Jun 8, 2018 · Afonso de Albuquerque. The Portuguese nobleman Afonso de Albuquerque (ca. 1460-1515) is best known as governor of India. He is also considered to be the founder of the Portuguese imperial system. Afonso de Albuquerque was born to a family of minor Portuguese nobility. He fought in Portugal's wars in Spain and Africa.

Afonso de Albuquerque, the Great. 1453-1515. Portuguese military officer and strategist who contributed significantly to Portuguese efforts to control the main trade routes to Asia. He conquered India and established a colony in Goa (India) in 1510 and a colony in Melaka (Malay Peninsula) in 1511. He gained additional Portuguese control by ...

Almeida at first refused to yield his power to Afonso de Albuquerque and had Albuquerque imprisoned (1509), but he later gave him command. On his way home to Portugal, Almeida was killed by Khoikhoi near the Cape of Good Hope .

In 1510 Afonso de Albuquerque (1453–1515) conquered the territory of Goa, on the western coast of India, and made it the seat of Portuguese power in the Indian Ocean. His conquest of the shoreline along the Straits of Malacca (in present-day Malaysia) in 1511 allowed the Portuguese to become the first Europeans to control the ocean-going ...

There the Portuguese were met by hostile Muslim forces, and Lopes de Sequeira lost some 60 of his men in battle before sailing back to Cochin. This encounter led to the Portuguese conquest of Melaka under Afonso de Albuquerque (1453-1515) in 1511.

The second, Matias de Albuquerque, born in 1595, later became capitão-mor of Pernambuco and governor-general of Brazil. Jorge de Albuquerque Coelho died in Lisbon and was buried in the Church of São Nicolau. See alsoCoelho Pereira, Duarte. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Boxer, Charles R. "Jorge d' Albuquerque Coelho: A Luso-Brazilian Hero of the Sea, 1539 ...

Sousa, Martim Afonso de (1500–1564) Martim Afonso de Sousa ( b. 1500; d. 1564), Portuguese navigator and explorer. In 1531 he was the commander in chief of a naval and military expedition to Brazil whose purpose was fighting the French who …

May 29, 2018 · Martim Afonso de Sousa (ca. 1500-1564) was a Portuguese colonizer and viceroy who founded the first permanent Portuguese settlement in South America, and served as viceroy of India. The exact date of the birth of Martim Afonso de Sousa remains unknown, but some authorities arbitrarily give 1500.

Antônio de Albuquerque Coelho de Carvalho (b. 1655; d. 25 April 1725), Portuguese colonial administrator. Born in Lisbon and baptized on 14 September 1655, Carvalho was the son of the governor of Maranhão (1667–1671) of the same name; the nephew of Feliciano Coelho de Carvalho, the first lord-proprietor of the captaincy of Camutá (also ...

Figueiredo, Afonso Celso de Assis (1860–1938) Afonso Celso de Assis Figueiredo ( b. 31 March 1860; d. 11 July 1938), Brazilian politician and man of letters. The son of a prominent Liberal politician and nobleman, the viscount of Ouro Prêto, Figueiredo left his native Minas Gerais to study in São Paulo.