Diogo Lopes de Sequeira

Diogo Lopes de Sequeira
Governor Lopo Soares de Albergaria, in Ásia Portuguesa of Manuel de Faria e Sousa
Captain-major of Portuguese Gold Coast
In office 1503? – 1506?
Monarch	Manuel I of Portugal
Preceded by	Fernão Lopes Correia
Succeeded by	António de Bobadilha
Governor of Portuguese India
In office 1518–1522
Monarch	Manuel I of Portugal John III of Portugal
Preceded by	Lopo Soares de Albergaria
Succeeded by	Duarte de Meneses
Personal details
Born	1465 Alandroal, Kingdom of Portugal
Died	1530 (aged 65) Alandroal, Kingdom of Portugal
Nationality	Portuguese

D.Diogo Lopes de Sequeira (1465–1530) was a Portuguese fidalgo, sent to analyze the trade potential in Madagascar and Malacca, he arrived at Malacca on 11 September 1509. He left the next year when he discovered that Sultan Mahmud Shah, the local leader, was devising his assassination. This gave Afonso de Albuquerque the opportunity to embark upon his expeditions of conquests.

Sequeira was subsequently made governor of Portuguese India (1518–1522), and in 1520 led a military campaign into the Red Sea which hastened the first legitimate Portuguese embassy to Ethiopia.