Count of Faro (in Portuguese ''Conde de Faro'') was a Portuguese
title of nobility
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granted by royal decree issued on 22 May 1469, 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 ...
, to
D. Afonso of Braganza, the third son of
Fernando I, Duke of Braganza
Dom Fernando I of Braganza (; 1403 – 1 April 1478) was the 2nd Duke of Braganza and the 1st Marquis of Vila Viçosa, among other titles. He took part in the Portuguese conquests in North Africa and served as governor of different territories t ...
.
This title refers to the town of ''
Faro do Alentejo
Faro do Alentejo is a Portuguese civil parish (''Freguesia'') within the municipality of Cuba
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'' and not to the city of
Faro, capital of the
Algarve
The Algarve (, , ; from ) is the southernmost NUTS II region of continental Portugal. It has an area of with 467,495 permanent inhabitants and incorporates 16 municipalities ( ''concelhos'' or ''municípios'' in Portuguese).
The region has it ...
. The main estates of this family were located in the
Alentejo, especially around the town of
Vimieiro.
List of the Counts of Odemira (1469)
#
Afonso of Braganza (c.1435- ? ), he married Maria de Noronha, 2nd.
Countess of Odemira;
# Estêvão of Faro (c.1550-1629), their great-grandson;
# Dinis of Faro (c.1570-1633), his son;
# Joana Juliana Maria Máxima of Faro (c.1610- ? ), her daughter, married twice but had no issue.
See also
*
Count of Odemira
*
List of countships in Portugal
External links
Genealogy of the Counts of Faro, in Portuguese
Bibliography
"Nobreza de Portugal e Brasil" Vol II, pages 65/68. Published by Zairol, Lda., Lisbon, 1989.
Faro
1469 establishments in Portugal