Descendants of Jean de Bethencourt

Bettencourts 1200-2000

Generation Nine

31. Jean de Bethencourt (XI) (Pierre, Collard, Regnault, Regnault, Jean, Regnault, Philippe, Jean) (suffix added for clarification)²⁷¹^,²⁷¹^,²⁷¹ was born after 1482 at Mauquenchy.²⁷¹ He was a squire.⁶⁸ Jean de Bethencourt (XI) was Lord of La Caussée de Randillon, France.⁶⁸ He married Marie de Martimbosc.⁶⁸ He and Marie de Martimbosc had five children.⁶⁸

Marie de Martimbosc⁶⁸ was born after 1485 at France.⁶⁸
Children of Jean de Bethencourt (XI) and Marie de Martimbosc all born at Mauquenchy were as follows:

53 i. Adrienne de Bethencourt⁶⁸^,⁶⁸^,⁶⁸ was born circa 1510.⁶⁸
54 ii. Marguerite de Bethencourt⁶⁸^,⁶⁸^,⁶⁸ was born circa 1520.⁶⁸
55 iii. Phillipe de Bethencourt⁶⁸^,⁶⁸^,⁶⁸ was born circa 1530.⁶⁸
+ 56 iv. Jean de Bethencourt (XII) was born circa 1530. He married Marguerite de Launay on 16 Apr 1559. He died circa 1590.
+ 57 v. Nicolas de Bethencourt (I) was born after 1530. He married Catherine Le Long on 9 Jul 1566.

33. Marguérite de Béthencourt (Maciot Bethencourt, Regnault, Jean, Jean, Jean, Regnault, Philippe, Jean)³⁷^,³⁵^,⁵⁵^,¹³⁶^,⁴¹^,²⁴⁷^,²³³^,²⁰¹^,¹³⁶^,⁴¹^,²⁰¹^,¹³⁶ was also known as Margarida de Bethencourt.²⁴¹ She was also known as Margarida de Bettencourt.⁹^,²⁰¹ She was born circa 1405 of a French mother.²⁴⁸
     The Ascendência e Descendência do Conselheiro Nicolau Anastácio de Bettencourt gives Marguérite de Béthencourt's father as Jean IV instead of Maciot. It also states that Jean IV married a second time, in 1415, to Lerize Guardateme, Princess of the Royal House of the Canarias and Lady of the Island of Lanzarote, Marguérite's mother. In a note, however, it states that various authors give Marguérite's father as Maciot.⁵⁶ She married Henri de Bettencourt, son of Regnault de Bethencourt (IV) and Felipa de Troyes, at Islas Canarias (uncle and neice (or cousins)).³⁷^,⁴¹^,²⁴⁶^,³⁵^,⁵⁵^,²¹⁶^,⁹^,⁵⁶^,²⁰¹^,¹³⁶ She moved to Madeira with her father, sister, and two cousins in 1448.³⁹^,¹⁷²^,¹⁹⁶

Henri de Bettencourt³⁵^,⁹^,²³⁷^,⁴⁰^,³⁵^,⁵⁵^,²³⁸^,²³⁹^,¹²^,³⁵^,⁵⁵^,¹⁷⁵^,¹² was also known as Henrique de Bethancourt.⁴⁰ He was also known as Henri de Béthencourt.³⁷ He was also known as Henrique Betancur.²⁴⁰ He was also known as Henri de Bethencourt.²⁴¹^,⁵⁵ He was also known as Henrique de Bettencourt.²⁴²^,¹²^,²⁰¹ He was born illegitimate circa 1390 at France.²⁴⁰ On 9 May 1405 he left with his kinsman Jean de Bethencourt for the Canary Islands.¹⁸³^,²⁴³ After 1406 Henri de Bettencourt was Lord of the Islas Canarias.²³⁷^,²⁴⁴ There has been much discussion concerning whom Henri married. It is certain that he married Maciot's daughter, his own niece, but genealogists differ as to which daughter.
     Suarez and Oliveira judged that he married the daughter of Teguise named Inês Margarida. On the other hand, knowing that Inês married a French nobleman who lived in Lanzarote by the name of Jean Arriete Prud'homme (or Ariete, Arriete, Aeriette, Aristo Prodomo, Pardomo, or Perdomo), some genealogists claim that Henri de Bettencourt and Jean Prud'homme are the same person. They recall that the word Prud'homme was used in the Middle Ages to designate certain magistrates, and assert, without any proof, that such was the case with Henri who took this name from his office. The principal argument in favor of this is that the grandchildren of Henri used, in one case, the proper name of Arriete, and, in another case, the surname Perdomo. However, there is no indication that Henri ever changed his first name to Jean.
     Against this assertion, Bergeron argues that Henri married his niece Marguerite, the legitimate daughter of Maciot and a French woman, and that Jean Perdomo married the illegitimate Inês Margarida. This is the line followed by Portuguese genealogists. An argument in favor of this is the different destinations of the sisters - Teguise's daughter, Inês Margarida, lived in the Canary Islands, while Marguerite moved with her father to Madeira.
     According to Carlos Machado's Genealogies, however, Henri married Lerida Guiardatame and the two became the parents of Maciot and Gaspar.²⁴⁵^,¹² Henri was in control of the family business in Ávila, Castile while Maciot was in charge of thre Canary Islands. He was ultimately the ancestor of the Ávila Bettencourt family of the Açores.¹⁹⁵ In 1448 he moved to Madeira.⁷⁹ He married Lerianda de Gardaleme at France (possible spouse;with no issue. Carlos Machado's Genealogies gives the marriage location as Spain).³⁹^,¹²^,¹³⁶
Children of Marguérite de Béthencourt and Henri de Bettencourt were as follows:

