Gil Aires ( 1370 – 1437) was a
Portuguese
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nobleman.
Life
He was an honoured man and a much honoured
Knight
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at the time of King
John I of Portugal
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and an Escrivão da Puridade (Notary/Registrar of the Purity/Secret, furthermore, a
Secretary
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) of the 2nd
Constable of Portugal {{Short description, Defunct office created by King Ferdinand I of Portugal
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Nuno Álvares Pereira
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, and some say also his relative, in 1422, and ''Vedor'' (Overseer) of the things belonging to
Ceuta
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in 1423.
He was perhaps born into the Moniz noble family. His connection to the main branch is, however, currently unknown. Barreiros, a Genealogist, does not nominate him, in his ''Livro Ms.'', more than by Gil Aires, and says at the margins these words: ''And of Maria Trabuca and of one from Alegrete, who seems they want to say he was their son''; and then, after nominating his children below, he says so: ''All of these were called themselves Moniz, after their father was put into honour.''; and says another information he was born in Alegrete, the one in
Coruche
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The present Mayor is Francisco Silvestre de Oliveira, elected by the Socialist Party.
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or in
Portalegre, son of a man who lived at the same village.
He was buried at his Chapel of Our Lady of Piety or of the Prant of the
Carmo Convent
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, in
Lisbon
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, in a Chapel that had been given to him by the Constable for his burial place, and there he nominates himself ''Escrivão da Puridade do Condestável''.
Marriage and issue
He married Leonor Rodrigues and had six children, three sons and three daughters:
*
Vasco Gil Moniz
Vasco Gil Moniz (formerly Vasco Gil) (died Lisbon, 1497) was a Portuguese nobleman.
Life
He was the second born son of Gil Aires and wife Leonor Rodrigues.
He was a Vedor of Infante Peter, Duke of Coimbra, son of King John I of Portugal.
Marri ...
* Leonor Gil Moniz (or Leonor Moniz and formerly Leonor Gil), married as his second wife to Fernão de Sousa, o Labruja, son of João de Sousa and wife Beatriz de Almeida and widow with female issue of Maria Rodrigues de Castelo-Branco, and had extant issue
*
Diogo Gil Moniz
*
Rui Gil Moniz
* Guiomar Gil Moniz (formerly Guiomar Gil)
*
Isabel Moniz (or Isabel Gil Moniz and formerly Isabel Gil), wife of
Bartolomeu Perestrelo
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, mother of
Filipa Moniz
Filipa Moniz Perestrelo (c. 1455 – between 1479 and 1484) was a Portuguese noblewoman from Porto Santo Island, in Madeira, Portugal. She was the wife of Christopher Columbus, married in 1479 in Vila Baleira on the island.
History
Filipa M ...
and mother-in-law of
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus
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* es, link=no, Cristóbal Colón
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.
[Well documented as sister of Diogo Gil Moniz at Chancelaria de D. Afonso V, liv. 36, fl 216v, transcribed in Monumenta Henricina, Volume XIII]
Sources
* Manuel João da Costa Felgueiras Gaio, "Nobiliário das Famílias de Portugal", Tomo Vigésimo Primeiro, Título de Monizes, § 17, § 18 e § 19
* Various Authors, "Armorial Lusitano", Lisbon, 1961, pp. 370–372
* Dom Augusto Romano Sanches de Baena e Farinha de Almeida Portugal Sousa e Silva, 1.º Visconde de Sanches de Baena, "Archivo Heraldico-Genealógico", Lisbon, 1872, Volume II, p. CXV
* Cristóvão Alão de Morais, "Pedatura Lusitana", Volume I (reformulated edition), pp. 668–670
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Portuguese nobility
14th-century Portuguese people
1370s births
1437 deaths
15th-century Portuguese people
Year of birth unknown