Viscount of São Jorge ( pt, Visconde de São Jorge) is a title was created by
Carlos I of Portugal
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, 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
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and died in the same city without surviving descendants.
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.
[Decree dated 5 November 1701, ]Peter II of Portugal
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Adriano Auguto d´Oliveira;
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Laura Maria Augusta Pinto de Oliveira de Souza Girão, the title passed to Adriano Augusto's niece, who married Lieutenant António Teixeira de Castro de Souza Girão e Valle, Lord of the House of Lages and the House of Simo de Passos, Silgueiros, in the Church of St. Vincent, Bragança, on 30 July 1898;
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Manuel Paulino de Oliveira de Sousa Girão, doctor of medicine and surgeon, from the University of Coimbra, by letters patent of
Manuel II of Portugal
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, dated 30 January 1923;
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Guilherme Manuel Gonçalves de Oliveira de Sousa Girão, Minister Counsellor of Embassy, retired, Knight Great-Cross of the Order of Merit, of Mauricias, Knight Great-Cross of the Order of Johore Great Officer of the Order of Rio Branco, of Brasil, Officer of the Royal Order of the Crown, of Thailand, etc.
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Manuel Bernardo Teixeira de Castro de Souza-Girão, born in
Durban, South Africa
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, 20 August 1970, married. Attended Harrow School, 1983–1988; MA, Trinity College, Cambridge.
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1893 establishments in Portugal