In a message dated 4/3/2010 9:08:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Do you have a list of the names who are tied to royalty? What about > Alecrim? There is a road and hotel with the name Alecrim and heard there > maybe > a connection to the royales. > > --- On Sat, 4/3/10, Iris Bilodeau <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> From: Iris Bilodeau <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Cabral ties to Royalty >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Saturday, April 3, 2010, 4:31 PM >> >> >>> >>> Has anyone found out if the Cabral Surname was tied to Royalty or not? >>> Iris >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > According to many genealogical sources, the Velho Cabrals of the Azores, i.e., the descendants of the siblings of the discoverer Gonçalo Velho Cabral (who did not have any children) descend through the Cabral line from Afonso III and his Moorish concubine, Madragana ben Bekar. There are other sources that dispute those claims.
There are other royal Azorean lines, e.g.,: The descendants of Garcia Rodrigues Camelo and Leonor Soeira, descends from D. Afonso III and the Moorish concubine. The descendants of Maria Coutinho (d. 1667) and Manuel da Câmara Sá, descend from Pedro I and Inês de Castro. The descendants of D. Jorge Gonçalves Pereira and Guiomar Fernandes da Silva descend from D. Fernando I. There are many other families in the Azores that have royal ancestors. The trick is to be able to go back far enough in your research to an ancestor who has been thoroughly researched by a reputable genealogist or historian and then to have access to that work. Otherwise it will be very slow going with many detours into unreliable, oftentimes discredited sources. -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
