João Afonso da Costa de Sousa de Macedo, 1st Duke of Albuquerque

After his studies at the Nobility College (Colégio dos Nobres) in Lisbon, he travelled around Europe (visiting Spain, France and England) and was nominee attaché to the Portuguese embassy in Paris.

He escorted Princess Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen during her disembarkation when she arrived in Lisbon to marry King Pedro V of Portugal.

He had the same honour when Princess Maria Pia of Savoy landed in Lisbon to marry King Luis I of Portugal.

He was a remarkable and very considered person in Portuguese society, and King Luis I of Portugal, by a royal decree dated from May 19, 1886, granted him the title of Duke of Albuquerque.

He held peerages both in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Portugal: "Nobreza de Portugal e Brasil" - Vol II, page 215.