{{Short description, Noble title in the Kingdom of Portugal Count of Faro (in Portuguese ''Conde de Faro'') was a Portuguese

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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 Africa. ...

, 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 ...

. This title refers to the town of ''

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'' and not to the city of Faro, capital of the

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. The main estates of this family were located in the

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, especially around the town of Vimieiro.

List of 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.

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

List of counts of Odemira (1469)

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