Simão da Veiga

Simão Luís da Veiga Jr. OC (born in Montemor-o-Novo, Lavre, May 22/June 1903 — died in Caldas da Rainha, August 19, 1959 ) was a celebrated bullfighting horseman and farmer from Portugal.

Early life and education He completed the commercial course at the Academic School of Lisbon and from a young age dedicated himself to Bullfighting, following in the footsteps of his father, the naturalist painter and bullfighter Simão Luís da Veiga. Also in Spain, and accompanied by his father, he took part in the Royal Bullfight of Barcelona, in the Monumental Bullring, organized and offered by King Alfonso XIII of Spain to King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, who presented them with cigarette cases enriched with the Arms of the Italian Crown.

He married a second time, civilly, to Ausenda Coelho Guião (Redondo, Redondo, March 30, 1916 - ?), daughter of Manuel Coelho Guião and his wife Deolinda de Vasconcelos, without issue. He was an Honorary Citizen of Lourenço Marques and was awarded the Medals of Italo Balbo and the President of Mexico Manuel Ávila Camacho and as an Officer of the Military Order of Christ, on March 12, 1947. Manuel Conde took the alternative as a bullfighting horseman in Lisbon, in the Campo Pequeno Bullring, on May 18, 1947, having Simão da Veiga as godfather. The brothers Luís Miguel and José Athayde also received the iron of the alternative from the hands of Simão da Veiga, in the same Lisbon ring.

Death Simão da Veiga performed for the last time in the traditional bullfight of August 15, at the Bullring of Caldas da Rainha, in 1959, suffering a myocardial infarction during the fight that would lead to his death four days later.