Person army officer senator deputy
João da Câmara de Carvalhal Esmeraldo
d. 1844
army officer · senator · deputy · landowner
Army officer and heir of the 1st Count of Carvalhal, elected senator for Madeira (1838–40) and deputy (1842–45); he died in 1844.
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- Representation in the Cortes — Senator for Madeira in 1838 and deputy in 1842.
- Abreu (family) — Owner of the Lombada da Ponta do Sol, husband of Águeda de Abreu.
- Coats of arms — Flemish-born settler of Madeira granted a coat of arms on 16 May 1520.
- Carvalhal (2nd Count of) — Flemish nobleman who founded the Santo Espírito entail at the Lombada in 1511.
- Slaves — Flemish settler who held eighty slaves on his estate at the Lombada da Ponta do Sol around 1500.
- Old Funchal — Flemish knight who came to Madeira in 1480 and had his noble house in rua do Esmeraldo.
- Câmara (Rui Gonçalves da) — Took the Lombada da Ponta do Sol on perpetual lease from Rui Gonçalves in 1473.
- Ponta do Sol (town and municipality) — Early sugar planter at the Lombada, said to have held some eighty slaves and made twenty thousand arrobas of sugar a year.
- Inscribed stones — Flemish settler wrongly said to be buried under the bronze figures, and builder of the Santo Espírito chapel at Lombada da Ponta do Sol.
- Columbus (Christopher) — Flemish nobleman who owned the Funchal house where Columbus reputedly lodged.
- Lugar de Baixo — Owner of the Lombada dos Esmeraldos estate, of which Lugar de Baixo formed part; his death led to a division of the property.
- St Maurus (chapels) — Said to have built a Santo Amaro chapel at Lombada dos Esmeraldos in the late fifteenth century.
- Jangão — Founded the Vale da Bica entail, seated at Jangão, in 1522.
- Entailed foundations — Flemish nobleman who founded the Lombada dos Esmeraldos entail in 1512.
- Barca (square) — Landowner who donated land for the Campo da Barca.
- Ponta do Sol (parish) — Foreign settler and major landholder in Ponta do Sol.
- Lombada dos Esmeraldos — Acquired the Lombada da Ponta do Sol in 1473 and in 1522 founded two entails on it for his sons.
- Sé (parish) — Early Funchal resident whose house in the parish was reputedly lived in by Columbus.
- Abreu (Dona Isabel de) — Brother-in-law of Isabel, whose house at the Lombada da Ponta do Sol was besieged by António.
- National monuments — Flemish settler whose Funchal property, demolished by the council, yielded the Manueline 'Columbus window'.
- Markets — President of Funchal's first Constitutional Council, who lent the money to build the Mercado de S. João.
- Henriques (Dr Luiz) — Wealthy Madeiran nobleman, later Count of Carvalhal, who rescued the young Henriques and paid for his medical studies.
- Holy Spirit (chapel) — Flemish settler who founded two entails at Ponta do Sol and built this chapel in the early sixteenth century.
- Quinta do Leme — Nephew of Francisco Aurélio da Câmara who inherited the administration of the Leme entail.
- Esmeraldo (street) — Early settler of Madeira whose large dwelling houses on this Funchal street gave it its name.
- Foreigners — Foreign settler who, according to Frutuoso, produced twenty thousand arrobas of sugar yearly at the Lombada.