page_title: Counts and dukes of Linhares
hierarchical_section_title: Counts and dukes of Linhares
caption_attribution_description: Arms of the Portuguese Noronha family, ancient Counts and Dukes of Linhares. Made by JSobral Español: Escudo de armas del Ducado de Linares. “BLASONADO: Escudo cuartelado. I&amp;IV mantelado: 1º y 2º de plata, un león de púrpura coronado de oro; mantel de gules, un castillo de oro; bordura componada de dieciocho piezas de veros y de oro. (Enríquez de Castilla, casa de Trastámara); II&amp;III en campo de plata, cinco escusones de azur, puestos en cruz, cargados cada uno de cinco bezantes de plata, colocados en aspa, y una bordura de gules cargada de siete castillos de oro, tres en jefe, dos en flanco y dos hacia la punta. (Portugal, casa de Braganza) NOROÑA. (MMC3arón5acrolirioVR)
context_page_description: Count of Linhares was a Portuguese title of nobility created by a royal decree of king John III of Portugal dated from May 13th, 1532, and granted to Dom António de Noronha, 2nd son of Pedro de Menezes, 1st Marquis of Vila Real.
  This family went to live in Spain and remained faithful to the Spanish Habsburgs even after the Portuguese revolution of 1 December 1640, so the new Dynasty of Braganza no longer recognized them as Counts of Linhares.
  Later, in the 19th Century, Queen Maria I of Portugal, granted again the title of count of Linhares, by a royal decree dated from December 17th, 1808, to Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho, 1st Count of Linhares Governor of Portuguese Angola, Portuguese ambassador in Turin and a remarkable statesman.
context_section_description: Count of Linhares (in Portuguese Conde de Linhares) was a Portuguese title of nobility created by a royal decree of king John III of Portugal dated from May 13th, 1532, and granted to Dom António de Noronha, 2nd son of Pedro de Menezes, 1st Marquis of Vila Real.
  This family went to live in Spain and remained faithful to the Spanish Habsburgs even after the Portuguese revolution of 1 December 1640, so the new Dynasty of Braganza no longer recognized them as Counts of Linhares.
  Later, in the 19th Century, Queen Maria I of Portugal, granted again the title of count of Linhares (second creation),  by a royal decree dated from December 17th, 1808, to Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho, 1st Count of Linhares Governor of Portuguese Angola, Portuguese ambassador in Turin and a remarkable statesman.
caption: The coat of arms of the Noronha family, counts of Linhares (first creation).
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