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Jaime Álvares Pereira de Melo, 3rd Duke of Cadaval

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Spouse
  
Luísa of Braganza Henriqueta Júlia de Lorena

Issue
  
Nuno, Duke of Cadaval Joana Margarida, Marquise of Marialva Luísa, Countess of São Vicente

Died
  
29 May 1749, Lisbon, Portugal

Parents
  
Nuno Álvares Pereira de Melo, 1st Duke of Cadaval

Grandparent
  
Francisco de Melo, 3° marqués de Ferreira y 4° conde de Tentúgal

Great-grandparent
  
Nuno Álvares Pereira de Melo

D. Jaime Álvares Pereira de Melo (1 September 1684 — 29 May 1749), 3rd Duke of Cadaval, 5th Marquis of Ferreira, and 6th Count of Tentúgal, was a Portuguese nobleman and statesman.

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Career

The Duke was High-Equerry of the Royal Household of Pedro II of Portugal and subsequently that of João V of Portugal. In 1713, he became a Counselor of the State and War.

Family

Jaime married twice, first to his dead brother's widow, Luísa of Braganza, natural daughter of King Peter II of Portugal, with whom he had no children, and then to Henriqueta Júlia Gabriela de Lorena, daughter of the Louis de Lorraine, Prince of Lambesc, with whome he has four children, three surviving to adulthood:

  • Nuno Caetano (1741-1771), 4th Duke of Cadaval, 6th Marquis of Ferreira, 7th Count of Tentúgal.
  • Joana, died in infancy.
  • Margarida, married Diogo José Vito de Meneses Noronha Coutinho, 5th Marquis of Marialva, 7th Count of Cantanhede.
  • Luísa, married Manuel Carlos da Cunha e Távora, 6th Count of São Vicente.

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