section_path: Marriage and descendants
section_name: Marriage and descendants
paragraph_text: Marriage and descendants
  
  Vasco da Gama and his wife, Catarina de Ataíde, had six sons and one daughter:
  
  His male-line issue became extinct in 1735, when the 7th Count of Vidigueira, Dom Vasco Baltasar José Luís Gama died, leaving only one daughter from his marriage, Dona Maria José da Gama, who inherited the Vidigueira estate. The title thus continued through this female-line.