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{{Infobox royalty
| name           = Jaime Álvares Pereira de Melo
| title          = [[Duke of Cadaval]]
| image          = D. Jaime Alvares Pereira de Mello, Duque de Cadaval.png
| caption        = ''Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Cadaval''; [[Pierre-Antoine Quillard]], c. 1728-1730.
| birth_date     = 1 September 1684
| death_date     = 29 May 1749
| spouse         = [[Luísa, Duchess of Cadaval|Luísa of Braganza]]<br />Henriette Julienne de Lorraine
| issue          = [[Nuno Caetano Álvares Pereira de Melo, 4th Duke of Cadaval|Nuno, Duke of Cadaval]]<br />Joana<br />Margarida, Marquise of Marialva<br />Luísa, Countess of São Vicente
| religion       = [[Roman Catholicism]]
|}}
[[Dom (title)|D.]] '''Jaime Álvares Pereira de Melo''' (1 September 1684 — 29 May 1749), 3rd [[Duke of Cadaval]], 5th Marquis of Ferreira, and 6th Count of Tentúgal, was a [[Portuguese nobility|Portuguese nobleman]] and statesman.
== Career ==
Dom Jaime Álvares Pereira de Melo, 3rd Duke of Cadaval, was the third son of Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira de Melo, 1st Duke of Cadaval, 4th Marquess of Ferreira and 5th Count of Tentúgal, and his third wife Princess Marguerite of Lorraine-Armagnac.
The Duke was High-[[Equerry]] of the Royal Household of [[Pedro II of Portugal]] and subsequently that of [[John V of Portugal|João V of Portugal]]. In 1713, he became a Counselor of the State and War.
== Family ==
Jaime married twice, first to his dead brother's widow, [[Luísa, Duchess of Cadaval|Luísa of Braganza]], natural daughter of  [[List of Portuguese monarchs|King]] [[Peter II of Portugal]], with whom he had no children, and then to Henriette Julienne Gabrielle de Lorraine, daughter of [[Louis, Prince of Lambesc|Louis de Lorraine, Prince of Lambesc]], with whom he had four children, three surviving to adulthood:
* '''[[Nuno Caetano Álvares Pereira de Melo, 4th Duke of Cadaval|Nuno]]''' (1741-1771), 4th Duke of Cadaval, 6th Marquis of Ferreira, 7th Count of Tentúgal, who married D. Maria Leonor da Cunha e Távora, daughter of D. Miguel Carlos da Cunha Silveira e Távora, 5th Count of São Vicente.
* '''Joana''', died in infancy.
* '''Margarida''', married Diogo José Vito de Meneses Noronha Coutinho, 5th [[Marquis of Marialva]], 7th Count of Cantanhede.
* '''Luísa''', married Manuel Carlos da Cunha e Távora, 6th Count of São Vicente.
==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Jaime Álvares Pereira de Melo, 3rd Duke of Cadaval'''
|2= 2. [[Nuno Álvares Pereira de Melo, 1st Duke of Cadaval]]
|3= 3. Marguerite of Lorraine
|4= 4. [[Count of Tentúgal|Francisco de Melo, 3rd Marquis of Ferreira and 4th Count of Tentúgal]]
|5= 5. Juana de Pimentel
|6= 6. [[Louis, Count of Armagnac|Louis de Lorraine, Count d'Armagnac]]
|7= 7. Catherine de Neufville
|8= 8. [[Count of Tentúgal|Nuno Álvares Pereira de Melo, 3rd Count of Tentúgal]]
|9= 9. Mariana de Moscoso Osorio
|10= 10. Antonio de Pimentel y Álvarez de Toledo, 4th [[Tábara|Marquis of Távara]]
|11= 11. Isabel de Moscoso
|12= 12. [[Henri, Count of Harcourt|Henri de Lorraine, Count d'Harcourt]]
|13= 13. [[Marguerite-Philippe du Cambout]]
|14= 14. [[Nicolas de Neufville de Villeroy|Nicolas de Neufville, Duke of Villeroy]]
|15= 15. Marie de Créquy, Dame de Mions
|16= 16. [[Count of Tentúgal|Francisco de Melo, 2nd Marquis of Ferreira and 2nd Count of Tentúgal]]
|17= 17. Eugenia de Bragança (daughter of [[Jaime, Duke of Braganza|Jaime I of Braganza]], 4th [[Duke of Braganza]])
|18= 18. Rodrigo de Moscoso Osorio y Álvarez de Toledo, 5th Count of Altamira
|19= 19. Isabel de Castro
|20= 20. Enríque de Pimentel y Enríquez, 3rd [[Tábara|Marquis of Távara]]
|21= 21. Juana Álvarez de Toledo
|22= 22. Lope de Moscoso Osorio, 6th Count of Altamira (son of 18 and 19)
|23= 23. Leonor de Sandoval y Rojas
|24= 24. [[Charles I, Duke of Elbeuf|Charles I de Lorraine-Guise, Duke d'Elbeuf]]
|25= 25. Marguerite de Chabot
|26= 26. Charles du Cambout, Marquis de Coislin
|27= 27. Philippe de Beurges
|28= 28. Charles de Neufville, Marquis de Villeroy
|29= 29. Jacqueline de Harlay de Sancy
|30= 30. Charles de Blanchefort de Créquy, Duke de Créquy, Prince de Poix
|31= 31. Madeleine de Bonne de Lesdiguières
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[[Category:1684 births]]
[[Category:1749 deaths]]
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[[Category:Portuguese politicians]]