The Count of Marialva ( pt, Conde de Marialva) was a Portuguese

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created by a royal decree, issued in 1440, by King

Afonso V of Portugal Afonso V () (15 January 1432 – 28 August 1481), known by the sobriquet the African (), was King of Portugal from 1438 until his death in 1481, with a brief interruption in 1477. His sobriquet refers to his military conquests in Northern Afri ...

, and granted to Vasco Fernandes Coutinho (from a family descendency dating to the old Portuguese nobility), the third

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List of counts

# Vasco Fernandes Coutinho (1385); # Gonçalo Coutinho, 2nd Count of Marialva (1415); # João Coutinho, 3rd Count of Marialva (1450); # Francisco Coutinho, 4th Count of Marialva (1480), married to Beatriz de Meneses, 2nd Countess of Loulé; # Guiomar Coutinho, 5th Countess of Marialva (1510), 3rd Countess of Loulé, who married

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References

* {{citation , title=Nobreza de Portugal e Brasil , volume=III , publisher=Direcção de Afonso Eduardo Martins Zuquete/Editorial Enciclopédia , edition=II , location=Lisbon, Portugal , year=1989 , language=Portuguese , pages=721 * 1440 establishments in Portugal