Jorge Maria O'Neill

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Dr. Jorge Maria O'Neill (Lisbon, November 7, 1908 – after 1997) was the head of one of the Irish Royal Families, the Clanaboy O'Neill dynasty, which has resided in Portugal since the 18th century. He was officially recognized by the heraldic societies throughout Europe as titular Prince and Count of Clanaboy,^{[citation needed]} but has refused to use the title, preferring instead the style O'Neill of Clannaboy. He was the first son of the previous head Hugo O'Neill and his wife Dona Júlia Margarida Catarina de Serpa Pimentel de Sousa Coutinho, herself a descendant of the Dukes of Braganza and King John I of Portugal.^{[citation needed]}

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Jorge Maria O'Neill was married in Cascais, December 23, 1937 to Josefina Luísa Roquette Ricciardi (April 5, 1917 – April 11, 2004), daughter of Luís Rafael Feliciano da Conceição Ricciardi, descendant of a noble Italian family from Aversa, and his wife, Julieta Garin Holtreman Roquette, grandniece of the 1st Baron de Salvaterra de Magos, and maternal granddaughter through representation of Alfredo Augusto das Neves Holtreman - the 1st Viscount de Alvalade - founder of Sporting Clube de Portugal (often erroneously known as "Sporting Lisbon"), descendant of a noble family from the Bishopric of Liège. The couple had five children:

Hugo Ricciardi O'Neill
Maria Madalena Ricciardi O'Neill (Lisbon, Alcântara, September 13, 1940), married in Setúbal, September 7, 1961 to Gonçalo Dinís Pinheiro de Melo (Cascais, Casa de São Bernardo, November 18, 1931), son of Bernardo Miguel António Pinheiro de Melo, of the Counts de Arnoso and Viscounts de Pindela, and wife Maria Luísa Anjos Dinís, the couple has four children
Teresa Maria Ricciardi O'Neill (born March 26, 1942), married to Luís Filipe Mayer da Câmara Pina (born May 13, 1938), son of Luís Maria Portocarrero da Câmara Pina, Licenced in Mathematics by the University of Coimbra, a General, Chief of General Staff of the Army, Parliamentary to the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal, and a Diplomat, and wife Marta Maria de Lima Mayer, of some Jewish paternal ancestry and also of Irish maternal ancestry, and had three children
Margarida Maria Ricciardi O'Neill (born January 18, 1944), unmarried
Maria Isabel Ricciardi O'Neill (born March 23, 1947), unmarried