Date of birth: Salvador, ca. 1570. Date of death: unknown, s. XVII. Heiress of the powerful Barros Lobo clan, from Bahia, the relevance of Felícia Lobo lay in the meticulous execution of her four marriages, marrying the first two times with prearranged men to increase and secure her family’s wealth, and the last two to …
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Fadrique de Toledo Osorio
Fadrique de Toledo Osorio, also known as Fadrique de Toledo, was a Spanish military officer and admiral, Captain General of the Navy of the Ocean Sea and of the People of Portugal, famed after leading the fleet that reconquered Salvador de Bahia in 1625 after eleven months of Dutch occupation.
Filipeia (Capitania of Paraíba)
The Paraíba region was conquered in 1584 thanks to the actions of Diego Flores de Valdés’ fleet, with his Armada of the Strait of Magellan. The conquest of the territory was driven by a wider Habsburg policy in an attempt to articulate and improve their defences on the Atlantic frontiers. In a general sense, that …
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Father Fernão Cardim
Date of birth: c.1548, Viana de Alvito, Portugal Date of death: Aldeia do Espírito Santo (current Camaçari in Bahia), 27 January 1625 A Jesuit of Portuguese origin who arrived in Brazil in 1585, he was the author of important documents for the history of Brazil between the end of the 16th century and the first …
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