Sebald de Weert

Jan Jacobus Sebald de Weert (born May 2, 1567 in Antwerp ; † 1603 in Batticaloa ( Ceylon )) (also Sebaldus de Weert ) was a Dutch navigator and seafarer who tried unsuccessfully in the wake of Jacques Mahu to cross the Strait of Magellan by sea Finding India and later embarked on another East Asia trip.

to travel

De Weert was the sixth of his parents' seventeen children. He became captain of the ship Blijde boodschap (German: Happy Message), which left the province of Zeeland with four other ships under Mahu in 1598 . After Mahu's death, he took over his ship Het Geloof (German: faith). When the team wanted to return to the Netherlands after months of trying to cross the Strait of Magellan, de Weert joined what would later become the first circumnavigator of the Netherlands, Olivier van Noort , and returned home with him. On the southern bank of the Strait of Magellan , he allegedly observed people almost three meters tall, the "giants" of Tierra del Fuego , who ate raw birds and which other seafarers had previously reported about. De Weert discovered the Jason Islands , a group of islands that belongs to the Falkland Islands , in 1600 .

In 1602 he made another trip to Ceylon as a vice admiral in order to build up trade relations there for the newly founded Dutch East India Company . In 1603, after a dispute with the King of Kandy, he was captured by his warriors and probably accidentally killed.

literature

Philippus Baldaeus: Truly detailed description of the famous East Indian coasts of Malabar and Coromandel, as well as the island of Zeylon. Published by Johannes Janssonius von Waesberge and Johannes van Someren. Amsterdam 1672, p. 211 ff.

Individual evidence

^ R. Rajpal Kumar de Silva, Willemina GM Beumer: Illustrations and Views of Dutch Ceylon 1602-1796: A Comprehensive Work of Pictorial Reference With Selected Eye-Witness Accounts. Leiden 1988.

personal data
SURNAME	Weert, Sebald de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Weert, Sebaldus de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch navigator
DATE OF BIRTH	May 2, 1567
PLACE OF BIRTH	Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH	1603
Place of death	Batticaloa , Ceylon

[1] R. Rajpal Kumar de Silva, Willemina GM Beumer: Illustrations and Views of Dutch Ceylon 1602-1796: A Comprehensive Work of Pictorial Reference With Selected Eye-Witness Accounts. Leiden 1988.