FRANCISCO VIEIRA DE FIGUEIREDO : UM “FIDALGO” NO EXTREMO ORIENTE遠東的“貴族” : 佛朗西斯科·維埃拉·德·費蓋雷多
The article proposes a historiographical reassessment of Francisco Vieira de Figueiredo, a prominent figure as a merchant and benefactor linked to the Portuguese presence in the Far East, reinterpreting him as a “fidalgo” socially produced by institutional mechanisms rather than by lineage alone. Th...
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
2013
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40041/2893 |
| Summary: | The article proposes a historiographical reassessment of Francisco Vieira de Figueiredo, a prominent figure as a merchant and benefactor linked to the Portuguese presence in the Far East, reinterpreting him as a “fidalgo” socially produced by institutional mechanisms rather than by lineage alone. The argument articulates biographical reconstruction with a critical analysis of the gaps and persistences in historiographical production: from the pioneering mentions by Charles Boxer, who for decades omitted the character’s place of origin, to the author’s recent study, grounded in primary documentation.
Methodologically, the text cross-references traces dispersed across different archives and editions, with particular emphasis on the process of the Tribunal of the Holy Office for admission as a familiar of the Inquisition of Goa. Based on this dossier, the article reconstructs filiation, place of birth (Azambujal, near Ourém), and mobility trajectory, identifying the consolidation of the patronymic “de Figueiredo” in India, associated with the conferral of the “Habit of Knight of the Order of Christ” in 1647.
As main conclusions, it is shown that Vieira de Figueiredo’s social ascent is understood through the convergence of service and recognition and through verification procedures (purity of blood, origin, and status), allowing for the reading of the emergence of an aristocratizing identity in the colonial context of Goa and Macau. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |