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Pedro Mascarenhas
Dom Pedro Mascarenhas (1470 – 16 June 1555) was a Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator. He was the first European to discover the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in 1512. He also encountered the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius in 1512, although he may not have been the first Portuguese explorer to do so; earlier expeditions by Diogo Dias and Afonso de Albuquerque along with Diogo Fernandes Pereira may have encountered the islands. In 1528 explorer Diogo Rodrigues (after whom the island of Rodrigues is named
older son:
1. D. Luísa Antónia Inês Casimira de Sousa Nassau e Ligne (1694-1729)
2. D. Pedro de Bragança e Ligne Sousa Tavares Mascarenhas da Silva (1718-1761)
3. D. João Carlos de Bragança e Ligne Sousa Tavares Mascarenhas da Silva (1719-1806)
4. D. Ana de Bragança e Ligne Sousa Tavares Mascarenhas da Silva (1797-1851)
5. D. Maria Carlota de Bragança e Ligne Sousa Tavares Mascarenhas da Silva (1820-1865)