The Viceroy of Portugal was the political chief of the Kingdom of Portugal and the highest representative of the King of Portugal during the period of the

Iberian Union pt, União Ibérica , conventional_long_name =Iberian Union , common_name = , year_start = 1580 , date_start = 25 August , life_span = 1580–1640 , event_start = War of the Portuguese Succession , event_end = Portuguese Restoration War , ...

, when a

personal union A personal union is the combination of two or more states that have the same monarch while their boundaries, laws, and interests remain distinct. A real union, by contrast, would involve the constituent states being to some extent interlink ...

existed between the monarchies of Portugal and Spain.

History

According to what was established in the

Cortes Cortes, Cortés, Cortês, Corts, or Cortès may refer to: People * Cortes (surname), including a list of people with the name ** Hernán Cortés (1485–1547), a Spanish conquistador Places * Cortes, Navarre, a village in the South border of ...

Tomar Tomar (), also known in English as Thomar (the ancient name of Tomar), is a city and a municipality in the Santarém district of Portugal. The town proper has a population of about 20,000. The municipality population in 2011 was 40,677, in an a ...

in 1581, the regency of the Kingdom of Portugal always had to be trusted by the king to a Portuguese, or in alternative to a member of the Royal Family. This was, in a general way, fulfilled, having during two periods the regency been trusted to a governmental council called Government Junta of the Kingdom of Portugal.

List

{, width=90% class="wikitable" , - style="background:#cccccc" ! width=6% , Picture ! width=23% , Viceroy ! width=13% , From ! width=13% , Until ! width=8% , Monarch , - textstyle="align:center" , -align="center" , Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, III Duque de Alba, por Antonio Moro

Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, III Duque de Alba, por Antonio Moro

, ,

Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3rd Duke of Alba (29 October 150711 December 1582), known as the Grand Duke of Alba (, pt, Grão Duque de Alba) in Spain and Portugal and as the Iron Duke ( or shortly 'Alva') in the Netherlands, was a S ...

, , 18 July 1580 , , 11 December 1582, , rowspan="3",

Philip I of Portugal Philip II) in Spain, while in Portugal and his Italian kingdoms he ruled as Philip I ( pt, Filipe I). (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent ( es, Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from ...

, -align="center" , Rubens - arquiduquealbertoVII01

, ,

Albert VII, Archduke of Austria Albert may refer to: Companies * Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic * Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands * Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia * Albert Productions, a record label * Albert C ...

, , 11 February 1583 , , 5 July 1593 , -align="center" , Retrato de D

, , 1st Regency Council
Presided by

Miguel de Castro D. Miguel de Castro (1536-1625) was Bishop of Viseu in 1579, Archbishop of Lisbon in 1586, and later Viceroy of Portugal. He received his doctorate in Theology at Coimbra Coimbra (, also , , or ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. Th ...

Archbishop of Lisbon The Patriarchate of Lisbon ( la, Patriarchatus Olisiponensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or patriarchal archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Its archiepiscopal see is the Patriarchal Cathedral of ...

João da Silva, 2nd

Marquis of Gouveia Marquess of Gouveia (in Portuguese ''Marquês de Gouveia'') was a Portuguese title of nobility created by King Philip III of Portugal, also known as Philip IV of Spain, by a royal decree dated from January 20, 1625, granted to Manrique da Silv ...

Francisco de Mascarenhas, 1st Count of Santa Cruz
Duarte de Castelo Branco, 1st Count of Sabugal
Miguel de Moura , , 5 July 1593, , 1598 , -align="center" , Franciscosandovallerma detail

, ,

Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma Francisco Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas, 1st Duke of Lerma, 5th Marquess of Denia, 1st Count of Ampudia (1552/1553 – 17 May 1625), was a favourite of Philip III of Spain, the first of the ''validos'' ('most worthy') through whom the later H ...

, , 1598 , , 29 January 1600, , rowspan="7", Felipe3-Spain

Philip II of Portugal Philip III ( es, Felipe III; 14 April 1578 – 31 March 1621) was King of Spain. As Philip II, he was also King of Portugal, Naples, Sicily and Sardinia and Duke of Milan from 1598 until his death in 1621. A member of the House of Habsburg, Phi ...

, -align="center" , Cristóvão de Moura (cropped)

, , Cristóvão de Moura, 1st Marquis of Castelo Rodrigo, , 29 January 1600, , 1603 , -align="center" , Coat of arms of Portugal (1640)

, , Afonso de Castelo Branco, Bishop-Count of Coimbra, , 1603, , 24 May 1605 , -align="center" ,

, , Pedro de Castilho, Bishop of Leiria, , 24 May 1605, , February 1608 , -align="center" ,

, , Aleixo de Menezes, Archbishop-Primate of Braga, , 1612, , 1615 , -align="center" , Retrato de D

, ,

, , 1615, , 10 May 1619 , -align="center" , Coat of arms of Portugal (1640)

, , Diogo da Silva e Mendonça, 1st Marquis of Alenquer, , 10 May 1619, , 1 September 1621 , -align="center" , Coat of arms of Portugal (1640)

, , 2nd Regency Council
Presided by Martim Afonso Mexia, Bishop-Count of Coimbra
Diogo de Castro, 2nd Count of Basto
Nuno Álvares Pereira Colón de Portugal, 3rd Duke of Veragua , , 1 September 1621 , , 30 August 1623 , , rowspan="7",
Philip III of Portugal , -align="center" , , , 3rd Regency Council
Presided by Diogo de Castro, 2nd Count of Basto
Afonso Furtado de Mendonça,

Diogo da Silva, 5th Count of Portalegre , , 30 August 1623 , , 1631 , -align="center" , Coat of arms of Portugal (1640)

, , 4th Regency Council
Presided by António de Ataíde, 5th Count of Castanheira
Nuno de Mendonça, 1st Count of Vale de Reis, , 1631 , , March 1632 , -align="center" , Coat of arms of Portugal (1640)

, , Nuno de Mendonça, 1st Count of Vale de Reis , , March 1632, , 12 May 1633 , -align="center" ,

, , João Manuel de Ataíde,

, , 12 May 1633, , 4 July 1633 , -align="center" , Coat of arms of Portugal (1640)

, , Diogo de Castro, 2nd Count of Basto, , 4 July 1633, , 23 December 1634 , -align="center" , Pourbus, Frans II - Marguerite of Savoy - Hermitage (cropped)

, , Margaret of Savoy, Duchess of Mantua, , 23 December 1634, , 1 December 1640

Sources

October 2009+05:53:11 Virreinato de Portugal
Iberian Union

History

List

See also

Sources