Jerónimo Moniz

Jerónimo Moniz was a Portuguese nobleman.

Life

He was the eldest son of Febo Moniz de Lusignan and wife Catarina or Maria da Cunha.
Like his father, he was also a Reposteiro-Mór of the same King Manuel I of Portugal.

Marriage and issue

He married Violante da Silva, daughter of João de Saldanha, Vedor of Queens Maria of Aragon and Eleanor of Austria, wives of King Manuel I of Portugal, and later of the Empress Isabella of Portugal, and wife Dona Joana de Lima of the Viscounts of Vila Nova de Cerveira. He had four children:

João Moniz, unmarried and without issue
Febo Moniz
António Moniz, who withdrew as a Priest of the Company of Jesus
Leonor, a Nun