• Madeira (1419–1420). He was born Tristão Vaz, adding the name Teixeira after his marriage with Branca Teixeira. Tristão was a nobleman of Prince Henry the...
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    people with the surname include: Tristão Vaz Teixeira (1395–1480), Portuguese navigator and explorer Luís Teixeira (16th century), Portuguese Jesuit...
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  • not go beyond the Gambia River. Nuno Tristão was a knight of the household of Henry the Navigator. In 1441, Tristão was dispatched by Henry in one of the...
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  • Porto Santo Island (1419) together with João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira. The account of his participation in the discovery is disputed by...
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    Ravenstein, Ernst Georg (2010). Bartolomeu Dias. William Brooks Greenlee, Pero Vaz de Caminha. England: Viartis. ISBN 978-1-906421-03-8. OCLC 501399584. Ravenstein...
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    discovered. In 1418, two of Henry's captains, João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira were driven by a storm to Porto Santo an uninhabited island off the...
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    Kingdom of Portugal. In 1418, two captains, João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira, while exploring the African coast in the service of Prince Henry...
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    Alentejo coast in southwest Portugal. According to the Portuguese historian Teixeira de Aragão, he was born in a house near the church of Nossa Senhora das...
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    Barcelos Pero da Covilhã Pero Dias Pero Vaz de Caminha Tristão da Cunha Tristão Vaz Teixeira Vasco da Gama Spain portal Portugal portal History portal...
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  • coast in an expedition under the command of Nuno Tristão. As Gonçalves was considerably younger than Tristão, his duty was less exploration than it was hunting...
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