Article Nº 1140 Donatary, governor or ruler Vol. I · p. 653
Cunha (Bartolomeu de Vasconcelos da)
Governor and captain-general of Madeira from 1651, also a sonnet writer and father of the poet Troilo de Vasconcelos da Cunha.
He was appointed governor and captain-general (capitão-general, military governor of Madeira) of Madeira on 21 August 1651, and took office on 16 October of the same year.
Diogo Barbosa Machado says that he wrote various sonnets on the birth of the Infante Dom Pedro, on the death of Dona Maria de Ataíde and to Manuel de Galhegos.
He was the father of the distinguished poet and writer Troilo de Vasconcelos da Cunha, who was born in Funchal in 1654 (see that entry).
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