Viscount of Barrosa (Portuguese: Visconde da Barrosa) is a Portuguese title of nobility, created on July 9, 1892 by Carlos I, king of Portugal, for José Ribeiro Lima da Costa Azevedo, 1st Viscount of Barrosa (Barcelos, July 8, 1851 – Viana do Castelo, November 30, 1925), a prominent political figure in Viana do Castelo and local philanthropist.[1]

The viscountship takes its name from Casa da Barrosa, an eighteenth-century manor house and estate inherited by the first holder's wife Antónia Ribeiro Lima in Vila Franca do Lima, Viana do Castelo.[2]

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  1. ^ Various authors, Nobreza de Portugal e Brasil (Lisbon, 1983), vol. II, p. 404.
  2. ^ Laurinda F. de Carvalho Araújo, Monografia de Santa Eulália de Rio Covo (Barcelos, Braga: Editora Pax, 1984), p. 43.