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Duarte Coelho Pereira, First Lord-Proprietor of Pernambuco: The Beginning of a Dynasty

1973; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 29; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/980118

1533-6247

Francis A. Dutra,

Historical Studies in Latin America

In the early 1620s, D. Luis de Sousa, a former governor-general of Brazil, complained to the Crown about the inhabitants of Pernambuco and their unreliability as witnesses in matters affecting the Albuquerque Coelho family. The colony’s population, he charged, “consists of relatives, friends, followers, and dependents of Duarte de Albuquerque [the fourth donatário or lord-proprietor] and justice officials nominated by him; and because of their land grants and the quitrents they pay to him, they are all his subjects.”