List_of_Captain-majors_of_Portuguese_Ceylon

List of captain-majors of Portuguese Ceylon

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The Portuguese arrived in the Kingdom of Kotte in 1505. By 1551, they had appointed a captain-major to control the Portuguese occupied territory called Ceylon on the island of modern-day Sri Lanka. In that time, there were numerous captains-major until 1594. The post of captain-major was preceded by that of the captain in 1518. In 1594, the captain-major was replaced with a governor.

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Name	Birth	Death	Captain-major from	Captain-major until	Sovereign
João Henriques	-	-	1551	1552	John III
Diogo de Melo Coutinho (1st time)	-	-	1552	1552	John III
Duarte de Eça	1480	15??	1552	1553	John III
Fernão Carvalho	-	-	1553	1555	John III
Afonso Pereira de Lacerda	-	-	1555	1559	John III Sebastian
Jorge de Meneses Baroche	-	-	1559	1560	Sebastian
Baltasar Guedes de Sousa	-	-	1560	1564	Sebastian
Pedro de Ataíde Inferno	-	-	1564	1565	Sebastian
Diogo de Melo	-	-	1565	1568	Sebastian
Fernando de Monroy	-	-	1568	1570	Sebastian
Diogo de Melo Coutinho (2nd time)	-	-	1570	1572	Sebastian
António de Noronha	-	-	1572	1575	Sebastian
Fernando de Albuquerque	-	-	1575	1578	Sebastian
Manuel de Sousa Coutinho	1540	1591	1578	1583	Sebastian Henry Filipe I
João de Correia de Brito	-	-	1583	1590	Filipe I
Simão de Brito	-	-	1590	1591	Filipe I
Pedro Homem Pereira	-	-	1591	1594	Filipe I

List_of_Captain-majors_of_Portuguese_Ceylon

List of captain-majors of Portuguese Ceylon

List of captain-majors

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