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As a result all the possesions of the Ducal House of Aveiro were confiscated, their Coat-of-arms destroyed from the public places, their houses demolished and the land they stood on Salted .

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The Aveiros's palace in Lisbon , demolished and salted, gave place to a stone memorial in order to perpetuate the memory of the shame of the Aveiro House. In it the following text can be read (in Portuguese ): ''Aqui foram arrasadas e salgadas as casas de José Mascarenhas, exautorado das honras de Duque de Aveiro e outras condemnado por sentença proferida na Suprema Juncta de Inconfidencia em 12 de Janeiro de 1759. Justiçado como um dos chefes do barbaro e execrando desacato que na noite de 3 de Septembro de 1758 se havia commetido contra a real e sagrada pessoa de D.José I. Neste terreno infame se não poderá edificar em tempo algum.'' Which translates as: ''In this place were put to the ground and salted the houses of José Mascarenhas, stripped of the honours of Duque de Aveiro and others, convicted by sentence proclaimed in the Supreme Court of Inconfidences on the 12th of January 1759. Put to Justice as one of the leaders of the most barbarious and execrable upheavel that, on the night of the 3rd of September 1758, was committed against the most royal and sacred person of the Lord Joseph I. In this infamous land nothing may be built for all time.''

After 1759 the title was extinct. However, in 1939 , Duarte Nuno, Duke Of Braganza , authorized the use of the personal title of Duke of Aveiro to Caetano Henriques Pereira Faria Saldanha De Lancastre, Count Of Alcáçovas , who did not use the prorogative.


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