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 (major footman at the royal household encharged with drawing and undrawing the curtains and hangings and treasurer of the store-house for furniture) 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