Person noble donatary captain of Machico
D. Afonso de Portugal
noble · donatary captain of Machico
D. Afonso de Portugal, 1st Count of Vimioso, bought the captaincy of Machico in 1549 and became its 6th donatary. He was captured at Alcácer Quibir and died a captive in Africa.
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- Donataries — Bought the Machico captaincy in 1549.
- Settlement and colonisation — King who confirmed King Duarte's 1433 decrees concerning Madeira.
- Silveira (António da) — Count of Vimioso who bought the Machico captaincy in 1549.
- Portugal (Dom Francisco de) — His father, captured at Alcácer Quibir and long thought dead.
- Vimioso (Counts of) — 2nd Count of Vimioso, who bought the captaincy of Machico for 35,000 cruzados and was reported dead at Alcácer-Quibir.
- Vimioso (Counts of) — 5th Count of Vimioso and donatary of Machico, died in the seventeenth century.
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