Pedro da Hornay

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From 1782 to 1796, Pedro da Hornay was the leader of the Topasse , a Portuguese - Malay mixed population, who at that time held de facto power in a large part of the Portuguese possessions in the Lesser Sunda Islands .

In 1785 the Portuguese governor João Baptista Vieira Godinho (1785 to 1788) was able to move Pedro da Hornay on Solor to a new alliance with the Portuguese, after Pedro's father Francisco da Hornay III in 1769 . the Portuguese had driven out of the old colonial capital Lifau . For this Hornay was guaranteed the title and status of lieutenant general ( tenente general ), as was his nephew Dom Constantino do Rosario , the king of Solor. Thus fell Oecussi with Lifau and the island of Solor back to Portugal, Oecussi why today an exclave of East Timor in other Indonesian West Timor is. Because of the alliance with Godinho, Pedro da Hornay took military action against the Dutch in west Timor, but the Viceroy of Goa did not approve of this at the time . Generally regarded as a capable governor, Godinho was recalled early in 1788.

In 1790 Pedro da Hornay and his brother-in-law, the ruler of Ambeno , once again swore their allegiance on a trip to Dili Portugal. A priest had persuaded the two rulers to do so. In the same year, Pedro da Hornay attacked the kingdom of Maubara on behalf of Portugal unsuccessfully , but with this he only achieved that Maubara renewed its alliance with the Netherlands and set the flag of the Netherlands .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Regnal Chronologies: South East Asia: the Islands
  2. ↑ a b Geoffrey Gunn: History of Timor - Technical University of Lisbon, p. 50 ( Memento of the original of March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 805 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pascal.iseg.utl.pt
  3. ^ Laura Suzanne Meitzner Yoder: Custom, Codification, Collaboration: Integrating the Legacies of Land and Forest Authorities in Oecusse Enclave, East Timor. Dissertation, p. 80, Yale University, 2005 ( PDF file; 1.46 MB ( memento of March 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )).
predecessor Office successor
Francisco da Hornay III. Captain General of Solor and Timor
1782–1796 		?
personal data
SURNAME Hornay, Pedro there
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hornay, Pedro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION General captain of Solor and Timor and ruler of Topasse
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century
DATE OF DEATH 18th century or 19th century