Life

He was the eldest son of Rui Gil Moniz

Rui Gil Moniz

-Life:He was a son of Gil Aires Moniz and wife Maria Pires.He was a Treasurer of the Casa da Moeda of Lisbon.-Marriage and issue:He married Filipa de Almada, daughter of João Vaz de Almada, Vedor of King Afonso V of Portugal, and wife Violante de Castro, and had:* Garcia Moniz* Francisco de Almada,...

 and wife Filipa de Almada.

He held the office of his father of Treasurer

Treasurer

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 of the Casa da Moeda of Lisbon

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 and was a Commander of Nossa Senhora da Conceição of Lisbon, Fidalgo

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 of the Royal Household

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 of King John III of Portugal

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Marriages and issue

He married firstly Brites Pereira, daughter of the Licentiate

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 Luís Esteves da Veiga Lobo, Over Judge

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 of the House of the Civil

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, and wife, without issue, and married secondly Genebra ..., daughter of Cristóvão Juzarte, from Azinhaga, and wife, without issue, and had a bastard daughter:

• Margarida or Madalena Moniz, the daughter of a tarnished woman, who was a cow and married lowerly, wife of a mechanical
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  officer named Pero Fernandes

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