Philippe de Brito

Philip de Brito E Nicote (death in September 1613) was an adventurer and Mercenaire Portuguese with the service of the Burmeses.

Born with Lisbon French parents, Philippe de Brito travelled initially to Southeast Asia like cabin boy, before putting himself at the service of the King of Arakan. He plundered Pégou in 1599 and was named governor of Syriam (today Thanlyin) in Low-Burma in 1600. He went the following year to Goa to obtain the recognition of his title, and returned to Burma in 1602, named " Commander de Syriam" and " General of the conquests of Pégou" by the Portuguese court.

Controlling Syriam independently of Arakanais, Brito plundered Rangoon in 1608 then was combined with the governor Siam ois of Pégou to launch a raid on Taungû in 1612. The city had been taken again two years before by the Dynastie Taungû, then in full rebirth in High-Burma: when Brito was scrambled with the Siamese ones, the king Anaukpeitlun (1605-1628) besieged Syriam. With the fall of the city in September 1613, Brito was captured and crucifié by the Burmeses.

References

  • Danvers, Frederick Charles, The Portuguese in India . London, 1966.
  • Harvey, G.E., has History Burma off. n.p., 1967.

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