Person settler noble landowner

João Afonso Escudeiro

d. 1512

settler · noble · landowner · chapel founder

Main article Escudeiro (João) Brief entry noting that João Escudeiro was the first person in Madeira to bear the surname Escudeiro, with a cross-reference to the entry Bemposta.

João Afonso Escudeiro was a nobleman from mainland Portugal who came to Madeira c.1450 and settled at Santa Cruz; according to the Elucidário, he was the first person in Madeira to bear the surname Escudeiro. He founded the São Lázaro chapel and, by his will of 1512, the Bemposta and São Lázaro entails.

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Bemposta — Nobleman from mainland Portugal who came to Madeira c.1450 and founded the Bemposta and São Lázaro entails by will in 1512.
Santa Cruz (parish) — Noble early settler of Santa Cruz.
St Lazarus (chapel) — Founder of the São Lázaro chapel in Santa Cruz in the early sixteenth century.
Água de Pena (parish) — Nobleman who came to Madeira around 1450 and founded the Bemposta and São Lázaro entails by his will of 1512.

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João Afonso Escudeiro founded a chapel of São Lázaro in Santa Cruz.
1450
João Afonso Escudeiro came to Madeira.
1512
By his will João Afonso Escudeiro founded the Bemposta and São Lázaro entails; he died that year.

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