JOAO DE See also:CASTRO (1500-1548)
, called by See also:Camoens See also:Castro Forte, See also:fourth See also:viceroy of the Portuguese Indies, was the son of Alvaro de Castro, See also:civil See also:governor of See also:Lisbon
.
A younger son, and destined therefore for the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, he became at an See also:early See also:age a brilliant humanist, and studied See also:mathematics under Pedro See also:Nunez, in See also:company with the See also:infante Dom Luis, son of Emanuel the First, with whom he contracted a See also:life-See also:long friendship
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At eighteen he went to See also:Tangier, where he was dubbed See also:knight by Duarte de Menezes the governor, and there he remained several years
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In 1535 he accompanied Dom Luis to the See also:siege of See also:Tunis, where he had the See also:honour of refusing See also:knighthood and See also:reward at the hands of the See also:great See also:emperor See also:Charles V
.
Returning to Lisbon, he received from the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king the small commandership of Sao Pablo de Salvaterra in 1538
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He was exceedingly poor, but his wife Lenor de Coutinho, a See also:noble Portuguese See also:lady, admired and appreciated her See also:husband sufficiently to make See also:light of their poverty
.
Soon after this he See also:left for the Indies in company with his See also:uncle See also:Garcia de Noronha, and on his arrival at See also:Goa enlisted among the aventureiros, " the bravest of the brave," told off for the See also:relief of See also:Diu
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In 1540 he served on an expedition under Estevao da Gama, by whom his son, Alvaro de Castro, a See also:child of thirteen, was knighted, out of compliment to him
.
Returning to See also:Portugal, Joao de Castro was named See also:commander of a See also:fleet, in 1543, to clear the See also:European seas of pirates; and in 1545 he was sent, with six See also:sail, to the Indies, in the See also:room of See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin de See also:Sousa, who had been dismissed the viceroyalty
.
The next three years were the hardest and most brilliant, as they were the last, of his life—years of See also:battle and struggle, of See also:glory and sorrow, of suffering and See also:triumph
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Valiantly seconded by his sons (one of whom, Fernao, was killed before Diu) and by Joao Mascarenhas, Joao de Castro achieved such popularity by the over-throw of Mahmud, king of See also:Gujarat, by the relief of Diu, and by the defeat of the great See also:army of the Adil See also:Khan, that he could See also:contract a very large See also:loan with the Goa merchants onthe See also:simple See also:security of his See also:moustache
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These great deeds were followed by the See also:capture of See also:Broach, by the See also:complete subjugation of Malacca, and by the passage of See also:Antonio Moniz into See also:Ceylon; and in 1547 the great See also:captain was appointed viceroy by See also:Joan III., who had at last accepted him without mistrust
.
He did not live long to fill this See also:charge, expiring in the arms of his friend, St See also:Francis See also:Xavier, on the 6th of See also:June 1548
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He was buried at Goa, but his remains were afterwards exhumed and conveyed to Portugal, to be reinterred under a splendid See also:monument in the
See also:convent of Bemfica
.
See Jacinto See also:Freire de Andrade, See also:Vida de D
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Jodo de Castro (Lisbon, 1651), See also:English See also:translation by See also:Sir See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter Wyche (1664); Diogo de Couto, Decadas da See also:Asia, vi
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The Roteiros or logbooks of Castro's voyages in the See also:East (Lisbon, 1833, 1843 and 1872) are of great See also:interest
.
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