D. Sancho Manuel de Vilhena, 1st Count of Vila Flor (1610 – 3 February 1677), was a Portuguese nobleman and military leader, of royal background. He participated in several battles in Central Europe and fought the Dutch in Brazil between 1638 and 1640. During the

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, he was appointed general, and participated in the defence of Beira. His greatest victories were the Battle of the Lines of Elvas in 1659 and the Battle of Ameixial in 1663. COMES_de_VILLA-FLOR

António Manuel de Vilhena, Grand Master of the Order of Saint John and ruler of

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, was his fifth son. He was memorialized in a prominent ''

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'' of the Room of the Battles () in the Palace of the Marquises of Fronteira, created in 1671–72 and depicting the Battle of Ameixial.The inscription in Portuguese reads as follows:

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