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| | Christopher Columbus' family and his Perestrello and Moniz in-laws. |
 | | Diego speaks of "Dona Felipa Muniz, my mother, who is in the monastery of Carmo in Lisbon, in a chapel that is called of Piety, because of her lineage from the Munizes". |
| | Peter is buried in the Convent of St. Iria, in Tomar where the inscription reads: "This chapel was ordered made by Peter Moniz da Silva, who is buried here with his wife, Isabel Henriquez, and his son Bernard Moniz da Silva with his wife, Lourenza da Silva, and his daughter, Victoria da Silva". |
| | The Portuguese historian, Braamcamp Freire, say that this Peter Moniz da Silva was a cousin of Columbus' wife, and a poet whose poems were included in the Cancioneiro of Garcia de Resende, yet says that he was not the Peter Moniz da Silva who was a singer for King John II. |
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