Diogo de Teive

Diogo de Teive foi capitão de caravela e escudeiro do Casa do Infante D. Henrique.

Desembarcou na Ilha de Jesus Cristo (Terceira) em 1 de Janeiro de 1451, como ouvidor do Infante D. Henrique. Realizou duas viagens de exploração para Ocidente do Mar dos Açores.

Em 1452, no regresso de sua segunda viagem, descobriu as ilhas das Flores e do Corvo. Inicialmente foram consideradas um novo arquipélago, e receberam o nome de Ilhas Floreiras. Celebrou um contrato com o Infante D. Henrique, em 5 de Dezembro de 1452, para instalação na Ilha da Madeira de um engenho hidráulico de açúcar. Alguns investigadores sugerem que esteve relacionado com o desaparecimento do nobre flamengo Jácome de Bruges, Capitão donatário da ilha.

Diogo de Teive veio viver para a Ribeira Brava, após 1472. Diogo de Teive, e seu filho, João de Teive, detiveram direitos sobre as ilhas até 1474, ano em que D. Fernão Teles de Meneses, casado com D. Maria de Vilhena, comprou os direitos sobre as ilhas.

São vários os membros desta família (Teive) que tiveram papel relevo na Ribeira Brava e no país. Destacaram-se, entre outros, Gaspar de Teive (Séc. XVI), D. Aleixo de Teive (Séc. XVI), Frei António de Teive (teólogo, frade de Santo Agostinho, prior de Castelo Branco e Vila Viçosa), Baltazar de Teive (Séc. XVI), e ainda um outro Diogo de Teive, nascido no Séc. XVIII que foi "pagem, e depois, gentil homem do Rei D. Filipe".

Segundo os nobiliários, o humanista quinhentista Diogo de Teive era seu sobrinho-neto.

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Diogo de Teive was a captain and squire to the House of Infante D. Henrique during the Portuguese period of discovery. Following his exploration into the western Atlantic, he discovered the western islands of the archipelago of the Azores: for his efforts he was appointed Donatary for the islands of Flores and Corvo.

Donatário On 1 January 1451, he disembarked on the island of Terceira in the Azores from which he made his base. He realized two voyages of exploration to the west of the archipelago (which then only included the Central and Eastern Groups). In 1452, at the end of his second voyage, he discovered the islands of Flores and Corvo, which he initially believed were a new archipelago, naming them the Ilhas Floreira (or literally, the Flowered Islands), due to the abundance of flowering plants.[1]

On 5 December 1452, for his discovery, he was given a concession in the sugar cane industry on the island of Madeira by Infante D. Henrique.

Some historians claim that he was responsible for the disappearance of the first Captain-Major of the Captaincy of Flores, although unproven.

Later life By 1472, he had settled in Ribeira Brava, and along with his son (João de Teive) maintained the donatary rights to the islands until 1474, when D. Fernão Teles de Meneses (married to D. Maria de Vilhena) bought those rights over the islands.[1]

The Teive family and their descendants have had an important history in the community of Ribeira Brava, including: Gaspar de Teive (16th Century), D. Aleixo de Teive (16th century), friar António de Teive (theologist and monk in the Order of St. Augustine, prior of Castelo Branco and Vila Viçosa), Baltazar de Teive (16th century), and also another Diogo de Teive, born in the 18th century ("page and gentleman of King Phillip").