Person merchant guide to corsairs
Gaspar Caldeira
d. 1566
merchant · guide to corsairs
Portuguese Mina trader who fled to France and instigated and guided the French corsairs in the sack of Funchal in October 1566. He was later executed in Lisbon.
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- Sack of Funchal by the French — Portuguese Mina trader who fled to France and instigated the 1566 attack; later executed in Lisbon.
2Chronology
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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.
