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County of Avintes
Created byKing Afonso VI of Portugal
PeeragePeerage of Portugal

Count of Avintes is a title in the Peerage of Portugal created by Letters Patent of King Afonso VI of Portugal on 17 February 1664 for D. Luis de Almeida, 5th Lord of Avintes. The title was conferred in perpetuity[a] by King José I of Portugal upon the 4th Count by the same Letters Patent by which he was elevated to the Marquessate of Lavradio.[1][2]

Background

It is possible that the ancient Seigniory of Avintes predates the foundation of Portugal itself. In 1487, the benedictine Monastery of Saint Thyrsus, which had held the Seigniory since the end of the XIII century, bestowed it on the Brandão family in the person of Fernão Brandão, a nobleman at the Court of King Manuel I and chamberlain to his son Prince Fernando. His granddaughter and heiress, Isabel Brandão, 3rd Lady of Avintes, married D. Francisco de Almeida, Captain General of the Portuguese enclaves at Ormuz and Diu, Governor of Angola and General of the Armed Forces in Beira Province, and great-grandson of the 2nd Count of Abrantes. His eldest son, D. João de Almeida, known as "the Wise", had only one surviving daughter by his wife D. Jerónima de Castro, who inherited the Seigniory of Avintes. She married her kinsman, D. Luis de Almeida, 5th Lord of Avintes by marriage.

D. Luis de Almeida was descended from the 1st Count of Abrantes by his second son D. Diogo Fernandes de Almeida, 6th Prior of Crato. From his father, he inherited the commandaries of São Martinho da Lordosa, Soalheira and Bemposta in the Order of Christ.

Family and Origins

See: Marquessate of Lavradio - Family and Origins

List of Counts of Avintes

Ex-Libris of the Marquesses of Lavradio showing the Almeida arms, ducal coronet and motto
Lithograph, from an ex-Libris of the Marquesses of Lavradio, commissioned by the 6th Marquess,[3] showing the Almeida arms, ducal coronet and motto.
  1. D. Luís de Almeida (1610—1671), 1st Count of Avintes. Succeeded by his son
  2. D. António de Almeida Portugal (1640—1715), 2nd Count of Avintes. Succeeded by his son
  3. D. Luís de Almeida Portugal (1669—1730), 3rd Count of Avintes. Succeeded by his son
  4. D. António de Almeida Soares de Portugal (1701—1760), 1st Marquess and 1st Count of Lavradio, 4th Count of Avintes, 8th Viceroy of Brasil. Succeeded by his son
  5. D. Luís de Almeida Portugal Soares de Alarcão d'Eça e Mello Silva Mascarenhas (1729—1790), 2nd Marquess of Lavradio, 5th Count of Avintes, 11th Viceroy of Brasil. Succeeded by his son
  6. D. António Máximo de Almeida Portugal Soares de Alarcão Mello de Castro Ataíde d'Eça Mascarenhas Silva e Lancastre (1756—1833), 3rd Marquess of Lavradio, 6th Count of Avintes. Succeeded by his son
  7. D. Luís de Almeida Portugal Soares de Alarcão Mello de Castro Ataíde d'Eça Mascarenhas Silva e Lancastre (1787—1812), 4th Marquess of Lavradio, 7th Count of Avintes. Succeeded by his brother
  8. D. António de Almeida Portugal Soares de Alarcão Mello de Castro Ataíde d'Eça Mascarenhas Silva e Lancastre (1794—1874), 5th Marquess of Lavradio, 8th Count of Avintes. Succeeded by his great-grandson
  9. D. José Maria do Espírito Santo de Almeida Corrêa de Sá (1874—1945), 6th Marquess of Lavradio, 9th Count of Avintes. Succeeded by his son
  10. D. António de Almeida Portugal (1908—1938), 10th Count of Avintes. Succeeded by his brother
  11. D. José Luís de Almeida (1912—1966), 7th Marquess of Lavradio, 11th Count of Avintes. Succeeded by his son
  12. D. Jaime de Almeida, 8th Marquess of Lavradio, 12th Count of Avintes, 4th Count of Torres Vedras.
  13. D. Luís Maria de Almeida, 13th Count of Avintes, heir apparent to the Marquessate of Lavradio.

Coat of Arms

See: Marquessate of Lavradio - Coat of Arms

Ancestry

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ In the original Portuguese: de juro e herdade meaning "in perpetuity and by inheritance", whereby to be inherited a title required no further concession from the Crown or the State, but merely its acknowledgement.

References

  1. ^ Braamcamp Freire, Anselmo (1996). Brasões da Sala de Sintra. Vol. Volume II. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda. pp. 363–364. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  2. ^ Mello Corrêa, Manuel; Mattos e Silva, António (1985). Anuário da Nobreza de Portugal III. Vol. Volume 1. Lisbon: Instituto Português de Heráldica. p. 100. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  3. ^ Avelar Duarte, Sérgio (1990). Ex-Libris Portugueses Heráldicos. Porto: Civilização. p. 294.
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