Count of Feira


Count of Feira was a Portuguese title of nobility created by a royal decree, in 1481, by King Afonso V of Portugal, and granted to D. Rui Pereira, the son of Fernão Pereira, Lord of Santa Maria da Feira.
When the 8th Count died without a legitimate issue, Álvaro Pereira Forjaz Coutinho a direct descendant of the 1st Count, Rui Pereira, became the 9th Count for a time before the Crown granted the estates to the Casa do Infantado which, in those times belonged to Infante Francisco, Duke of Beja.
Later, on 18 May 1820, king John VI of Portugal granted the County of Feira to D. Miguel Pereira Forjaz Coutinho Barreto de Sá e Resende.

List of the Counts of Feira

First creation (1481)

  1. D. Rui Pereira
  2. D. Diogo Pereira, his son;
  3. D. Manuel Pereira, his son;
  4. D. Diogo Pereira, his son;
  5. D. João Pereira Forjaz ;
  6. D. Joana Forjaz Pereira, her daughter, married to Manuel Pimentel ;
  7. D. João Forjaz Pereira Pimentel, his son;
  8. D. Fernando Forjaz Pereira Pimentel de Menezes e Silva his brother, João Forjaz Pereira Pimentel had an illegitimate son.
  9. D. Álvaro Pereira Forjaz Coutinho, his great, great, great grandson; whose illegitimate son D. Cristovão Pereira was the father of Dona Maria Pereira.

    Second creation (1820)

  10. Miguel Pereira Forjaz Coutinho Barreto de Sá Resende de Magalhães - Statesman, Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs and of War.
Today, this title is claimed by José Pedro da Silveira Cyrne de Vasconcelos, and Andrés Pereira-Meza head of the line from Ferrol of the Pereira family.