Atouguia
Entry on the Atouguia family of Madeira, descended from Luiz de Atouguia, an early settler from Beja who served as treasurer to D. Manuel, Duke of Beja; it notes their sesmaria lands at the Lombo do Atouguia in Calheta and their coat of arms.
Luís de Atouguia was one of the first settlers of this island and perhaps the first here to bear this surname. He was a native of Beja, the son of Luís Afonso de Atouguia and Dona Isabel Telo. In Madeira he served as treasurer to Dom Manuel, the future Manuel I, when he was Duke of Beja and Grand Master of the Order of Christ (Ordem de Cristo). This Luís de Atouguia, or one of his close descendants, held sesmaria (royal land grant to settlers on condition of cultivation) lands in the parish (freguesia) of Calheta (‘small cove’), at the locality (sítio) still called the Lombo do Atouguia today, to which he gave his name. Arms: ‘On a field gules, quartered by a cross of gold voided of the field, and in each quarter a fleur-de-lis of gold; a bordure of the same; crest, a demi-lion rampant of gold.’
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Place
Places mentioned · 03
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- Beja
Portugal. Birthplace of Luiz de Atouguia in mainland Portugal.
Beja is a city and district in mainland Portugal. The first abbess of Funchal's Convento de Santa Clara came from its Conceição convent, and D. José Xavier de Cerveira e Sousa was transferred to its diocese in 1848. The Visconde da Ribeira Brava served there as civil governor.
- Calheta
Parish where the Atouguia family held sesmaria lands.
Calheta is a town, parish and municipality on Madeira's south-west coast and one of the island's oldest settlements. The Elucidário covers its name, early settlers such as Pedro Berenguer, its church and many chapels, including one of a former Franciscan convent, and the 1834 riot.
- Lombo do Atouguia
Calheta. Locality in Calheta named after the Atouguia family's lands.
Lombo do Atouguia is an inhabited locality in Calheta parish, named after the settler Luís de Atouguia and his family's lands. It has several 17th- and 18th-century chapels, including the chapel of São Pedro de Alcântara, perhaps once dedicated to St John.
People
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Mother of the early Madeiran settler Luiz de Atouguia.
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Early settler of Madeira from Beja, treasurer there to D. Manuel as Duke of Beja, and perhaps the first to bear the Atouguia surname on the island.
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Father of the early Madeiran settler Luiz de Atouguia.
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Duke of Beja and Grand Master of the Order of Christ, later King Manuel I, whom Luiz de Atouguia served as treasurer in Madeira.