Melchior Lourenço Teixeira

Melchior Lourenço's father was Cap. Baltazar Dias Teixeira and his mother was Francisca Gaspar Fagundes.  His paternal grandparents were João Dias Homem and Suzana Gonçalves Teixeira; his maternal grandparents were Diogo Lourenço Fagundes and Catharina Gonçalves Quadrado. He had two brothers and three sisters, named Amaro Teixeira, Domingos Dias, Isabel Teixeira, Catarina Dias and Suzana Gonçalves. He had three half-brothers and four half-sisters, named João Dias, Manuel Dias, Nuno Álvares, Leonor Lourenço, Margarida Dias, Maria and Maria Roque.