Francisco de Moura Rolim
Afonso Ribeiro | |
|---|---|
| Captain of Alcatrazes Islands | |
| In office 1504 – before 1508 | |
| Preceded by | João de Santarém |
| Succeeded by | Rodrigi Varela |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Portugal |
| Died | Portuguese Empire |
Francisco de Moura Rolim, sometimes as Francisco Rolim (1580 – 1657) was a Portuguese colonial administrator and a military personnel born in Brazil.[1][2] Some sources mentioned him as Francisco Roulim
Biography
He was born in Olinda, he was son of Olindian Genebra Manelli Cavalcanti de Albuquerque and Felippe de Moura, Captain of Pernambuco. He was grandson of the master of engineering Filippo Cavalcanti and great-grandson of the colonial adminnstrator Jerónimo de Albuquerque.[1]
In 1622, he was a colonial governor of Cape Verde.[3][4] He succeeded Francisco de Moura who was either related or not related. He was succeeded by Manuel Afonso de Guerra.
In 1625, he commanded a fleet of ships from the Captaincy of Pernambuco which that joined with the Luso-Spanish Fleet during the Dutch Invasion of Brazil that kicked out the Dutch from Salvador de Bahia. Later that year, he was nominated Governor-General of the State of Brazil by the Governor of Pernambuco and Governor-General Matias de Albuquerque.[5]
He later spent his remainder of his life in Lisbon in continental Portugal, where he later died in 1657.
Family
He was related to Jerónimo Cavalcanti de Albuquerque who was colonial governor of Cape Verde for a year from 1639 to 1640.
See also
Notes
- ^ a b "Francisco de Moura Rolim". BRASILHIS Database. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
- ^ "Governor-general of the State of Brazil" (in Portuguese). Memória da Administração Pública Brasileira. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
- ^ "Cape Verde". rulers.org.
- ^ "Cape Verde". worldstatesmen.org.
- ^ "Biography of Matias de Albuquerque" (in Portuguese). eBiografia. Retrieved 9 June 2017.