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[[Image:Armas duques vila real.png|thumb|150px|right|The Coat of Arms of the Duke of Vila Real.]]

'''[[Duke]] of [[Vila Real, Portugal|Vila Real]]''' (in Portuguese ''Duque de Vila Real'') was a Portuguese [[title of nobility]] created by royal decree, dated from February 28, 1585, by King Philip I of Portugal (also known as [[Philip II of Spain]]), and granted to ''[[Don (honorific)|Dom]]'' [[Manuel de Menezes, Duke of Vila Real|Manuel de Menezes]], 5th [[Marquis of Vila Real]] and 7th [[Count of Vila Real]].

The title was granted by the King '''in one life''', to the 5th [[Marquis of Vila Real]], due his personal support to the Spanish Habsburgs during the [[1580 Portuguese succession crisis]].

==List of dukes of Vila Real==
#[[Manuel de Menezes, Duke of Vila Real]] (1530- ? ), also known as Manuel of Meneses, 5th [[Marquis of Vila Real]] and 7th [[Count of Vila Real]].

==See also==
*[[Marquis of Vila Real]]
*[[Duke of Caminha]]
*[[Count of Vila Real]]
*[[Count of Alcoutim]]
*[[Dukedoms in Portugal]]

==External links==
* [http://www.geneall.net/P/tit_page.php?id=1587 Genealogy of the Duke of Vila Real]

==Bibliography==
”Nobreza de Portugal e do Brasil" – Vol. III, pages 523/528. Published by Zairol Lda., Lisbon 1989. 

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