meninodeengenho
09-03-2016, 10:58 PM
On this thread I will post people who had a important role in the constitution of Brazil. These people founded cities, fought wars in Brazil and sometimes in other locations of Portuguese Empire and contributed to make the actual Brazil.
João Ramalho
http://www3.al.sp.gov.br/repositorio/noticia/hist/Joao%20Ramalho.jpg
He was born in Vouzela, a town in Beira, son of João Vieira Maldonado and Catarina Afonso de Balbode. He embarked on a ship searching for Ilha do Paraíso (literally Paradise Island) in Brazil. He shipwrecked in 1513, in the coast of the future Captaincy of São Vicente.
He was found by the tribe of Guaianases, and he won prestige with the Indigenous people in the region. He later married with daughter of Tibiriçá, a Tupiniquim cacique (cacique is leader of a Indigenous tribe), Bartirá, named after the wedding Isabel Dias. He had nine children with Isabel, and many other children with other Indigenous women. The jesuits priets criticised his sexual liberty, his habit of walking nude like the Ameridians, his rudeness. But he was fundamental in the acceptation of jesuits priests among the Indians and later founded the School, who gave origin to São Paulo.
With his children he controlled various posts to make commerce with Europeans, sold Indigenous slaves and negociated Pau-Brasil.
He had a giant army made of Indians, and used his influence among Indians to help his countrymen.
Among his descendants are Queen Silvia of Sweden and her children:
http://svspb.net/images/foto/kf/s/kungafamiljen-1.jpg
Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil during 1930-1945 and 1951-1954:
http://src.odiario.com/imagem/dc/media/webmedia/files/getulio_vargas_6b_1.jpg
Carlos Drummond de Andrade, poet and writer:
http://www.projetomemoria.art.br/drummond/recursos/img/linha-do-tempo/cda1940s.jpg
João Ramalho
http://www3.al.sp.gov.br/repositorio/noticia/hist/Joao%20Ramalho.jpg
He was born in Vouzela, a town in Beira, son of João Vieira Maldonado and Catarina Afonso de Balbode. He embarked on a ship searching for Ilha do Paraíso (literally Paradise Island) in Brazil. He shipwrecked in 1513, in the coast of the future Captaincy of São Vicente.
He was found by the tribe of Guaianases, and he won prestige with the Indigenous people in the region. He later married with daughter of Tibiriçá, a Tupiniquim cacique (cacique is leader of a Indigenous tribe), Bartirá, named after the wedding Isabel Dias. He had nine children with Isabel, and many other children with other Indigenous women. The jesuits priets criticised his sexual liberty, his habit of walking nude like the Ameridians, his rudeness. But he was fundamental in the acceptation of jesuits priests among the Indians and later founded the School, who gave origin to São Paulo.
With his children he controlled various posts to make commerce with Europeans, sold Indigenous slaves and negociated Pau-Brasil.
He had a giant army made of Indians, and used his influence among Indians to help his countrymen.
Among his descendants are Queen Silvia of Sweden and her children:
http://svspb.net/images/foto/kf/s/kungafamiljen-1.jpg
Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil during 1930-1945 and 1951-1954:
http://src.odiario.com/imagem/dc/media/webmedia/files/getulio_vargas_6b_1.jpg
Carlos Drummond de Andrade, poet and writer:
http://www.projetomemoria.art.br/drummond/recursos/img/linha-do-tempo/cda1940s.jpg