Luis de Almeida, 1st Count of Avintes

D. Luis de Almeida, Count of Avintes (b. ? – d. 22 December 1671), was a Portuguese nobleman and military man and Governor of Rio de Janeiro where the region went through perhaps the most acute phase of the economic crisis that the institution of the Portuguese East India Company had aggravated. One of his first acts as governor saw him requesting from the Chamber of resources to pay the salaries of the garrison, which, as usual, were in great arrears.^[1] Later in 1661–1662 he became the last Portuguese Governor of Tangier.

Luis de Almeida
Count of Avintes,
Died	22 December 1671 Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal

See also

• Marquesses of Lavradio

References

1. Coaracy, Vivaldo (1944). O Rio de Janeiro no Século 17 (in Portuguese). Livraria José Olympio. p. 136.

• The information in this article is based on that in its Portuguese equivalent.