Person noble military officer
Rui Dias de Aguiar
noble · military officer
Son of Diogo Afonso de Aguiar and grandson of Zarco, one of the first on Madeira to use the surname Dias. He served in Africa and died defending the fortress of Gué, and is celebrated in the poem Insulana.
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- Immaculate Conception (chapels) — Co-founder with his wife of a chapel in São Pedro parish in 1662.
- Dias — Son of Diogo de Aguiar and grandson of Zarco; one of the first on Madeira to use the surname Dias.
- Popular riots — Noble exiled for life to Angola for the 1668 revolt.
- Aguiar — Son of Diogo Afonso de Aguiar.
- Aguiar (Pedro Afonso) — Brother of Pedro Afonso de Aguiar.
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3Places mentioned
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