Damião de Góis

Damiao de Gois, Latinized: Damian de Goes, ( born February 2, 1502 Triana / Alenquer, Portugal, † January 30, 1574 in Alcobaça ) was a Portuguese diplomat and historian.

Biography

The ancestor of Damiao and thus also of the family of the Counts Goëss was Dom AMIA since Estrada da Barca received from Santo Vincente in Asturias, who came with Count Henry of Burgundy to Portugal for work and valiant service in 1109, the rule Gois, as ricohombre fief.

Gois was in his ninth year at the court of King Dom Manoel, studied in Padua, in 1523 the Portuguese charge d'affaires in Flanders, later at the court of King Sigismund of Poland in Vilnius, then in Denmark and Sweden.

After visiting Italy, he lived in Leuven, where he in 1538 with Johanna (* 1515), daughter of André van Hargen, seigneur de Estorique and Mathilde van der Duyn married. When taking the city by the French in 1542 he was captured and released only against a large ransom.

In 1546 he was the King John III. appointed as historian and archivist to Lisbon, but thrown into prison later because of heretical tendencies of the Inquisition, and interned in the Batalha monastery. Two years after he was released from prison, he died under mysterious circumstances on January 30, 1574 in Alcobaça.

Works

  • Deploratio lappianae gentis. Geneva 1520
  • Legatio Magni Indorum Imperatoris Presbyteri Ioannis. Antwerp 1532
  • Commentarii rerum gestarum in India. lion in 1539
  • Fides, religio moresque aethiopum. lion in 1540
  • Damiani a Goes eqvitis Lvsitani aliqvot opvscvla. lion in 1544
  • Urbis Olisiponis descriptio. Évora 1554
  • Cronica de Dom Manoel. Lisbon 1566
  • 1532-1538 trabalhos de tradução e comentário leitura diplomatica versão portuguesa e por Miguel Pinto de Meneses; Edição, intr e notas de Manuel de Matos Cadafaz. Obras de Damiao de Gois; 1 Lisboa: Tavola Redonda, 2002.
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