Her children were raised in the Portuguese court, where they were known by their appellation Noronha (Portuguese translation of Noreña).
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João de Noronha, Lord of Sortelha (from which stems the Portuguese noble house of Count of Monsanto)
The islands of Fernando de Noronha off the coast of Brazil, discovered by one of his expeditions and granted to Loronha and his heirs as a fief in 1504, are named after him.
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Even the corruption of his name from Loronha to Noronha might not be accidental, but reflect a popular assumption (which he might not have been eager to correct) that he was connected to the Noronha clan, one of the most illustrious noble families in Portugal, of royal Castilian descent (although there is no evidence Loronha had any ties, by blood or marriage, to the Noronhas).
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On August 10, 1503, the expedition stumbled on an uninhabited island off the northeast Brazilian coast that is now called the Fernando de Noronha island.
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On January 14, 1504, King Manuel I of Portugal issued a royal letter granting the island of São João (Fernando de Noronha) personally to Fernão de Loronha and his descendants, thereby making Loronha the first Portuguese hereditary donatary captain of Brazil.
Once Alfonso was Count of Noreña, an Asturian village he had received from his father, Isabel's children used the Portuguese spelling Noronha as their family name.
Initially, he was baptized Manuel of Noronha, but when his older brother (the 4th Marquis of Vila Real) died unexpectedly without issue in 1564, he inherited his house and changed his family name from Noronha to Menezes, once this was the name used by the Heads of the House of Vila Real.
Fernando de Noronha | Frederick Noronha | Noronha | Noronha skink | The Coat of Arms of the '''Noronha | L'"Arc-en-Ciel", 14 June 1934, landed for the first time at Fernando de Noronha |
Amphisbaena ridleyi, the Ridley's worm lizard or the Noronha worm lizard, a reptile species found in Brazil
Dr de Noronha Pissarra has worked at numerous institutions, including King's College, London, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and the Centre for Biotechnology of the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby.
He married Juana Manuel de Portugal (ca. 1520-1568), daughter of Sancho I de Noronha Portugal, 2nd Count of Faro on 7 April 1541, at Ocaña.
Frederick Noronha (born on 23 December 1963 in São Paulo, Brazil) is an independent journalist based in Saligão in the Bardez taluka of Goa.
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Together with Partha Pratim Sarkar of Bangladesh, Noronha co-founded BytesForAll, and started IndiaLists.org, an initiative to promote content-relevant mailing lists in India.
In January 1640 went up between Goiana and the island of Itamaracá the squad of D. Fernando de Noronha, Count of Torre, and the Dutch, commanded by Corneliszoon Willen, a fight that would be immortalized in four prints of Frans Post.
A son of Pedro Mamede Mouzinho de Albuquerque and second wife Maria Micaela Tavares de Mesquita, he was baptized at the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon, on June 4, 1736, his godfather being Dom Diogo de Noronha, 3rd Marquess of Marialva and 5th Count of Cantanhede by marriage, represented by his son Dom Rodrigo António de Noronha e Meneses and having officiated the Desembargador Rev. Dr. Sebastião Pereira de Castro, and born on that same Parish.
Miguel de Noronha, 4th Count of Linhares (1585 — Madrid, 1647) was a Portuguese noble and military, loyal to King Philip III of Portugal (Philip IV of Spain).