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Elucidário Madeirense

Person settler noble

Afonso de Aragão

settler · noble

Neapolitan knight who arrived in Madeira about 1470, lived at Calheta among its early settlers and died in the Azores; founder of a branch of the Aragão family and husband of Teresa de Lira.

1Mentioned in

Aragon — Neapolitan knight who arrived about 1470, lived at Calheta and died in the Azores; founder of the other branch.
Calheta (parish) — Neapolitan knight among the early settlers of Calheta.
Lira — Late fifteenth-century nobleman, husband of Teresa de Lira.

2Chronology

149
Teresa de Lira, wife of D. Afonso de Aragão, lived at this time; according to some genealogies their son introduced the Lira surname to Madeira.
1470
D. Afonso de Aragão, a Neapolitan knight, reached Madeira.

3Places mentioned

Map: Madeira (14)

Map: Madeira (14)