• 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...
    8 KB (715 words) - 09:01, 19 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Roman Catholic Diocese of Guarda, Portugal
    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...
    8 KB (878 words) - 04:58, 22 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roman Catholic Diocese of Leiria–Fátima
    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...
    8 KB (567 words) - 02:02, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ataíde family
    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...
    23 KB (2,465 words) - 15:27, 10 July 2024
  • Isabel, Duchess of Braganza (née Isabel Inês de Castro Curvello de Herédia; born 22 November 1966), is a Portuguese businesswoman who married Duarte Pio...
    9 KB (676 words) - 16:28, 29 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of governors of Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe
    António Pinheiro da Câmara, Governor 1702–1709 José Correia de Castro, Governor 1709 Vicente Dinis Pinheiro, Governor 1709–1715 Junta 1715–1716 Bartolomeu da...
    16 KB (1,977 words) - 22:30, 29 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for House of Braganza
    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...
    94 KB (6,350 words) - 15:20, 10 July 2024
  • Fernando, Afonso (note the family name de Melo Afonso) and Antonio (note de Melo Antonio). Names like Dinis, Duarte, Garcia and Godinho were originally...
    73 KB (8,997 words) - 17:21, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Galveias
    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...
    8 KB (877 words) - 06:01, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Castro Alves
    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...
    115 KB (15,038 words) - 01:12, 29 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of governors of Portuguese India
    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...
    34 KB (709 words) - 15:19, 21 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Manuel António Vassalo e Silva
    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...
    5 KB (540 words) - 06:42, 9 April 2024
  • 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...
    14 KB (1,958 words) - 21:28, 1 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Francisco de Almeida
    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...
    17 KB (1,858 words) - 22:10, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for José da Avé-Maria Leite da Costa e Silva
    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...
    13 KB (1,324 words) - 20:14, 5 January 2021
  • Thumbnail for Vasco da Gama
    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...
    59 KB (7,733 words) - 15:02, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for João de Castro
    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...
    11 KB (1,116 words) - 13:58, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Afonso de Albuquerque
    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...
    62 KB (7,625 words) - 17:02, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Estêvão da Gama (16th century)
    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...
    5 KB (268 words) - 10:03, 30 August 2023
  • the African coast Bartolomeu Perestrelo, explorer of the Atlantic islands Dinis Dias, explorer of the African coast Diogo Cão, explorer of the African coast...
    30 KB (3,248 words) - 02:22, 28 June 2024
  • (2006) João de Deus, poet (1996) Bartolomeu Dias, explorer (1945; 1992) Dinis I, king (1955; 1976; 1997) Walt Disney, American filmmaker, animator and...
    19 KB (2,071 words) - 00:30, 25 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza
    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)...
    42 KB (3,907 words) - 12:28, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Martim Afonso de Sousa
    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...
    11 KB (1,137 words) - 09:12, 11 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nuno da Cunha
    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...
    6 KB (526 words) - 11:35, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Garcia de Noronha
    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...
    6 KB (588 words) - 00:01, 18 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bartolomeu Dias
    around 1455. His family had a maritime background, and one of his ancestors, Dinis Dias, explored the African coast in the 1440s and discovered the Cap-Vert...
    14 KB (1,805 words) - 19:00, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Constantino of Braganza
    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...
    8 KB (555 words) - 03:17, 1 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jerónimo de Azevedo
    grievance written by Sinhalese leaders to the captain-general, Diogo de Melo e Castro (1636 - 1638). Another issue to which Azevedo dedicated his attention...
    30 KB (3,404 words) - 00:10, 18 April 2024
  • Francisco de Melo e Castro, Governor (1752–1758) João Manuel de Melo, Governor (1758) David Marques Pereira, Governor (1758–1759) Pedro de Saldanha e Albuquerque...
    60 KB (5,376 words) - 04:28, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Antão de Almada, 12th Count of Avranches
    luz e offerecidos a seu terceiro neto o ex.mo senhor Visconde de Sanches de Baena, Lisbon, Portugal, p. 15 Carlos Melo Bento (2008), p.71 Carlos Melo Bento...
    10 KB (1,035 words) - 09:38, 15 April 2024