Coats of arms 1Source of the list
Coats of arms
Original title: Brasões de armas
Lists natives or residents of Madeira who received royal grants (alvarás) of coats of arms, with the dates of each grant, as recorded in the Visconde de Sanches de Baena's Archivo Heraldico Genealogico (1872).
1Source of the list
The work of the distinguished genealogist the Viscount of Sanches de Baena, published in 1872 under the title Archivo Heraldico Genealogico, contains summary accounts of several thousand royal warrants (alvarás) by which many individuals were granted the right to bear a coat of arms. Each account gives the date of the grant, some genealogical details of the recipient and a brief description of the coat of arms itself. For a number of people who were natives of this island or resident here, the work records many warrants granting them the privilege of a coat of arms. We shall give only their names and the dates of the favours granted, leaving out the remaining information so as not to make this article excessively long. Those interested may consult the extracts of the warrants in the work cited. The individuals mentioned there are as follows:
2Madeirans granted arms
- Aires de Ornelas, royal decree (alvará) of 1613
- Aires Fernandes de Lordelo, royal decree of 1514
- António Alberto de Andrade Perdigão, royal decree of 15 June 1790
- António Doria Teixeira, 13 November 1788
- António de Espíndola, a Genoese, son of Micer Cliam de Espíndola, 1513
- António de Espíndola, son of Leonardo de Espíndola, 27 February 1535
- António Fernandes Correia Jervis de Atouguia, 30 September 1780 and 5 May 1781
- António João de Freitas de Carvalho Drumond, 20 October 1756
- António Leme, 12 November 1471
- António Manuel Teixeira Lomelino de Vasconcelos Caiado, 3 August 1796
- António Teixeira de Vasconcelos, 17 November 1779
- Baltasar Gonçalves Pereira de Drumond, 12 March 1538
- Bernardino Henriques de Ornelas Vasconcelos, 29 October 1790
- Brás Luís de Freitas Drumond de Aragão, 10 February 1751
- Brás de Espíndola, 27 January 1572
- Diogo Pires de Drumond, 19 March 1538
- Estêvão de Bettencourt Perestrelo, 18 July 1734
- Fernando Dias, 17 April 1528
- Francisco Álvares Camelo, 8 October 1756
- Francisco Homem, 23 April 1535
- Francisco João Escórcio Drumond Moniz e Meneses da Câmara, 12 November 1778
- Francisco João Moniz Barreto Cabral de Ornelas, 5 June 1780
- Gaspar Berenguer César Bettencourt, 23 April and 8 July 1768
- Gaspar Homem, 29 April 1535
- João António Vasques de Araújo Neto, 5 July 1780
- João Esmeraldo, 16 May 1520
- João Fernandes do Arco, 28 February 1485
- Dr João Francisco de Oliveira Álvares, 26 July 1790
- João Gonçalves de Câmara de Lobos, 4 July 1460
- João Gualberto Pinto, 11 July 1825
- João Lombardo, 1503
- Joaquim Pedro de Castelo Branco, 15 June 1857
- José de Freitas Teixeira Espínola Castel-Branco, 3 April 1807
- José João Cardoso de Vasconcelos, 29 July 1772
- José Leão Drumond de Vasconcelos, 18 July 1770
- Leandro Dias de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, 27 July 1801
- Lopo Machado, 1537
- Lucano de Espínola, 1513
- Luís Doria Veloso, 22 November 1547
- Manuel Afonso Ferreira de Drumond, 2 August 1536
- Manuel de Couto Cardoso, 12 June 1561
- Manuel Mendes Pereira, 18 March 1538
- Manuel Vogado, 21 February 1538
- Miguel de Carvalho, 18 January 1544
- Nicolau de Barros, 3 July 1563
- Pedro Pacheco, 22 May 1535
- Pedro Vaz Borges, 30 March 1556
- Sebastião Coelho, 22 May 1540
- Simão Acioli, 27 October 1529
- Valentim de Freitas Leal, 15 November 1852.
In this article
Time
Years mentioned · 05-
By charter of Afonso V, Zarco was ennobled as João Gonçalves de Câmara de Lobos and granted a coat of arms bearing a tower and wolves.
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Afonso V granted António Leme letters of nobility and a coat of arms (another entry dates it 12 November).
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João Esmeraldo was granted arms and made a nobleman of the royal household.
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Joaquim Pedro de Castelo Branco was granted a coat of arms, the latest such grant listed.
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The Visconde de Sanches de Baena published his Archivo Heraldico Genealogico.
People
People mentioned · 07- Aires de Ornelas1866–1930
Madeiran granted a coat of arms in 1613.
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Madeira resident granted a coat of arms on 12 November 1471.
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Flemish-born settler of Madeira granted a coat of arms on 16 May 1520.
- João Gonçalves da Câmarac. 1414–1501
João Gonçalves Zarco, discoverer and captain of Funchal, granted arms with the name Câmara de Lobos on 4 July 1460.
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Madeira resident granted a coat of arms in 1503.
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Madeiran granted a coat of arms on 27 October 1529.
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Portuguese genealogist whose Archivo Heraldico Genealogico (1872) is the source of this list of grants of arms.