Margarida Cabral de Melo

[3] She was one of the most distinguished women in the Río de la Plata, in the early 17th century, owned of luxury homes, farms and vineyards.

[4] Her family belonged to illustrious Portuguese lineages, including her royal ancestry through her great-great-grandmother, Dona Beatriz de Meneses, 2nd Countess of Loulé.

[8] The house of the family Cabral de Alpoim was located at the intersection of the streets Victoria and Balcarce, current neighborhood of Monserrat.

[14] Her most notorious ancestors were Álvaro Martins Homem 3°Captain of Praia,[15] and João Fernandes de Andrade, possibly a descendant of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall.

[22] Her sister Inés Núñez Cabral and Gil Gonçalves de Moura were the ancestors of the writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges.