Antão Gonçalves d' Ávila (abt. 1440)

Born about 1440 in Castile ou Castella, Spain

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Died [date unknown] in Ilha Terceira, Graciosa, Azores, Portugal

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Biography

Antão Gonçalves de Ávila A família Ávila dos Açores descende da nobre geração e linhagem dos Ávilas, de Castela a Velha, onde tinham o seu solar.

Dois membros de esta família: Antão Gonçalves de Ávila e Cristovão da Cruz de Ávila passaram à ilha Terceira, Açores, o primeiro, pouco depois da sua descoberta e o segundo, quando a dita ilha caiu debaixo do domínio castelhano.

Antão Gonçalves de Ávila era filho de João Sanches de Bettencourt de Ávila e de sua mulher Maria Vaz de Badílho; neto paterno de Jorge de Bettencourt e de sua mulher Eivira de Ávila, sendo esta filha de D. Estevão Domingos de Ávila, que foi alferes e alcaide-mor da cidade de Ávila, senhor das Navas, Vila Franca e outras terras de Espanha, e de sua mulher D. Ximena Blaques de Ávila.

Antão Gonçalves de Ávila, foi morador na então vila da Praia da Vitória na ilha Terceira, e ai casado com Inês Gonçalves de Antona, terceira filha de Afonso Gonçalves de Antona Baldaya, (um dos primeiros colonos da ilha Terceira para onde partiu vindo do continente português com Álvaro Martins Homem) e de D. Antónia Gonçalves, sua primeira esposa. E tiveram dois filhos:

1. Melchior Gonçalves de Ávila, casou na ilha Graciosa com Inês Gomes Freire, filha de Gomes Lourenço e de sua esposa Iria Vaz Freire.
2. João de Ávila de Bettencourt, casou com Maria Pais.

in: Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre <http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%A3o_Gon%C3%A7alves_de_%C3%81vila>

87. Antão Gonçalves d'Ávila Bettencourt (João Bethencourt, Georges, Regnault, Jean, Jean, Jean, Regnault, Philippe, Jean) (standardized spelling)^{434,435,256,55,6,7,9,435,256,55,6,7,9} was also known as Antão Gonçalves de Ávila.^{436,252,6,7,9} He was also known as Antão Gonçalves d'Ávila Betencourt.⁴³⁴ He was also known as Antão Gonçalvez de Avilla.⁴³⁵ He was born circa 1440 at Castile.^257,6,9 He married Dona Inês Gonçalves de Antona, daughter of Afonso Gonçalves de Antona and Ignes Rodrigues Fagundes, at Graciosa (Os Bettencourt gives the location of the marriage as Graçiosa, adding that the bride brought, as her dowry, lands which her father possessed there, but the Nobiliário de Famílias de Portugal gives the location as Villa de Praia, Terceira).^{435,6,7,9,23,436,251} He and Dona Inês Gonçalves de Antona had seven children.⁴³⁷ He and Dona Inês Gonçalves de Antona resided at Praia da Vitória, Terceira.⁴³⁷ Antão Gonçalves d'Ávila Bettencourt and João Sanchez Gonçalves de Ávila came to live in Terceira, being Castilian, to become one of those who followed the Comunidades in the time of Emperor Charles V.^344,345 Emperor Charles V reigned between 1519 and 1558 at the Holy Roman Empire.³⁴⁶ This branch came from Spain to Almeida and then to the Açores, establishing themselves on Terceira when it was under Castilian domination.^252,57

Dona Inês Gonçalves de Antona^{438,6,7,9,435,439,7,440} was also known as Inês Gonçalves de Antona.²³ She was also known as Ignes Gonçalvez Antona.⁴⁴¹ She was also known as Inês Gonçalves Antona.⁵⁵ She was born circa 1470 at Terceira.^441,7
Children of Antão Gonçalves d'Ávila Bettencourt and Dona Inês Gonçalves de Antona were as follows:

Children of Antão Gonçalves de Ávila and Dona Inês Gonçalves de Antona were as follows:

• + 164 i. Melchior Gonçalves de Ávila (I) was born after 1490 at Graciosa. He married Dona Inês Gomes Freire, daughter of Gomes Lourenço and Iria Vaz Freire, at Graciosa.
•    165 ii. Dona Felipa Gonçalves de Ávila (I) (suffix added for clarification) was born circa 1520 at Praia da Vitória, Terceira. She married João Vaz Nogueira at Terceira. João Vaz Nogueira was born circa 1520 at Graciosa.
•    166 iii. Dona Maria Gonçalves de Ávila was born after 1520 at Praia da Vitória, Terceira. She married Antão Fernandes Leal at Terceira. Antão Fernandes Leal was born circa 1520 at Terceira.
•    167 iv. Luzia da Silveira was born on 4 Jan 1748/49 at Ribeira Seca, São Jorge. She married Antonio Machado de Sousa Pereira, son of Manuel Nunes Pereira and Maria da Pascoa (--?--), circa 1775. Antonio Machado de Sousa Pereira was born in 1748.

in: Bettencourts 1200-2000 - Generation Ten. <http://web.meganet.net/bettenco/bett0010.htm#id19595>

• João de Ávila Bettencourt Maria Pais
• Catarina Gonçalves de Ávila oo Martim Nunes da Abilheira
• Maria Gonçalves de Ávila
• Guiomar Gonçalves de Ávila oo Francisco Álvares Diniz
• Melchior Gonçalves de Ávila * c. 1470 oo Inês Gomes Freire
• Filipa Gonçalves de Ávila oo João Vaz Nogueira
• Maria Gonçalves de Ávila oo Antão Fernandes Leal
• Joana Gonçalves de Ávila oo João Gonçalves Machado Ribeira-Seca

in: Geneall <http://www.geneall.net/P/per_page.php?id=41242>