Francisco Mascarenhas (Governor of Macau)
Francisco Mascarenhas | |||||||
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| Governor of Macau | |||||||
| In office 1623–1626 | |||||||
| Monarch | Filipe III | ||||||
| Succeeded by | Filipe Lobo | ||||||
| Personal details | |||||||
| Born | Portugal | ||||||
| Spouse | Margarida de Vilhena | ||||||
| Parent(s) | Nuno Mascarenhas and Isabel de Castro | ||||||
| Residence | Fortaleza do Monte (1624–26) | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 馬士加路也 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 马士加路也 | ||||||
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Francisco Mascarenhas was a Portuguese fidalgo who served as the first Captain-General and Governor of Macau from 1623 to 1626. Before Mascarenhas, the Portuguese settlement of Macau on the coast of China was under the authority of the Captain-major of the Japan Voyage and the Macau Senate, the latter of which resisted the powers invested in the new governor. The conflict between Mascarenhas and the entrenched powers of Macau was such that the city erupted in rebellion against him on 10 October 1624, though this uprising proved to be short-lived.