Count of
Loulé
Loulé () is a city and Concelho, municipality in the region of Algarve, Faro District, district of Faro, Portugal. In 2021, the population of the entire municipality was 72,373 inhabitants, in an area of approximately . The municipality has two p ...
(in Portuguese ''Conde de Loulé'') was a Portuguese
title of nobility
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granted to
Henrique de Menezes by royal decree issued on November 12, 1471, 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 Africa. ...
.
Henrique de Menezes was the son of
Duarte de Menezes, 3rd Count of Viana (do Alentejo) and, therefore, grandson of
Pedro de Menezes, founding father of the
House of Vila Real.
This new title granting was based in an agreement in which Henrique would receive the county of Loulé, returning the
county of Valença to the Crown.
List of counts of Loulé (1471)
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Henrique de Menezes, also 1st
Count of Valença
Count of Valença (in Portuguese ''Conde de Valença'') was a Portuguese title of nobility, created by a royal decree, dated from July 20, 1464, by King Afonso V of Portugal, and granted to ''Dom'' Henrique de Menezes, who was already 3rd Coun ...
, 3rd
Count of Viana (da Foz do Lima) and 4th
Count of Viana (do Alentejo);
#Beatrice of Menezes, his daughter, married to Francisco Coutinho, 4th
Count of Marialva;
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Guiomar Coutinho, their daughter, also 5th
Countess of Marialva. Married to
Infante
Infante (, ; f. ''infanta''), also anglicised as "infant" or translated as "prince", is the title and rank given in the Iberian kingdoms of Spain (including the predecessor kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, Navarre, and León) and Portugal to the ...
Ferdinand, Duke of Guarda.
See also
*
Count of Valença
Count of Valença (in Portuguese ''Conde de Valença'') was a Portuguese title of nobility, created by a royal decree, dated from July 20, 1464, by King Afonso V of Portugal, and granted to ''Dom'' Henrique de Menezes, who was already 3rd Coun ...
*
Count of Viana (do Alentejo)
*
Count of Viana (da Foz do Lima)
*
Count of Marialva
*
List of countships in Portugal
This is a list of countships in Portugal (; singular ''Condado''; the title is ''Conde'', for Count, and ''Condessa'', for Countess):
A
* Count of Abrantes
* Count of Agarez
* Count of Agrolongo
* Count of Águeda
* Count of Aguiar
* Count of ...
External links
Genealogy of the Counts of Loulé, in Portuguese
Bibliografia
"Nobreza de Portugal e Brasil" Vol II, pages 693/694. Published by Zairol, Lda., Lisbon, 1989.
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Loule
1471 establishments in Portugal
Loulé