• Dinis Gregório de Melo Castro e Mendonça (Lisbon, 11 April 1735 — Angra, 3 December 1793) was a member of high nobility, military and Portuguese colonial...
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    13, 1610 – 1616) Francisco de Castro (1617–1630) Lopo de Sequeira Pereira (1632 – August 4, 1636) Dinis de Melo e Castro (1639–1639) Father Diogo Lobo...
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    António de Santa Maria (1616-1623) Francisco de Menezes (1625-1627) Dinis de Melo e Castro (1627-1636) Pedro Barbosa de Eça (1636-1640) Pedro Vieira da Silva...
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    Clarendon Press, Vol. 4, p. 13 Andrada (undated). The Life of Dom John de Castro: The Fourth Vice Roy of India. Jacinto Freire de Andrada. Translated into...
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    António Pinheiro da Câmara, Governor 1702–1709 José Correia de Castro, Governor 1709 Vicente Dinis Pinheiro, Governor 1709–1715 Junta 1715–1716 Bartolomeu da...
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  • Fernando, Afonso (note the family name de Melo Afonso) and Antonio (note de Melo Antonio). Names like Dinis, Duarte, Garcia and Godinho were originally...
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    Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves (14 March 1847 – 6 July 1871) was a Brazilian poet and playwright famous for his abolitionist and republican poems. One...
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    Manuel António Vassalo e Silva (8 November 1899 – 11 August 1985) was an officer of the Portuguese Army and an overseas administrator. He was the 128th...
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  • Isabel, Duchess of Braganza (née Isabel Inês de Castro Curvello de Herédia; born 22 November 1966), is a Portuguese businesswoman who married Duarte Pio...
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    survived by a daughter, Leonor, who was married twice: with Dom Rodrigo de Melo, Count of Tentúgal, precursor of the Dukes of Cadaval, and with Francisco...
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    1774–1793 – Dinis Gregório de Melo Castro e Mendonça 1793–1799 – Interim government, presided by Bishop José da Avé-Maria Leite da Costa e Silva and the...
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  • (2006) João de Deus, poet (1996) Bartolomeu Dias, explorer (1945; 1992) Dinis I, king (1955; 1976; 1997) Walt Disney, American filmmaker, animator and...
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    Pio, Duke of Braganza (b. 1945) (2) Afonso, Prince of Beira (b. 1996) (3) Dinis, Duke of Porto (b. 1999) (4) Maria Francisca, Duchess of Coimbra (b. 1997)...
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    He was called Strong Castro (Portuguese: Castro Forte) by the poet Luís de Camões. De Castro was the second son of Álvaro de Castro, the civil governor...
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    of the Dukes. Fernando II's only other surviving son, Dinis of Braganza, married Beatriz de Castro Osório, Countess of Lemos, and had four children with...
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    páreas àqueles que as pediam aos lugares e senhorios del-rei Dom Manuel, rei de Portugal e senhor das Índias e do reino de Ormuz. in Fernão Lopes de Castanheda...
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    Gama was awarded the title of Almirante dos mares de Arabia, Persia, India e de todo o Oriente ("Admiral of the Seas of Arabia, Persia, India and all the...
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    Entre Douro e Minho. Martim Viegas' grandson, Gonçalo Viegas de Ataíde, had the lordship of the honra de Ataíde confirmed by King Dinis I, in the year...
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    e Meneses 1651 Vasco Mascarenhas 1652–55 Brás de Castro 1655 Rodrigo Lobo da Silveira 1655–56 Manuel Mascarenhas Homem 1656 António de Melo e Castro 1662–66...
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    Indian film Urumi, portrayed by the American actor Alexx O'Nell. Don Juan de Castro The Voyage of Don Stefano de Gama from Goa to Suez, in 1540, with the intention...
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    Barros, dos fectos que os Portuguezes fizeram no descobrimento e conquista dos mares e terras do Oriente, is full of lively detail, with incidents described...
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    Feio, Gonçalo Maria Duarte Couceiro (2014). O ensino e a aprendizagem militares em Portugal e no Império, de D. João III a D. Sebastião : a arte portuguesa...
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    e Meneses 1651 Vasco Mascarenhas 1652–55 Brás de Castro 1655 Rodrigo Lobo da Silveira 1655–56 Manuel Mascarenhas Homem 1656 António de Melo e Castro 1662–66...
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    regions growth were the Counts of Galveias: the first titular, Dinis de Melo e Castro, was installed in 1691 (there were 10 titular until it was ultimately...
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    dismissed her father's powerful chief minister, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal. The early part of Maria's reign witnessed growth...
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    Portugal, he was made comendador of the orders of knighthood: Ordem da Torre e Espada, the Ordem Sao Bento de Aviz, and the Ordem de Sao Tiago da Espada;...
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    the bishop and corregedor of the Azores. With the death of Dinis Gregório de Melo Castro e Mendonça in 1793, José da Avé-Maria was installed as the presiding...
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    led by Francisco de Almeida. He was married to Inês de Castro (a sister of D. João de Castro who was later to become the fourth viceroy of Portuguese...
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    grievance written by Sinhalese leaders to the captain-general, Diogo de Melo e Castro (1636 - 1638). Another issue to which Azevedo dedicated his attention...
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    married his cousin, D. Maria de Melo, daughter of the 1st Marquess of Ferreira and 1st Count of Tentúgal, D. Rodrigo de Melo, and Dona Brites de Menezes (daughter...
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