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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 .
The Portuguese, left behind by Sequeira at Malacca were headed by the factor Rui de Araújo, who slipped letters to the governor of Portuguese India Afonso de Albuquerque from prison with the aid of Nina Chatu, a dissatisfied Hindu merchant.
The Portuguese repelled every boarding attempt, but faced with the sheer number of Malaccan ships and unable to land any forces to rescue those Portuguese who had stayed in the feitoria, de Sequeira decided to sail back to India before the monsoon started and left them stranded in Southeast Asia. Before departing he sent a message to the Sultan ...
Gomes de Sequeira was a Portuguese explorer in the early 16th century. It has been suggested by some historians [ who? ] that Gomes de Sequeira may have sailed to the northeast coast of Australia as part of his explorations, although this is disputed.
1511: de Albuquerque conquers Malacca, after Diogo Lopes de Sequeira's visit there in 1509. Malacca becomes a strategic base for Portuguese expansion in Southeast Asia. Also during the conquest, given their influence on the Malacca Peninsula, he sent Duarte Fernandes to the court of Ramathibodi II of the Kingdom of Siam. [2]
Duarte Fernandes was a Portuguese tailor. Born in the late 15th century, Fernandes was a New Christian, a classification used to describe people of Moorish or Jewish heritage. [1] In the early 1500s, Fernandes traveled to Malacca as part of the first expedition of Diogo Lopes de Sequeira in September 1509.
He is then appointed second viceroy of India in 1508. In 1510 he conquers Goa, soon to become the most flourishing of the Portuguese settlements in India. 1511: Albuquerque conquers Malacca discovered by Diogo Lopes de Sequeira in 1509. Malacca becomes a strategic base for Portuguese expansion in the East Indies.
Portuguese Malacca faced severe hostility as it was the first European Christian trading settlement in Southeast Asia, being surrounded by numerous emerging Muslim states. They endured years of conflicts with Malay sultans who wanted to get rid of the Portuguese and reclaim the port town. The sultan made several attempts to retake the capital.