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The Torre do Tombo National Archive (Portuguese: Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo), commonly known simply as the Torre do Tombo ([ˈtoʁɨ ðu ˈtõbu]; literally "Tower of the Tome") is the national archive of Portugal, located in Lisbon. Established in 1378, it is one of the oldest archival institutions in the world.
The origin of the Ataíde family can be documented since the 12th century, its progenitor being D. Egas Duer [1] (c. 1140 – c. 1180), a fidalgo of the County of Portugal (and likely a member of the early medieval House of Riba Douro), who was the 1st Lord of the Honra of Ataíde («propter honorem Domne Egee Duer»), located in what was then the county of Santa Cruz de Riba Tâmega (near ...
Pero de Ataíde or Pedro d'Ataíde [a] (d'Atayde, da Thayde), nicknamed O Inferno (Hell), "for the damage he did to the Moors in Africa", [2] (c. 1450 – February/March, 1504, Mozambique Island) was a Portuguese sea captain in the Indian Ocean active in the early 1500s.
He was the nobleman of the Royal House; he would be governor of Peniche in 1640, governor of arms of the provinces of Trás-os-Montes in 1649 and 1652, governor and captain-general of the State of Brazil (appointed by charter of 21 February 1653, [1] took office on 14 December 1654), governor of the Arms of Alentejo in 1659, captain general of the Royal Armada on 25 June 1662, president of the ...
He was the son of Dom Álvaro de Ataíde, captain and governor of the Maluku islands between 1567 and 1560, by his wife D. Jerónima de Castro do Canto. He was thus a great-grandson, in the paternal line, of another Dom Álvaro de Ataíde, Lord of Castanheira (second-born son of the 1st Count of Atouguia), a participant in the conspiracy of the Duke of Viseu against King John II of Portugal.
Institution document of the company, 1759. The Companhia de Comércio de Pernambuco e Paraíba was a monopoly company responsible, between 1759 and 1780, for carrying out all the transatlantic trade between the captaincy of Pernambuco and its adjacent captaincies: Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, as well as parts of Alagoas.
He left for India for the first time in 1538, on the fleet's flagship that transported viceroy Dom Garcia de Noronha, his cousin.Later, under the government of Noronha's successor, governor Dom Estevão da Gama, he joined an expedition to the Red Sea, and - after the Battle of El Tor - he was formally knighted by da Gama in Saint Catherine's Monastery, at the foot of Mount Sinai, in April 1541 ...
He was with his father at the Battle of Alfarrobeira, on the side of King Afonso V.The sovereign, soon after making him Count, sent him on a mission to the Portuguese fortress of Ceuta, accompanied by Fernando I, 4th Count of Arraiolos and later 2nd Duke of Bragança (1403 - 1478), with the aim of convincing the King's brother, the Infante Dom Fernando, later Duke of Viseu, to return to ...