The Galician saga of David Silva

in the blood of David Jimenez Silva has shades of Gáldar, north of Island of Gran Canaria. The first capital of the Canary Islands during the Conquest and managed with awe by Teodoro Sosa (17 councilors out of a possible 21 but did not fall into the ‘Marinaleda complex’) had the opportunity to remember the Silvas who lived in the islands they entered. through this city in an attempt to control the Portuguese before Juan Rejón made it for Castile in 1478. From Gáldar, the surname became popular throughout America as happens with other surnames such as Perdomo or Marrero to the point that the Cuban foreign minister has the same surname. Former Marítimo de Madeira soccer player, Sebastian Grisalena, honorary president of CEOE of Las Palmas, served as the master of ceremonies for Gáldar and Madeira to remember the presence of the first Silvas who arrived in the islands. “Undoubtedly, it all has genetics,” Grisaleña said in a humorous tone because of the professional opportunity and the head of the business is also from Galicia and his first surname is Portuguese.

The official recorder of Gáldar, Juan Sebastián López, emphasizes that the twin of Machico in Madeira is because it was also the first capital of Madeira. The existence of these Silvas in the Canary Islands, the details of Teodoro Sosa, began in 1466, after the arrival in Gran Canaria of a Portuguese expedition, where the king of the island. Guanarteme Engoynaga he saved the life of Count Diego da Silva “in one of the greatest acts of kindness of all these times”. Count return to the coast via Cuesta de Silva, where he gave his name. The Portuguese toponymy is in Gáldar. This is the case of Sardina, because of the surname of the Portuguese admiral Sardinha, and also of La Furnia, El Farallón and Cueva Lapa. There is even a gorge, the Silva, named after the arrival of the Portuguese. Cueva Lapa is the place chosen between the Canary Islands and the Portuguese to seal the peace, hence its name. The Portuguese had to leave on foot because the islanders did not trust them at any time except for purposes of courtesy.

From 1455 two Portuguese nobles were the masters of the three most beautiful islands of the archipelago. Pope Pius XI seems to have confirmed the donation of Castile to both heroes. It is possible that they then made several attempts to conquer them, but when they were convinced of the futility of their efforts and the Portuguese gave their rights to the Infante don Fernando, then his brother King Alfonso V asked Paul III on June 26, 1466, the confirmation of the donation of three islands to the Count of Villa Real. From this it seems to be concluded that in order for the Infante to accept the transfer, the confirmation of the Pope in said number is indispensable.

But before it was taken, the Portuguese Crown sent an army of three ships with 800 men, according to some historians, led by Diego da Silva de Meneses, who arrived full of serotonin after a failed attempt attack on Tangier in 1464. To regain his freedom he continued the service of the Infante don Fernando, and to recover he came to the Canary Islands, where he could not defeat the Gáldar islanders, although before that he did a thousand crazy things in Lanzarote and on the east coast of Gran Canaria.