Friday, May 20, 2011

The Andrada Dynasty

Here is what I posted on Brazzil magazine and in the Elite Trader Economics Forum in June 2008 regarding the “Andrada” branch of our family from Minas Gerais, Brazil.
June 14, 2008

SouthAmerica: In the Brazzil magazine website one of the members asked me a few questions and also if Marina Andrada wrote a book about the Revolutions of 1922 or 1964.

Here is my answer:

I believe that Marina Andrada is the only great great granddaughter of Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva (The Patriarch) who still alive – she is part of the 4th generation.

My grandmother’s grandfather Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva (O Moco - 1827 to 1886) era irmao do avo de Marina Andrada – Antonio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada (1836 to 1893).

All the politicians of the Andrada Family that have been monopolizing the political scene in the state of Minas Gerais for the last 150 years – they are all descendents of this particular grandfather of Marina Andrada.

Marina’s father had been vereador in Barbacena, then Deputado Federal representing Minas Gerais, and later he was Brazilian ambassador in various countries including the US and France.

Because her father was ambassador Marina had the opportunity to live in many countries and meet through her father a lot of important people over the years.

Her brother also was an important figure in Brazilian politics Jose Bonifacio Lafayette de Andrada (nickname Zezinho) (1904 – 1986) – He was Deputado Federal da UDN (1945) and president of the Camara dos Deputados (1968) – he was reelected in 1970 and finaly gave up political life in 1979.

Today Bonifacio Jose Tamm de Andrada is serving his 7th term as Deputado Federal for the state of Minas Gerais and he is also the Reitor Unipac an important institution of higher learning in the State of Minas Gerais – this important university with 55,000 students has been created and managed with the efforts of the Andrada family.

You can read about Unipac here:


http://www.unipaclafaiete.edu.br/te...f&pagina=bonlaf

http://www3.unipaclafaiete.edu.br/ul2/layout_01/


Bonifacio Jose Tamm de Andrada was a son of Deputado Jose Bonifacio Lafayette de Andrada – and Bonifacio Jose Tamm de Andrada has 4 sons also involved in politics in the state of Minas Gerais. And the new generation of 20-year olds, in that branch of the family, is also taking their first steps towards their new career in politics.

Going back to your question: I have only the last 2 books that Marina Andrada had published and they are great since she documents a lot of things that happened to all these politicians with pictures and letters, and copy of many documents. She did a terrific job on her books.

Over the last 60 years she accumulated a lot of material related to the Andrada Family since friends and relatives, and other people when they found letters, documents, pictures, and had interesting stories to tell her about something related to the Andradas – all these people sent her all this material that became an important repository of Brazilian history.

Since Marina Andrada lived her entire life among politicians, ambassadors, and all kinds of important people not only in Brazil, but also in other countries around the world – I can hear her tell stories for hours.

Every time we talk on the telephone we end up talking for 2 or 3 hours – she has an amazing memory she tells me stories one after another about the politics in Brazil of the 1920’s, and 1930’s in detail and she remember the dates and all the people involved in the events – she talk about events in the early 1900’s as if the events had happened yesterday – I don’t know how she manage to recall the names of so many people and all the detail of the stories from a time long gone.

I am sure that she knows very well about the revolution of 1930 when regional leaderships in several states dissatisfied with the state of São Paulo's political dominance for the last 100 years joined together in opposition and they placed Getulio Vargas in power and she also must know in detail the story of Luiz Carlos Prestes and his failed 1922 tenente rebellion against the coffee oligarchs.

The great depression also helped to create the economic environment that gave the opportunity of someone such as Getulio Vargas to rise into power.

Getulio Vargas had the right ideas and during his tenure he did a lot of good things for Brazil. I would put Getulio Vargas on the category of benevolent dictators.

My family the Souza Queiroz and the Andradas had dominated political life in the state of Sao Paulo and in Brazil for over 100 years up to the early 1930’s - Only the Minas Gerais branch of the Andrada Family still going strong to this day in Brazilian politics.

You can see the Andrada Family tree on this website:
The new generation of Andradas is very close to the current governor of the state of Minas Gerais – Aecio Neves – and they have been friends since they were kids.

Aecio Neves is the grandson of former president Tancredo Neves. In 1987, Neves was elected to the Federal Chamber of Deputies (House of Representatives) from his home state of Minas Gerais and
served until 2002.

He was president of the Chamber of Deputies (Speaker of the House) in 2001. He was elected governor of Minas Gerais in 2003.

