Bento de Góis (1562 – 11 April 1607), was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary and explorer. His name is commonly given in English as Bento de Goes or Bento...

Gois, De Góis or Degois can refer to: Bento de Góis (1562-1607), Portuguese traveller, probably the first European to travel overland from India to China...

China–Cathay controversy, the India Jesuits sent a Portuguese lay brother, Bento de Góis, on an overland expedition north and east, with the goal of reaching...

Ragamuffin War Bento de Góis, Portuguese Jesuit Bento Teixeira, Portuguese-Brazilian poet Bento Carneiro, a Chico Anysio character António Bento Bembe, Cabinda/Angolan...

via the Great Wall came in 1605, when the Portuguese Jesuit brother Bento de Góis reached the northwestern Jiayu Pass from India. Early European accounts...

of the book was among his belongings, with handwritten annotations. Bento de Góis, inspired by Polo's writings of a Christian kingdom in the east, travelled...

mouth of the Pearl River, just south of Canton. 1602: In September, Bento de Góis left Goa with a small group in search of the legendary Grand Cathay...

Teresa da Gama, who married Lopo Mendes de Vasconcelos. Little is known of da Gama's early life. Teixeira de Aragão suggests that he studied at the inland...

de Magalhães, was a minor member of Portuguese nobility and mayor of the town. His mother was Alda de Mezquita. Magellan's siblings included Diogo de...

Benedict Goëz (1562–1697), Portuguese Jesuit missionary and explorer (Bento de Góis) Benedict Gregorios (1916–1994), Metropolitan Archbishop of the Malankara...