Person military officer
João de Abreu
military officer
Madeiran soldier who reached Goa in 1513 and distinguished himself in fighting in the East, according to Gaspar Correia. Other notes under similar names refer to a Cancioneiro de Resende poet and to the founder of the Santa Quitéria chapel at Lombo da Estrela (1724).
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- Literature — Poet of the Madeiran group in the Cancioneiro de Resende.
- St Quiteria (chantries) — Founder with his wife of the Santa Quitéria chapel at Lombo da Estrela, Calheta, in 1724.
- Cancioneiro de Resende (Madeira in the) — Cancioneiro poet married to a granddaughter of Tristão Vaz.
- Lombo da Estrela — Built the Santa Quitéria chapel in 1724.
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3Places mentioned
- 1Goa