Joana Tomásia da Câmara (1730 - 1782), descendant of the House of Camara, was the second daughter of José da Câmara, heir to the title of the Captaincy of São Miguel and the Countship of Riberia Grande, who was the 4th Countess of Ribeira Grande, without descendants. She married her uncle, D.

Guido Augusto da Câmara e Ataíde Guido is a given name Latinised from the Old High German name Wido. It originated in Medieval Italy. Guido later became a male first name in Austria, Germany, the Low Countries, Scandinavia, Spain, Portugal, Latin America and Switzerland. The mea ...

, born in Paris on 30 June 1718, who became the 14th and, ultimately, the last donatary-captain of the island of São Miguel and Count of Ribeira Grande. Guido Augusto began his role in 1757, but on 2 August 1766 the title of donatary-captain was extinguished, by decree of King

Joseph I of Portugal Dom Joseph I ( pt, José Francisco António Inácio Norberto Agostinho, ; 6 June 1714 – 24 February 1777), known as the Reformer (Portuguese: ''o Reformador''), was King of Portugal from 31 July 1750 until his death in 1777. Among other activ ...

. The couple never resided in the captaincy, and as a son of a member of the Távora family, the count was jailed for his family's implication in the attempted regicide. The count died in the prison of Junqueira in 1770. Joana discovered that he died in 1777, when the prisoners were liberated. She had one son,

Luís António José Maria da Câmara Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

, who was born in 1754 (and later died in 1802).

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Camara Joana Tomasia Counts of Ribeira Grande Portuguese nobility 18th-century Portuguese people 1712 births 1757 deaths Gonçalves da Câmara family {{Azores-stub