The Count of Marialva () was a Portuguese

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created by a royal decree, issued in 1440, 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. ...

, and granted to Vasco Fernandes Coutinho (from a family descendency dating to the old Portuguese nobility), the third

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List of counts

# Vasco Fernandes Coutinho (1385); #

Gonçalo Coutinho, 2nd Count of Marialva Gonçalo Coutinho (born 15th century) was a Portuguese nobleman, Count of Marialva. and Constable of Portugal Constable of Portugal ({{langx, pt, Condestável de Portugal) was an office created by King Ferdinand I of Portugal in 1382, to replace ...

(1415); # João Coutinho, 3rd Count of Marialva (1450); # Francisco Coutinho, 4th Count of Marialva (1480), married to

Beatriz de Meneses, 2nd Countess of Loulé {{Infobox noble, type , name = Beatriz de Meneses , title = Countess , image = File:Loulé DSC 0497 (23704971258).jpg , caption = Castle of Loulé , alt = , CoA = , ...

; # Guiomar Coutinho, 5th Countess of Marialva (1510), 3rd Countess of Loulé, who married Fernando, Duke of Guarda.

References

* {{citation , title=Nobreza de Portugal e Brasil , volume=III , publisher=Direcção de Afonso Eduardo Martins Zuquete/Editorial Enciclopédia , edition=II , location=Lisbon, Portugal , year=1989 , language=Portuguese , pages=721 * 1440 establishments in Portugal