Drumond
The Drumond family, one of the most distinguished noble lineages of Madeira, descended from the Scot João Escorcio Drumond, who settled in Santa Cruz around 1425. The entry also gives the family's coat of arms.
This surname,’ says the annotator of the Saudades, ‘is one of the most distinguished in the Madeiran nobiliaries. It descends from João Escorcio Drumond, a native of the kingdom of Scotland and son of John Drummond, lord of Stobhall, brother of Annabella, wife of Robert III, king of that realm, as is shown by the authentic document preserved by his descendants, issued in Scotland in 1525, which also records that the said João Escorcio Drummond had come to this island of Madeira a hundred years earlier, from which it is evident that this was in 1425. He lived in Santa Cruz, where he married Branca Afonso, sister of the first vicar and a native of Covilhã.
Arms
A shield with a field of gold and three wavy bars gules, and for difference a green brisure bearing a D of gold; an open silver helm trimmed with gold, mantling of gold and gules, with its collar of gold.
Inocêncio Francisco da Silva states in his Diccionario Bibliografico that a memoir on the Drumond family of the island of Madeira was published in Brazil.
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Abroad
- Brazil
Where a memoir on the family was published.
Brazil is recorded in the Elucidário as a chief destination of Madeiran emigrants, including several clergy and writers. It was also a market for Madeira wine and brandy and a maker of wickerwork from Madeiran osiers. It was linked to Madeira by the 1874 telegraph cable and is the native country of the araçá.
- Covilhã
Portugal. Birthplace of Branca Affonso.
Covilhã is a town in Portugal, the birthplace of Branca Affonso and of Cónego Manuel Esteves Fazenda.
- Santa Cruz
Where João Escorcio Drumond lived and married.
Santa Cruz is a parish and one of Madeira's oldest settlements, named after a cross Zarco had raised there at the discovery. The Elucidário covers its early ecclesiastical history, collegiate church, chapels, noble settlers and localities.
- Scotland
United Kingdom. Country of origin of the family's founder.
Country of origin of the family's founder.
- Stobhall
United Kingdom (Scotland). Scottish lordship of the founder's father.
Scottish lordship of the founder's father.
People
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Sister of João Drummond and wife of King Robert III of Scotland.
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Native of Covilhã and sister of the first vicar of Santa Cruz, who married João Escorcio Drumond.
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Portuguese bibliographer whose Dicionário Bibliográfico mentions a memoir on the Drumond family published in Brazil.
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Scottish founder of the Drumond family in Madeira, who settled in Santa Cruz around 1425.
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King of Scotland, married to Annabella Drummond.