Diogo Lopes de Sequeira

Diogo Lopes de Sequeira
Portrait in Livro de Lisuarte de Abreu, c. 1560
Captain-major of Gold Coast
In office
1503?–1506?
MonarchManuel I
Preceded byFernão Lopes Correia
Succeeded byAntónio de Bobadilha
Governor of India
In office
1518–1522
MonarchsManuel I
John III
Preceded byLopo Soares de Albergaria
Succeeded byDuarte de Meneses
Personal details
Born1465
Alandroal, Kingdom of Portugal
Died1530 (aged 65)
Alandroal, Kingdom of Portugal

D. Diogo Lopes de Sequeira (1465–1530) was a Portuguese fidalgo, sent to analyze the trade potential in Madagascar and Malacca. He arrived at Malacca on 11 September 1509 and left the next year when he discovered that Sultan Mahmud Shah was planning his assassination. This gave Afonso de Albuquerque the opportunity to embark upon his expedition of conquests.

Sequeira was subsequently made governor of Portuguese India (1518–1522), and in 1520 led a military campaign into the Red Sea which hastened the first legitimate Portuguese embassy to Ethiopia.[1]

  1. ^ Haywood, John (2002). Historical Atlas of the Early Modern World 1492–1783. Barnes & Noble Books. ISBN 0-7607-3204-3.