João Serrão
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Fourth India Armada
, from the 1566 Livro des ArmadasJoão Rodrigues Serrão (d. May 1521), also known as Juan Rodríguez Serrano, was a
Cebu
.
Name
João Rodrigues Serrão is the
anglicized to John Serrano.[2]
Life
Fourth India Armada
(1502) from the c. 1565 Livro de Lisuarte de AbreuSeventh India Armada
(1505), from the Livro de LisuarteSerrão was born in FrixinalSpain. He was the brother or cousin of Francisco Serrão.
Like Magellan, for the first part of his life, João Serrão served the
captained the round caravel Botafogo. Serrão and Magellan also took part in the Portuguese conquest of Malacca led by Afonso de Albuquerque
in 1511.
Subsequently, Francisco stayed in the
his expedition
.
Serrão captained the Santiago across the
in-law Duarte Barbosa. (Fernando died shortly thereafter on Ternate
, also owing to his involvement in local politics.)
Magellan's will had provided for the
Cebuanos
were only using Serrão as bait to lure more men into the massacre and ordered his men not to go to shore. Serrão seems to have been recaptured and killed shortly afterwards.
References
Citations
- ^ Stanley (1874), p. 4.
- ^ a b Stanley (1874), p. 13.
- ^ Auto das Perguntas que Se Fizeram a Dois Espanhois que Chegaram à Fortaleza de Malaca Vindos de Timor na Companhia de Álvaro Juzarte... (in Spanish), manuscript, 1 June 1522.
Bibliography
- Morison, Samuel Eliot (1974), The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages 1492–1616, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Stanley, Henry Edward John, ed. (1874), The First Voyage Round the World by Magellan..., London: Hakluyt Society.