Amador Vaz de Alpoim

Amador Vaz de Alpoim

coat of arms of Alpoim
Personal details
Born 1568
Azores, Kingdom of Portugal
Died May 26, 1617
Buenos Aires, Viceroyalty of Peru
Nationality Portuguese
Spouse(s) Margarita Cabral de Melo
Occupation Hacendado
Trader
Profession Fidalgo
Religion Catholicism

Amador Vaz de Alpoim (1568–1617) was a Portuguese nobleman, military,[1] colonizer and explorer of South America.[2] He was the founder of the Cabral de Melo Alpoim family in the Río de la Plata, descendants of the first settlers of the Azores islands.[3]

Biography

In mid-April 1599 Amador Alpoim, his wife, Margarita, and their children arrived in Buenos Aires from their home in Rio de Janeiro, city where the family had lived for some years.[4] Alpoim and his wife were natives of Santa Maria Island, place where they had lived their parents and grandparents.

In 1604 the Captain Alpoim was part of the expedition organized by Hernando Arias de Saavedra in City of the Caesars.[5] That same year he participated in the exploration of the islas del Paraná. A failed expedition where Alpoim saved the life of Hernandarias, when this fell from his horse, and was about to be killed by tribes Charruas.[6]

In the early 1600s, Alpoim renounce their activities as slave-trader, to devote himself exclusively to his ranch, where he was engaged in raising cattle and wine production.[7]

Family and Ancestors

Amador was son of Estevan Alpoim and Isabel Velha. Her grandparents were Estêvão Pires de Alpoim and Grimanesa Pires, daughter of Pedro Vaz Marinheiro.[8] Amador was descendant of Lopo de Alpoim and N Pinheiro, daughter of Álvaro Pires Pinheiro Lobo.[9]

The Alpoim family according to some sources they were descendants of Kings of England,[10] other versions indicated it as descendant of Henry II of Castile,[11] and the oldest version says it was descendant of Godofredo de Puy, son bastard of William I.[12] The fact is that Amador Báez de Alpoim was descendant of Portuguese and French nobles,[13] as Luís de Alpoim and Guilherme du Pui, born in Bordeaux.[14]

Alpoim was married on the island of Azores with Margarita Cabral de Melo, descendant of Martim Afonso de Melo and Briolanja de Sousa, a direct descendant of Afonso III of Portugal.[15] They had several children, Matías Cabral de Melo (priets),[16] Amador Báez de Alpoim, Lieutenant governor of Corrientes,[17] Manuel Cabral de Melo, Alcalde of Buenos Aires,[17] and Cristóbal Cabral, Regidor in the same city.[18]

The Alpoim family had a farm in Monte Grande, were good traders, had vineyard and bred of cattle.[19]

References

  1. ↑ Don Diego Rodríguez Valdez y de la Banda, el tercer gobernador del Paraguay y Río de la Plata por S.M., después de la repoblación de Buenos Aires (1599-1600): ensayo biográfico, Ediciones de la Municipalidad, 1949
  2. ↑ Migrare: la formation des élites dans l'Hispanie romaine, Antonio Caballos Rufino, Ségolène Demougin
  3. ↑ Ihla de S. Miguel, Volumen 1, Gaspar Frutuoso
  4. ↑ Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, 1989
  5. ↑ Los origenes de Montevideo: 1607-1749, by Luís Enrique Azarola Gil
  6. ↑ Boletín de la Academia Nacional de la Historia, Volúmenes 42-43, Academia Nacional de la Historia
  7. ↑ History of Agriculture, Volumes 1-2, International Association for the History of Agriculture, 1973
  8. ↑ Genealogía - Temas13-15, Instituto Argentino de Ciencias Genealógicas
  9. ↑ Nobiliário de familias de Portugal, Volume 1, Manuel J. Felgueiras Gayo
  10. ↑ La Orden de la Merced en la Conquista Del Perú, Chile Y El Tucumán
  11. ↑ Revista Hidalguía número 174, 1982
  12. ↑ O Instituto - Volúmenes15-16, COIMBRA Imprensa da Universidade, 1872
  13. ↑ Juan Baltasar Maziel: el maestro de la generación de mayo, Imprenta López, 1946
  14. ↑ Agiologio dominico, vidas dos santos, beatos, martyres, 1761
  15. ↑ Actas, Volumen 2, Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo Centro Universitario, 1992
  16. ↑ Santa Fe la Vieja: población y grupos familiares españoles, 1573-1660. Luis María Calvo.
  17. 1 2 Lecciones de historiografía de Corrientes, Volume 1, Gmo. Kraft, ltda., 1929
  18. ↑ Genealogía, Issue 13, Instituto Argentino de Ciencias Genealógicas
  19. ↑ Litigios de antaño, by Raúl de Labougle

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