Infante Manuel, Count of Ourém, KGF (Portuguese pronunciation: [mɐnuˈɛl]; Manuel José Francisco António Caetano Estêvão Bartolomeu; (3 August 1697 - 3 August 1766) was a Portuguese infante (prince), seventh child of Peter II, King of Portugal, and his wife Maria Sophia of Neuburg.
He was born on 3 August 1697 in Lisbon and died unmarried and without legitimate issue at the Quinta de Belas in the same city on the same day in 1766.
Ordered by his brother King John V of Portugal to return home, he disobeyed and went to Paris and then to Germany.
In 1728 he became one of the candidates for the hand of the wealthy Maria Zofia Sieniawska supported by the Habsburgs in attempt to gain a strong position in Poland before the Royal Election of 1733.
[1] Well known at the Austrian and Russian court, he was even proposed as the next King of Poland for a short time in 1733, in the onset of the War of the Polish Succession.