in 1992 for Dom Pedro's father, the 3rd (or 5th) duke (who also registered the style of Dom, which the Loulés had not traditionally used, although entitled to do so).

During the exile of Miguel I of Portugal and his male heirs from 1834 until 1950, Infanta Ana's descendants remained domiciled in Portugal. Therefore, the claim of the current duke to the defunct throne, as the infanta's dynastic representative, has been contrasted with that of Duarte Pio of Braganza, great-grandson and heir of Miguel I.[2] In "As Senhoras Infantas filhas de D. João VI", published in Lisbon in 1938, Ângelo Pereira quotes, on page 161, a letter from the infanta to her brother Dom Pedro, assuming her marriage had not been authorized (although nothing in Portugal's law required a cadet infanta to obtain royal permission to marry). The Dukes of Loulé have not, in the past, pressed any claim to the throne publicly, whereas the Portuguese government and media have accorded some indications of recognition to the claimant Duarte Pio as the dynasty's royal representative since the death of Maria Pia of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Braganza in 1995.[3] Since the Miguelist line has been disinherited by King and law of 1834,[4] the Dukes of Loulé as being the highest legitimate senior members of the Braganza family have claimed the throne of Portugal.[5]