58 i. Henri de Bethencourt (II) was born circa 1430 at France. He married Dona Isabel Fernandes Tavares, daughter of Vasco Esteves and Joanna Tavares, at Ribeira Brava, Madeira, Portugal. He died circa 1500 at Ribeira Brava, Madeira, Portugal. (see # 38).
59 ii. Gaspard de Bettencourt (I) o Francês was born circa 1440 at France. He married Dona Guiomar de Sá, daughter of João Rodrigues de Sá and D. Francisca de Souza, at Lisboa, Portugal; they were married in the house of Dona Violanta, Guiomar's first cousin, wife of the Count of Castanheira. Fructuoso, in his Saudades da Terra, relates an entertaining story concerning the couple: Guiomar de Sá was walking in the Court, making a certain devotion to Saint John, or another saint, expecting that, on the last day, the first man she heard named by the same name would be the husband she would marry, whether he were Portuguese or not. As is the custom of women, or the superstitious, or the intemperate, very desirous of knowing what will happen to them, the devil responds as successor, God permitting that they be deceived by him, or sometimes upheld. It followed on the day and time that Gaspard de Bettencourt was to kiss the king's hand, dressed in green, and on the day before he saw him, Guiomar de Sá heard, a sound coming to her ears, that the man she would marry would be French, and the first time she saw him, he would be dressed in green, as he was. With successes like these, the devil many times deceives many women, they become very superstitious, like this one. He died in 1522 at São Miguel, Açores. He was buried in the chancel of the mother church of São Sebastião (Matriz), Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, with license from the king for a tomb for him, his wife, and his children, as well as permission to hang above the tomb his coat of arms with a banner hanging down, as it was for some years, until the church was demolished to enlarge it. (see # 39).
60 iii. Maciot de Bettencourt (II) was born circa 1450. He married ? Guevara before 1470 at Castile, Spain. He married Lesisa Guanartème, daughter of Armide Lacocon, at Islas Canarias. He died before 1524. (see # 40).

35. Rodrigo de Bethencourt (Maciot, Regnault, Jean, Jean, Jean, Regnault, Philippe, Jean)²⁷²^,⁵⁷^,¹³⁶^,²¹¹^,²¹⁰^,⁵⁷^,¹⁸¹^,¹³⁶^,¹⁹⁰^,¹³⁶ was also known as Dom Rodrigo Betancur.²¹¹ He was also known as Dom Rodrigo de Bettencourt.¹⁸¹ He was born illegitimate after 1415 at Islas Canarias.²⁷³^,⁵⁵^,¹³⁶ The Nobiliário de Madeira states that he died young, single, without children.¹⁸¹ He lived for a time in Madeira and then, while still young, returned to the Canary Islands.²⁷⁴

Children of Rodrigo de Bethencourt include:

+ 61 i. Dona Anna de Bethencourt was born after 1435 at Islas Canarias. She married Dom Gonçalo de Aguilar, son of Affonco Fernandes de Cordova and Dona Izabel de Figueiroa, at Gáldar, Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain.

37. Inês Margarida de Bethencourt (Maciot, Regnault, Jean, Jean, Jean, Regnault, Philippe, Jean)²¹⁰^,²¹⁰^,¹⁸¹^,²⁰⁶^,⁹²^,¹⁷¹^,²⁷⁵^,¹³⁶^,¹⁹⁰^,²⁰⁶^,¹⁷¹^,²⁷⁵^,¹³⁶ was also known as Dona Leonor de Bettencourt.¹⁸¹ She was also known as Margarita Leonor de Bethencourt.²⁰⁶^,¹⁷¹ She was also known as Leonor Margarita de Béthencourt.⁹²^,²⁰⁶ She was also known as Inés Margarita de Bethencourt.²⁷⁵ She was also known as Leonor de Bethencourt.²⁷⁶ She was also known as Inés Leonor Margarita de Bethencourt.¹³⁶ She was born illegitimate circa 1420 at Islas Canarias.¹⁹⁰^,¹³⁶ She and Jean Arriete Prud'homme were the ancestors of the Bethencourts of the Canary Islands (Lanzarote).²³²^,¹⁷¹ She married Jean Arriete Prud'homme at Islas Canarias.²⁷⁶^,¹⁸¹^,¹⁷¹^,⁹²^,²⁷⁵^,¹³⁶ She left a will on 4 Jun 1480 in her husband's house at Arrieta, Lanzarote, Islas Canarias, Spain.²⁷⁴^,²⁷⁵

Jean Arriete Prud'homme²⁷⁶ was also known as Jean Arriete Perdomo.²⁷⁴ He was also known as Ariste Perdome.¹⁸¹ He was also known as Don Juan Arriette Preud Domme.²⁰⁶^,¹⁷¹ He was also known as Jean Arriete Pordomo.²⁷⁴ He was also known as Jean Arriete Prodomo.²⁷⁴ He was also known as Juan Arriete Perdomo.⁹² He was also known as Jean Arriete Perdomo Melián.¹³⁶ He was born before 1400 at France.²³² He was a French nobleman and companion of Jean de Bethencourt.²⁷⁴^,¹⁸¹ He gave his name to a village on the island of Lanzarote - Arrieta - where he lived and built his house.²⁷⁴
Children of Inês Margarida de Bethencourt and Jean Arriete Prud'homme all born at Arrieta, Lanzarote, Islas Canarias, Spain, were as follows:

+ 62 i. Dona Elvira de Bethencourt was born after 1450. She married Jean Mélian, son of Jean Mélian and Catherine Boulanger.
+ 63 ii. Margarida Bethencourt was born after 1450. She married Juan Pérez de Munguía y Aguirre, son of Perucho de Bilbao and Doña Elivira de Munguía, circa 1480.
64 iii. Leonor de Bethencourt¹³⁶^,¹³⁶^,¹³⁶ was born after 1450.¹³⁶ She married Alonso de la Mota circa 1480.¹³⁶

