Matias Nunez Cabral 1531-15? was an Portuguese nobleman. Biography Matias Nunez Cabral was born in 1531 in the Azores, Portugal. He was the son of Nuno Lourenço Velho Cabral and Catarina Vaz Martins, a descendant of Alvaro Martins. Matias Nunez Cabral married María Simões de Melo on the island, and they had two daughters Margarita Cabral de Melo and Inés Nunes Cabral who settled in Buenos Aires in 1598. He was a descendant of the kings of Portugal, and the King of France Robert II. Other ancestors are Íñigo Arista of Pamplona, Fruela II of Asturias, Duncan I of Scotland, Henry II of England, and the Caliph of Córdoba Abd al-Rahman I. He was related to the discoverer of Brazil, Pedro Álvares Cabral.
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