Estácio de Sá e a fundação do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

O artigo aborda a presença de Estácio de Sá no Rio de Janeiro, bem como a sua fundação e a expulsão dos franceses, que chegaram aqui sob o comando de Villegagnon, em 1555, formando a França Antártica. Discute a participação da armada de Estácio de Sá na guerra contra os tamoios e tupiniquins em São Vicente, a fim de conseguir recursos humanos e mantimentos para retornar à luta na Guanabara. Por fim, questiona se Estácio de Sá teria sido governador ou somente capitão da cidade de São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro.

Archaeologies of gender, kinship, and mobility in Southeast Brazil: genealogies of Tupiniquim women and the itinerancy of ceramic practices

“…Over two years (Salvador, 2010: 202), Jorge Ferreira, followed by extended family and allies, settled in a fortified camp between the hills Cara de Cão (Dog Face) and Pão de Açúcar (Sugar Loaf), from where they would depart to attack Tamoio communities. There were several other Tupiniquim and Portuguese from São Vicente with similar relations to Ferreira and Joana Ramalho (e.g., Belchior, 1965; Franco, 1954).…”

“…The analysis may be deployed to quantify or estimate the size and type of the network of relationships, and to show how much one character may reveal about the history of many other people who are otherwise invisible in the written sources. Traditional historiography represents Ferreira as the prototype of patriarchalism, a young noble warrior married to a “ mameluca ” (offspring of an Indigenous person with a Portuguese) who owned a land grant near São Vicente, one of the Tupiniquim leaders in defense against the Tamoio and the wars of Rio de Janeiro (Franco, 1954; Belchior, 1965: 208–210). When declaring his services to the king in 1573, Ferreira shows what it would mean for a European “to be” among the Tupiniquim demographically.…”

“…The possession occupied the entire Jacarepaguá Lowlands, between Barra da Tijuca and Grumari Hill on the coast, and inland, it reached the center of the arc dividing the waters of the Tijuca and Pedra Branca massifs (Sesmaria, 1967: 38; Rudge, 1983: 11–12). However, it had already belonged to the brothers Sá, the “largest landowners of Rio de Janeiro” (Belchior, 1965: 413). It is also worth remembering that in 1590, there were about 280 Europeans in the Portuguese community in which the Sá lived (Carrara, 2014: 7), most of whom were men married to Indigenous women.…”