MILITARY PERSONNEL

Pedro Teixeira

1585 - 1641

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Pedro Teixeira (b.1570-1585 - d.4 July 1641), occasionally referred to as the Conqueror of the Amazon, was a Portuguese conquistador and military officer, who became, in 1637, the first European to travel up and down the entire length of the Amazon River, he also headed the government of the captaincy of Pará in two different periods, one in 1620-1621 and another in 1640–1641. Teixeira was born either in 1570 or 1585 at the Vila of Cantanhede, born to a noble family, he was a Knight of the Order of Christ and a Portuguese nobleman in service of the royal family, he married Ana Cunha in Praia, Azores, daughter of Sargento-Mor Diogo de Campos Moreno, with whom Teixeira fought together in Maranhão First arriving in Brazil on 1607, Teixeira participated in Portugal's campaign against French Maranhão, he fought in the Battle of Guaxenduba and distinguished himself commanding either the fort of Natividade or Santa Maria. Because of Teixeira and other Portuguese who pushed into the depths of the Amazon, Portugal was able to obtain far more of South America from their Spanish competitors than the Treaty of Tordesillas had granted in 1494. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pedro Teixeira is the 1,607th most popular military personnel (down from 1,535th in 2019), the 310th most popular biography from Portugal (down from 272nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Portuguese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Pedro Teixeira ranks 1,607 out of 2,058. Before him are Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł, Viktor Zolotov, Thermantia, Alime Abdenanova, Alan Cunningham, and Stanley Maude. After him are Richmond K. Turner, Aliagha Shikhlinski, Edward Braddock, Mutsuhiro Watanabe, Andrew Scott Waugh, and Georgi Todorov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1585, Pedro Teixeira ranks 20. Before him are Massimo Stanzione, Hamnet Shakespeare, Johann Baptist Cysat, Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, and Claude Favre de Vaugelas. After him are Sisto Badalocchio, Squanto, Domenico II Contarini, Gerbrand Bredero, and Francesco Cornaro. Among people deceased in 1641, Pedro Teixeira ranks 17. Before him are Johan Banér, Pau Claris i Casademunt, Franciscus Gomarus, Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, Hedwig of Denmark, and Adam van Noort. After him are Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, Thomas Heywood, and John Suckling.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Pedro Teixeira ranks 310 out of 633. Before him are Nené (1949), Joaquim Carvalho (1937), Guilhermina Suggia (1885), Marco Silva (1977), João Félix (1999), and Infante João, Duke of Beja (1842). After him are Infanta Maria da Assunção of Braganza (1805), Marcos Portugal (1762), Fernão Lopes (1385), João de Castro (1500), Salvador Sobral (1989), and Diogo Lopes de Sequeira (1465).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Portugal

Among military personnels born in Portugal, Pedro Teixeira ranks 4. Before him are Cristóvão da Gama (1516), Estácio de Sá (1520), and Infante João, Duke of Beja (1842). After him are Diogo Lopes de Sequeira (1465).

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