Luís Vaz Pereira Pinto Guedes, 2nd Viscount of Montalegre, was a Portuguese soldier, who served on the absolutist side in Portugal's Liberal Wars. He was born in Vila Real, on August 10, 1770, and became a member of the Royal Household ("moço-fidalgo") by a decree of December 20, 1778. He succeeded his father-in-law as 2nd Viscount of Montalegre by a royal decree of July 3, 1823. As the military commander in Trás-os-Montes in 1823, he raised a rebellion in the name of the absolutist prince, Infante Dom Miguel of Portugal. During the civil war between Dom Miguel and his elder brother, the former Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil, he was a prominent Miguelite general: he was in joint command of the Miguelite army at the Battle of Ponte Ferreira, and was the Miguelite commander at the Battle of Asseiceira in which Miguel's cause was finally defeated. After the war ended, he was cashiered from the army in 1834. He wrote memoirs justifying his actions, and died in 1841. References 1770 births 1841 deaths Viscounts of Portugal Portuguese soldiers Portuguese nobility Military personnel of the Liberal Wars 18th-century Portuguese people 19th-century Portuguese people People from Vila Real, Portugal Portuguese military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars