- (Portuguese for "donated" or "endowed [one]"),
sometimes anglicized as
donatary, was a
private person —
often a
noble — who was
granted a considerable...
- A
donatary captain was a
Portuguese colonial official to whom the
Crown granted jurisdiction,
rights and
revenues over some
colonial territory. The recipient...
- Elmina, the
Portuguese were
completely expelled from the
region by 1642.
Donatary captain (donatário, or Captain-major) was a
designation given by the Portuguese...
- the
individual islands,
allowing the
stewardship of the King
through the
Donatary and
Captaincy system.
Following the
discovery of the
first islands in the...
-
captaincy of
Portuguese Brazil. King João III of
Portugal bestowed the
donatary captaincy on
Francisco Pereira Coutinho on 5
March 1534 as a
reward for...
-
Fernandes Coutinho (1490–1561) was a
Portuguese fidalgo and the
first donatary of the
Captaincy of Espírito Santo, a
colonial territory in what is now...
-
constituent royal captaincies, and
nominal but ill-defined
authority over the
donatary captaincies. One captaincy, that of
Duarte Coelho in Pernambuco, was exempt...
- Perestrello, a
Portuguese nobleman of
Lombard origin, who had been the
donatary captain of
Porto Santo. In 1479 or 1480, Columbus's son
Diego was born...
- Cima,
ordered by João Gonçalves Zarco, the island's
discover and
first donatary captain of Funchal, to be his
family tomb. Its
construction began on 1492...
- Each of the
holders of
these captaincies was
referred to as a
captain donatary (capitão donatário). The
captaincies were to be
inherited by the holders'...
