Álvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches KG (c. 1390 – 20 May 1449) was a Portuguese knight and nobleman, with a long and illustrious career abroad...

Álvaro, Count of Urgell (1239–1268), also Viscount of Àger Álvaro Núñez de Lara (died 1287) ((c. 1261–1287), Castilian nobleman Álvaro Vaz de Almada,...

nobleman. He was the only son of Dom Álvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches second marriage to Dona Catarina de Castro. He succeeded his father at...

Almada in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Almada is a city and a municipality in Portugal. Almada may also refer to: Count of Almada Álvaro Vaz de Almada...

eventually entered the service of the Count of Flanders for some time. Álvaro Vaz de Almada also went on adventures in continental Europe (legendarily engaging...

The property belonged to the family Almada, descendant and representative of the famous knight Álvaro Vaz de Almada (c. 1390 – 1449), recipient of the...

choreographer Álvaro Vaz de Almada (count of Avranches) (1390–1449), knight of the Garter, Captain-major of Portugal, killed in battle Fernando de Almada (count...

unable to flee or take up arms could still be found in their houses. Álvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches was first hoisted the flag of Lisbon (or...

captured. On the morning of 22 August, Ceuta was in Portuguese hands. Álvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches was asked to hoist what was to become the...

the sail fleet (capitão-mor da frota) Álvaro Vaz de Almada (future Count of Avranches). The prelate D. Álvaro de Abreu (Bishop of Evora) would go as papal...

Luís Vaz de Camões (European Portuguese: [luˈiʒ ˈvaʒ ðɨ kaˈmõjʃ]; c. 1524 or 1525 – 10 June 1580), sometimes rendered in English as Camoens or Camoëns...

1445–1449 Álvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches, KG (created by Henry VI of England); Avranches was lost to France soon after 1476–1496 Fernando de Almada...

of Ross, Lord of the Isles May 20 (at the Battle of Alfarrobeira) Álvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches Peter, Duke of Coimbra (b. 1392) June 1 –...

of Siena, Italian-Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1380) 1449 – Álvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches 1449 – Infante Pedro, Duke of Coimbra (b...

Almada, a colonel in the Constitutional Army, serving under Álvaro Obregón, during the Mexican Revolution. The Almadas descended from Álvaro Vaz de Almada...

Hastings 162 Álvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches d. 1449 11 July 1445 (elected) 16 August (installed) 163 John de Foix, Captal de Buch d. 1485...

Tenreiro was succeeded by Afonso Furtado de Mendonça (appointment date uncertain) and, in 1423, by Álvaro Vaz de Almada (Count of Avranches). The letter appointing...

damaged in both the Hundred Years' War and the Wars of Religion. Álvaro Vaz de Almada was made 1st Count of Avranches by King Henry VI of England on August...

João Vaz Corte-Real (c. 1420 – 1496) was a Portuguese sailor, claimed by some accounts to have been an explorer of a land called Terra Nova do Bacalhau...

Viana D. Catarina de Castro, married D. Álvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches, later remarried her first cousin D. Martinho de Ataíde, 2nd Count...

of Ross, Lord of the Isles May 20 (at the Battle of Alfarrobeira) Álvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches Peter, Duke of Coimbra (b. 1392) June 1 –...

illegitimate son of D. Álvaro Gonçalves de Ataíde, the 1st Count of Atouguia. He had two brothers, Vasco de Ataíde and Álvaro Gonçalves de Ataíde, and a sister...

the Navigator (Catarina was a widow from a previous marriage to Álvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches). The marriage took place in 1451, was dissolved...

Pessoa, orthonym, and the modernist heteronym, Álvaro de Campos.[citation needed] Along with the artist Ruy Vaz, Pessoa also founded the art journal Athena...

Ravenstein, Ernst Georg (2010). Bartolomeu Dias. William Brooks Greenlee, Pero Vaz de Caminha. England: Viartis. ISBN 978-1-906421-03-8. OCLC 501399584. Ravenstein...

Álvaro Martins, also known as Álvaro Martins Homem, was a 15th-century Portuguese explorer alleged to have explored the western Atlantic and later the...

Manuel Tiago pseudonym of Álvaro Cunhal (1913–2005) Miguel Torga (1907–1955) Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos (1923–2006), poet Joana Vaz (c. 1500 – after 1570)...

Álvaro Caminha was appointed by King John II of Portugal in 1492 Captain-major (governor) – the third – of the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe...

captain of Machico, and another by Álvaro de Ornellas. According to 15th-century chronicler Gomes Eanes de Zurara, Álvaro Fernandes went out alone, personally...

pronunciation: [ˈpeɾu ðɐ kuviˈʎɐ̃]; c. 1460 – after 1526), sometimes written Pero de Covilhã, was a Portuguese diplomat and explorer. He was a native of Covilhã...