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<!--'''Bartolomeu Perestrelo''' (c. [[1395]]-[[1457]]) (also called '''Pedro Moniz Perestrelo'''), [[Pronunciation|pron]]. {{IPA2|baɾtulu'meu pɨɾɨʃ'tɾelu}}, was a [[Portugal|Portuguese]] navigator and explorer that, together with [[João Gonçalves Zarco]] and [[Tristão Vaz Teixeira]], discovered the [[Madeira Islands]] (1419-1420).
Nobleman of [[Genoa|Genoese]] origin, he was granted, as hereditary fief (capitania), the island of [[Porto Santo Island| Porto Santo]] and, together with his fellow fleet commanders, started the colonization of the islands.
One of his daughters, [[Filipa Perestrelo e Moniz]] (born c. 1455), around [[1479]] married [[Christopher Columbus]], who lived in [[Madeira]] and [[Porto Santo]]. As part of the dowry, Columbus received all of Perestrello's charts of the winds and currents of the [[Portuguese possessions]] on the Atlantic, and these charts may have assisted with Columbus' discovery of the [[New World]].
A legend attributes the responsibility for the poor vegetation of Porto Santo to him. On his first disembarkation in the island he brought one pregnant doe-[[rabbit]] that escaped and its progeny overran the island in a few years.
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