Background
Tristão da Cunha was born about 1460.
Tristão da Cunha was born about 1460.
After taking Socotra off Arabia, in the hope of establishing control over the Red Sea, he went on to India, while Afonso de Albuquerque, under secret royal orders, detached part of the fleet.
On his return to Portugal, Tristão da Cunha carried out a diplomatic mission at the papal court.
In 1514 he headed a mission which rendered homage to Pope Leo X for lands which Portugal held as a papal fief.
