Person naval officer
João Gomes de Abreu da Ilha
d. 1495
naval officer
Madeiran ship's captain, known as João Gomes de Abreu da Ilha, who fought in the 1506 India fleet at Brava, Socotra and Cannanore. The notes also attach to this record the troubadour João Gomes da Ilha (died about 1495), page of Prince Henry and the leading poet of the Madeira cycle in the Cancioneiro de Resende.
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- Cancioneiro de Resende (Madeira in the) — Troubadour, page of Prince Henry and landholder in Funchal, the most prolific and distinguished poet of the Madeira cycle; died about 1495.
- Gomes (João) — Early Madeiran settler and troubadour poet, page of Prince Henry, with thirteen poems in the Cancioneiro de Resende.
- Gomes de Castro (Tristão) — Early settler-poet from whom Tristão descended.
