Count of Amarante


The Count of Amarante is a noble title, decreed by Queen Maria I of Portugal on 13 May 1811, and instituted on 28 June 1811, in favour of Francisco da Silveira Pinto da Fonseca Teixeira, 1st Count of Amarante.

List of counts

  1. Francisco da Silveira Pinto da Fonseca Teixeira, 1st Count of Amarante ;
  2. Manuel da Silveira Pinto da Fonseca Teixeira, 2nd Count of Amarante, 1st Marquess of Chaves
After the fall of the monarchy, the title was held by pretenders, owing to the dissolution of the noble system: