Jerónimo Moniz Explained

Jerónimo Moniz was a Portuguese nobleman.

Life

He was the eldest son of Febo Moniz de Lusignan and wife Catarina or Maria da Cunha.

Like his father, he was also 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 the same King Manuel I of Portugal.

Marriage and issue

He married Violante da Silva, daughter of João de Saldanha, Vedor of Queens Maria of Aragon and Eleanor of Austria, wives of King Manuel I of Portugal, and later of the Empress Isabella of Portugal, and wife Dona Joana de Lima of the Viscounts of Vila Nova de Cerveira. He had four children:

• João Moniz, unmarried and without issue
• Febo Moniz
• António Moniz, who withdrew as a Priest of the Company of Jesus
• Leonor, a Nun

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