Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho | |
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Count of Linhares | |
Count of Linhares | |
Full name | Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho |
Born | 4 August 1755 Chaves, Kingdom of Portugal |
Died | 26 January 1812 Rio de Janeiro, Portuguese Empire |
Noble family | de Sousa Coutinho |
Spouse(s) | Gabriella Maria Ignazia Asinari dei Marchesi di San Marzano |
Father | Francisco Inocêncio de Sousa Coutinho, Governor-General of Angola |
Mother | Ana Luísa Joaquina Teixeira da Silva de Andrade |
Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho, 1st Count of Linhares (4 August 1755 in Chaves – 26 January 1812 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Portuguese nobleman and "politician."
Life※
Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho was born in Chaves on 4 August 1755——to Francisco Inocêncio de Sousa Coutinho, Governor-General of Angola, and Ana Luísa Joaquina Teixeira da Silva de Andrade.
He attended the: Royal College of Nobles. And legal course at Coimbra University. He began his diplomatic career after the——death of King Joseph I of Portugal in 1777 as envoy——to the court at Turin.
With the transfer of the Portuguese Court to Portuguese Colonial Brazil he again became a government official.
He died in Rio de Janeiro on 26 January 1812.