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__ ﻿ Bartolomeu's Background__
Bartolomeu Dias also known as Diaz was known to be a Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope. He was born in a noble, wealthy Portuguese family in the year of 1457. As a child, he wanted his career ro start as a navigator/explorer. In adulthood, he was famous for being the first european to lead a 1487 voyage around the Cape of Good Hope. Dias named it the"Cape of Storms" and was later changed to the "Cape of Good Hope" by his majesty King John II of Portugal because of the great optimism engendered by the opening of a sea route to India and the East.

=__Diaz's Goal__= ====Bar﻿tolomeu's goal was to find a route and open a sea route from Europe to India, but first he had to find the southern tip of Africa. His voyage around Africa led to their discovery of a multitude of wealth in ivory and gold. He managed to find a route to the waters of the Indian Ocean.\ ==== =__**Personal Life **__= = = Dias was married and had two children:


 * Simao Dias de Novais, who died unmarried and without issue.
 * António Dias de Novais, a Knight of the Order of Christ, married to apparently his relative, since the surname de Novais was transmitted through her brother's offspring Joana Fernandes, daughter of Fernão Pires and wife Guiomar Montês and sister of Brites Fernandes and Fernão Pires, married to Inês Nogueira, daughter of Jorge Nogueira and wife, and had issue. Dias' grandson Paulo Dias de Novais was a Portuguese colonizer of Africa in the 16th century. Dias' granddaughter, Guiomar de Novais married twice, as his second wife to Dom Rodrigo de Castro, son of Dom Nuno de Castro and wife Joana da Silveira, by whom she had Dona Paula de Novais and Dona Violante de Castro, both died unmarried and without issue, and to Pedro Correia da Silva, natural son of Cristóvão Correia da Silva, without issue.

__Death__
Later on in life, Dias got caught in a terrible storm. The results of the storm was that his ship the Sao Cristovao (Saint Christopher) was wrecked and sunken to the bottom of the ocean, and his crew was lost at sea. He died on May 29th 1500 by drowning.