Gama would spend the next few years attempting to take hold of Sines -Īn effort which would estrange him from Lencastre and eventually prompt
King to make other donations of the Order's properties. Provoked Lencastre to refuse out of principle - lest it encourage the But the fact that Sines was awarded by the king's hand, Santiago knight, one of their own, and a close associate of Lencastre The master of the Order, to endorse the reward - after all, Gama was a On the face of it, it should not have been a problem for Jorge de Lencastre, This turned out to be a rather complicated affair, for Sines still belonged to the Order of Santiago. His body was later taken back to Portugal for burial there.In December 1499, Vasco da Gama was rewarded by King Manuel I of Portugal with the town of Sines as a hereditary fief (the very town which his father, Estêvão, had once held as a commenda). He soon fell ill, and in December 1524 he died in Cochin. For the next 20 years, da Gama continued to advise the Portuguese ruler on Indian affairs, but he was not sent back to the region until 1524, when King John III appointed him as Portuguese viceroy in India.ĭa Gama arrived in Goa with the task of combating the growing corruption that had tainted the Portuguese government in India. Da Gama’s Later Life and Last Voyage to Indiaĭa Gama had married a well-born woman sometime after returning from his first voyage to India the couple would have six sons. Upon his return to Portugal, by contrast, he was richly rewarded for another successful voyage. For these brutal demonstrations of power, da Gama was vilified throughout India and the region.
On this voyage, da Gama attacked Arab shipping interests in the region and used force to reach an agreement with Calicut’s ruler. In 1502, King Manuel put da Gama in charge of another Indian expedition, which sailed that February. He then moved on to Cochin, where he established the first Portuguese trading post in India. Little else is known about his early life, but in 1492 King John II sent da Gama to the port city of Setubal (south of Lisbon) and to the Algarve region to seize French ships in retaliation for French attacks on Portuguese shipping interests.Īfter Muslim traders killed 50 of his men, Cabral retaliated by burning 10 Muslim cargo vessels and killing the nearly 600 sailors aboard. Vasco da Gama’s Early Life and First Voyage to Indiaīorn circa 1460, Vasco da Gama was the son of a minor nobleman who commanded the fortress at Sines, located on the coast of the Alentejo province in southwestern Portugal. Two decades later, da Gama again returned to India, this time as Portuguese viceroy he died there of an illness in late 1524. Da Gama received a hero’s welcome back in Portugal, and was sent on a second expedition to India in 1502, during which he brutally clashed with Muslim traders in the region. After sailing down the western coast of Africa and rounding the Cape of Good Hope, his expedition made numerous stops in Africa before reaching the trading post of Calicut, India, in May 1498. The Portuguese nobleman Vasco da Gama (1460-1524) sailed from Lisbon in 1497 on a mission to reach India and open a sea route from Europe to the East.
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