Count of Vidigueira (in Portuguese
Conde da Vidigueira) was a Portuguese comital
title of nobility awarded by King
Manuel I of Portugal to
Dom Vasco da Gama, who discovered the maritime route from Europe to
India. The title was created by a royal decree issued in
Évora on December 29, 1519, after an agreement signed in the 7th November between Vasco da Gama and Dom
Jaime, Duke of Braganza, who ceded him the towns of
Vidigueira and Vila de Frades, granting Vasco da Gama and his heirs and successors all the revenues and privileges related.