Today, Aecio Neves is considered a strong potential candidate for the 2010 Brazilian Presidential Elections.
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Biography:

Bonifácio José Tamm de Andrada


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Andrada Family Dynasty

Primeira geração
Segunda geração
Terceira geração
Quarta geração
  • José Bonifácio Lafayette de Andrada (1904–1986) – constituinte de 1946 e presidente da Câmara dos Deputados.
  • Antônio Carlos Lafayette de Andrada (1900–1974) – magistrado, presidente do Supremo Tribunal Federal.
  • José Maria de Andrada Serpa - general-de-exército, ministro-chefe do Estado-Maior das Forças Armadas.
  • Fábio Bonifácio Olinda de Andrada - deputado estadual por Minas Gerais.
  • José Bonifácio Olinda de Andrada - secretário de estado da educação e saúde publica de Minas Gerais
  • Amadeu Andrada de Lacerda Rodrigues - constituinte estadual em 1947, por Minas Gerais.
Quinta geração
  • José Bonifácio Diniz de Andrada (1929–2002) – presidente da Câmara Municipal e da Assembléia Legislativa do Rio de Janeiro, deputado federal.
  • Bonifácio José Tamm de Andrada (1930) – presidente da Assembléia de Minas, secretário de estado, deputado estadual e federal, constituinte de 1988.
  • José Bonifácio Tamm de Andrada (1937–2008) – deputado constituinte estadual por Minas Gerais e vereador.
Sexta geração
  • José Bonifácio Borges de Andrada (1956) – ministro advogado-geral da União e vereador.
  • Antonio Carlos Doorgal de Andrada (1960) – prefeito, deputado estadual e conselheiro do Tribunal de Contas de Minas Gerais.
  • Martim Francisco Borges de Andrada (1964) – vereador e prefeito de Barbacena.
  • Lafayette Luíz Doorgal de Andrada (1966) – vereador e deputado estadual por Minas Gerais.

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The connection of the “Andrada” family with the “English Royal family”
At the time of the Royal wedding of Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton on April 29, 2011
I posted the following on my cousins' Facebook page regarding the connection of the “Andrada” family with the English Royal family:

Andrada Dynasty - Tuesday, September 22, 2009

...I am 18th generation from John the Gaunt (Lancaster Dynasty) father of Queen Philippa.
(He is the father of Queen Philippa of Lancaster) (English Nobility)
Luciana, that means that you are 20th generation from John the Gaunt (Lancaster Dynasty) father of Queen Philippa. (He is the father of Queen Philippa of Lancaster) (English Nobility)
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...It was during the reign of Dom João l that the Portuguese aristocracy began to be officially ranked by the categories and titles typical of the French and English nobility. João l was fortunate in possessing the qualities of a successful prince, and in having ministers and a family of the highest quality. He was himself a cultured and learned man, prudent almost to a fault, and astute in his political dealings.
João I's English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of John the Gaunt, was a most exemplary princess, both as a wife and a queen. Their five sons were the most talented and imaginative generation of heirs in Portuguese history.

The Bragança Dynasty
The first dukedom in Portuguese aristocratic history had been created by the crown during the reign of D. João I (1384-1433), and given to his son Afonso who became the first Duke of Bragança.

Royal House:
John the Gaunt was king of England from the Lancaster Dynasty.

José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva and his Aviz, Bragança and Lancaster Dynasty Ancestry
José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva was a great/great-grandson of the 7th Duke of Bragança, and his great-grandfather was the youngest brother of the 8th Duke of Bragança who became in 1640, Dom João IV king of Portugal.
José Bonifácio's great-grandfather also was a great-grandson of Dom João III (1521-1557), a Portuguese king from the Aviz dynasty. Dom João III ruled Portugal at the height of Portuguese power.
José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva and his brothers Martim Francisco and Antonio Carlos were descendants of the Aviz Dynasty. The Andrada brothers were the 6th generation direct descendants of Dom João III.
On the Bragança side they were direct descendants of the 7th Duke of Bragança, and going back many generations they also were descendants of D. João I of the Aviz Dynasty, and of his British queen of the Lancaster Dynasty.

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House of Lancaster


John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster

His other legitimate descendants included his daughters Queen Philippa of Portugal, wife of John I of Portugal and mother of King Edward of Portugal, and Elizabeth, Duchess of Exeter, mother of John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, through his first wife, Blanche; and by his second wife, Constance, John was father of Queen Catherine of Castile, wife of Henry III of Castile and mother of John II of Castile.

England

Kingdoms after the Union of the Crowns (1603-1707)
The crown of the Kingdom of England and Ireland merged with that of the Kingdom of Scotland to form a personal union between England-Ireland and Scotland (the former a personal union itself)
Personal Union between Great Britain and Ireland (1707-1801)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801-1921)
Personal Union of the UK [of GB and NI] and several other Irish states (1921-1949)
UK [of GB and NI] (Without the personal union with Ireland) (1949-present)
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