House of Lobo Machado
| House of Lobo Machado | |
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| Noble family | |
| Parent family | Primitive House of Lobo Machado (enatic) House of Cardoso de Menezes, Morgados of Paço de Nespereira (cognatic) |
| Country |  Kingdom of Portugal  Portuguese Republic |
| Founded | 1737 |
| Founder | Simão Lobo de Sousa Machado |
| Current head | João Lobo Machado Cardoso de Menezes |
| Titles | |
| Distinctions | |
| Estate(s) | List
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The House of Lobo Machado is an extant Portuguese noble family, patrilineally descended from Simão Lobo de Sousa Machado (1707-1775), a Portuguese Knight of Christ who was nobilitated on 28 July 1739 in recognition of his services, as well as those of his father and grandfather, in the civil administration of Guimarães. The House of Lobo Machado joined the ranks of the Portuguese titled nobility in 1886, when its head at the time, Gaspar Lobo de Sousa Machado, was granted the title of Viscount of Paço de Nespereira by King Luís I of Portugal.
The House of Lobo Machado was historically one of the wealthiest and most relevant families of the hereditary nobility of Guimarães from the 18th century onwards.
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Prior to being ennobled, the male line ancestors of the House of Lobo Machado were wealthy patricians enrolled in the higher offices of the administration of Guimarães and of the Church in the district of Braga as well as in merchant trading and agriculture. Holding knighthoods of the Order of Christ and as Vereadores, Officers of the Holy Inquisition, Cónegos and Abbots, members of this family held personal (i.e., non-hereditary) nobility, prior to being elevated into the hereditary nobility.
The House of Lobo Machado as it exists today originated from the marriage on 16 May 1702 of Pedro da Costa Pereira, a knight of Christ, son and heir of Rafael da Costa, Patrician of Guimarães, and D. Josefa Maria de Sousa Lobo Machado, heiress of António Brandão de Sousa Lobo Machado, as Lord of the estate of Santão. With the inheritance of Santão, the children of that marriage also inherited matrilineally the surnames of the old (and now extinct) House of Lobo Machado. The old House of Lobo Machado, in turn, had originated from the 16th century marriage of a descendant of the House of the Lords of Entre Homem e Cávado, later Marquesses of Montebelo, Pedro Machado, Lord of Quinta da Granja, taking their surname from the patronymic of their legendary ancestor Mem Moniz de Ganadrei “Machado” (axe), who during the conquest of the city of Santarém in the 12th century, broke the city gates with an axe; and the female heir of a cadet branch of the House of the Barons of Alvito, D. Maria de Sousa Lobo, Lady of the immemorial estate of Santão, originally from a cadet branch of the royalty connected House of Sousa, and later inherited by the House of Lobo Machado.
Simão (I) de Sousa Lobo Machado, Lord of Santão, knight of Christ, son to Pedro da Costa Pereira, knight of Christ, and D. Josefa Maria de Sousa Lobo Machado, was ennobled on 28 July 1739 [1], with hereditary nobility for all its male heirs of the body lawfully begotten, as a Hereditary Gentleman of the Coat of Arms.
The ennoblement of the House of Lobo Machado was due to the services rendered by Simão (I) de Sousa Lobo Machado’ paternal family, namely his grandfather, Rafael da Costa, a patrician and wealthy financier with business interests in the region of Minho, and centred in Guimarães.
Simão (II) de Sousa Lobo Machado, Lord of Santão, Simão (I)’s grandson, married to D. Rita de Moraes Correia de Sá, Lady-in-Waiting to Queen D. Carlota Joaquina, Queen of Portugal and Empress of Brazil, and sister to the Field-Marshall Viscount of Azenha, and all his sons were granted the hereditary title of Hereditary Gentleman of the Royal Household in 1804.
Gaspar de Sousa Lobo Machado, 1st Viscount of Paço de Nespereira, son Rodrigo (II) de Sousa Lobo Machado, Lord of Santão, Hereditary Gentleman of the Royal Household, knight of Christ was married to D. Maria Amélia Pinheiro de Mello, 13th Lady of Paço de Nespereira, daughter of the Viscount of Pindela and her first wife, D. Maria do Carmo Cardoso de Menezes, 11th Lady of Paço de Nespereira.
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Through the marriage of Gaspar de Sousa Lobo Machado, 1st Viscount of Paço de Nespereira, with the 13th Lady of Paço de Nespereira the members of the House of Lobo Machado matrilineally inherited the surnames, arms, and patrimonial possessions of the extinct House of Cardoso de Menezes, Lords of Paço de Nespereira.
The 1st Viscounts of Paço de Nespereira had three sons, who founded different branches of the House of Lobo Machado.
João Lobo Machado Cardoso de Menezes, 2nd Viscount of Paço de Nespereira, was Governor of the district of Braga, and was awarded the Order of the Conception, with the rank of Grand Cross, which was reserved for the titled Grandees of the Realm. He was married to D. Maria da Conceição Pereira da Silva de Sousa de Menezes, daughter of the 2nd Counts of Bertiandos. Through this marriage, the House of Lobo Machado inherited the Palace of Biscainhos, one of the most remarkable examples of residence palaces of the nobility in Portugal.
By the end of the monarchy in 1910, the House of Lobo Machado had integrated through marriage with the old high nobility of the royal court - the head of the House by that time was a nephew of the peers of the realm the 2nd Viscount of Pindela (Portuguese ambassador to the German Empire and the Netherlands) and the 1st Count of Arnoso (a High-Officer of the Royal Court and private secretary to King Charles I of Portugal) and brother in law to the Count of Bertiandos (last Chairman of the, now dissolved, Portuguese House of Lords), the Count of Tarouca, the Marchioness of Alegrete and Penalva, Countess of Vilar Maior, of the Count of Oeiras (heir to the Marquess of Pombal) as well as several other members of the higher nobility such as members of the House of Henriques de Lancastre.
Legacy
The House of Lobo Machado is present in the toponymy of the Portuguese North, with a street (Rua Visconde do Paço de Nespereira, in Nespereira (Guimarães)) and an avenue (Avenida do Visconde de Nespereira, in Braga) named after its members.
In Guimarães, the Lobo Machado name is still present in the eponymous palace, which was inhabited by members of the family until the early 20th century, when it was sold to the Commercial and Industrial Association of Guimarães (Associação Comercial e Industrial de Guimarães), which has been headquartered in the palace since.
The 17th century Palácio dos Biscainhos, seat of the 2nd and 3rd viscounts of Paço de Nespereira, was sold in 1963 to the Braga District and is currently a Museum dedicated to the palace's history and architecture.
In 1996, a member of the House of Lobo Machado, Pedro José Maria Freitas do Amaral Lobo Machado, won a landmark judicial case against the Portuguese state before the European Court of Human Rights (Lobo Machado v. Portugal).
Notable members
- Gaspar Lobo de Sousa Machado e Couros (1842-1920): 1st Viscount of Paço de Nespereira.
References
- ↑ Souza Machado, José (1932). Ultimas gerações de Entre Douro e Minho, Vol 2 (in Portuguese) (1st ed.). Telles da Sylva (published 27 May 2008). p. 392.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) Search this book on
External links
- Simão Lobo de Sousa Machado's genealogy
- Gaspar Lobo de Sousa Machado's letters patent for the title of 1st viscount de Paço de Nespereira
- João Lobo Machado Cardoso Amaral de Meneses' letters patent for the title of 2nd viscount de Paço de Nespereira
- Museu dos Biscaínhos
- Casa dos Biscainhos
- Paço de Nespereira
References
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