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'''Lopo Soares de Albergaria''' (c. 1460 in [[Lisbon]] – c. 1520 in [[Torres Vedras]]) was the third [[List of colonial heads of Portuguese India|Governor]] of [[Portuguese India]], having reached India in 1515 to supersede governor [[Afonso de Albuquerque]].

==Career==
Lopo Soares de Albergaria (sometimes called Lopo Soares de Alvarenga, or simply Lopo Soares) was a middling noble, well-connected to the powerful [[Count of Abrantes|Almeida family]]. Lopo Soares had served a successful term (1495–99) as captain-general of [[Elmina|São Jorge da Mina]] in the [[Portuguese Gold Coast]] (West Africa).

In 1504, Lopo Soares commanded the [[6th Portuguese India Armada (Albergaria, 1504)|6th Portuguese India Armada]]. Regarded as one of the more successful early India armadas, Lopo Soares brought the fleet back in 1505 nearly intact, with one of the best cargos yet received by King [[Manuel I of Portugal]]. This placed him in a good position for future preferment and appointments.

In March 1515 Lopo Soares de Albergaria was chosen by king [[Manuel I of Portugal]] to supersede governor [[Afonso de Albuquerque]], and departed from Lisbon to India on 7 April. The seventeen ship fleet transported also an embassy to the [[Emperor of Ethiopia]] with Portuguese ambassador [[Duarte Galvão]], Ethiopian ambassador [[Mateus (Ethiopia)|Mateus (also known as Matthew the Armenian)]] and father [[Francisco Álvares]]. In August, having learned through contacts in Venice that the Mamluk Sultan of Cairo had prepared a fleet at Suez to fight the Portuguese, king Manuel repented to have replaced Albuquerque, and immediately wrote to Albergaria to return the command of all operations to Albuquerque, and provide him with resources to fight. However, when the letter arrived, Albuquerque had already died.<ref>Albuquerque, Brás de (1774). [https://books.google.com/books?id=R2YWhpecZEQC&lpg=PA200&dq=king%20manuel%20repent%20Albuquerque&pg=PA200#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Commentarios do grande Afonso Dalboquerque, parte IV"], p.200-206</ref>

[[File:Portuguese attack on Jiddah 1517.jpg|thumb|left|The Ottoman admiral [[Selman Reis]] defended [[Jeddah]] against the Portuguese attack in 1517.]]
As governor in India Albergaria made a naval expedition into the [[Red Sea]] in 1517 taking on board the embassy to emperor [[Dawit II of Ethiopia]], including Mateus, Duarte Galvão and Francisco Álvares, with the intent of landing them on the coast. First Albergaria reached [[Aden]], which offered to surrender but he felt he could not spare the men to garrison the port.<ref>E. Denison Ross, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/715368 "Early Travellers in Abyssinia: Part I", ''Journal of the Royal African Society'', 21 (1922), p.276]</ref> Albergaria failed to [[Siege of Jeddah (1517)|capture Jeddah in 1517]] and The attempt to land the embassy by reaching the port of [[Massawa]] failed as well, with Albergaria getting no closer than the [[Dahlak Archipelago]], and was aborted after the death of old Duarte Galvão at [[Kamaran]]. Álvares and Mateus were forced to wait until Albergaria's replacement, [[Diogo Lopes de Sequeira]], successfully sent the embassy under D. [[Rodrigo de Lima]] in 1520.

In 1518 Lopo Soares de Albergaria captured [[Portuguese Ceylon|Ceylon]] for his king, having landed at [[Colombo]] with a large fleet. Here he ordered the construction of a small fort named "Nossa Senhora das Virtudes" or "Santa Bárbara".

== See also ==
* [[Portuguese India Armadas]]

== References ==
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