List of Governors of Portuguese Ceylon

The following is a list of Portuguese governors of Portuguese Ceylon. The Portuguese arrived in the Kingdom of Kotte in 1505. By 1594 they had appointed a governor to control the Portuguese occupied territory called Portuguese Ceylon on the island of modern day Sri Lanka. In that time, there were numerous governors until 1658. The post of governor was preceded by that of the Captain-major in 1551 and before that by Captain in 1518.

List of Governors

Portrait	Name	Birth	Death	Governor From	Governor Until	Sovereign
	Pedro Lopes de Sousa	-	-	1594	1594	Filipe I
80px	Jerónimo de Azevedo	1540	1625	1594	1613	Filipe I Filipe II
	Francisco de Meneses	-	-	1613	1614	Filipe II
	Manuel Mascarenhas Homem	-	-	1614	1616	Filipe II
	Nuno Álvares Pereira	-	-	1616	1618	Filipe II
	Constantino de Sá de Noronha (1st time)	-	-	1618	1622	Filipe II Filipe III
	Jorge de Albuquerque	-	-	1622	1623	Filipe III
	Constantino de Sá de Noronha (2nd time)	-	-	1623	1630	Filipe III
	Filipe Mascarenhas (1st time)	1580	16..	1630	1631	Filipe III
	Jorge de Almeida (1st time)	-	-	1631	1633	Filipe III
	Diogo de Melo de Castro (1st time)	-	-	1633	1635	Filipe III
	Jorge de Almeida (2nd time)	-	-	1635	1636	Filipe III
	Diogo de Melo de Castro (2nd time)	-	-	1636	1638	Filipe III
	António Mascarenhas	-	-	1638	1640	Filipe III
	Filipe Mascarenhas (2nd time)	1580	16..	1640	1645	Filipe III John IV
	Manuel Mascarenhas Homem	1600	1657	1645	1653	John IV
	Francisco de Mello e Castro	1600	1664	1653	1655	John IV
	António de Sousa Coutinho	-	1668	1655	1656	John IV
	António de Amaral de Meneses (in Jaffna)	-	-	1656	22 June 1658	John IV Afonso VI

See also

• List of monarchs of Sri Lanka
• List of Captains of Portuguese Ceylon
• List of Captain-majors of Portuguese Ceylon
• History of Sri Lanka

References

• List of Heads of State of Sri Lanka