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Maria de Fonseca was the great wife of Msiri, the powerful warrior-king of Katanga, at the time when the Stairs Expedition arrived in 1891 to take possession...

women. Mencía was the daughter of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar y Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Cenete and María de Fonseca y Toledo. She married firstly Henry III of Nassau-Breda...

trading partners through marriage. His favourite wife was said to be Maria de Fonseca, sister of his Portuguese-Angolan trading partner Coimbra. Msiri married...

José Maria da Fonseca, also known as JM da Fonseca, is the oldest table wine company in Portugal, though some Port wine houses pre-date it. The family-owned...

known as Moscatel de Setúbal. The style was believed to have been invented by José Maria da Fonseca, the founder of José Maria da Fonseca, the oldest industrial-scale...

Maria Gabriela Fonseca (born 1958) is a Portuguese politician. A member of the centre-right Social Democratic Party (PSD), Fonseca was elected to the Assembly...

Mossack Fonseca & Co. (Spanish pronunciation: [moˈsak fonˈseka]) was a Panamanian law firm and corporate service provider. At one time it was the world's...

Brazil. He was the son of Manuel Mendes da Fonseca Galvão (1785–1859) and his wife, Rosa Maria Paulina de Barros Cavalcanti (1802–1873). During the Brazilian...

square is named after Archbishop Alonso de Fonseca, who was appointed parish priest of the old church of Santa Maria de Pontevedra in the early 16th century...

Julio Fonseca (1881–1950) was a Costa Rican composer and conductor. Julio Fonseca was born in San José, Costa Rica on May 22, 1881. His primary and secondary...

José Maria da Fonseca e Évora (3 December 1690 – 16 June 1752), the religious name of José Ribeiro da Fonseca Figueiredo e Sousa, was a Portuguese Franciscan...

Maria Lígia Valente da Fonseca Severino (May 21, 1906 – August 14, 1991) was a Portuguese and Angolan feminist journalist and writer. She used the pseudonym...

Renaissance. After Rodrigo returned to Spain, he married a second time with María de Fonseca y Toledo, ignoring the express wishes of the Isabella I of Castile...

Don David Curiel (11 May 1594 – 4 October 1666), alias Lopo da Fonseca Ramires, was a Sephardi Jewish merchant. David Curiel was the son of Abraham Curiel...

with the architectural interventions promoted by Bishop José Maria Ribeiro da Fonseca de Évora. The convent was a protectorate of the Kingdom of Portugal...

Eleonora Anna Maria Felice de Fonseca Pimentel (Italian: [eleoˈnɔːra ˈanna maˈriːa feˈliːtʃe de fonˈsɛːka pimenˈtɛl]; born Leonor da Fonseca Pimentel Chaves...

Rubem Fonseca (May 11, 1925 – April 15, 2020) was a Brazilian writer. He was born in Juiz de Fora, in the state of Minas Gerais, but he lived most of his...

(1785–1859) and Rosa Maria Paulina Barros Cavalcanti (1802–1873). They had nine children. Among his famous brothers are Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca and Severiano...

designer Maria do Carmo (fado singer) (1884–1964), Portuguese fado singer Maria do Carmo Abecassis, Mozambican poet Maria do Carmo Fonseca (born 1959)...

Carlos Fonseca Amador (23 June 1936 – 8 November 1976) was a Nicaraguan teacher, librarian and revolutionary who founded the Sandinista National Liberation...