Jerónimo Moniz was a Portuguese nobleman.

Life

He was the eldest son of Febo Moniz de Lusignan and wife Catarina or Maria da Cunha. Like his father, he was also a Reposteiro-Mór (major footman at the royal household encharged with drawing and undrawing the curtains and hangings and treasurer of the store-house for furniture) of the same King

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Marriage and issue

He married Violante da Silva, daughter of João de Saldanha, Vedor of Queens Maria of Aragon and Eleanor of Austria, wives of King Manuel I of Portugal, and later of the Empress

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, and wife Dona Joana de Lima of the

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s of Vila Nova de Cerveira. He had four children: * João Moniz, unmarried and without issue * Febo Moniz * António Moniz, who withdrew as a

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of the Company of Jesus * Leonor, a

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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 Portuguese nobility Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown 16th-century Portuguese people {{Portugal-bio-stub