Gorjão (Francisco Pedro de Meneses)
Governor and captain-general of Madeira from 1737 to 1747, who then left to govern Maranhão.
He was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira on 18 May 1737 and took office on 16 July of the same year. He held this post until 27 May 1747, when he left the island directly for Maranhão to govern that province, aboard the fleet bound there that called at Funchal carrying the new bishop of that diocese, Dom Friar Francisco de São Tiago.
He was succeeded as governor of Madeira by the diocesan bishop, Dom João do Nascimento, who was appointed on 5 May 1747 and held the post until 1751.
We have read somewhere that Francisco Pedro de Meneses Gorjão ‘died at the age of 83, full of services to his country, as recorded on the stone of his tomb in the chapel of the quinta (country estate) of São Lourenço.
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Francisco Pedro de Meneses Gorjão was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
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Francisco Pedro de Meneses Gorjão took office as governor of Madeira in Funchal.
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Bishop D. Frei João do Nascimento was appointed governor of Madeira, governing the archipelago until 1751.
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Governor Francisco Pedro de Meneses Gorjão left Madeira to govern Maranhão.
Place
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Abroad
- Funchal
Port where the fleet called.
The capital of the archipelago and seat of the principal captaincy, where settlement began; it was made a vila c.1451–52. Its bay, the widest in the archipelago, lies between Ponta do Garajau and Ponta da Cruz and offers sheltered anchorage, though its harbour had never been studied oceanographically. The Elucidário discusses it as a health resort with climate data and records the January 1906 disturbances, the Danish prince's visit in May 1846 and recent volcanic cones in the area.
- Maranhão
Brazil. Brazilian province Gorjão went to govern.
Maranhão is a Brazilian province. Francisco Pedro de Meneses Gorjão went there to govern, and it was the scene of campaigns of Bartolomeu de Melo Berenguer.
People
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Governor and captain-general of Madeira (1737–47), later governor of Maranhão; buried in the chapel of the Quinta de São Lourenço.
- D. Frei João do Nascimento1897–1753
Bishop of Funchal who succeeded Gorjão as governor of Madeira (1747–51).
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New bishop of Maranhão, travelling in the fleet that took Gorjão from Funchal in 1747.