Viscount of São Jorge
Viscount of São Jorge (Portuguese: Visconde de São Jorge) is a title was created by Carlos I of Portugal, 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 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.[1]
List of viscounts
- Adriano Auguto d´Oliveira;
- 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;
- 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, dated 30 January 1923;
- 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.
- Manuel Bernardo Teixeira de Castro de Souza-Girão, born in Durban, South Africa, 20 August 1970, married. Attended Harrow School, 1983-1988; MA, Trinity College, Cambridge.
References
- Notes
- ↑ Decree dated 5 November 1701, Peter II of Portugal, p. 231
- Sources
- Souza Girão e Valle na descendência de D.Pedro e D.Inês de Castro (in Portuguese) (II ed.), Lisbon, Portugal: C.A. Almeida/Artes Gráficas, 2007
- de Manuel Francisco Alves, Abade de Baçal (1968), Memórias Arqueológicas-Históricas do Distrito de Bragança (in Portuguese) VIII, Lisbon, Portugal
- Livro de Mercês de D.Carlos I (in Portuguese), Lisbon, Portugal: Torre do Tombo