Francisco de Meneses was the 3rd Governor of Portuguese Ceylon. de Meneses was appointed in 1613 under Philip II of Portugal, he was Governor until 1614.
Meneses was born in Santiago, the son of José Ignacio Meneses and of Micaela Echanes. He studied humanities, philosophy and law (both civil and canonic) at the Convictorio de San Carlos, and later graduated from the Universidad de San Felipe…
He was born during the Iberian Union and his Portuguese father was a military officer at Peru. A brave soldier, he was chosen to command the colonial troops in the uprising that took place in Pernambuco which drove out the Dutch from the…
Francisco Vieira Meneses passed away Thursday April 2nd at Lowell General Hospital’s main campus, with his son, Joe by his side, following a brief illness.
Francisco de Aguirre de Meneses (* 1507 in Talavera de la Reina, Spanien; † 1581 in La Serena, Chile) war ein spanischer Konquistador, der an den Eroberungszügen gegen Chile, Peru, Argentinien und Bolivien teilnahm.