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Count of Lemos ( Spanish: Conde de Lemos) is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Spain accompanied by the dignity of Grandee, granted in 1456 by Henry IV to Pedro Álvarez Osorio, as a result of his marriage to Beatriz Enríquez de Castilla, a cousin of the king. [2] [3]
- 26 May 1456
- Henry IV
- Pedro Álvarez Osorio, 1st Count of Lemos
- Peerage of Spain
Pedro Antonio Fernández de Castro Andrade y Portugal (Conde de Lemos; b. ca. 1635; d. 6 December 1672), viceroy of Peru (1667–1672). The tenth count of Lemos, Pedro Fernández de Castro was born in Spain and was only thirty-three when he assumed his post in Lima in November 1667.
Marriage and issue. He married Beatriz de Castro Osório, 3rd Countess of Lemos, in 1501, among their descendants are future Dukes of Braganza and John IV of Portugal . Dinis and Beatriz had four children: Fernando Rodrigues de Castro (1505–1575) Afonso de Lencastre. Isabel de Lencastre (1514–1558). Married her cousin Teodósio I, Duke of ...
- Beatriz de Castro Osório, 6th Countess of Lemos
- Isabel of Viseu
Pedro Fernández de Castro y Andrade (1576–1622), better known as the Great Count of Lemos, was a Galician (Spanish) nobleman who was viceroy of Naples from 1608, and was also president of the Council of the Indies .
The Castro family, Counts of Lemos since the Middle Ages, reached the zenith of its power and prestige during the reign of Philip III. The political link generated by the marriage between the sixth Count of Lemos and one of the Duke of Lerma’s
- Giuseppe Mrozek Eliszezynski
Pedro Fernández de Castro, nicknamed el de la Guerra, was a powerful Galician noble and military figure of the House of Castro, descended by illegitimate lines from the kings of Castile-Leon-Galicia. Pedro Fernandez de Castro was Lord (Señor) of Lemos and Sarria and served as mayordomo mayor of Alfonso XI of Castile, adelantado de la frontera (governor) of Andalusia, Galicia and Murcia and ...
Monarchy can show how the sixth Count of Lemos, and after him his sons, the seventh and the eighth Count of Lemos, gave their service and loyalty to the Duke of Lerma in different ways. Through their example, this paper aims to explain the extent to which various levels of fidelity and independence
