Diogo Rodrigues
Diogo Rodrigues de Azevedo , also Rodriguez or Roys (* after 1500 in Portugal ; † April 21, 1577 in Goa , India ) was a Portuguese navigator , explorer and colonial ruler in India.
Life
Diogo Rodrigues drove to India as the helmsman with the Pedro Mascarenha fleet . They sailed from the Cape of Good Hope eastwards into little-known waters on the new route to Goa. In 1538 Rodrigues discovered the island of Rodrigues named after him while traveling along the Mascarene archipelago .
Rodrigues later stayed in India, learned the local language, was in command of the Fort of Goa and governor of the island of Salsette (later Mumbai ). He was also involved in the defense of the fortress Diu under João de Castro and its reconstruction. In the course of the Christianization of Goa in 1567 he had Hindu temples and nine pagodas destroyed. On his tombstone in Goa it says: Here lies Diogo Rodrigues, (called) "o do forte - the one from the fort", captain of the fort that destroyed the pagodas in this area. He died on April 21, 1577 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Auguste Toussaint: History of the Indian Ocean . University of Chicago Press 1966, p. 109.
- ↑ Georg Schurhammer: Franz Xaver, his life and his time . Volume 2, Asia (1541–1549) , 2nd half volume: India and Indonesia . Herder, Freiburg / Vienna 1971, p. 96 and 108.
- ^ José Nicolau da Fonseca: Historical and Archaeological Sketch of the City of Goa . Thacker, Bombay 1878 (Reprint: Asian Educational Services, New Delhi 1986, ISBN 81-2060-207-2 ), p. 47f. and 104.
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| SURNAME | Rodrigues, Diogo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Azevedo, Diogo Rodrigues de (full name); Rodriguez, Diogo; Roys, Diogo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese navigator, explorer and governor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | after 1500 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Portugal |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1577 |
| Place of death | Goa , India |