Person navigator settler landowner
Álvaro de Ornelas
navigator · settler · landowner · noble
Member of Prince Henry's household who was the first of the Ornelas name in Madeira, and a navigator known as 'the Great'. He held sesmaria lands at Caniço and there founded the entailed estate of Consolação, at Quinta, in 1499.
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- Our Lady of Consolation (chapels) — Navigator called 'the Great' who held sesmaria lands in Caniço and founded an entail there in 1499.
- Ornelas — First of the Ornelas name in Madeira, of Prince Henry's household, who received a land grant at Caniço.
- Caniço (parish) — Early settler of Caniço who founded the entailed estate of Consolação at the end of the fifteenth century.
- Quinta — Founder, in the late fifteenth century, of the entailed estate at Quinta in Caniço.
