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Diogo de Teive

Diogo de Teive

b. 1540

squire · settler · landowner

Squire of Prince Henry who in 1452 contracted to build Madeira's first sugar mill and founded the Teive entail. The notes also attach to this name a later family member who served Philip II and died in Peru, and a sixteenth-century Latin humanist who taught at Bordeaux and Coimbra and was possibly of this family.

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2Chronology

  1. Diogo de Teive contracted with Prince Henry to build Madeira's first water-powered sugar mill, giving the Infante a third of its sugar.

  2. D. Diogo de Teive was baptised at Ribeira Brava.

3Places mentioned

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Map: Madeira (9)
  1. 1Ribeira Brava
  2. 2Peru
  3. 3Alcácer Quibir
  4. 4Church of St Benedict
  5. 5Coimbra
  6. 6Portugal
  7. 7Salamanca
  8. 8Castile
  9. 9Valladolid

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