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From: Francisco Antonio Doria <>
Subject: [BRAZIL-L] Columbus' in-laws... Doubts raised by Doug (II).
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 99 05:55:13 -0000


Doug da Rocha Holmes remarked:

>My same source, Historia Insulana, gives Afonso Furtado as the father of
>Beatriz Furtado de Mendonca, but then it is very vague about her
>illustrious ancestors. It never gave her mother. So I am wondering if you
>can remember your source for the name of Isabel Moniz as her mother.

No, this is a confusion. Beatriz Furtada (given as daughter of Ana Delmar in a footnote to H. H. Noronha, _Nobiliário da Ilha da Madeira_, Moya edition, 1947) was the wife of Bartolomeu Perestrello, first lord of Porto Santo. There is a very likely identification for this Afonso Furtado, a question to which I will return soon.

A note on the textual history of Noronha's _Nobiliário_.

Henrique Henriques de Noronha died in 1700. His direct descendant, and my distant kinsman Miguel de França Doria, tells me that the original manuscript isn't in the family files. Many manuscript copies of his _Nobiliário_ have been made, circulated and expanded; the one that was published by Salvador de Moya in 1947 was copied by genealogist Rodrigues de Oliveira from the ms deposited at the Funchal Public Library. It is a late 18th-century copy, with many side additions, duly referred to and pointed out in the published version. As far as people who have checked the documentation tell me, it is quite reliable. It *fails* very often when dealing with the 15th century origin of the families in Madeira, since the documentation is scanty and he had to rely on 2nd hand sources. (Exceptions are major families like the Camaras, the Teixeiras of Machico, and their immediate in-laws and collaterals.) For that time frame we either have the documentation at the ANTT or second-hand - but!
reliable - sources like Gaspar Frutuoso, who wrote in the late 16th century.

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>As you likely noticed, in some nobility sources, the mother of Pedro
>Correia da Cunha is not listed. Perhaps in your source by H.H. Noronha, it
>lists her as a Pereira de Lacerda. But in the book by historiador James
>Guill "A History of the Azores Islands" is lists her as Filipa da Cunha.
>Nobiliario da Ilha Terceira lists her as Branca Rodrigues Botelho. And
>there is a Filipa da Cunha married to Fernao de Sa, according to F.Gayo.

Pedro Correia da Cunha is given by all reliable sources as the son of Gonçalo Correia, lord of Farelães in Portugal. Now this family has a rather well-known genealogy (Gayo, `Correas,' paragraph 1).

No. 7. Fernando Afonso Correia.

The lordship of Farelães was confirmed to him in 1385. (This comes from a late document, a 1781 grant by Queen D. Maria I where the whole history of the lordship of Farelães is given.) His wife (as well as his mother) are given the name `Cunha'; for his wife we have D. Leonor Anes da Cunha, of uncertain ancestry.

Son:

No. 8. Gonçalo Correia, lord of Farelães, confirmed in 1411. (His father was presumably dead then.) This is the one who married Isabel Pereira de la Cerda.

His same-named son is confirmed as the lord of Farelães in 1441.

Doubt has to do with the marriage to Isabel Pereira de la Cerda. She was the second wife. Now we know that Pedro Correia da Cunha met Columbus in 1480 - 1485, so it is likely that he was from the second marriage.

That's what I've got.

Best, chico



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Francisco Antonio Doria
Prix Caumont-La Force 1995
(Conféderation Internationale de Généalogie et d'Héraldique.)
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