Pedro Teixeira Albernaz

Place: Lisbon

Born: 1595

Death: 1662

Biography:

Pedro Teixeira Albernaz, also known as Pedro Teixeira, was a Portuguese cartographer born in 1595 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was part of a family of cartographers including his father Luís Teixeira, uncle Domingos Teixeira, and his brother João Teixeira Albernaz I. Around 1610, Pedro went to work in Spain and served as the royal cosmographer to Philip III of Spain (1598 -1621) and Philip IV (1621-1665). He worked on mapping the coasts of the Iberian Peninsula in the years 1622 to 1630, transitioning from nautical charts to topographical survey charts. Pedro was appointed with his brother to make a map of Straits of Magellan and St. Vincent. He died in 1662 in Madrid.