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Who was Beatriz Barbosa, Ferdinand Magellanās wife?
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Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan, detail of a painting by an unknown artist; in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
Beatriz Barbosa was the wife of the explorer Ferdinand Magellan. She was the daughter of an important official in Sevilla, where she and Magellan married in 1517.1
Before Magellan departed on his expedition to find an all-Spanish route to the Spice Islands in September 1519, he said farewell to her and their infant son, Rodrigo.1