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'''Dom Garcia de Noronha''' (1479 in [[Lisbon]] – 3 April 1540 in [[Cochin]]) was a [[Portugal|Portuguese]] [[nobleman]]. He was great-great-grandson of King [[Ferdinand I of Portugal]], was the third [[Governor-General of India|viceroy]] and tenth governor of [[Portuguese India]].<ref>[http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMDXT6_Garcia_de_Noronha_Lisboa_Portugal Garcia de Noronha - Lisboa, Portugal], waymarking.com, recovered 21 March 2014</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MwOV-eenKy0C&pg=PA487&lpg=PA487&dq=who+was+garcia+de+noronha&source=bl&ots=cfAfuLCu98&sig=d2umeJO3EKBl-upbeRSxLbzRwfM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BjIsU43dFMis7Qa96oCwCw&ved=0CF4Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=who%20was%20garcia%20de%20noronha&f=false List of Viceroys and Governors of Portuguese India], recovered 21 March 2014</ref>

[[File:D. Garcia de Noronha, 3º vice-rei da Índia.jpg|thumb|right|D. Garcia de Noronha, 3rd Viceroy of India]]

As far as his life is reconstructed, Garcia de Noronha comes from noble proportions, his father Dom Fernando de Noronha, was member of the [[Crown Council of Portugal]], as [[Mayor of the Palace]]. As a young nobleman he frequented regularly the [[Kingdom of Portugal|royal court]]. After the death of his father, he became gentleman of the Board of [[Manuel I of Portugal|Manuel I]] and [[John III of Portugal|João III]], captain-general of [[Cartaxo]], young nobleman and [[knight]] of the royal house. He served in North Africa and went to [[India]] for the first time in 1511 as chief captain of a fleet of six ships. On that voyage, he is reported to have sighted the island of [[Saint Helena]], that his pilots entered onto their charts.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Portuguese in India and other studies, 1500-1700 (XVII - The Portuguese and Saint Helena)|last=Disney|first=A. R.|publisher=Routledge|year=2016|isbn=978-1-138-49378-0|pages=217-219}}</ref> This last source claimed that this event was decisive in leading to the utilisation of the island as a regular stopover for rest and replenishment for ships en route from India to Europe. However, this seems doubtful because when [[Estêvão da Gama (c. 1470)|Estêvão da Gama]] arrived at St Helena expedition in 1503 his clerk [[Thomé Lopes]])<ref name="Search">A. H. Schulenburg, 'The discovery of St Helena: the search continues'. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, Issue 24 (Spring 2002), pp. 13–19.</ref><ref name="Duarte">Duarte Leite, História dos Descobrimentos, Vol. II (Lisbon: Edições Cosmos, 1960), 206.</ref><ref name="Venice1507">de Montalbodo, Paesi Nuovamente Retovati & Nuovo Mondo da Alberico Vesputio Fiorentino Intitulato (Venice: 1507)</ref> identified St Helena's geographic position with reasonable accuracy when he quoted its distance and direction with respect to locations such as Ascension, Cape Verde, São Tomé and the Cape of Good Hope. The island's location with respect to Ascension and the Cape of Good Hope was likewise known following the 1505 Portuguese expedition led by [[Francisco de Almeida]].<ref>''The Voyage from Lisbon to India'', 1505–06, being an account and journal by Albericus Vespuccius, translated from the contemporary Flemish [by George Frederick Barwick and Janet M. E. Barwick], and edited with prologue and notes by C. H. Coote. [With the text of the original entitled "Die reyse va Lissebone" in facsimile.], Published by B. F. Stevens in 1894.</ref>

He was married to Inês de Castro (a sister of D. [[João de Castro]] who was later to become the fourth viceroy of Portuguese India); with her he had four children. Moreover, he was a nephew of [[Afonso de Albuquerque]].

He was a successor to the governor-general [[Nuno da Cunha]], nominated by a royal decree of 18 March 1538 as [[Viceroy]] of [[Portuguese India|Estado da Índia]] by King João III. On 6 April 1538 he landed in India. During his reign he promoted the settlement of [[missionaries]] on [[Celebes Islands]] and [[Macassar, Western Cape|Macassar]]. He issued a temporary ban on the construction of mainly [[Hindu]] and [[Buddhist]] [[temple]]s within Portuguese India.

Dom Garcia died before the end of his mandate as viceroy on April 3, 1540, in [[Cochin]] and is buried in the chancel of the [[Se Cathedral|Cathedral of Goa]].

In [[Cascais]] ([[São Domingos de Rana]]) a street is named after him.

==See also==
* [[List of governors of Portuguese India]]

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