Diogo Gil Moniz

Diogo Gil Moniz (formerly Diogo Gil) was a Portuguese nobleman.

Life He was the eldest son of Gil Aires and wife Leonor Rodrigues.

He was Vedor of the Fazenda of Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu, brother of King Afonso V of Portugal and father of King Manuel I of Portugal.

Marriage and issue He married Leonor da Silva, daughter of Rui Gomes da Silva, of the Lords of a Chamusca, and wife Branca de Almeida, and had: Francisca Pereira or da Silva, wife of Dom Sancho de Noronha, 3rd Count of Odemira, and had extant issue Pedro or Pero Moniz da Silva António of St. Thomas, a Hieronymite monk, a reformer of the Monastery of Tomar