Life

He was the eldest son of Diogo Gil Moniz

Diogo Gil Moniz

-Life:He was the eldest son of Gil Aires Moniz and wife Maria Pires.He was Vedor of the Fazenda of Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu, brother of King Afonso V of Portugal and father of King Manuel I of Portugal.-Marriage and issue:...

 and wife Leonor da Silva, of the Lord

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s of a Chamusca.

For some time he was 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 King Manuel I of Portugal

Manuel I of Portugal

Manuel I , the Fortunate , 14th king of Portugal and the Algarves was the son of Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu, , by his wife, Infanta Beatrice of Portugal...

, he had a Command at the Order of Christ

Order of Christ (Portugal)

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 and later was the Mordomo-Mór (Lord Chamberlain or Master Majordomo) of the Cardinal

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 Henry, King of Portugal.

Marriages and issue

He married firstly Brites ... (daughter of Pedro Botelho, Judge

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 of the Customs

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 of Lisbon

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, and wife), with whom he never had a life and without issue, and after her first wife's death secondly Isabel Henriques (daughter of Francisco de Miranda, from Évora

Évora

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, and wife) and had issue, two sons and one daughter by second marriage and one illegitimate son, or one son and one daughter by second marriage and two illegitimate sons:

• Bernardo Moniz or Moniz da Silva, had the Command of his father in the Order of Christ, and had for an abode as a Squire
  Squire
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   2230 réis a month and 1 alqueire
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   (between 13 and 22 litre
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  s) of barley
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   a day, married his relative Lourença or Lucrécia de Vilhena (daughter of Francisco da Silva of the Lords of a Chamusca) and wife, without issue, had four bastard children, or his first two were by marriage:
  • Pedro Moniz or Pero Moniz da Silva, died in Africa
    North Africa
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    , at the Battle of Ksar El Kebir, on 4 August 1578
  • Vitória or Victória, a Dame
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     of the Royal Palace of Infanta Maria, Duchess of Viseu and who died unmarried and without issue
  • António of St. Thomas, a Hieronymite monk
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     of Tomar
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    , one of the greatest men of his time
  • Isabel das Montanhas, a nun
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     at Santa Iria of Tomar
• Maria, a nun at Santa Iria of Tomar
• (illegitimate) João da Silva who some say died unmarried and without issue, others that he married Margarida de Gouveia and had:
  • Pedro
• (illegitimate?) Teotónio Moniz, a friar
  Friar
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  , Catholic priest and a great Preacher
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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