Count of Feira
The Count of Feira (in Portuguese Conde da Feira) was a Portuguese title of nobility created by a royal decree, in 1481, by King Afonso V of Portugal, and granted to D. Rui Pereira, the son of Fernão Pereira, Lord of Santa Maria da Feira.
When the 8th Count died without a legitimate issue, Álvaro Pereira Forjaz Coutinho a direct descendant of the 1st Count, Rui Pereira, became the 9th Count for a time before the Crown granted the estates to the Casa do Infantado which, in those times belonged to Infante Francisco, Duke of Beja.
Later, on 18 May 1820, King John VI of Portugal granted the County of Feira (second creation) to D. Miguel Pereira Forjaz Coutinho Barreto de Sá e Resende (who descended from the original counts of Feira, including Dom João Pereira o Mulato, and was great-grandson of Álvaro Pereira Forjaz Coutinho).
List of counts of Feira
First creation (1481)
- D. Rui Pereira (1430–1486)
- D. Diogo Pereira (c. 1460Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".- ?), his son;
- D. Manuel Pereira (c. 1485Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".- ?), his son;
- D. Diogo Pereira (c. 1520Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".-1579), his son;
- D. João Pereira Forjaz (c. 1575Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".-1608), his grandson);
- D. Joana Forjaz Pereira (c. 1600Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".- ?), his daughter, married to Manuel Pimentel (son of Juan Alonso Pimentel de Herrera, 5th Duke of Benavente, in Spain);
- D. João Forjaz Pereira y Pimentel (c. 1620Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".- ?), her son;
- D. Fernando Forjaz Pereira Pimentel de Menezes e Silva (c. 1625Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".-?) his brother, João Forjaz Pereira Pimentel had an illegitimate son.
- D. Álvaro Pereira Forjaz Coutinho (c. 1656Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".-1700), his great, great, great-grandson; whose illegitimate son D. Cristovão Pereira was the father of Dona Maria Pereira.
Second creation (1820)
- Miguel Pereira Forjaz Coutinho Barreto de Sá Resende de Magalhães (1769–1827) - Statesman, Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs and of War.
Today, this title is claimed by José Pedro da Silveira Cyrne de Vasconcelos (born 1953), and Gustavo Andrés Pereira-Meza (born in 1997) head of the line from A Coruña of the Pereira family.
External links
- Genealogy of the Counts of Feira (first creation), in Portuguese
- Genealogy of the Counts of Feira (second creation), in Portuguese
Bibliography
"Nobreza de Portugal e do Brasil" – Vol. II, pages 522/528. Published by Zairol Lda., Lisbon 1989. "Diccionario aristocratico, contendo os alvarás dos foros de fidalgos da casa," Dec 31, 1867