Pedro de Lencastre, or Peter of Lencastre ( Azeitão, 1608 –

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, 1673), was the youngest son of Álvaro and Juliana of Lencastre, 3rd

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. He studied

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in the

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and he became successively Bishop of Guarda,

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and

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. In spite of the Portuguese revolution against the

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, his nephew,

Raimundo of Lencastre, 4th Duke of Aveiro ''Dom'' Raimundo of Lencastre ( ? – Cadiz, 1666) was the older son of George of Lencastre, 1st Duke of Torres Novas, and grandson of Álvaro and Juliana of Lencastre, 3rd Dukes of Aveiro. Once his father died before his grandmother, in 1632, ...

actively supported the rights of the Habsburg Kings and, in 1663, the new King of the Braganza Dynasty, John IV, decided to confiscate the Dukedom. However, Peter of Lencastre, a Braganza supporter, requested the cancellation of this decision and, finally in 1668, he was recognised as 5th

Duke of Aveiro Duke of Aveiro ( pt, Duque de Aveiro) was a Portuguese title of nobility, granted in 1535 by King John III of Portugal to his 4th cousin, John of Lencastre, son of Infante George of Lencastre, a natural son of King John II of Portugal. Joh ...

and

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. Later the same year, when the peace between

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and Spain was signed, Peter's niece, Maria de Guadalupe of Lencastre, sister and heir of the 4th Duke, requested the cancellation of the decision that granted the Dukedom of Aveiro to her uncle, in order to obtain it for herself. Due to Peter of Lencastre's death in 1673, Maria de Guadalupe of Lencastre, still living in Spain, was recognised as the new Duchess of Aveiro on condition she would return to

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Genealogy of Peter of Lencastre, 5th Duke of Aveiro, in Portuguese

Bibliography

* ”Nobreza de Portugal e do Brasil" – Vol. II, page 345. Published by Zairol Lda., Lisbon 1989. {{DEFAULTSORT:Peter of Lencastre 105 Portuguese nobility 1608 births 1673 deaths University of Coimbra alumni 17th-century Portuguese people People from Setúbal

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