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unusual facts about Torres Novas



Augusto de Vasconcelos

His father was a natural son of António César de Vasconcelos Correia, 1st Viscount and 1st Count of Torres Novas and 93rd Governor-General of India, thus being a second cousin once removed of Fernando Peyroteo and three times removed of José Couceiro.


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Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra

John III responded by locking up João de Lencastre in the Castle of São Jorge for some years (an episode later dramatized by Camilo Castelo Branco in his play O Marquez de Torres-Novas).