Person donatary captain settler noble
Bartolomeu Perestrelo
d. 1457
donatary captain · settler · noble
First captain-donatary and settler of Porto Santo, granted the island by Prince Henry in 1446. The Elucidário rejects claims that he was its discoverer, and he died at Vila Baleira around 1457. Some notes refer to the second and third captains of the same name.
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- Donataries — First captain-donatary of Porto Santo, granted in 1446.
- Donataries — First donatary of Porto Santo (1425).
- Settlement and colonisation — First captain-donatary of Porto Santo, granted in 1446.
- Rodrigues — Captain-donatary of Porto Santo whose daughter married Mem Rodrigues de Vasconcelos.
- Historical dates — Received the captaincy of Porto Santo in 1446.
- Porto Santo rabbit — First donatary of Porto Santo, who released the doe from which the island's rabbits descend.
- Vasconcelos — First donatary captain of Porto Santo, father-in-law of Mem Rodrigues de Vasconcelos.
- Zarco (João Gonçalves) — Captain-donatary of Porto Santo, with a grant similar to Zargo's.
- Perestrelo (Bartolomeu) — Second captain-donatary of Porto Santo, son of the first donatary of the same name.
- Perestrelo (Bartolomeu) — Third captain-donatary of Porto Santo, who murdered his first wife and died in the Algarve aged 60.
- Baleira (town) — First captain-donatary of Porto Santo and founder of its first settlement; the name Baleira has been linked to his family.
- Moniz — First donatary of Porto Santo, husband of Isabel Moniz.
- Columbus (Christopher) — First donatary of Porto Santo and father-in-law of Columbus.
- Machico (origin of the name) — Discoverer and captain of Porto Santo, named alongside Zarco.
- Cancioneiro de Resende (Madeira in the) — First captain-donatary of Porto Santo and father-in-law of Pedro Correia.
- Porto Santo (captaincy) — First captain-donatary of Porto Santo, granted the captaincy on 1 November 1446.
- Porto Santo (prophets and nobles) — Captain-donatary of Porto Santo in whose favour the royal charter of 1522 allowed his wife and daughters-in-law to be styled 'dom'.
- Captaincies — First captain-donatary of Porto Santo (grant of 1446) and founder of Vila Baleira.
- Mendonça — First donatary of Porto Santo, married to Beatriz Furtado de Mendonça.
- Vaz (Tristão) — Captain sent to Porto Santo under Zargo's banner.
- Old customs — Fourth captain-donatary of Porto Santo who killed his wife Aldonça Delgado.
- Perestrelo — First donatary and settler of Porto Santo, founder of the Madeiran Perestrelo line.
- Porto Santo (town and municipality) — First captain-donatary of Porto Santo, whose 1446 letter of grant referred to a future foral for the town.
- Gaula (parish) — First donatary of Porto Santo, who named a daughter Yseu after Iseult.
- Ethnic influences — Captain-donatary of Porto Santo, mentioned as a leader of early settlement.
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