Baron of Alagoa ( pt, Barão de Alagoa) was a noble title created by Queen

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by decree on 22 December 1841 in favor of José Francisco da Terra Brum, a wealthy merchant and winegrower from the city of

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archipelago of the

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. Terra Brum resided along the banks of the ''Ribeira da Conceição'' (literally, the Stream of the

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), and owned properties on the so-called Alagoa coastline. Today, the latter area is occupied by the football field of local sports club

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. Following Terra Brum's death on 22 January 1842, his eldest son José Francisco da Terra Brum II became the second Baron of Alagoa. The second Terra Brum died in 1844, extinguishing the title.Fernando Faria Ribeiro (2007), p.163 In 1901, King

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reinstated the baronage in favor of Manuel Maria da Terra Brum, José Francisco da Terra Brum's youngest son, and like his father before him one of

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's largest winegrowers and a prominent public figure on both sides of the

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. Manuel Maria died without direct heirs on 12 July 1905, the third and last Baron of Alagoa.

List of barons

# José Francisco da Terra Brum, first Baron of Alagoa, 1841–1842; # José Francisco da Terra Brum II, second Baron of Alagoa, 1842–1844; # Manuel Maria da Terra Brum, third Baron of Alagoa, 1901–1905.

References

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