Alonso de la Mota¹³⁶ was born circa 1450.¹³⁶
65 iv. Inês Bethencourt²⁷⁴^,²⁷⁴^,²⁷⁴ was born circa 1455.²⁷⁴
66 v. Martinho Bethencourt²⁷⁴^,²⁷⁴^,²⁷⁴ was born circa 1455.²⁷⁴
67 vi. Guilherme Bethencourt²⁷⁴^,²⁷⁴^,²⁷⁴ was born circa 1455.²⁷⁴
68 vii. Miguel Bethencourt²⁷⁴^,²⁷⁴^,²⁷⁴ was born circa 1455.²⁷⁴

38. Henri de Bethencourt (II) (Henri Bettencourt, Regnault Bethencourt, Jean, Jean, Jean, Regnault, Philippe, Jean) (suffix added for clarification)²⁴¹^,³⁷^,²⁷⁷^,³⁵^,⁵⁵^,⁹^,⁸³^,²⁷⁸^,³⁷^,²⁷⁹^,³⁵^,⁵⁵^,⁹ was also known as Henrique de Bettencourt o Francês.⁹^,²⁸⁰ He was also known as Henrique de Béthencourt.³⁷^,⁵⁵ He was also known as Henrique Betancur.²⁷⁸ He was also known as Henrique de Bettencourt.⁴¹^,³⁵ He was also known as Henri le Français.²⁸¹ He was born circa 1430 at France.²⁸²^,²⁷⁸^,⁹ He immigrated with his uncle in 1448 to Ribeira Brava, Madeira, Portugal.¹⁹⁸^,³⁹^,²⁸³^,⁴¹^,¹⁹⁶^,⁸³ He married Dona Isabel Fernandes Tavares, daughter of Vasco Esteves and Joanna Tavares, at Ribeira Brava, Madeira, Portugal.³⁷^,⁴¹^,²⁸⁴^,³⁵^,⁵⁵^,⁹^,²⁸⁵ He and Dona Isabel Fernandes Tavares the ancestors of the Bettencourts of Madeira.²³² Henri (II) inherited lands situated in Ribeira Brava, in an area called Bandas do Além (and ceded the lands of the "sesmarias").²⁰² He died circa 1500 at Ribeira Brava, Madeira, Portugal.²⁰²^,⁵⁷^,⁹^,²⁸⁵

Dona Isabel Fernandes Tavares³⁷^,²⁸⁴^,⁹^,²⁰²^,²⁸⁵^,²⁰²^,²⁸⁵ was also known as Izabel Fernandes Tavares.³⁵^,⁵⁵^,²⁸⁵ She was born circa 1430 at Ribeira Brava, Madeira, Portugal.³⁷^,⁵⁷^,⁹
Children of Henri de Bethencourt (II) and Dona Isabel Fernandes Tavares all born at Ribeira Brava, Madeira, Portugal, were as follows:

+ 69 i. Jean de Bethencourt le Vieux was born circa 1450. He married Bárbara Gomes Ferreira, daughter of João Gomes o Trovador and Dona Guimar Ferreira, in 1493 at Madeira, Portugal.
+ 70 ii. Jean de Bethencourt le Chevalier was born circa 1450. He married Dona Guiomar Ferreira, daughter of João Gomes o Trovador and Dona Guimar Ferreira, circa 1480 at Madeira, Portugal. He died during the lifetime of his mother.
71 iii. Gaspard de Bettencourt (II) (suffix added for clarification)²⁸⁶^,²⁸⁷^,²⁸⁸^,⁹^,²⁸⁷^,²⁸⁸^,⁹ was also known as Gaspar Betancur.²⁸⁷ He was also known as Gaspar de Bettencourt.⁹^,²⁸⁵ He was born circa 1470.²⁰²^,⁹ Gaspard de Bettencourt (II) moved to the islands of the Açores.²⁴¹ He was never married.²⁸⁹^,⁹^,²⁸⁵ He had one illegitimate child.²⁹⁰^,⁹
+ 72 iv. Marie de Bettencourt was born circa 1470. She married Álvaro Vaz at Madeira, Portugal. She married Antão Vilela.
73 v. Dona Catherine de Bettencourt²⁸⁶^,²⁸⁸^,⁹^,²⁸⁸^,⁹ was also known as Catarina de Bettencourt.⁹ She was also known as Dona Catharina de Bettencourt.²⁸⁵ She was born circa 1470.²⁸⁶ She married Pedro Brito de Oliveira Pestana, son of Mem de Brito Oliveira and Dona Hellena de Vasconcellos, at Madeira, Portugal.²⁹⁰^,⁹^,²⁸⁵ She and Pedro Brito de Oliveira Pestana were the ancestors of the Bettencourt Brito Oliveira family.²⁹¹

Pedro Brito de Oliveira Pestana²⁹⁰^,²⁸⁹^,²⁹² was also known as Pedro de Brito de Oliveira.²⁸⁵ He was also known as Pedro Oliveira Brito Pestana.⁹ He was born circa 1470 at Madeira, Portugal.²⁸⁸ He was a noble squire.²⁸⁹
+ 74 vi. Henri de Bettencourt (III) was born after 1493. He married Dona Helena Mendes de Vasconcellos, daughter of Rui Mendes de Vasconcelos and Dona Isabel Corrêa, at Madeira, Portugal. He died after 1560.

