What are the birth and death dates for Bartolomeu Dias?

Answer 1

Specific information may be available in an archive in Portugal. It's also possible that documentation may exist in the recordkeeping of the Catholic Church. For Bartolomeu Dias [c. 1450-May 29, 1500] was Catholic, and undoubtedly baptized. Thus far, nothing is known of the exact birth dates, or of the family home town, of Dias. Two of Dias' children, Simao and Antonio, had as last names Dias de Novais. Novais is a parish in Vila Real de Famalicao, a municipality in the northern Portuguese district of Braga. So it's possible that Novais was family home to Dias and his ancestors. But Dias' death dates are known. For the navigator was lost in a storm, at the Cape of Good Hope, that he had put on the map with his expedition of 1487-1488.