This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2009)

This article may require copy-editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone or spelling. You can assist by editing it. (December 2009)

Diogo de Azambuja (1432-1518) was a Portuguese Noble.

Make rider of Avis's Order and it enters to the service of a prince Dom Pedro, son of the regent with the same name, like wardrobe of his house. In the sequence of the battle of Alfarrobeira, accompany his man in the exile, but in 1458 it is already beside D. Afonso V in the conquest of Alcácer-Ceguer in Morocco. Receive several honours and he becomes a counselor of the king. It conquers the town of Alegrete to the Castilians, whom it had been kept busy during the war of succession of the Castilian throne, where it is injured in a leg during the struggle.

In 1481, it is nominated by D. João II captain - mor of the navy of nine caravels and two ships composed by 600 soldiers and 100 masons and carpenters, and what the necessary stone was transporting for the construction of the fortress that leaves for the gulf of Guinea with the mission to build the fortress of São Jorge da Mina. What will be the most known exploit of his long life. It chooses a bay to disembark, what it does to 19 of January of 1482, and of immediate one the works of construction begin. To the end of 20 days, already the quite directed fortress was, when his construction is ended little then.

When the fortress finished, when the friendly contacts were established with the populations native and when the commercial exchanges were operated, Diogo de Azambuja considered when the task ended, because the navy told to return to Lisbon with the piece of news of the complete success of the mission, being own he like captain of the fortress with 60 soldiers. Having the office up to 1484, it dates in what the Lisbon returns.

But they did not finish here his acts as man of arms. Rewarded by the king with the alcaide's post of Monsaraz, for besides other rewards as the nomination for the Real Advice, Diogo de Azambuja supported himself however when Cut was tied á and to the service of a king, though his age and the physical deficiency in the leg were already advising his retreat. And it is already with more than seventy years which accepted one a mission that the king D. Manuel I puts it in charge, in 1506: to build a fortress in Essaouira in the region of Safi, in the south of Morocco, of form to there allow the Portuguese fixation. Diogo of Azambuja not only carried out such a mission with result, since it took the city itself of Safi, remaining like captain of the city up to 1509, with the age of around 77 years. In this date he returned to Portugal, coming to die in 1518.