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		And Perestrelo (not Prestrelo) was also a Portuguese, though his ancestors, many generations before came from Piacenza, Italy.
		Bartolomeu also went to the School of Sagres, and when Prince Henry organized the expedition and capture of Ceuta in 1415, both Joao Gonçalves Zarco and Bartolomeu Perestrelo, participated in the campaign, as comrades- in- arms within the Order of Christ.
		For obvious reasons, Perestrelo, whose ancestors had come to Portugal more than a century before, and whose family name was changed repeatedly to erase the Italian origin, can rightfully be considered as Portuguese.
	www.colaco.net /1/AdmMadeira.htm (770 words)

	Porto Santo :: Gowealthy.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It's first donee was Bartolomeu Perestrelo, appointed by Prince Henry the Navigator, who started the first settlement.
		The discovery of this island was an important first step for the ones who came later along the west coast of Africa to the Cape of Good Hope.
		On this island Christopher Columbus was married to D. Filipa, the daughter of the first donee Bartolomeu Perestrelo.
	www.gowealthy.com /article/373/index.asp (364 words)

	Porto Santo - The story so far...
		The discovery of this island was an important first step for other discoveries made later along the west African coast down to the Cape of Good Hope and from there to the East Indies and eventually Japan.
		Christopher Columbus, who was married in Porto Santo to Donna Filipa (daughter of the first donee Bartolomeu Perestrelo), lived on this island for some time.
		Situated in the northern hemisphere on the 32º latitude, its territory of about 42 square kilometres is almost completely covered with calcareous matter, especially on the northern side.
	www.madeira-web.com /PagesUK/ps-story.html (421 words)

	SPA
		On the return voyage in 1420, they were accompanied by another squire, an Italian named, Bartolomeu Perestrelo, who was interested in the economic possibilities of the new land.
		Finally the island of Porto Santo would be developed by Bartolomeu Perestrelo.
		The Island of Porto Santo, Madeira is allotted to Bartalomau Perestrelo
	www.crgate.com /smad.htm (2208 words)

	Writing
		I learned navigation and piloting in the naval school of Sagres and soon went out on several expeditions, one of which was to the island of Porto Santo where I met a beautiful lady named Filipa.
		She was the daughter of Bartolomeu Perestrelo, the governor of the island.
		We agreed that Filipa Perestrelo, the young lady I had met in Porto Santo was a good choice.
	www.shermanperlman.com /writing/mags/mag5.htm (4384 words)

	Porto Santo Island - BLANDY Madeira Guide - a complete tourism guide to Madeira Island and Porto Santo Island, Portugal
		They were swept onto the sandy shores of an island which they named in gratitude Porto Santo (safe port).
		Bartolomeu Perestrelo, an astute Italian joined them on their second journey, stayed at Porto Santo and became Governor of the island.
		Columbus met his daughter Filipa Moniz and the two were married in 1479, but Filipa died soon after while giving birth to their son.
	www.madeiraguide.com /portosantoisland/index.php (506 words)

	pilgrim chapter 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It was Bartolomeu Dias, the master of the caravel, who passed the Cape of Good Hope in 1487 because he realized that he could not navigate against the Guinea Current.
		On his return, Bartolomeu Dias followed the Benguela Current, parallel to the African Coast, and sailed towards the equator, continuing along the conventional Sargasso - Azores Route to Lisbon.
		Since 1 472, when John Vaz Corte Real returned from discovering New Foundland, for which he was rewarded with the governorship of half of the Island of Terceira, the Corte Real family spent all its energies pursuing the Northwest passage to India.
	www.apol.net /dightonrock/pilgrim_chapter_4.htm (2327 words)

	Porto Santo Tourism Island for Holiday with sand beach.
		The island was discovered in 1418 by the Portuguese navigators João Gonçalves Zarco, Tristão Vaz Teixeira and Bartolomeu Perestrelo.
		The latter was named the first donatário or hereditary governor of the island.
		Some years later, Christopher Columbus came to the island and married one of Bartolomeu Perestrelo's daughters.
	www.madeiraweb.info /indexet/PortoSanto/intro.html (693 words)

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		Portuguese colonizers – mainly fishermen and farmers from southern Portugal – settled on Porto Santo and Madeira from 1420, planting sugar cane and vines and exporting the sap from the island’s dragon trees, which could be made into dye.
		Porto Santo’s first governor was Bartolomeu Perestrelo, a friend of Christopher Columbus, who visited the island a number of times in the late 1470s.
		It was during his time on Porto Santo, that Columbus is said to have been inspired to set off for America after seeing wood and seeds washed up on Porto Santo’s beach, making him wonder if there were land further west.
	www.visitandlearn.co.uk /factfiles06/madeira5.asp (326 words)

