Pedro de Ataíde Inferno | |
Office: | 8th Captain-major of Portuguese Ceylon |
Term Start: | 1564 |
Term End: | 1565 |
Predecessor: | Baltasar Guedes de Sousa |
Successor: | Diogo de Melo |
Birthname: | Pedro de Ataíde |
Pedro de Ataíde "Inferno" was the 8th Captain-major of Portuguese Ceylon. Ataíde Inferno was appointed in 1564 under Sebastian of Portugal, he was Captain-major until 1565.
He was succeeded by Diogo de Melo.[1]
In a study on Portuguese India published in 1857 by the Portuguese author Francisco Maria Bordalo, he stated that “Pedro de Athaide Inferno” was one of the “Portuguese heroes who died there at the hands of the Moors... or victims of the sea and trials of all kinds”.[2]