Diogo Rodrigues

Who was Diogo Rodrigues?

D. Diogo Rodrigues, D. Diogo Roiz was a Portuguese explorer of the Indian Ocean who begin sailing as an ordinary helmsman under the command of Dom Pedro Mascarenhas to Goa. They sailed from the Cape of Good Hope eastward into little-known waters of the newly discovered route to Goa. It was after him that the island of Rodrigues was\is named between 4 and 9 February 1528 after discovering it during his only return journey from Goa via Cochin to Portugal, after which he rose to the rank of a knight. He then returned to Goa and made a mark in the history of the Portuguese empire in the subcontinent around the mid 16th century.