39. Gaspard de Bettencourt (I) o Francês (Henri, Regnault Bethencourt, Jean, Jean, Jean, Regnault, Philippe, Jean) (number designation added for clarification)²⁹³^,²⁹⁴^,²⁹⁵^,²⁹⁶^,⁹^,¹²^,²⁰¹^,²⁷⁹^,⁹^,²⁰¹ was also known as Gaspar de Bettencourt.²⁹⁶^,²²¹ He was also known as Gaspar Betancur.²⁹⁴ He was also known as Gaspar de Bettencourt o Francês.²⁹⁷^,⁹^,⁸³ He was also known as Gaspard de Bethencourt (I) suffix added for clarification.²⁹⁸ He was also known as Gaspar de Bethencourt.⁵⁵ He was also known as Gaspar de Bethancourt.³⁸^,³⁹ He was also known as Gaspar de Betencurt.²¹³ He was born circa 1440 at France.²⁹³ He immigrated in 1448 to Madeira with his uncle.³⁸^,¹⁹⁸^,³⁹^,¹⁷²^,⁴¹^,¹⁹⁶^,⁸³ He married Dona Guiomar de Sá, daughter of João Rodrigues de Sá and D. Francisca de Souza, at Lisboa, Portugal; they were married in the house of Dona Violanta, Guiomar's first cousin, wife of the Count of Castanheira. Fructuoso, in his Saudades da Terra, relates an entertaining story concerning the couple: Guiomar de Sá was walking in the Court, making a certain devotion to Saint John, or another saint, expecting that, on the last day, the first man she heard named by the same name would be the husband she would marry, whether he were Portuguese or not. As is the custom of women, or the superstitious, or the intemperate, very desirous of knowing what will happen to them, the devil responds as successor, God permitting that they be deceived by him, or sometimes upheld. It followed on the day and time that Gaspard de Bettencourt was to kiss the king's hand, dressed in green, and on the day before he saw him, Guiomar de Sá heard, a sound coming to her ears, that the man she would marry would be French, and the first time she saw him, he would be dressed in green, as he was. With successes like these, the devil many times deceives many women, they become very superstitious, like this one.³⁸^,³⁹^,²⁹⁹^,²⁹⁷^,³⁰⁰^,⁵⁵^,²¹³^,⁹^,²²¹ Gaspard de Bettencourt (I) o Francês and Dona Guiomar de Sá founded a chapel in the Sé of Lisboa or Basilica of Santa Maria Maior in which they placed a full-size image of Our Lady of Bettencourt. Much later, the stone image was clothed and crowned.²²⁶

He and Dona Guiomar de Sá were the ancestors of the Bettencourt e Sáa line of the Açores (São Miguel) at Nueva Granada.³⁰¹^,⁸³
Gaspard de Bettencourt (I) o Francês and Dona Maria de Bethencourt were the first Bettencourts to reach the Açores, whose settlement, begun in 1444, was not far advanced.²²² He and Dona Guiomar de Sá had seven children.²²⁶ He and Maria Dias were in a relationship that produced a son, Gaspar Perdomo.³⁰²^,³⁰³^,³⁰⁴^,³⁰⁵ Gaspard de Bettencourt (I) o Francês was first administrator of the entail of Água de Mel, Madeira, Portugal.³⁹^,²⁹⁷^,³⁰⁶^,³⁰⁷ He inherited the rights to the soap trade of Madeira from his aunt and uncle.²²⁶^,³⁰⁷ On 1 Apr 1505 Gaspard (I) obtained confirmation from King D. Manuel I of the Bettencourt blazon of amrs.³⁰⁸^,⁵⁷^,³⁰⁹^,²⁰¹ He went in his aunt's company to the island of São Miguel.⁵⁷^,⁹ In 1513 he formed part of the force which, under the command of D. Jaime, Duke of Bragança, conquered Azemmour, Morocco.²²⁶ On 12 May 1521 he was a noble knight of the Household of the King by decree.²²¹ He died in 1522 at São Miguel, Açores.¹²^,³¹⁰^,²²⁸^,²³⁵^,²²¹ He was buried in the chancel of the mother church of São Sebastião (Matriz), Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, with license from the king for a tomb for him, his wife, and his children, as well as permission to hang above the tomb his coat of arms with a banner hanging down, as it was for some years, until the church was demolished to enlarge it.³¹¹^,³¹²^,²²¹

Dona Guiomar de Sá³⁸^,³⁹^,²⁹⁹^,⁵⁵^,²¹³^,⁹^,¹²^,³⁰⁷^,³⁹^,²⁹⁹^,²⁹⁷^,¹²^,³¹³^,²³⁵ was also known as Dona Guiomar de Sáa.³¹⁴ She was born circa 1450.⁹ She was Dama do Paço.²²¹ She married Fernão Alvares da Maia after 1522 at Madeira, Portugal.³⁹^,³¹¹ She left a will on 1 Aug 1543.²²¹ She died in 1547 at São Miguel.³⁰⁴^,¹²^,²²¹ She was buried in the chancel of São Sebastião (Matriz), Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, with her husband Gaspar.³⁰⁴
Children of Gaspard de Bettencourt (I) o Francês and Dona Guiomar de Sá were as follows:

