Ernesto Melo Antunes - Marriage and Issue

Marriage and Issue

He married Gabriela Maria da Câmara de Ataide Mota (b. 9 July 1941), daughter of Luís de Ataíde Mota (1912–1969) and Maria Eduarda de Medeiros da Câmara de Melo Cabral (b. Ponta Delgada, São Pedro, 19 December 1919) (great-great-niece in female line of the 1st Viscount de Faria e Maia), both from the Nobility of Azores, and had issue:

• Catarina de Ataíde Mota de Melo Antunes (b. Ponta Delgada, 6 October 1962), married on 5 September 1988 to Jorge Miguel Lupi Alves Caetano (b. 23 April 1959), paternal grandson of Marcelo Caetano and Teresa Teixeira de Queirós de Barros, and had issue
• Ernesto Luís de Ataíde Mota de Melo Antunes (b. Ponta Delgada, 14 December 1963), married in Cascais, at the Casa de Santa Marta, on 13 February 1999 to María del Pilar de Amat Tasso de Vasconcelos (b. Lisbon, 11 November 1970), daughter of Luís Ricardo Vaz Monteiro de Vasconcelos Franco (b. Ponta Delgada, 27 October 1941 and divorced), also of the Nobility of Azores, and first wife María del Pilar de Amat y Aboim Inglez (Lisbon, 17 March 1946), of Spanish paternal descent and of maternal noble descent from Alentejo, and had issue:
  • Ernesto Luís de Amat de Vasconcelos de Melo Antunes (b. Lisbon, 11 April 2000)
  • Maria Luísa de Amat de Vasconcelos de Melo Antunes (b. Lisbon, 16 April 2002)
• Joana de Ataíde Mota de Melo Antunes (b. Lisbon, São Sebastião da Pedreira, 8 March 1975), unmarried and without issue

On 21 June 1997 in Sintra, he married a second time Maria Jose de Souza Pereira (b. 19 March 1952), daughter of Antonio Joaquim de Barros Pereira (1906–1969) and Elvie Irene de Souza Pereira (1917–2002) of Macau. She gave up her international career as banker and investment advisor upon marriage.