	Knights Templar Discussion Forum :: View topic - Huge Crosses on Sails of Portuguese/Spanish Ships
		His brother Bartolomeu gave him shelter and Columbus started working whith him.
		Columbus did married Filipa Perestrelo Moniz who was daughter of Bartolomeu Perestrelo, a Portuguese noble and sailor with Italian ancestry, who partaken the discovery and colonization of the Madeira archipelago.
		In fact he was the governor of the island of Porto Santo, where Columbus lived for a while.
	templarhistory.com /forum/viewtopic.php?p=6411&... (1177 words)

	File 3 - 1450-1500 - Merchants and Bankers Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In 1448 he marries a daughter of Bartolomeu Perestrelo, who is capt-donatory of an island named Porto Santo, near Madeira, as Bartolomeu had discovered the island with Tristao Vaz Teixeira.
		Portugal meantime is preparing the expedition of Bartolomeu Dias, while d'Ulmo may be planning an expedition of 1487 with the aid of a German, probably Martin Behaim.
		Renault feels that King John had become aware that there was land "to the west" in the Atlantic.
	www.danbyrnes.com.au /merchants/merchants3.htm (3266 words)

	About Porto Santo
		Porto Santo was discovered in1418 by the Portuguese mariners JoÃÆ’ÃÂ£o GonÃÆ’ÃÂ§alves Zarco, TristÃÆ’ÃÂ£o Vaz Teixeira and Bartolomeu Perestrelo, who was later appointed the first CapitÃÆ’ÃÂ£o DonatÃÆ’ÃÂ¡rio of the island.
		Some years later, Christopher Columbus stayed on the island for a while and married one of Perestrelo’s daughters.
		Another important aspect of the island’s history is the fact that Christopher Columbus lived here after marrying Filipa Moniz, daughter of Bartolomeu Perestrelo.
	porto-santo.8m.com /about.html (479 words)

	pioneer1
		It seems that Governor Bartolomeu Perestrelo was especially fond of rabbits, and on a colonizing expedition to Porto Santo took two rabbits - a male and a female - and turned them loose on the island.
		Among Madeira's famous citizens was Christopher Columbus, who while in Lisbon married Filipa Monis, the daughter of the Madeiran governor, Bartolomeu Perestrelo.
		Columbus and his wile lived in Porto Santo where their son, Diego, was born.
	www.portugueseancestry.com /genealogy/html/pioneer1.cfm (3458 words)

	The Portuguese Christopher Columbus!!
		The 2 islands know as the Madeiras were discovered in 1419 by João Gonçalves Zarco, Tristão Vaz Teixeira and Bartolomeu Perestrelo.
		The discoverers were actually blown by a storm from Portugal to the Madeiras and the two islands of Porto Santo and Madeira were claimed for Portugal.
		In 1478, Columbus married a daughter of Bartolomeu Perestrelo named Doña Felipa Perestrello and they lived on the island of Madeira.
	www.reformation.org /portuguese-columbus.html (2148 words)

	João Gonçalves Zarco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Portuguese navigator and noble of the house of infant D. Henrique.
		Commander of caravels, he discovered the island of Porto Santo (1418) with Tristão Vaz Teixeira, and then Madeira island, with Bartolomeu Perestrelo (1419).
		He always helped the infant on his nautical enterprises.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/3808/zarco_e.html (112 words)

	Portuguese Overseas Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Madeira (re)discovered by João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Teixeira, and Bartolomeu Perestrelo (colonized in following decade); Prince Henrique (Henry) “the Navigator” gathers resources to study navigation and equip expeditions
		Bartolomeu Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope
		Voyage of Pero da Covilhã to Ethiopia and India, and Afonso de Paiva to East Africa, both by way of Aden
	www.unc.edu /depts/ilas/lbchrono.htm (1179 words)

	Christopher Columbus Was Not Cristobal Colon, Christopher Columbus was Colombo.
		Colon’s father—in-law, Bartolomeu Perestrelo, was a member of both Santiago and of the Ordem de Cristo, and Bartolomeu Perestrelo’s in-laws (the Mendonças) were members of Santiago.
		Yet, three years later, around 1479, he married a noblewoman named Filipa Moniz Perestrelo (a member of Santiago) while coming from humble birth of wool-weavers and having no schooling.
		This weaver\sailor named Colombo, they insisted, did not know Italian and learned to read and write in Portugal at age 25.
	unmaskingcolumbus.com /unmasking_columbus/ChristopherColumbus_ch01.htm (4449 words)

	joaogoncalveszarcothefirsthero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		After examining the island that had no human inhabitants they returned to Portugal and reported the good news to their master Prince Henry who became very enthusiastic and asked them to go back again in the following year in 1419.
		But this time they took with them another member of Prince Henry’s House, a fellow named Bartolomeu Perestrelo.
		This time they went to colonize the new
	www.dightonrock.com /joaogoncalveszarcothefirsthero.htm (2323 words)

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