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Jaime Alvares Pereira de Melo, 3rd Duke of Cadaval

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Died
  
29 May 1749

Name
  
Jaime Pereira

Religion
  
Roman Catholicism

Spouse
  
Luisa of BraganzaHenriqueta Julia de Lorena

Issue
  
Nuno, Duke of CadavalJoanaMargarida, Marquise of MarialvaLuisa, Countess of Sao Vicente

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

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Jaime Alvares Pereira de Melo, 3rd Duke of Cadaval

Career

The Duke was High-Equerry of the Royal Household of Pedro II of Portugal and subsequently that of Joao 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, Luisa of Braganza, natural daughter of King Peter II of Portugal, with whom he had no children, and then to Henriqueta Julia 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 Tentugal.
  • Joana, died in infancy.
  • Margarida, married Diogo Jose Vito de Meneses Noronha Coutinho, 5th Marquis of Marialva, 7th Count of Cantanhede.
  • Luisa, married Manuel Carlos da Cunha e Tavora, 6th Count of Sao Vicente.
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