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Bartolomeu Perestrello (, in
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''Bartolomeo Perestrello''), 1st Capitão Donatário,
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and
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of the Island of
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( 1395 – 1457) was a Portuguese navigator and explorer that is claimed to have discovered and populated Porto Santo Island (1419) together with
João Gonçalves Zarco João Gonçalves Zarco ( 1390 – 21 November 1471) was a Portuguese explorer who established settlements and recognition of the Madeira Islands, and was appointed first captain of Funchal by Henry the Navigator. Life Zarco was born in Portugal ...
and Tristão Vaz Teixeira. The account of his participation in the discovery is disputed by some historians.


Biography

He was a son of ''Micer'' Filippo Pallastrelli (called Filipe Perestrello in Portugal), a Lombard
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who came to Portugal some say erroneously in the train of Queen Leonor of Aragon and here he was a Nobleman of
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, who recognized his
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and made him a Nobleman of Coat of Arms in 1433; he was married to Caterina Visconti (of the Visconti of
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not from the ones of
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), with whom he came to Portugal in 1385, and granted, in 1437, two houses at the Sub-Ripas Street in the City of
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. He was the son of ''Micer'' Gabriele Pallastrelli, a Lombard
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from
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, and second wife Bertolina Bracciforti. Nobleman and Fidalgo-
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of the House of Infante João, Lord of Reguengos and master of the Portuguese Order of Saint James (Santiago), he was granted in 1446, as a hereditary fief (capitania), the island of
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and, together with his fellow fleet commanders, started the colonization of the islands. One of his daughters, Filipa Moniz Perestrelo (born c. 1455), around 1479 married
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, who lived in
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and
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. A legend attributes the responsibility for the poor vegetation of Porto Santo to him. On his first disembarkation in the island he brought one pregnant doe-
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that escaped and its progeny overran the island in a few years. In fact, the island was poor in water, and what seemed to be a good enterprise for him became the cause of his family financial ruin.


Family

He married four times, firstly to Margarida Martins, without known issue, secondly with Branca Dias, fathering Branca Dias Perestrello, lady-in-waiting to
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of Dom Pedro de Noronha (Castle of Gijón, 1379 – August 20, 1452), 4th
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(1424–1452), by whom she had issue, including D. Pedro de Noronha, Lord Chamberlain to King
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. Thirdly in 1446 to Brites Furtado de Mendonça, (aunt of King John II's mistress
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) and had issue including Izeu Perestrelo, wife of Pedro Correia, First Captain of
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Island in the
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and one of King John II's twenty-five bodyguards. His fourth marriage to Isabel Moniz also had issue, including Filipa, one of the 12 ''Comendadoras'' of Santiago, who married Columbus, Violante who married Miguel Molyarte and lived in Seville, Spain and Bartolomeu Perestrelo II, Third Captain of Porto Santo. He was the brother of Rafael Perestrello, head of the Perestrellos of
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. He also had two sisters: Catarina Perestrello, married to Aires Anes de Beja, ''Escrivão da Puridade'' (a
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) of
John I of Portugal John I ( pt, João �uˈɐ̃w̃ 11 April 1357 – 14 August 1433), also called John of Aviz, was King of Portugal from 1385 until his death in 1433. He is recognized chiefly for his role in Portugal's victory in a succession war with Casti ...
.


See also

* Rafael Perestrello


References


Further reading

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Perestrello, Bartolomeu Portuguese explorers 15th-century explorers People from Porto Santo 15th-century Portuguese people 1390s births 1457 deaths History of Madeira Maritime history of Portugal