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António Leme
settler · landowner · nobleman · soldier
Flemish nobleman from Bruges who fought at Arzila and Tangier and received a coat of arms from Afonso V in 1471. He settled in Madeira, where he founded the Leme family and its entailed estate, and built the house and chapel of São Filipe at the Quinta do Leme.
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- Coats of arms — Madeira resident granted a coat of arms on 12 November 1471.
- St Philip (chapel) — Flemish settler who held sesmaria land in Santo António and built the house and chapel of São Filipe at the Quinta do Leme.
- Ponta do Sol (parish) — Settler of Flemish origin whose descendants gave their name to the locality of Lemes, where he founded an entailed estate.
- Leme — Flemish nobleman from Bruges who fought at Arzila and Tangier and received arms from Afonso V in 1471; founder of the Leme family.
- Leme — Last Câmara Leme holder of the entail, who died childless so it passed to the Carvalhal house.
- Sanches (Afonso) — Madeiran mariner named as another possible visionary of western lands.
- Quinta do Leme — Built the chapel of São Filipe in 1536.
- Foreigners — Foreign settler and founder of a Madeiran family.
- Arco de São Jorge (parish) — Son and heir who ratified the oil bequest in 1766.
