João Bernardo Galvão Teles, partner at LMT Abreu Loureiro, Correia de Matos & Galvão Teles, was promoted to effective member of the Instituto Português de Heráldica during the meeting of the Board of Directors today.

The investigator was a corresponding member of this Institute, now becoming with his promotion to effective member part of the above-mentioned Board of Directors, of which Lourenço Correia de Matos is currently chairman, of this ancient institution established in 1929.

Lourenço Correia de Matos, partner at LMT Abreu Loureiro, Correia de Matos & Galvão Teles, integrated the coordination commission for the book of studies in homage to António Pedro Vicente, together with Fernando Rosas, Luís Reis Torgal, Mário Matos e Lemos, Luís Bigotte Chorão and Gabriela Gândara Terenas.

Presented today at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon, the book, with over 700 pages, includes a text by Lourenço Correia de Matos, entitled “A Ascendência portuguesa de Don Manuel de Godoy y Alvarez de Faria, Príncipe da Paz e Conde de Évora Monte”.

António Pedro Vicente, Doctor of History by the University of Paris — Nanterre, is a retired university professor of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, academic of number of the Portuguese Academy of History and corresponding member of several international academies, including the Royal Academy of History in Spain. He has written numerous publications on the history of Portugal in the nineteenth century and its relations with Spain, France and England, in addition to essays on the History of Photography and the I Republic.