Duarte de Freitas do Amaral

Duarte Pinto de Carvalho de Freitas do Amaral, GCIH, ComC KCSG; (13 May 1909 – 16 July 1979) was a Portuguese politician.

Background[]

He was the fourth of six children of and wife Ana Mendes Ribeiro de Oliveira, and the brother of .

Career[]

He was a Licentiate in Civil Engineering from the University of Porto.^{[citation needed]}

A landowner, he became the Lord by purchase of the House of an Aveleira, in Pencelo, Guimarães.^{[citation needed]}

He became a Deputy to the National Assembly of Portugal and a Voter of the Superior Councils of the Industry and the Combustibles, Vice President of the Administration Council of Sacor and President of the Administration Councils of Cidla and Petroquímica.^{[citation needed]}

Distinctions[]

•  Portugal : Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry
•  Portugal: Commander of the Order of Christ
•   Holy See: Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great
•   Holy See: Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre
•  Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Knight
•  Brazil : Grand Officer of the Order of Rio Branco
•  Brazil : Officer of the Order of the Southern Cross
•  Portugal: Honorary Citizen of Póvoa de Varzim

Marriage and issue[]

He married at the Chapel of the Patriarchate in Lisbon on 12 December 1936 Maria Filomena de Campos Trocado, born in Póvoa de Varzim on 8 July 1913, sister of his sister in law, daughter of Dr. Josué Francisco Trocado and wife Maria Alves de Campos, and had four children:

• Duarte Pinto de Freitas do Amaral (Guimarães, 29 October 1937 - 6 August 1941)
• Pedro Pinto de Freitas do Amaral (14 October 1938 - House of an Eira, 7 October 1941)
• Diogo Pinto de Freitas do Amaral
• João Pinto de Freitas do Amaral

References[]

• Anuário da Nobreza de Portugal, III, 2006, Tomo IV, pg. 862 to 873
• Costados, Gonçalo de Mesquita da Silveira de Vasconcelos e Sousa, Livraria Esquina, 1.ª Edição, Porto, 1997, N.º 55