+ 75 i. Henrique de Bettencourt was born circa 1475 at São Miguel. He married Dona Maria de Azevedo, daughter of Manuel de Oliveira, at Évora, Portugal. He died before 1541.
+ 76 ii. João de Bettencourt e Sá was born circa 1475 at Madeira, Portugal. He married Dona Guiomar de Sãopayo, daughter of Gonçalo Vaz Botelho o Moço, at São Miguel.
77 iii. Rafael de Bettencourt e Sáa³¹⁵^,³¹⁶^,²²⁶^,³¹⁷^,³¹⁸^,³¹⁶^,³¹⁷ was also known as Rafael Betancur.³¹⁶ He was also known as Rafael de Bettencourt.³¹⁸ He was born after 1477 at São Miguel.³¹⁶^,³¹⁷ In contradiction to other sources, according to Genealogias de São Miguel e Santa Maria, Rafael, although dull-witted, married Margarida Gonçalves who made a will 18 Dec 1555, while her husband was still living. Nevertheless, all sources agree that he died childless. Genealogias also states that Rafael was illegitimate, not the son of Guiomar de Sá.³¹⁸^,³¹⁷^,³¹⁶ He died single after 18 Dec 1555.³¹⁸^,³¹⁶^,²²⁶
78 iv. Dona Brites de Sá³¹⁶^,³¹⁶^,³¹⁹^,³²⁰^,⁹^,³¹⁶^,²⁹³^,³²⁰^,⁹ was also known as Brites de Bettencourt.⁹ She was also known as Brites de Bettencourt e Sáa.³¹⁵ She was also known as Dona Beatriz de Sá.³²⁰^,³¹⁸ She was born circa 1475 at Madeira, Portugal.³²¹^,⁹ The three sisters, Brites, Guimar, and Isabel moved to Lisbon.³¹⁰ King João III, reigned 1521-1557, lived between 1502 and 1557.³²² Dona Brites was brought up with King João III.³²⁰ She was Lady-in-waiting to Queen D. Maria, second wife of D. Manuel I, o Venturoso at Lisboa, Portugal.³¹⁰ She married Pedro Lasso la Vega at Castile, Spain.³¹⁶^,³⁰⁶^,³²⁰^,⁹^,³¹⁸ She and Pedro Lasso la Vega had no children.³¹⁶^,³²⁰^,³¹⁸ King Manuel I gave her six moios of wheat each year as a pension, produce from the land of Martin Vaz, accountant. Later, after her death, this favor was transferred to her sister, Dona Izabel.³²⁰ She was the prettiest lady of the Portuguese Court, having ballads that are dedicated to her in the Cancioneiro de Garcia de Resende.³¹⁸ She was a lady-in-waiting of the Empress Isabel, wife of Charles V of Spain, Holy Roman Emperor at Castile, Spain.³⁰⁶^,³²⁰^,³¹⁸ She witnessed the move of Isabella of Portugal, to marry Charles V of Spain, Holy Roman Emperor on 11 Mar 1526 at Castile, Spain.³²³ By the missive of 2 Dec 1526, D. João III made her a grant of the white and black soap factories of São Miguel, the same way that his brother Henrique had done and conceded other grants to her.³¹⁸

Pedro Lasso la Vega³²⁴ was also known as Pedro Lasso de Vega.³¹⁸ He was also known as Pedro Lasso de Lavega.³¹⁶ He was also known as Pedro Laço de la Vega.³¹⁰ He was also known as Pedro Lasso da Veiga.³²⁰ He was also known as Pedro Lasso de La Vega.⁹ He was born circa 1470 at Castile, Spain.³¹⁶ Pedro Lasso la Vega was Lord of Arcos, Castile, Spain, Brateris, and Carcos.³¹⁶^,³¹⁰ His titles were confiscated to be Head of the Comunidades of Castile.³¹⁶^,³¹⁰ His titles were restored by his marriage through the influence of the Empress.³¹⁶^,³²⁵^,³²⁰ He married Isabel de Bettencourt e Sáa (brother- and sister-in-law), daughter of Gaspard de Bettencourt (I) o Francês and Dona Guiomar de Sá, at Castile, Spain.³¹⁶^,³⁰⁶^,³²⁰^,⁹^,³¹⁸ He and Isabel de Bettencourt e Sáa had no children.³¹⁶^,³²⁰^,³¹⁸
+ 79 v. Dona Guiomar de Sá was born circa 1475 at Madeira, Portugal. She married António Juzarte de Mello, son of Pedro Juzarte. She married Dom Fernando de Castro at São Miguel. She married Diogo Juzarte, son of Vasco de Oliveira Juzarte and Dona Antónia de Andrade, after 1520 at Madeira, Portugal. She died at São Miguel. She was buried in the high-altar of the Convento de São Francisco, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, to which she gave a chapel and a moio of wheat, forever, to the lepers of the island.
80 vi. Isabel de Bettencourt e Sáa³¹⁵^,³¹⁶^,³²⁶^,³²⁰^,⁹^,³¹⁶^,²⁹³^,³²⁰^,⁹ was also known as Dona Izabel de Sá.³¹⁶^,³²⁷^,³²⁸ She was also known as Isabel de Bettencourt.⁹ She was also known as Isabel de Sá.³¹⁸ She was born circa 1475 at Madeira, Portugal.³¹⁶^,⁹ The three sisters, Brites, Guimar, and Isabel moved to Lisbon.³¹⁰ Isabel de Bettencourt e Sáa was chief lady-in-waiting who brought up the Queen of Bohemia, wife of Emperor Maximilian II.³¹⁶^,³²⁹ She was a lady-in-waiting of the Empress Isabel, wife of Charles V of Spain, Holy Roman Emperor at Castile, Spain.³⁰⁶^,³²⁰^,³¹⁸ She witnessed the move of Isabella of Portugal, to marry Charles V of Spain, Holy Roman Emperor on 11 Mar 1526 at Castile, Spain.³²³ She married Dom Fernando Sanegos at Castile, Spain (he was her sister's widowed husband).³⁰⁶^,⁹^,³¹⁸ She and Pedro Lasso la Vega had no children.³¹⁶^,³²⁰^,³¹⁸ She married Pedro Lasso la Vega (brother- and sister-in-law) at Castile, Spain.³¹⁶^,³⁰⁶^,³²⁰^,⁹^,³¹⁸ She gave the land for the chapel of Corpo Santo in Ponta Delgada.³¹⁸ She died in 1574 at Castile, Spain.³⁰⁴^,³¹⁸

