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Captaincy Donatário Captaincy of Maranhão (1st section) Fernão Aires and João de Barros Captaincy of Maranhão (2nd section) Fernando Álvares de Andrade...

Fernão Teles de Meneses (1431 — Alcácer do Sal, 1 April 1477), also known as Fernão Teles and Fernão da Silva, was a Portuguese fidalgo and soldier. Together...

Gil Aires (c. 1370 – 1437) was a Portuguese nobleman. He was an honoured man and a much honoured Knight at the time of King John I of Portugal and an...

Chronica dos reis de Bisnaga [es], Domingo Pais and Fernão Nunes, 1520 and 1535 Domingos Pais and Fernão Nunes made important reports on the Vijayanagara...

Ocean Fernão Lopez, soldier in India and first resident of the island of Saint Helena Fernão Mendes Pinto, among the first to reach Japan Fernão Pires...

Ligurian, returned from the Western Antipodes". Perhaps influenced by this, Fernão Vaz Dourado in his Atlas of 1571 inscribed over the map of Mexico and adjacent...

financed by a private commercial consortium headed by the Lisbon merchant Fernão de Loronha. The expedition was under the overall command of captain Gonçalo...

council (1868–1869) António Tavares de Almeida, Governor General (1869) Fernão da Costa Leal, Governor General (1869) Juiz E. K. da Fonseca e Gouveia,...

recorded ascent of Table Mountain. Chroniclers Gaspar Correia (p. 412) and Fernão Lopes de Castanheda (p. 157) identify António de Saldanha as a "Castilian...

neglected African enterprise to a private Lisbon merchant consortium led by Fernão Gomes. Within a few years, Gomes' captains expanded Portuguese knowledge...

of 1,500 soldiers. The flagship was the carrack São Rafael captained by Fernão Soares. The mission's primary aims were to bring the spice trade under Portuguese...

Sousa Coutinho, 1st Marquis of Funchal (1762–1833), Portuguese diplomat Fernão Martins da Fonseca Coutinho, Portuguese nobleman Francisco Coutinho, 4th...

to Fernão Cabral, including not only the castle but also all rents, rights, and privileges tied to the town. In 1466, King Afonso V granted Fernão Cabral...

or Purchas his Pilgrimes, Volume 7, Cambridge University Press, p. 179. Fernão Lopes de Castanheda: Histório do Descobrimento e Conquista da Índia pelos...

that he may have encountered, among other figures, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Fernão Vaz Dourado, Fernão Álvares do Oriente, Garcia de Orta and the aforementioned...

kilometres (19 mi) from present-day Covilhã in central Portugal. He was a son of Fernão Álvares Cabral and Isabel Gouveia—one of five boys and six girls in the...

second plot given to João de Barros and Aires da Cunha. They arrived in 1535 to occupy the land, accompanied by Fernão Álvares de Andrade. As both of their...

potential. In fact, his report on China was one of the main reasons why Fernão Pires de Andrade decided to carry out his mission in going to China instead...

of the deserters, but had them horribly mutilated. One such renegade was Fernão Lopes, bound for Portugal in custody, who escaped at the island of Saint...

as elucidam Lisbon, Typ. da Academia real das sciencias de Lisboa, p.417 Fernão Lopes de Castanheda, 1552–1561 História do Descobrimento e Conquista da...