Person noble settler landowner
Francisco Homem de Gouveia
noble · settler · landowner · entail founder · politician
Nobleman of King Manuel's household and early settler of Calheta. Around 1529 he and his wife founded the chapel of the Reis Magos at Lombo dos Reis, Estreito da Calheta, and made it the seat of the entail he established. The notes also attach to this record a curate of 1648, a Funchal councillor of 1919 and a president of a Misericórdia commission.
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- Magi (chapel) — Co-founder, with his wife, of the Reis Magos chapel at Lombo dos Reis around 1529, making it the seat of an entailed estate.
- Homem — Nobleman of D. Manuel's household who founded an entail at Estreito da Calheta in 1529.
- Entailed foundations — Founded the Reis Magos entail at Estreito da Calheta in 1529.
- Calheta (parish) — Early settler who founded the Reis Magos entail at Estreito da Calheta.
- Estreito da Calheta (parish) — Nobleman who founded the chapel and entail of the Reis Magos in 1529.
- Lombo dos Reis — Founder, around 1529, of the chapel of the Reis Magos at Lombo dos Reis, where he seated the entail he established.
- Great War — Funchal councillor who proposed naming a street after Veiga Pestana in 1919.
- Archaeological Museum — Presided over the Misericórdia commission that opposed housing the museum in the Santa Clara convent.