Dom Fernando Sanegos³⁰⁶^,⁹ was born circa 1500 at Madeira Islands, Portugal.³²⁴
Pedro Lasso la Vega³²⁴ was also known as Pedro Lasso de Vega.³¹⁸ He was also known as Pedro Lasso de Lavega.³¹⁶ He was also known as Pedro Laço de la Vega.³¹⁰ He was also known as Pedro Lasso da Veiga.³²⁰ He was also known as Pedro Lasso de La Vega.⁹ He was born circa 1470 at Castile, Spain.³¹⁶ Pedro Lasso la Vega was Lord of Arcos, Castile, Spain, Brateris, and Carcos.³¹⁶^,³¹⁰ His titles were confiscated to be Head of the Comunidades of Castile.³¹⁶^,³¹⁰ He married Dona Brites de Sá, daughter of Gaspard de Bettencourt (I) o Francês and Dona Guiomar de Sá, at Castile, Spain.³¹⁶^,³⁰⁶^,³²⁰^,⁹^,³¹⁸ He and Dona Brites de Sá had no children.³¹⁶^,³²⁰^,³¹⁸ His titles were restored by his marriage through the influence of the Empress.³¹⁶^,³²⁵^,³²⁰
+ 81 vii. Margarida de Bettencourt e Sáa was born circa 1480 at Madeira, Portugal. She married Pedro Rodrigues da Câmara, son of Rui Gonçalves da Câmara and Maria Rodrigues, at São Miguel.

Maria Dias³⁰³ was born circa 1470 at Madeira, Portugal.³⁰³
Children of Gaspard de Bettencourt (I) o Francês and Maria Dias were:

+ 82 i. Gaspar Perdomo was born illegitimate circa 1500 at São Miguel. He married Brites Velho, daughter of João Affonso Carcos and Leonor Velho, at Ponta Delgada, São Miguel.

40. Maciot de Bettencourt (II) (Henri, Regnault Bethencourt, Jean, Jean, Jean, Regnault, Philippe, Jean) (suffix added for clarification)²⁸⁸^,⁵⁵^,⁹^,¹²^,³⁹^,³³⁰^,⁵⁵^,⁹^,⁸³^,¹²^,³⁹^,²⁷⁹^,⁵⁵^,⁹^,¹² was also known as Maciot Perdomo de Béthencourt.⁹² He was also known as Maciot de Bethancourt.³⁹ He was also known as Maciot de Bethencourt (II).³³¹ He was also known as Meciote de Bettencourt.⁸³ He was born circa 1450.³³¹^,³³² Several sources give a different anecstry for this Maciot. For example, Historia de Familias Cubanas gives Maciot's father as Juan Arriete Perdomo and his mother as Leonor Margarita de Béthencourt (daughter of Maciot de Bethencourt, governor of the Canary Isalnds). Considering the names of this Maciot's chicldren, this ancestry has some validity but most histories prefer the lineage given here.⁹² His arms are: on a silver field, a rampant lion of gules; other branches use: on a silver field, a rampant lion of sable.⁹² He married ? Guevara before 1470 at Castile, Spain.³⁹ He married Lesisa Guanartème, daughter of Armide Lacocon, at Islas Canarias.³³³^,⁹^,⁸³^,⁹² Maciot and Lesisa founded the chapel of Santa Ana in Gáldar, Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain.³³⁴ He and Lesisa Guanartème were the ancestors of the Bettencourts (or Bethencourts) of the Canary Islands (Gran Canária).³³⁵ He resided at least until 1478 at Lanzarote, Islas Canarias, Spain.²⁷⁴ He resided after 1478 at Gáldar, Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain.²⁷⁴ He was administrator at Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain.²⁷⁴ He died before 1524.³³⁴

? Guevara³⁹ was born circa 1420 at Castile, Spain.³⁹
There were no children of Maciot de Bettencourt (II) and ? Guevara.

Lesisa Guanartème (her name after converting to Catholicism)³³⁶^,²⁷⁴^,³³⁷ was also known as Lerija Guanartème.³³⁴ She was also known as Lessina Guanartème.⁹ She was also known as Lerida de Guardateme.⁸³ She was also known as Tenesioya Vindina, her name before converting to Catholicism.¹⁹⁰ She was also known as Luísa Guanartème.³³⁸^,⁹ She was also known as Lessisa Guanartème.³³⁹ She was also known as Tenesoya Vindina.²⁷⁴ She was also known as Lésisa de Guardateme.⁸³ She was also known as Doña Luisa Guanarteme.⁹² She was born circa 1450 at Islas Canarias.²⁰³ She was a native girl from the Canary Islands, niece of Guanartème de Telde (Gran Canaria).³⁴⁰ She died in 1531.³³⁴
Children of Maciot de Bettencourt (II) and Lesisa Guanartème all born at Gáldar, Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain, were as follows:

83 i. Arriete de Bethencourt³⁴¹^,³⁴²^,³⁴² was born after 1470.³⁴¹
84 ii. Maria de Bethencourt³³⁴^,³³⁴^,³³⁴ was born after 1470.³³⁴
85 iii. João de Bethencourt³³⁴^,³³⁴^,³³⁴ was born after 1470.³³⁴
86 iv. André de Bethencourt³³⁴^,³⁹^,³³⁴^,⁸³^,³³⁴^,⁸³ was also known as André de Bethancourt.³⁹ He was also known as André de Bettencourt.⁸³ He was born after 1475.³⁹^,⁸³ He went to France.³⁹ In 1501 Jean de Bethencourt (V) received the visit of his cousin André de Bethencourt, grandson of Maciot. André and his siblings had lost touch with their relatives in Normandy. André wished to reestablish relations with the family there. Jean (V) received him cordially and gave him a summary of the Chronicle of the Canary Islands as well as information about his ancestors and a biography of Jean (IV) - with which André proposed to defend his supposed rights to the island legacy of the Conqueror.⁸²^,⁸³ On 2 Apr 1502 on his return from France, André stopped in Seville to have the documents authenticated by the notaries Rodrigo de Mayorga and Pedro Hernandez de Toledo. He also obtained from the King in the presence of the commander (alcaide) of the city, Esteban de La Rosa, acknowledgement of this blazon of arms. From that date on, the Bethencourts of the Canary Islands used this blazon of arms - a lion salient, the shield supported by two aborigines of the Canary Islands, and the following motto: Enzalza siempre la vida la honra si no se olvida (Always pursue life so as not to forget honor).³³⁴^,⁸³

