Person settler landowner
Manuel Afonso de Sanha
d. 1507
settler · landowner
Companion of Zargo and early settler, granted land at Ponta Delgada in 1469, where he founded the Senhor Bom Jesus chapel and an entail. He founded the Sanha family and was an ancestor of the Ribeiro family.
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- Settlement and colonisation — Early settler with Zargo granted sesmaria land.
- Carvalhal (2nd Count of) — Founder with his wife of an entail at Ponta Delgada inherited by the count.
- Ribeiro — Ancestor of the Ribeiro family.
- Companions of Zarco — Named as a companion of Zargo in the first settlement of Madeira.
- Ponta Delgada (parish) — Early settler granted land in 1469 who founded the Senhor Bom Jesus chapel and entails here.
- Sanha — Founder of the Sanha family, the Bom Jesus chapel at Ponta Delgada and an entail there.
