Our archival research dating from the time the doctoral thesis was
written (2004-2010) have allowed us to outline, along with the Romanian-
Portuguese diplomatic relationships of the interbellum era the
controversial personality of the Portuguese diplomat Martinho Teixeria
Homem de Brederode, count of Cunha. Investigating his diplomatic reports
and correspondence has created the favorable setting for deducing
important elements of his biography, which then helped us understand
the complex personality of the career diplomat and his political thinking
in an international, but also national, Romanian context. The present
paper aims at putting together a short biography in order to know his
character, personality, family, intellectual background and the social medium
where he has developed to be a political man and a High secretary
of the interbellum Portuguese state.