Viscount of São Jorge (Portuguese : Visconde de São Jorge) is a title was created by Carlos I of Portugal, by decree dated 7 November 1893, in the name of Adriano Auguto d´Oliveira, Knight of the Royal Household, Knight Commander of the Royal Military Order of Our Lady of Conception of Vila Viçosa. Adriano Auguto d´Oliveira married Eleanor Justine du Puy de Montbrun, daughter of the Marquess Lucien de Montbrun and the Marchioness Louise Amelie Marie Soulages de Saint-Marc. He lived in Paris and died in the same city without surviving descendants.
Portuguese is a Western Romance language originating in the Iberian Peninsula. It is the sole official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, and São Tomé and Príncipe. It also has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau in China. As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese and Portuguese creole speakers are also found in Goa, Daman and Diu in India; in Batticaloa on the east coast of Sri Lanka; in the Indonesian island of Flores; in the Malacca state of Malaysia; and the ABC islands in the Caribbean where Papiamento is spoken, while Cape Verdean Creole is the most widely spoken Portuguese-based Creole. Reintegrationists maintain that Galician is not a separate language, but a dialect of Portuguese. A Portuguese-speaking person or nation is referred to as "Lusophone" (Lusófono).
Dom Carlos I known as the Diplomat ; Portuguese: o Diplomata and Portuguese: o Martirizado; 28 September 1863 – 1 February 1908) was the King of Portugal. He was the first Portuguese king to die a violent death since Sebastian in 1578.
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of 105 square kilometres and an official estimated population of 2,140,526 residents as of 1 January 2019. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, science, and the arts.
The title is associated with the noble house and estate of São Jorge situated in the Trás-os-Montes municipality of Azinhoso. It belonged in the 18th century (around 1740) to Tómas de Sá Pimentel Moraes Pinto d´Oliveira and his wife, D. Luiza Francisca de Moraes e Távora (from the Counts of São João da Pesqueira and later Marquesses of Távora), daughter of António Osório Pinto d´Oliveira de Moraes, Knight of the Royal Household. [1]
Trás-os-Montes Province is one of the medieval provinces of Portugal.
Azinhoso is a Portuguese freguesia in the Concelho of Mogadouro. The population in 2011 was 307, in an area of 30.80 km². It was parish and capital of Concelho between 1386 and the beginning of the 19th century. In 1801 it had 302 inhabitants.
DomDuarte Pio, Duke of Braganza is a claimant to the defunct Portuguese throne, as the head of the House of Braganza. The Miguelist Braganzas, to whom Duarte Pio belongs as great-grandson of King Miguel I, is a cadet branch of the House of Braganza. With the extinction of male-line dynasts descended from Queen Maria II in 1932, King Miguel's descendants became the only male-line Braganzas left and the closest male-line heirs to the Portuguese throne.
Soares dos Reis National Museum is a museum, currently housed in the Carrancas Palace situated in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the northern Portuguese city of Porto.
The National Order of Scientific Merit is an honor bestowed upon Brazilian and foreign personalities recognized for their scientific and technical contributions to the cause and development of science in Brazil.
Queimados is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Its population was 136,509 (2005) and its area is 77 km². The city is divided into 37 districts.
Hugo Ricciardi O'Neill, 6th Viscount of Santa Mónica is the current head of a branch of the O'Neill dynasty of Clanaboy, whose family has been in Portugal since the 18th century.
Jorge Torlades O'Neill, 3rd Viscount of Santa Mónica, was the titular and official head of the Clanaboy O'Neill dynasty, whose family has been in Portugal since the 18th century.
Hugo José Jorge O'Neill, 4th Viscount of Santa Mónica was the head of the Clanaboy O'Neill dynasty, whose family has been in Portugal since the 18th century.
Carlos O'Neill, was the titular head of a branch of the Clanaboy O'Neill dynasty, whose family has been based in Portugal since the 18th century.
The Viscount of Passos is a title created by King Pedro V of Portugal by decree dated 24 April 1860 in favour of D. Beatriz de Passos Manoel, daughter of the Portuguese statesman Manuel da Silva Passos and D. Guiomar de Souza Girão, from the Girão family of Santarém, Portugal. She also became Viscountess Ferreri by marriage.
Viscount of Banho is an hereditary title created by Queen Maria II of Portugal, by decree on 21 July 1835, in favour of Alexandre Tomás de Morais Sarmento, at the same time that his brother was made 1st Baron and 1st Viscount of Torre de Moncorvo, of Tomás Inácio de Morais Sarmento.
Baron of São Cosme was a title in the Portuguese nobility created on 12 May 1835 by Queen Maria II of Portugal. The first holder was João Nepomuceno de Macedo, born in Chamusca, brigadier general of the liberal constitutionalist army during the Liberal Wars, Knight Commander of the Order of Aviz and of the Order of the Tower and Sword.
Viscount of Vilarinho de São Romão is a title created by Queen Maria II of Portugal, by decree dated 17 September 1835, in favour of António Lobo Barbosa Teixeira Ferreira Girão (Sabrosa, Vilarinho de São Romão, 5 November 1785 - Lisbon, 17 March 1863], Member of the House of Lords, without descendents.
Baltasar Leite Rebelo de Sousa, GCIH was a Portuguese politician and a former minister and member of parliament and medicine professor.
António Jorge Martins da Motta Veiga was a Portuguese politician and former Minister and law professor.
D. António de Almeida Soares de Portugal, 1st Count and 1st Marquess of Lavradio, 4th Count of Avintes, Governor General of Angola and Viceroy of Brazil. Born in Lisbon, Portugal on 1 May 1701; died in São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil on 4 July 1760. The first Marquess of Lavradio was a prominent Portuguese statesman and the head of an established noble family.
Sousa, Souza, de Sousa, or de Souza is a common Portuguese-language surname, especially in Portugal, Brazil, East Timor, India, and Galicia. In Africa, the name is common among people with Portuguese and Brazilian roots in Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Angola, São Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique.
Marquess of Lavradio is a title in the Peerage of Portugal created by Letters Patent of King José I of Portugal on 18 October 1753 for D. António de Almeida Soares de Portugal, 1st Count of Lavradio and 4th Count of Avintes.
The Forty Conspirators were a Portuguese nationalist group during the Iberian Union. The Conspirators were composed of forty men of the Portuguese nobility, and a large number of clergy and soldiers. Their goal was to depose the House of Habsburg king, Philip III.
The Ordem Militar de Cristo, the full name of which is the Military Order of Our Knights of Lord Jesus Christ, is a Portuguese honorific Order which takes its name from the extinct Order of Christ (1834), which is given for distinguished service in the performance of functions in sovereign positions or public administration, and for the judiciary and diplomacy, which is seen as being particularly distinguished.