João Pedro Mouzinho de Albuquerque
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João Pedro Mouzinho de Albuquerque (Lisbon
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, May 1736 – Leiria
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, 1802 (some say ca/bef. 1815)) was a Portuguese
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 nobleman.

Life

A son of Pedro Mamede Mouzinho de Albuquerque and second wife Maria Micaela Tavares de Mesquita, he was baptized at the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora
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, Lisbon, on June 4, 1736, his godfather being Dom Diogo de Noronha, 3rd Marquess of Marialva
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 and 5th Count of Cantanhede by marriage, represented by his son Dom Rodrigo António de Noronha e Meneses and having officiated the Desembargador Rev. Dr. Sebastião Pereira de Castro, and born on that same Parish.

Chief of Lineage, he was graduate
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d in Law
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s, Fidalgo
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-Knight
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 of the Royal Household by Letter Patent (Alvará) of March 2, 1737, which abode was augmented to 1$600 réis a month and 1 alqueire of barley
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 a day on April 21, 1796, Knight of the Order of Christ
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 on April 26, 1769, Corregedor of the Crime
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 of the Court and House of the Supplication, Judge
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 of the High Court
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(Desembargador) of the Appeal (Agravos) of the House of the Supplication of the Palace and of the King, Commander da Lezíria do Corvilho in the Order of Christ, Member of the Royal Brotherhood of Santa Cruz and Passos da Graça, etc. He also had granted an annuity of 400$000 réis for his daughters with surviving of one to another.

He was the last possessor of the old house and farm of the Mouzinhos, at the Lane of the same name at Chelas, at the Parish of Olivais in Lisbon, which he apperars to have sold in the middle or end of 1788 to Manuel Joaquim de Freitas, who is thought to be ascendant of the 1st Baron and 1st Viscount of Vila Gião (Decrees of 1893 and 1894).

He married at the See
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 of Leiria
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 circa 1786 Luísa Gutiérrez da Silva de Ataíde, baptized at the same See of Leiria on September 22, 1763 and born in that Parish, daughter of Luís da Silva de Ataíde, 6th Lord of the Majorat and House do Terreiro and wife doña Isabel Gutiérrez de Tordoya, Maraver y Silva.

He was buried at the Church of São Francisco of Leiria.

He and his wife had nine children:
  • Pedro Mouzinho de Albuquerque
  • Isabel Mouzinho de Albuquerque (Old Family House, São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon, May 28, 1788 – ?), who died unmarried and without issue
  • Maria Luísa Mouzinho de Albuquerque (Old Family House, São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon, May 10, 1789 – at her old house at the Violeiros Street, Portalegre, January 17, 1907), married at the Oratory of the old Family House, São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon, July 1, 1815, being testemonies her brothers Pedro and Luís da Silva, as his second wife Fernando Pereira de Faria Cota Falcão, 9th Lord of the Majorats da Amieira and da Pipa, who made himself to be represented by his cousin Gaspar Cota Falcão Aranha de Sousa e Meneses, and had issue
  • Mariana José Mouzinho de Albuquerque (Old Family House, São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon, July 27, 1790 – aft. October 2, 1863), a Professed Nun
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     of the Order of Santiago, at the Convent
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     of Santos o Novo, in Lisbon, by mand of King John VI of Portugal
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     on August 1, 1819, having officiated the Prior
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     of the Convent and Conventual Friar
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     of Palmela
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     João António Rebelo da Silva, and being the Commander Dona Maria Ana de Almada
  • Luís da Silva Mouzinho de Albuquerque
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  • Ana Carlota Mouzinho de Albuquerque (Old Family House, São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon, July 27, 1793 – August 2, 1811), who died unmarried and without issue
  • Joana Mouzinho de Albuquerque (Old Family House, São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon, July 8, 1794 – ?), who Professed as a Nun
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     at the Convent of Santos o Novo, in Lisbon, on July 27, 1820, accompanying her sister Mariana José
  • Eugénia Matilde Mouzinho de Albuquerque (Old Family House, São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon
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    , July 30, 1795 – ?), who died unmarried and without issue
  • João Mouzinho de Albuquerque
    João Mouzinho de Albuquerque
    João Mouzinho de Albuquerque was a Portuguese writer and administrator.-Biography:...


Sources

  • Cunha, Fernando de Castro Pereira Mouzinho de Albuquerque e (1906-1983), Mouzinho de Albuquerque - História e Genealogia. Lisboa, 1971, pp. 138-42
  • Cunha, Fernando de Castro Pereira Mouzinho de Albuquerque e (1906-1998), Instrumentário Genealógico - Linhagens Milenárias. MCMXCV, pp. 191-2
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