Talk:Duke of Albuquerque

dormancy?
Was there really a gap of 62 years between the death of the first duke and the birth of the second? —Tamfang (talk) 02:39, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
 * doesn't seem so. Something very odd here. I don't know the succession rules in Portugal well enough but the first duke appears to have died childless. It is not clear on what basis an heir has been found and who can properly adjudicate on such an heir considering Portugal is a republic. I can find references to the Conselho de Nobreza. Garlicplanting (talk) 14:02, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

According to what the owner of Portuguese Monarchist website Monarchia Nuno A. G. Bandeira reports - during the 21 December 1990 Council of Nobility, a non-government affiliated organization founded to represent and organize descendants of Portuguese nobility presided over by D. Duarte Pio, the Miguelist pretender to the abolished Portuguese throne, it was resolved that D. Alberto Oulman da Costa de Sousa de Macedo, 7th Count and 9th Viscount of Mesquitela, would be created the 2nd Duke of Albuquerque. However, I can find no online record or announcement of this resolution or creation, and also no website available for the Council of Nobility's successor organization Portuguese Institute of Nobility, created in 2004. I suppose one could enquire with the Royal House of Portugal's organization website and ask for a source from the Institute of Nobility to verify this claim. Of course, however, this title is purely honorary and has no hereditary or courtly function in the current Portuguese Republic. TokyoRevelation (talk) 01:00, 29 May 2016 (UTC)