List of governors-general of Brazil

This is a list of governors-general of colonial Brazil (Portuguese: governadores-gerais). The office was created by D. João III in 1549. From 1640 onward, some governors-general held the title of viceroy (Portuguese: vice-rei). The office was the same, only the title was different in order to correspond to the dignity of the individual appointed to the office. From 1720, however, until the arrival of D. João VI, king of Portugal, in Rio de Janeiro, in 1808, all governors-general were viceroys.

List

	Name	Title	Time in office (approx.)	Ref.
1	Tomé de Sousa	governor	7 July 1549 — 1 May 1553	^[1]
2	Duarte da Costa	governor	1 May 1553 — 3 January 1558	^{[citation needed]}
3	Mem de Sá	governor	3 January 1558 — 2 March 1572	^[1]^[2]^[3]
1572 - Division of Brazil into two governor-generalship, one in Bahia (north) and the other in Rio de Janeiro (south)
4	Luís de Brito e Almeida	governor (in Bahia)	10 December 1572 — 12 April 1578	^[4]^[5]
1578 - Reunification of the governor-generalship in Bahia
5	Lourenço da Veiga	governor-general	12 April 1578 — 17 June 1581	^[6]^[7]^[8] ^[9]^[10]
6	Manuel Teles Barreto	governor-general	11 May 1582 — 9 May 1587	^[6]^[11] ^[12]^[13]
7	Francisco de Sousa	governor-general	1592 — 1 April 1602	^[14]
8	Diogo Botelho	governor-general	1 April 1602 — 1607	^[4]^[15]^[16]
1608 - Division of Brazil into two governor-generalship, one in Bahia (north) and the other in Rio de Janeiro (south)
9	Diogo de Meneses	governor-general (in Bahia)	1608 — 22 August 1612	^[17]^[18]
1612 - Reunification of the governor-generalship in Bahia
10	Gaspar de Sousa	governor-general	1613 — 1 January 1617	^[6]^[19] ^[20]^[21]
11	Luís de Sousa Count of Prado	governor-general	1 January 1617 — 12 October 1621
1621 - State of Maranhão becomes autonomous (1621)
12	Diogo de Mendonça Furtado	governor-general	12 October 1621 — 26 July 1624
13	Francisco de Moura Rolim	governor-general	1625 - 1627
14	Diogo Luís de Oliveira	governor-general	1627 — 11 December 1635
15	Pedro da Silva Count of São Lourenço	governor-general	11 December 1635 — 23 January 1639	^[22]
16	Fernando de Mascarenhas Count of Torre	governor-general	23 January 1639 — 1640
17	Jorge de Mascarenhas Marquis of Montalvão	1# viceroy	26 May 1640 — 16 April 1641
18	Antônio Teles da Silva	governor-general	1642 — 26 December 1647
19	António Teles de Meneses Count of Vila Pouca de Aguiar	governor-general	26 December 1647 — 10 March 1650
20	João Rodrigues de Vasconcelos e Sousa, 2nd Count of Castelo Melhor Count of Castelo Melhor	governor-general	10 March 1650 — 14 December 1654
21	Jerónimo de Ataíde Count of Atouguia	governor-general	14 December 1654 — 20 June 1657
22	Francisco Barreto de Meneses	governor-general	20 June 1657 — 21 July 1663
23	Vasco de Mascarenhas Count of Óbidos	2# viceroy	21 July 1663 — 13 June 1667
24	Alexandre de Sousa Freire	governor-general	13 July 1667 — 8 May 1671
25	Afonso Furtado de Castro de Mendonça Viscount of Barbacena	governor-general	8 May 1671 — 26 November 1675
26	Roque da Costa Barreto	governor-general	5 March 1678 — 23 May 1682
27	Antônio de Sousa Meneses	governor-general	23 May 1682 — 4 June 1684
28	António Luís de Sousa Telo de Meneses Marquis of Minas	governor-general	4 June 1684 — 4 June 1687
29	Matias da Cunha	governor-general	4 June 1687 — 24 October 1688
30	Antônio Luís Gonçalves da Câmara Coutinho	governor-general	8 October 1690 — 22 May 1694
31	João de Lencastre	governor-general	22 May 1694 — 3 July 1702
32	Rodrigo da Costa	governor-general	3 July 1702 — 8 September 1705
33	Luís César de Meneses	governor-general	8 September 1705 — 3 May 1710
34	Lourenço de Almada Count of Avranches	governor-general	3 May 1710 — 14 October 1711
35	Pedro de Vasconcelos e Sousa	governor-general	14 October 1711 — 14 October 1714
36	Pedro António de Meneses Noronha de Albuquerque Marquis of Angeja	3# viceroy	14 October 1714 — 11 June 1718
37	Sancho de Faro e Sousa Count of Vimieiro	governor-general	21 August 1718 — 13 October 1719
38	Vasco Fernandes César de Meneses Count of Sabugosa	4# viceroy	23 November 1720 — 11 May 1735
39	André de Melo e Castro Count of Galveias	5# viceroy	11 May 1735 — 17 December 1749
40	Luís Pedro Peregrino de Carvalho e Ataíde Count of Atouguia	6# viceroy	17 December 1749 — 17 August 1754
41	Marcos José de Noronha e Brito Count of Arcos	7# viceroy	23 December 1755 — 9 January 1760
42	António de Almeida Soares Portugal Marquis of Lavradio	8# viceroy	9 January 1760 — 4 July 1760
43	Antônio Álvares da Cunha Count of Cunha	9# viceroy	27 June 1763 — 31 August 1767
44	Antônio Rolim de Moura Tavares Count of Azambuja	10# viceroy	17 November 1767 — 4 November 1769	^[23]^[24]
45	Luís de Almeida Portugal Soares Mascarenhas Marquis of Lavradio and Count of Avintes	11# viceroy	4 November 1769 — 30 April 1778	^[25]
1775 - Reunification of the State of Brazil
46	Luís de Vasconcelos e Sousa Count of Figueiró	12# viceroy	30 April 1778 — 9 May 1790	^[26]^[27]^[28]
47	José Luís de Castro Count of Resende	13# viceroy	4 June 1790 — 14 October 1801	^[29]
48	Fernando José de Portugal e Castro Marquis of Aguiar	14# viceroy	14 October 1801 — 14 October 1806
49	Marcos de Noronha e Brito Count of Arcos	15# viceroy	14 October 1806 — 22 January 1808

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