Duke of Aveiro

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Arms of the Lencastres, Dukes of Aveiro.

Duke of

George of Lencastre, a natural son of King John II of Portugal
.

John of Lencastre was already

1580 Portuguese succession crisis. Thus the Dukes became the second aristocratic House of Portugal, after the Braganzas
.

Archbishop of Évora and general Inquisitor
, becoming 5th Duke of Aveiro. He died in 1673 without issue.

The succession was given to his niece,

Maria de Guadalupe of Lencastre, who was married to the Spanish Duke of Los Arcos. She returned to Portugal with her younger son, while her husband and her older son stayed in Spain. She regained the control of her House and estates and recognised the suzerainty of the House of Braganza
.

Due to the alleged participation of the 8th Duke of Aveiro in the

coat-of-arms destroyed from the public places, their houses demolished and their lands salted
. Only the Palace of the Dukes of Aveiro in Azeitão, Portugal remains (albeit with the destroyed coat of arms on its facade) as a testament to the family's previous might and power.

Stone memorial of Aveiro's shame in Belém, Lisbon.

The Aveiro palace in Lisbon, demolished and salted, gave place to a stone memorial in order to perpetuate the memory of the shame of the House of Aveiro. In it the following text can be read (in Portuguese): Aqui foram arrasadas e salgadas as casas de José Mascarenhas, exautorado das honras de Duque de Aveiro e outras condemnado por sentença proferida na Suprema Juncta de Inconfidencia em 12 de Janeiro de 1759. Justiçado como um dos chefes do barbaro e execrando desacato que na noite de 3 de Septembro de 1758 se havia commetido contra a real e sagrada pessoa de D.José I. Neste terreno infame se não poderá edificar em tempo algum. ("In this place were put to the ground and salted the houses of José Mascarenhas, stripped of the honours of Duque de Aveiro and others, convicted by sentence proclaimed in the Supreme Court of Inconfidences on the 12th of January 1759. Put to Justice as one of the leaders of the most barbarous and execrable upheaval that, on the night of the 3rd of September 1758, was committed against the most royal and sacred person of the Lord Joseph I. In this infamous land nothing may be built for all time.")

After 1759 the title became abeyant. In 1939,

Marquis of Lavradio
.

List of the dukes of Aveiro

  1. George, Duke of Coimbra (therefore grandson of King John II of Portugal
    );
  2. George of Lancastre, 2nd Duke of Aveiro (1548-1578, in Alcácer Quibir
    ), son of the previous duke;
  3. Álvaro of Lancastre, 3rd Duke of Aveiro
    (1540-1626),  ;
  4. Raimundo of Lancastre, 4th Duke of Aveiro
    (1620-1666), grandson of the previous dukes;
  5. Peter of Lancastre, 5th Duke of Aveiro (1608-1673), son of Álvaro and Juliana of Lencastre, 3rd Dukes of Aveiro. Archbishop of Évora
    , died without issue;
  6. Maria de Guadalupe of Lancastre, 6th Duchess of Aveiro (1630-1715), sister of Raimundo of Lencastre, married the Spanish Manuel Ponce de León, Duke of Arcos
    ;
  7. Gabriel of Lancastre, 7th Duke of Aveiro
    (1667-1745), son of the previous duchess, died without issue.
  8. Marquis of Pombal under orders of King Joseph I of Portugal, due to his alleged participation in the Távora affair
    , a conspiracy against the king.

Other titles

The dukes of Aveyro (Spanish title)

When

Maria de Guadalupe of Lencastre was finally recognised by the Portuguese King as Duchess of Aveiro in 1679, on condition that she return to Portugal although she was married to the Spanish
Duke of Los Arcos. Her husband opposed this; she divorced him, returned to her homeland and regained the House of Aveiro and their estates.

While the divorce was pending, King

Carlos II of Spain
tried to prevent her return to Portugal by granting her, in 1681, the Spanish title of Duchess of Aveyro (Spanish spelling). This title belongs today to the Spanish Carvajal family, with no relationship to the Lancastre family of Portugal. It is not a Portuguese title and is entirely separate from its Portuguese homonym.

Family name

The

John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and head of the House of Lancaster. The Marquess of Lavradio
is currently the Chief of Name and Arms of the Lancastre family in Portugal.

Genealogical summary

John I
(1357-1433)
King of Portugal		Philippa of Lencastre
(1360-1415)
Princess of England
Duarte I

(1391-1438)
King of Portugal
Afonso V
(1432-1481)
King of Portugal		Infante Fernando
(1433-1470)
1st.Duke of Beja
2nd.Duke of Viseu
Ana de Mendonça
Leonor of Viseu
(1458-1525)
Manuel I
(1469-1521)
King of Portugal
Afonso

(1475-1491)
Crown Prince
JOHN of LENCASTRE

(1501-1571)
1st.Marquis of Torres Novas
1st.Duke of Aveiro		LOUIS of LENCASTRE
(1505-1574)
1st.Comendador-mor
of the Order of Aviz
Comemdadores-mores of Aviz
Dukes of Aveiro
Dukes and Marquises of Torres Novas
Counts of FigueiróKnights of Coruche
Marquises of GouvêaCounts of Vila Nova de PortimãoLords of Alcaçovas
Marquises of LavradioMarquises of AbrantesCounts of Alcaçovas

See also

External links

Bibliography

"Nobreza de Portugal e do Brasil" – Vol. II, pages 342/347. Published by Zairol Lda., Lisbon 1989.

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