Count of Lavradio

{{Short description|Noble title in the Kingdom of Portugal}}

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| creation_date = 4 June 1725

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| monarch = João V of Portugal

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| first_holder = D. António de Almeida Soares de Portugal

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| present_holder = D. António de Almeida Corrêa de Sá

| heir_apparent = D. Jaime de Almeida, 8th Marquess of Lavradio

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Count of Lavradio is a Portuguese title of nobility created twice.

The first creation was by King Pedro II of Portugal, by Letters Patent of 16 March 1670, for Luís de Mendonça Furtado e Albuquerque, 1st and only Count of Lavradio. Luís de Mendonça Furtado was a nobleman, distantly related to both the Portuguese and Spanish reigning families, a soldier and statesman, with a distinguished career in India where he was nominated one of the triumvirate of interim governors in 1661 and later, in 1670, as the 54th Governor and 31st Viceroy of India. He did not marry and died, childless, while returning to Portugal in 1677. It was through his influence that Lavradio, his birthplace on the left bank of the Tagus River, was raised to the category of a town.{{Cite web|url=https://www.arqnet.pt/dicionario/lavradioconde.html|title = Luis de Mendonça Furtado de Albuquerque, 1.º conde do Lavradio - Portugal, Dicionário Histórico}}

The second creation was conferred in perpetuity{{efn|In the original Portuguese: de juro e herdade meaning "in perpetuity and by inheritance", whereby to be inherited a title required no further concession from the Crown or the State, but merely its acknowledgement.}} by King João V of Portugal for D. António de Almeida Soares de Portugal, together with the Seigniory of Lavradio, on 12 January 1714,{{Cite web|url=http://www.arqnet.pt/dicionario/lavradio1m.html|title = D. António de Almeida Soares e Portugal, 4.º conde de Avintes e 1.º marquês do Lavradio - Portugal, Dicionário Histórico}} registered in the Registo Geral de Mercês{{efn|The General Registry of Honours kept in the Torre do Tombo - Portugal's central registry. In this case the creation of the title is registered in page 523 of book 9 of King João V's reign}}{{Cite web|url=https://digitarq.arquivos.pt/details?id=1885886 |title=Registo Geral de Mercês de Dom João V, livro 9 |website=digitarq.arquivos.pt}} on 4 June 1725, and confirmed by Letters Patent. The Count was later created 1st Marquess of Lavradio, and the title of Count of Lavradio has been used as a subsidiary title of the House of Lavradio on four more occasions by younger sons and close relatives of the head of the family with the latter's permission.{{Cite book|title=Brasões da Sala de Sintra|last=Braamcamp Freire|first=Anselmo|publisher=Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda|year=1996|volume=II|location=Lisbon|pages=363–364}}{{Cite book|title=Anuário da Nobreza de Portugal III|last1=Mello Corrêa|first1=Manuel|last2=Mattos e Silva|first2=António|publisher=Instituto Português de Heráldica|year=1985|volume=1|location=Lisbon|pages=400}}{{Cite book|title=Uma família da Beira Baixa : os Torres Fevereiro e as suas ligações familiares|last=Torres.|first=Fevereiro, José Luíz de Sampayo|date=2004|publisher=Dislivro Histórica|isbn=972887605X|edition=2a. ed. actualizada|location=Lisboa|pages=243|oclc=70293907}}