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Pero De Ataíde
Pero de Ataíde or Pedro d'Ataíde (d'Atayde, da Thayde), nicknamed ''O Inferno'' (Hell), "''for the damage he did to the Moors in Africa''", (c. 1450 – February/March, 1504, Mozambique Island) was a Portugal, Portuguese sea captain in the Indian Ocean active in the early 1500s. He was briefly captain of the first permanent Portuguese fleet in the Indian Ocean, taking over from Vicente Sodré, and the author of a famous letter giving an account of its fate. Background According to chronicler Gaspar Correia, Pero de Ataíde was a "very honored nobleman, a good knight, of virtuous condition" He was one of the three known illegitimate sons of Pedro de Ataíde, Abbot of Penalva do Castelo, himself an illegitimate son of Don (honorific), D. :pt:Álvaro_Gonçalves_de_Ataíde,_1.º_Conde_de_Atouguia, Álvaro Gonçalves de Ataíde, the 1st Count of Atouguia. He had two brothers, Vasco de Ataíde and Álvaro Gonçalves de Ataíde, and a sister, Isabel Coutinho. It is sometimes ...
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Ataíde Family
Ataíde is the name of a noble family from the Kingdom of Portugal, many of whose members played important roles in the course of the Portuguese maritime exploration, Portuguese overseas exploration and expansion and in the internal and foreign policies of Portugal and its empire. History Origin The origin of the Ataíde family can be documented since the 12th century, its progenitor being Don (honorific), D. Egas Duer (c. 1140 – c. 1180), a fidalgo of the County of Portugal (and likely a member of the Early Middle Ages, early medieval :pt:Casa de Riba Douro, House of Riba Douro), who was the 1st Lord of the Honra of :pt:Ataíde, Ataíde («''propter honorem Domne Egee Duer''»), located in what was then the county of Santa Cruz de Riba Tâmega (near present-day Amarante, Portugal, Amarante), in the northern Portuguese region of Entre Douro e Minho. Egas Duer's son, Martim Viegas, was the first to use the surname Ataíde, derived from the name of the ''Honra'' of which he ...
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