Jorge de Meneses

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Jorge de Meneses (also Menezes ; * approx. 1498 ; † 1537 in Brazil ) was a Portuguese navigator .

Life

Jorge de Meneses, perhaps of Marran descent, is considered a European explorer of New Guinea . In 1526 he was driven off on the way from Malacca to the Moluccas to the New Guinea north coast. He named the area and the surrounding archipelagos Ilhas dos Papuas . De Meneses wintered on the Schouten Islands during the monsoon season and sailed along the Vogelkop coast on the way to the Moluccas .

From 1527 to 1530 de Meneses served as the Portuguese governor of the Moluccas, based on Ternate . During this time he looted the Spanish fort on Tidore , poisoned the Sultan of Ternate and committed cruel acts of violence against the local population. As a result, he was recalled and taken to India as a prisoner . After he returned to Portugal, he was exiled to Brazil. There he died in 1537 fighting against indigenous people .

literature

  • Richard Stephen Whiteway: The Rise of Portuguese Power in India (1497-1550) . Susil Gupta, London 1989, ISBN 81-206-0500-4 (first edition: 1967).
  • AJR Russell-Wood: The Portuguese empire, 1415-1808: a world on the move . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1998, ISBN 0-8018-5955-7 , p. 66
personal data
SURNAME Meneses, Jorge de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Menezes, Jorge de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese navigator
DATE OF BIRTH around 1498
DATE OF DEATH 1537
Place of death Brazil