Article Nº 0686 Other person Vol. I · pp. 365–366
Caldeira (Gaspar)
Gaspar Caldeira guided the French corsairs in the sack of Funchal in October 1566.
This name became sadly notorious as that of the man who guided the French corsairs in the terrible sack they inflicted on the city of Funchal in October 1566. See what we say about him in the article Saque dos franceses.
People mentioned
- Gaspar Caldeira d. 1566
Places mentioned
Chronology
- French Huguenot corsairs under Montluc, guided by Gaspar Caldeira, landed at Praia Formosa and sacked Funchal, storming the fortress of São Lourenço, profaning the cathedral and the Santa Clara convent, whose nuns fled to the Curral; Gaspar de Braga died resisting them. The attack, during the captaincy of Francisco Gonçalves da Câmara, prompted new coastal fortifications.