Pedro Ordóñez de Ceballos

Pedro Ordóñez de Ceballos (Jaén, Spain, 1556 – 1636) was a Spanish adventurer, soldier and eventually priest and writer, best known for his travel around the world between 1589 and 1593. He started and ended his travel in Quito, Viceroyalty of Perú, and crossed successively the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans and South America mainland from Buenos Aires to Quito.

Main event in the travel was his stay in Cochinchina that lasted for several months in late 1591 and put him in close relation with king Lê Thế Tông and his sister, whom he converted to catholicism. He was then, in February 1592, hold prisoner by the Portuguese adventurer Diogo Veloso and had to pay him a ransom for his release.

He had been ordered priest in Bogotá around 1588, and published the story of his travels in 1614 under the title of Viaje del Mundo (World Travel).

See also

References
    • (in Spanish) Pedro Ordóñez de Ceballos, Viaje del mundo, Madrid, 1993. ISBN 97-88478131068
    • (in Spanish) El «Viaje del mundo» (1614) de Pedro Ordóñez de Ceballos o cómo modelar una autobiografía épica
    • (in Spanish) Pedro Ordóñez de Ceballos: un viajero español por la India del siglo XVI
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