Henry the Navigator

• Donataries — Prince Henry the Navigator, lord of Madeira, who confirmed the donataries' grants.
• Settlement and colonisation — Prince Henry the Navigator, lord of Madeira who directed its settlement from about 1425.
• Vineyards — Prince Henry the Navigator, credited by Frutuoso with introducing Malvasia vines to Madeira.
• Discovery of the archipelago — Prince Henry the Navigator, who sponsored Zarco and Tristão Vaz's voyage.
• Historical dates — Prince Henry the Navigator, recipient of the donation of Madeira in 1433.
• Madeira in the University of Coimbra — Prince Henry the Navigator, who in 1460 endowed the University of Coimbra with twelve marks of silver from the Order of Christ's Madeiran tithes.
• Perestrelo (Bartolomeu) — Prince Henry, who granted Porto Santo to Perestrelo by charter in 1446.
• Zarco (João Gonçalves) — Prince Henry the Navigator, under whose patronage Zargo served and discovered Madeira.
• Zarco (João Gonçalves) — Prince Henry, who granted Zargo the captaincy of Funchal in 1450.
• Quinto — Prince Henry, lord of Madeira, who under a 1452 contract claimed a third of all sugar from the island's only mill.
• Machim (legend) — Portuguese prince, subject of Major's book.
• Brandão (José António Ferreira) — Portuguese prince, known as Henry the Navigator, whose life is the subject of the book Brandão translated.
• Sugar — Lord of Madeira, to whom mill owners paid a third of the sugar they made.
• Taxes — Prince Henry, lord of the archipelago, whose charter imposed the first heavy taxes on Madeira.
• Arms — Prince Henry, master of the Order of Christ, credited with introducing sugar cane to Madeira.
• Baleira (town) — Prince Henry the Navigator, who lived at Sagres and to whose household Perestrelo belonged.
• Câmara (Rui Gonçalves da) — Portuguese prince whom Rui Gonçalves accompanied at the sieges of Arzila and Tangier.
• Grants — Prince Henry the Navigator, credited with Madeira's discovery and granted temporal lordship of the archipelago in 1433.
• Sugar cane — Prince Henry the Navigator, said to have ordered the first cane cuttings brought from Sicily to Madeira.
• Columbus (Christopher) — Prince Henry, predecessor of D. Fernando as master of the Order of Christ.
• Teive (family) — Prince Henry the Navigator, with whom Diogo de Teive signed the 1452 sugar-mill contract.
• Porto Santo (discovery and origin of the name) — Prince Henry the Navigator, whose sailing orders the discoverers were following when blown to Porto Santo.
• Quincentenary of the discovery of Madeira — Prince Henry the Navigator, honoured by one of the two historical floats in the procession.
• Quincentenary of the discovery of Madeira — Prince Henry the Navigator, founder of the 'School of Sagres', honoured by the procession's closing car.
• City flag — Former lord of Madeira whose death passed the lordship to D. Fernando.
• Coinage — Prince Henry the Navigator, recipient of the 1433 grant of Madeira.
• St Bernardino (convent) — Prince Henry the Navigator, whom João Afonso Correia served as squire.
• Alcoforado (Francisco) — Prince Henry the Navigator, whom Francisco Alcoforado served as squire.
• Deserta Grande or simply Deserta (island) — Prince Henry the Navigator, who ordered a chapel built on Deserta Grande.
• Vaz (Tristão) — Prince Henry the Navigator, who knighted Tristão and granted him the captaincy of Machico.
• Levadas — Cardinal regent who issued three charters in 1563 on cleaning levadas and giving sugar cane priority for water.
• Ornelas — Prince Henry the Navigator, in whose household Álvaro de Ornelas served during the discoveries.
• Woad (Isatis praecox) — Prince Henry the Navigator, lord of Madeira, whose notes to Zargo mention the export of woad.
• Fernandes (Valentim) — Prince Henry the Navigator, subject of Henrique Major's book.
• Notaries — Cardinal-King who in 1579 reduced Funchal's judicial officers from 35 to 17.
• Sesmarias — Prince Henry, whose donation charters and regulations allowed the donatary captains to grant land in sesmaria.
• São Roque (parish) — Cardinal-king of Portugal whose royal charter of 3 March 1579 authorised the creation of the parish of São Roque.
• Judicial administration — Cardinal-king who in 1579 made judicial offices royal appointments, curbing the donataries.
• Communications with mainland Portugal — Prince Henry the Navigator, who with the king received news of Madeira only once a year in the early colonisation period.
• Alemão (Henrique) — Confirmed the land grant on 29 April 1457.

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