Tristão Vaz Teixeira's Coat of
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Tristão Vaz Teixeira (c.
1395 – 1480) was a
Portuguese
navigator and explorer who, together with João Gonçalves Zarco and
Bartolomeu Perestrelo,
discovered the Madeira
Islands
(1419-1420). His true name was just
Tristão Vaz, the name Teixeira being later added
because of his wife Branca Teixeira.
Nobleman of Prince
Henry the
Navigator's House, he was granted, as hereditary fief (
Capitania), half the island of Madeira and,
together with his fellow fleet commanders, started the colonization
of the islands.
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