Fernão de Noronha

Fernão de Noronha

Fernão de Noronha (ca 1470 or before – Lisbon, ca 1540), Portuguese Jewish explorer, also known as Fernando de Noronha (name given to the Islands of Fernando de Noronha whose expedition that discovered it was financed by him) or even Fernão de Loronha, his real name. He explored the Atlantic Ocean, and modern historians attribute to him the discovery of the Fernando de Noronha archipelago in 1501-1502. One of his daughters, Isabel de Castro, was married to Pedro Álvares Cabral, the discoverer of Brazil.

He was the son of Martim Afonso de Loronha and wife and the brother of another Martim Afonso de Loronha, a Clerk of the Mastery of the Order of Christ, both enobled and granted a Coat of Armas newly created. He married Violante Rodrigues de Noronha and had issue extinct at the generation of his great-grandchildren.

External links

* [http://www.geneall.net/P/per_page.php?id=205679 Fernão de Noronha's genealogy in a Portuguese genealogical site]


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