Luis Antonio Tomás Fernandez de Portocarrero y Moscoso, (7 March 1649 – 1723), 5th Count of

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, was a Spanish noble and

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. His father was Fernando Luis de Portocarrero, 4th Count of Palma del Rio and 2nd Marquis of Almenara. His mother was Antonia de Moscoso, daughter of Lope Hurtado de Mendoza y Moscoso, 8th conde de Monteagudo. His father died in the same year as he was born and his mother remarried with Enrique de Pimentel y Moscoso, former Viceroy of Aragon.
His uncle was

Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero y de Guzmán, (8 January 1635, Palma del Río – 14 September 1709, Toledo, Spain) was a Spanish prelate, who was cardinal archbishop of Toledo. Uncle of Luis Antonio Tomás de Portocarrero y Moscoso, 5 ...

y de Guzman, former

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, Cardinal of Toledo, and member of the Council of State under King

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of Spain. He married in 1667 with his cousin María Leonor de Moscoso and had 7 children, including * Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero (1681–1760), Austrian

. Luis Antonio Tomas was awarded the title of Grandee of Spain, 2nd class, by King

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, in 1697.
He became

between 1702 and 1703.
In 1710, he went over to the Austrian party, and was forced into exile after the defeat in 1714. His possessions were confiscated, but returned to his son Gaspar in 1724.

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*http://helvia.uco.es/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10396/11791/Ambitos_29_09.pdf?sequence=1 Luis Antonio Portocarrero: el conde desafecto (1710-1723) {{DEFAULTSORT:Fernandez de Portocarrero, Luis Antonio Tomás 17th-century Spanish nobility Viceroys of Catalonia Grandees of Spain 1649 births 1723 deaths 18th-century Spanish nobility