Hugo Ricciardi O'Neill

Hugo Ricciardi O'Neill (born Lisbon, Encarnação, 7 March 1939) is the current head of a branch of the O'Neill dynasty of Clanaboy, whose family has been in Portugal since the 18th century.

Life

His Portuguese residence is his Quinta das Machadas de Cima, at São Julião Parish, in Setúbal. He is a Dr. Licentiate and an Autonomous Consultant and a MA Honoris Causa by the National University of Ireland, Galway, and he is the Chairman of The Standing Council of Irish Chiefs and Chieftains.[1] He is also the representative of the title of Viscount of Santa Mónica, in Portugal.

Marriage and issue

Hugo Ricciardi O'Neill married at the Chapel of the Quinta do Bonjardim, in Belas, Sintra, on 10 October 1962 his cousin Rosa Maria de Sousa Coutinho Empis (born Lisbon, Mercês, 2 February 1936), daughter of Raúl Júlio Empis[2] and wife Dona Luísa Olga Burnay de Sousa Coutinho.[3] They had four children:

Rosa María O'Neill died on 9 February 2005. Hugo O'Neill married secondly at Quinta das Machadas, in Setubal, on 17 June 2008, Carmen Caro Cebrián (born 2 April 1947, Zaragoza, Spain) daughter of Aníbal Caro Román and wife María Felicidad Cebrián Causapé.

Ancestry

See also

References

  1. Anuário da Nobreza de Portugal, III, 2006, Tomo III, pg. 1.394
  2. Of paternal Walloon descent and son of Bankers.
  3. Also of Wallon descent from a Family of Bankers on her mother's side and daughter of the 17th Count of Redondo (formerly Counts of Borba), 14th Count of Vimioso and Representative of the Titles of Marquess of Borba, Marquess of Valença, Marquess (formerly Counts) of Aguiar, Count of Soure and Lord of Gouveia.
  4. Licentiate in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, Knight of Grace and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, etc, and a paternal nephew of Aristides de Sousa Mendes – son of his twin brother César.
  5. Of Ashkenazi Jewish and Sephardi Jewish maternal descent.
  6. Of the Marquesses (formerly Viscounts and Barons) of Sá da Bandeira.
  7. Paternal granddaughter of Luís de Freitas Branco.

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