Person settler false prophet
Fernão Nunes
settler · false prophet
Fernão Nunes is recorded as the first Nunes in Madeira, living in Gaula, married to Helena de Góis, and one of the early settlers of Porto da Cruz. A Fernão Nunes, son of Bartolomeu Nunes, was the false prophet of Porto Santo.
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- Nunes — First recorded Nunes in Madeira, living in Gaula and married to Helena de Góis.
- Nunes — False prophet of Porto Santo, son of Bartolomeu Nunes, treated elsewhere in the Elucidário.
- Porto da Cruz (parish) — One of the early settlers of Porto da Cruz.
- Historical dates — One of the 'prophets' of Porto Santo in the 1533 affair.
- Popular riots — Self-styled prophet who incited the 1533 Porto Santo disturbances.
- Moors — Impostor prophet in Porto Santo unmasked by the Moor Barque and then arrested.
- Prophets — Porto Santo man who in 1533 posed as a prophet for eighteen days, was arrested and sentenced to penance at Évora.
