Brum is a Portuguese surname of Flemish roots, derived from Wilhelm van der Bruyn, migrant to the Azores, where he came to be known as Guilherme de Brum.
While the Portuguese Crown expanded its overseas domains, continental Europe was being destroyed by wars. The Duchy of Burgundy, one of the most powerful at the time, was not left out.
It played a significant role in the Hundred Years' War (1337-1490), sometimes aligned with France (from 1337 to 1419 and from 1435 to 1453), sometimes aligned with England (from 1419 to 1435). Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundian army when it attacked them in Margny. The British crown paid the ransom to keep her in prison.
In the Battle of Sluys, 24,000 people died.
On 24/08/1436, the Battle of Crecy took place, with the Siege of Calais, very close to Flanders. · Between 1350 and 1490, local groups fought the Hook and Cod Wars: one side called itself the cod (cod) because of the ferocity of the fish, which devours whatever it finds in front of it as it grows; and the other side called itself the hook, which catches the cod, no matter its size.
While Continental Europe was lost in religious wars and others that broke out at the personal whim of each monarchy, the Illustrious Generation took care to expand the Portuguese overseas empire. The Azores archipelago was rediscovered by Gonçalo Velho Cabral in 1432, who received the concession of the first islands, Santa Maria and São Miguel. In 1450, D. Henrique issued a letter of concession of Terceira Island to the Flemish Jácome de Bruges: "authorizing the new captain to use any colonists, as long as they were Christians."[5] In 1465, Joos van Hurtere landed on Faial Island with 15 other compatriots, where they remained for a year in search of silver and tin. In 1466, D. Fernandez granted Jos Hurtere the captaincy of Pico Island, on the recommendation of his aunt, Duchess Dª Isabella of Burgundy or Dª Isabella van Portugal. Jos Hurtere (Jorge Utra) married Dª Beatriz Macedo, a courtesan of the Portuguese Crown, and thus assumed the status of vassal of the King of Portugal. In 1467, Joos Hurtere returned to the island on an organized expedition to begin the settlement. Along with him, Baldwin and Jossina, his brothers, and a cousin named António disembarked. These were the ancestors of the genealogy of the Utras (or Dutras) family.[6] On 29/12/1482, the island of Faial was integrated into the captaincy of Jorge Utra, who hired Wilhelm van der Hagen to recruit settlers from the Netherlands for his captaincy in the Azores. The last wave of Flemish settlers occurred in the 15th century and was made up of "people chosen from various professions, who came accompanied by tools for farming and for the establishment of a reinforcement colony of Captain Joss Hurtere. This means that, this time, the organization of the trip, certainly by the dowager duchess (La Grande Madame, as she was then known) had been done carefully, using the experience that Hurtere already had and that he had shared on his trip to Flanders." [7]
"The migratory current from Flanders to the Azores ended for a number of reasons, such as the death of Duchess Isabel, its driving force, in 1471; the defeat and death of Charles the Bold in 1477 and the end of the expansionist policy; the marriage of his heiress, Mary of Flanders, with Emperor Maximilian and the transfer of the County of Flanders and the Duchy of Burgundy to the orbit of the Holy Empire. On the part of Portugal, the urgency to resort to foreign settlers, due to the lack of any available in the national territory, was alleviated by the increase in the number of Portuguese available to migrate to the islands, with the success of colonization, from the end of the 15th century (1400) and the natural demographic increase of the descendants of the pioneers".[8] Finally, the strong presence of immigrants from the Netherlands, mainly on the islands of Faial, Pico, Flores and São Jorge, is a consensus and was reflected in the customs and ways of exploiting the land: the introduction of wheat and pastel crops. There is a parish in the municipality of Horta called Flamengos.[9]
Wilhelm van der Bruyn was the first Flemish migrant to the Azores, where he became known as Guilherme de Brum and met, had relationships and had descendants with other Flemish migrants, mainly Lodewijk Govaert (Luis Goulart), Jesse van der Aertrijke (José Terra), Joost de Hurtere (José Silveira), forming the municipality of Horta called Flamengos.
The Azores, officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores, is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal. It is an archipelago composed of nine volcanic islands in the Macaronesia region of the North Atlantic Ocean, about 1,400 km (870 mi) west of Lisbon, about 1,500 km (930 mi) northwest of Morocco, and about 1,930 km (1,200 mi) southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.
Horta is a municipality and city in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores encompassing the island of Faial. The population in 2011 was 15,038 in an area of 173.06 square kilometres (66.82 sq mi) The city of Horta itself has a population of about 7,000.
Faial Island, also known as Fayal Island, is a Portuguese island of the Central Group or Grupo Central of the Azores, in the Atlantic Ocean.
Cedros is a freguesia in the northern part of the municipality of Horta on the island of Faial in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 907, in an area of 24.5 square kilometres (264,000,000 sq ft). The northernmost parish on the island, it is located 19 kilometres (12 mi) northwest of Horta and is linked via the Estrada Regional E.R. 1-1ª roadway to the rest of the island. The tree-covered hills and pasture-lands cover the interior, and hedged farmlands extend to the Atlantic coastline cliffs, a natural plateau above the sea, that was settled by early Flemish and Spanish colonists in the late part of the 15th century. Primarily an agricultural community, the population is comparable in size to other parishes on the island, though this has decreased by half since the 1950s. Today, it remains an agricultural centre of the island of Faial, anchored by the Cooperativa Agrícola dos Lactícinios do Faial, one of the primary rural industries on the island, responsible for sales of milk, cheese and butter.
Conceição is a freguesia in the municipality of Horta in the Portuguese Azores. The population in 2011 was 1,138, in an area of 3.08 km². It is the second smallest parish within the administration of Horta.
Flamengos is a Portuguese civil parish on the island of Faial in the archipelago of the Azores. Its name was derived from the grouping of Flemish settlers who made their homes in this landlocked valley, in the municipality of Horta. The population in 2011 was 1,604, in an area of 14.62 km². It contains the localities Cruz do Bravo, Farrobo, Lameiro Grande, Rua Nova, São Lourenço and Tafoneiro.
Madalena is a municipality along the western coast of the island of Pico, in the Portuguese Azores. It has 6,332 inhabitants as of 2021, in an area of 147.12 km2. The municipality is fronted by the stratovolcano Pico in the eastern frontier, and the Faial Channel which divides Pico from the island of Faial seven kilometers away. It is made up of six freguesias and is encircled almost entirely by the Atlantic Ocean except in the east, where it is bordered by the two remaining municipalities on the island: Lajes do Pico to the southeast, and São Roque do Pico to the northeast.
Jácome de Bruges, 1st Captain-Donee of Terceira was the brother of Louis de Gruuthuse, 1st Earl of Winchester of the wealthy Gruuthuse noble family from Bruges, their grandfather Jean III d'Aa of Gruuthuse participated in the great tournament of Bruges on 11 March, 1393. Jácome became a servant of Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal, who initiated the so-called Portuguese Age of Discovery in the 15th century.
Goulart is a Portuguese-language surname of Flemish roots, derived from Lodewijk Govaert, migrant to the Azores, where he came to be known as Luis Govarte. His descendants later migrated to the Americas, where the surname became well known: Goulart. The surname is frequent in Portugal, and in Brazil.
D. Willem van der Haegen, or Willem De Kersemakere, known in Portuguese as Guilherme da Silveira, or Guilherme Casmaca, was a Flemish-born Azorean entrepreneur, explorer, and colonizer. He was a pioneer colonizer in Azorean history and his descendants formed part of the original Azorean nobility.
São Jorge Cheese is a semi-hard to hard cheese, produced on the island of São Jorge, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, certified as a Região Demarcada do Queijo de São Jorge and regulated as a registered Denominação de Origem Protegida.
Joost De Hurtere, also known by several transliterations was the first settler, and captain-major of the Portuguese island of Faial in the Azores. After 1482, the island of Pico was also incorporated into his captaincy. His son, Joss de Utra would later inherit the captaincy from him after his death.
The Captaincies of the Portuguese Empire were the socio-administrative territorial divisions and hereditary lordships established initially by Henry the Navigator, as part of the Donatário system in order to settle and developed the Portuguese overseas Empire. Pioneered on the island of Madeira and institutionalized in the archipelago of the Azores, the captaincy system was eventually adapted to the New World.
The Captaincies of the Azores were the socio-political and administrative territorial divisions used to settle and govern the overseas lands of the Azores by the Kingdom of Portugal. These territories, a segment of the Captaincies of the Portuguese Empire, which usually conformed to the individual islands, allowing the stewardship of the King through the Donatary and Captaincy system.
The Captaincy General of the Azores was a politico-administrative structure of governance imposed in the Azores on 2 August 1766, with its seat in Angra. It remained the de facto system of governance for 65 years, until it was abolished on 4 June 1832 by D. Peter IV, but by 1828 its de jure status had made it nonoperational, owing to the revolutionary movements that lead to the Liberal Wars. The creation of the Captaincy-General was part of the Pombaline reforms to the Portuguese administration, during the reign of Joseph I, under the initiatives of Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, then prime minister. A Captaincy-General operated from the Palace of the Captains-General, under the direction of the titular Captain-General, who operated as the Governor of the Azores, with additional jurisdiction on every island of the Azorean archipelago. The Captaincy-General was succeeded by the Province of the Azores, an ephemeral administrative structure that was collapse in the immediate years.
Transmaçor was a sea transport/ferry operator in the Central Group of islands of the Azores, headquartered in the city of Horta, on the island of Faial.
Baron of Alagoa was a noble title created by Queen Maria II of Portugal by decree on 22 December 1841 in favor of José Francisco da Terra Brum, a wealthy merchant and winegrower from the city of Horta, Faial Island, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. Terra Brum resided along the banks of the Ribeira da Conceição, and owned properties on the so-called Alagoa coastline. Today, the latter area is occupied by the football field of local sports club Fayal Sport.
Manuel Maria da Terra Brum was a merchant, winegrower, and the third Baron of Alagoa on the island of Faial in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.
José Francisco da Terra Brum was a merchant, winegrower, and the first Baron of Alagoa on the island of Faial in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.
Josse van Aertrycke was a Flemish nobleman from Bruges, who settled in Faial, Azores, in the end of the 15th century. He was probably invited by Joost De Hurtere, the first captain-major of the island, and was possibly an associate of his merchant company. His surname derives from the town of Aartrijke, one of his family lordships until 1396. According to Gaspar Frutuoso, Josse van Aertrycke received various favors and concessions from Joost De Hurtere for the establishment of his settlement in Faial.
