Perestrelo
The Perestrelo family, descended from Bartolomeu Perestrelo, first donatary and settler of Porto Santo, of Lombard origin; the entry describes its coat of arms.
This is a very old family surname here, for it descends from Bartolomeu Perestrelo, the first donatary and settler of Porto Santo (‘holy harbour’). He was the son of Filipone or Felipe Perestrelo, whom the genealogies record as having come to Portugal at the end of the 14th century. Filipone was a native of Piacenza, in Lombardy, and the son of Gabriel Perestrelo, a fidalgo (nobleman of the lesser nobility) of lineage whose privileges were recognised in our country. The arms of this family are described thus: ‘shield party per pale; in the first, on a field of gold, a lion purpure armed gules; in the second, on a field of silver, a bend azure charged with three eight-pointed stars between six tosas gules, three and three in pale; crest the lion of the shield, with a star on its shoulder’.
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Place
Places mentioned · 02
Abroad
- Piacenza
Italy. Lombard home town of Filipe Perestrelo.
An Italian city in Lombardy where Giulio Landi's book was published in 1574. It was also the home town of Filipe Perestrelo.
- Porto Santo
Island of which Bartolomeu Perestrelo was first donatary.
An island of the archipelago, settled alongside Madeira and forming one of the three captaincies. It has always constituted a single parish, dedicated to Nossa Senhora da Piedade, whose church was repeatedly sacked. The Elucidário records the Moorish pirate raid of 1617, its own Misericórdia and a rainwater channel built on this drought-prone island.
People
People mentioned · 03- Bartolomeu Perestrelod. 1457
First donatary and settler of Porto Santo, founder of the Madeiran Perestrelo line.
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Father of Bartolomeu, from Piacenza, said to have come to Portugal in the late 14th century.
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Lombard nobleman, father of Filipe, whose privileges were recognised in Portugal.