Diogo Alvares Correia

Diogo Alvares Correia

Portuguese settler born in Viana, Diogo Alvares Correia departed for Brazil in 1509. After his ship wrecked in the coast of Bahia, Diogo Alvares found himself among the Tupinamba Indians. The Indians called him Caramuru (Moray Eel or Creator of Fire) because on the shape and the fire of his weapon. Diogo Alvares Correia, alias Caramuru The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ... Viana do Castelo is both a city and a district in north-west Portugal. ... Events February 2 - Battle of Diu took place near Diu, India. ... The Bahia de Todos os Santos (All Saints Bay, in archaic Portuguese) is the bay where the city of São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos was built. ... Tupi is the name of a language family that was spoken along the Brazilian coast at the time of its discovery. ... Genera See text Moray eels are large cosmopolitan eels of the family Muraenidae. ...

Later, Diogo Alvares founded a settlement called Vila Velha and married Paraguacu (or Paraguassu), the daughter of Tupinamba's chief Morubixava Taparica. During the following twenty years, Diogo Alvares kept contact with European ships and used his influence on local Indians to help the Portuguese Crown and missionaires during the early years of Brazilian colonization. Colonization (or colonisation) is the act where life forms move into a distant area where their kind is sparse or not yet existing at all and set up new settlements in the area. ...

In 1526, he traveled to France with his wife. Paraguaçu was baptized by Catherine de Medici the queen of France under the name Catarina. Events January 14 - Treaty of Madrid. ... Catherine de Medici (April 13, 1519–January 5, 1589), born in Italy as Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de Medici, and later queen of France under the French name Catherine de M dicis, was the wife of King Henry II of France, of the Valois branch of the kings of...

A couple of years later, he returned to Bahia and aided Thome de Sousa in founding Salvador and creating the first Brazilian General-Government, by the request of King João III of Portugal . For the genus of wildflowers in the family Asteraceae, see Bahia (Botany) Bahia is a state in the north-east of Brazil. ... Salvador (in full, São Salvador da Baía de Todos os Santos, meaning Holy Savior of the Bay of All Saints) is a city on the northeast coast of Brazil and the capital of the NE Brazilian state of Bahia. ... John III of Portugal John III of Portugal, the Pious, (Portuguese João III) (June 6, 1502 – June 11, 1557) was the fifteenth king of Portugal. ...

He died in October 1557, was buried in the Church of Jesus, and left half of his wealth to the Jesuits. His wife, Catarina Paraguaçu died in 1582. The Society of Jesus — also known by its Latin name Societas Iesu or its English variant Jesuit Order — is a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church in direct service to the Pope. ...

His sons, Gaspar, Gabriel and Jorge were declared knights by Governor Thome de Sousa.

The historical episode was the central theme of a Portuguese poem by Santa Rita Durão (XVIII Century, Minas Gerais), titled "Caramuru". This is a survey of Portuguese literature. ...

Diogo Alvares meeting the Tupinamba Indians