Juan Sanchez de Ávila de Bettencourt, señor de San Bartolomé de Pinares

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

Maria Vaz de Badilho was also known as Maria Vaz de Badilha. She was also known as Maria Vaz de Vadilha. She was also known as Maria Vaz de Vadilho. She was also known as Maria Vaz Badilho. She was also known as Maria Vaz de Vadillo. She was born circa 1420 at Castile.

Children of João Sanchez Ávila de Bethencourt and Maria Vaz de Badilho both born at Castile were as follows:

• + 87 i. Antão Gonçalves de Ávila was born circa 1440. He married Dona Inês Gonçalves de Antona, daughter of Affonso Gonçalvez Antona and Ignes Ruiz 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 gives the location as Villa de Praia, Terceira).
• 88 ii. João Sanchez Gonçalves de Ávila was also known as João Gonçalves de Ávila. He was born circa He married Dona Leonor Álvares at Graciosa. He served in Africa. João Sanchez Gonçalves de Ávila and Antão Gonçalves de Ávila came to live in Terceira, being Castilian, to become one of those who followed the Comunidades in the time of Emperor Charles V. Emperor Charles V reigned between 1519 and 1558 at the Holy Roman Empire. Dona Leonor Álvares was born circa 1440 at Graciosa.

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