41. João Sanchez Ávila de Bethencourt (Georges, Regnault, Jean, Jean, Jean, Regnault, Philippe, Jean)²⁵⁶^,²⁵⁷^,²⁵⁶^,⁵⁵^,⁶^,⁷^,⁹^,¹⁷⁵^,²⁵⁷^,²⁵⁶^,⁵⁵^,⁶^,⁷^,⁹^,¹⁷⁵ was also known as João Sanches de Bettencourt.⁵⁵^,¹⁷⁵ He was also known as João Sanches de Bettencour de Ávila.⁶ He was also known as João Sanches de Bettencourt e Ávila.⁷ He was also known as João Sanchez de Ávila de Bettencourt.⁹ He was also known as João Sanches de Ávila Bettencourt.¹⁷⁵ He was also known as João Sanchez Betancur.³⁴³ He also went by the name of João Sanchez Betancur de Nava Redonda.³⁴³ He was also known as João Sanches de Bettencourt de Ávila.²³ He was born circa 1410 at Ávila, Castile, Spain.³⁴³^,⁶^,⁷^,⁹ He and Maria Vaz de Badilho had more than two children.²⁵⁶ He married Maria Vaz de Badilho at Ávila, Castile, Spain.³⁴³^,²⁵⁶^,⁶^,⁷^,⁹^,²⁵¹ He used the surname Ávila and was head of the Ávila Bettencourt family.¹⁷⁵ João Sanchez Ávila de Bethencourt was Lord of São Bartolomeu de Lunares, Castile, Spain, and of the towns of Nave Redonda in Castile with legal authority over them.³⁴³^,²⁵⁶^,⁹

Maria Vaz de Badilho⁶^,⁷ was also known as Maria Vaz de Badilha.²⁵⁶ She was also known as Maria Vaz de Vadilha.³⁴³ She was also known as Maria Vaz de Vadilho.³⁴³^,²⁵⁶ She was also known as Maria Vaz Badilho.⁵⁵ She was also known as Maria Vaz de Vadillo.⁹ She was born circa 1420 at Castile, Spain.²⁵⁷^,⁷
Children of João Sanchez Ávila de Bethencourt and Maria Vaz de Badilho both born at Castile, Spain, were as follows:

+ 87 i. Antão Gonçalves d'Ávila Bettencourt was born circa 1440. He married Dona Inês Gonçalves de Antona, daughter of Afonso Gonçalves de Antona and Ignes Rodrigues Fagundes, at Graciosa (Os Bettencourt gives the location of the marriage as Graçiosa, adding that the bride brought, as her dowry, lands which her father possessed there, but the Nobiliário de Famílias de Portugal gives the location as Villa de Praia, Terceira).
88 ii. João Sanchez Gonçalves de Ávila²⁵⁶^,²⁵⁶^,⁹^,²⁵⁶^,⁹ was also known as João Gonçalves de Ávila.⁹ He was born circa 1440.²⁵⁶^,⁹ He married Dona Leonor Álvares at Graciosa.²⁵⁶ He served in Africa.²⁵⁶ João Sanchez Gonçalves de Ávila and Antão Gonçalves d'Ávila Bettencourt came to live in Terceira, being Castilian, to become one of those who followed the Comunidades in the time of Emperor Charles V.³⁴⁴^,³⁴⁵ Emperor Charles V reigned between 1519 and 1558 at the Holy Roman Empire.³⁴⁶

Dona Leonor Álvares²⁵⁶^,⁹ was born circa 1440 at Graciosa.²⁵⁶

43. Inês de Las Casas (II) (Inês Bethencourt, Regnault, Jean, Jean, Jean, Regnault, Philippe, Jean) (suffix added for clarification)²⁶⁵^,²⁶⁶^,²⁶⁶ was also known as Inês Las Casas-Bethencourt.³⁴⁷ She was born circa 1410 at Spain.²⁶⁷ She married Fernán Peraza (I), son of Gonzalo Perez Martel.²⁶⁶ She and Fernán Peraza (I) obtained from Guillien, in trade, the lordship of the Canary Islands in 1445.³⁴⁸

Fernán Peraza (I) (suffix added for clarification)²⁶⁵^,³⁴⁷ was also known as Fernàn Peraza o Velho.³⁴⁹ He was born circa 1410.²⁶⁷ He was a descendant of Gonzalo Perez Martel.²⁴⁸ In 1447 Fernán Peraza (I) attacked Maciot de Bethencourt on Lanzarote and took him prisoner to Ferrro.³⁵⁰ He died in 1452.³⁵¹
Children of Inês de Las Casas (II) and Fernán Peraza (I) both born at Spain were as follows:

+ 89 i. Inês Peraza de Las Casas (III) was born circa 1430. She married Diego Garcia de Herrera, son of Pedro Garcia Herrera and Dona Maria de Ayala y Sarmiento. She died in 1503.
90 ii. Guillien Peraza de Las Casas (II) (suffix added for clarification)²⁴⁸^,³⁴⁹^,³⁴⁹ was born circa 1440.²⁴⁸ He died in the attack on the island of Palma, Islas Canarias, Spain.²⁴⁸

45. Louis de Bethencourt (I) (Jean, Regnault, Jean, Jean, Jean, Regnault, Philippe, Jean) (suffix added for clarification)²⁶⁸^,²⁶⁸^,⁷⁹^,²⁶⁸^,⁷⁹ was also known as Luis de Bettencourt.⁷⁹ He was born on 22 Apr 1476 or 22 Jun 1476 at Caux, France.²⁶⁸ He was a squire.²⁶⁸ He married Françoise Baignard, daughter of Guillaume Baignard, in 1494.²⁶⁸^,⁷⁹ He and Françoise Baignard had thirteen children.²⁶⁸^,¹¹ After 1506 Louis de Bethencourt (I) was Lord of Béthencourt, Sigy-en-Bray, France, and Bosc-Asselin.²⁶⁸ He died on 13 Dec 1538 at age 62.²⁶⁸

Françoise Baignard²⁶⁸^,²⁶⁸^,⁷⁹ was also known as Francisca Bainhard.⁷⁹ She was also known as Françoise Baignart.²⁶⁸ She was born circa 1476 at France.²⁶⁸ She died in 1520.²⁶⁸
Children of Louis de Bethencourt (I) and Françoise Baignard all born at Caux, France, were as follows:

+ 91 i. Jean de Bethencourt (VII) was born on 2 Dec 1497. He married Marie de Biville in 1521 at Rouen, France.
92 ii. Jeanne de Bethencourt²⁷⁰^,²⁷⁰^,²⁶⁸ was born in 1499.²⁶⁹ She died in 1500 (at one year of age).²⁶⁹
93 iii. Marie de Bethencourt²⁷⁰^,²⁷⁰^,²⁶⁸ was born on 2 Nov 1501.²⁶⁹
94 iv. Jeanne de Bethencourt²⁷⁰^,²⁷⁰^,²⁶⁸ was born on 22 Apr 1503.²⁶⁹
+ 95 v. Jacques de Bethencourt (II) was born on 25 Sep 1511. He married Marguerite Renaud in 1535.
96 vi. Isabeau de Bethencourt²⁷⁰^,²⁷⁰^,²⁶⁸ was born on 6 Nov 1512.²⁶⁹
97 vii. Geneviêve de Bethencourt²⁷⁰^,²⁷⁰^,²⁶⁸ was born on 27 Nov 1514.²⁶⁹
98 viii. Robert de Bethencourt²⁷⁰^,²⁷⁰^,²⁶⁸ was born on 5 Apr 1516.²⁶⁹

46. Jacques de Bethencourt (I) (Jean, Regnault, Jean, Jean, Jean, Regnault, Philippe, Jean) (suffix added for clarification)⁸⁰^,⁷²^,⁷⁹^,⁷²^,⁷⁹ was also known as Jaques de Bettencourt.⁷⁹ He was born on 4 Oct 1477 at Mauquenchy, France.⁸⁰ Both Jacques de Bethencourt (I) and Jacques de Bethencourt (III) seem to have married women with very similar names. Could this be an error in Os Bettencourt?.³⁵² He was a doctor at Rouen, France.⁸⁰ He married Barbe Chappellier, daughter of Guillaume Chappellier, at Rouen, France.²⁶⁸ In 1501 his father contemplated sending Jacques to Spain to assert his rights to the lordship of the Canary Islands.²⁶⁸ In 1507 he gained renown by publishing a book in Paris on syphilis, then called the Gallic disease, Nove penetentiales Quadragesima necnon purgatorium in morbus gallicum sive venereum, una cum dialogo aqua ad lignigaiaci collunctantium super dicti morbi curationem prelature.³⁵³ He died in 1527.²⁶⁹

Barbe Chappellier²⁶⁸^,³⁵⁴ was also known as Guillaumette Chappellier.²⁶⁸ She was born circa 1480 at France.²⁶⁸
Children of Jacques de Bethencourt (I) and Barbe Chappellier all born at Rouen, France, were as follows:

+ 99 i. Jean de Bethencourt (VIII) was born after 1500. He married Marie Le Clerc.
100 ii. Mathieu de Bethencourt (I) (suffix added for clarification)²⁶⁹^,²⁶⁹^,²⁶⁹ was born circa 1502.²⁶⁹ Mathieu de Bethencourt (I) was canon of a chapter in Rouen, France.²⁶⁹
101 iii. Jeanne de Bethencourt²⁶⁹^,²⁶⁹^,²⁶⁹ was born circa 1505.²⁶⁹
102 iv. Michelle de Bethencourt²⁶⁹^,²⁶⁹^,²⁶⁹ was born after 1505.²⁶⁹
103 v. Madeleine de Bethencourt²⁶⁹^,²⁶⁹^,²⁶⁹ was born circa 1510.²⁶⁹

49. Jean de Bethencourt (VI) (Jean, Regnault, Jean, Jean, Jean, Regnault, Philippe, Jean) (suffix added for clarification) (JAccording to Os Bettencourt ean (VI) was the fifth son of Jean (V))³⁵⁵^,³⁵⁶^,⁷⁹^,³⁵⁶^,⁷⁹ was also known as João de Bettencourt.⁷⁹ He was born on 12 Sep 1485 at Caux, France.²⁶⁹ Sailor and trader, he moved to Marseille dedicating himself to commerce with the Canary Islands.³⁵⁷ After 1506 Jean de Bethencourt (VI) was Lord of Folleville, France, and of Bosc-Asselin.²⁶⁹

Children of Jean de Bethencourt (VI) include:

+ 104 i. Isaac de Bethencourt was born after 1510 at Marseille, France. He married Adrienne Gorgil at Guerbaville la Mailleraye, France.

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