Vasco Gil Sodré

Vasco Gil Sodré (c. 1450 – c. 1500) was a Portuguese navigator and one of the first settlers of the island of Graciosa. Although he attempted to obtain the Donatary captaincy of the island, he and his progenitors were the origin of many of the families of the island. English and Portuguese records about the English origins of the Sodré's and their ties to Earl of Hereford, House of Wessex, House of Normandy, Norman-Plantagenet ancestry, House of Lancaster, the Butler dynasty, the Belknaps of Kent, and the House of Beaufort are generally disputed most hostilely by the English for legal and political reasons: ex, estates, writs of attainder, real or perceived shifts in allegiances, rivalries, inheritances.

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