Gérard Dominique Azevedo Continho y Bernal

Gérard Dominique Azevedo Continho y Bernal (1712–1782) was a clergyman, antiquary and genealogist in the Austrian Netherlands.

His parents were Jean-Baptiste Azevedo Continho y Bernal, an infantry captain, and Jeanne-Marie Corten.

[1] In 1730, aged 18, was appointed to a canonry of the Basilica of Our Lady of Hanswijk.

[1] He was generous to the poor, and a patron of the arts, but particularly dedicated his free time to studying the sources of local history, in particular chronicles, archives and charters.

He was also the author of a short life of St Rumbold, Kort Begryp van ’t leven, lyden en mirakelen van den H. Rumoldus, published in Leuven in 1763.