Luís Vaz Pereira Pinto Guedes

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Luís Vaz Pereira Pinto Guedes, 2nd Viscount of Montalegre, was a Portuguese soldier, born 1770, who served on the absolutist side in Portugal's Liberal Wars.

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, who was in command at the Battle of Aceiceira 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.