Kammala wannan magana: A lokacin mafi yawan rayuwarsa, Duarte Coelho ya ji dadin 'yancin hannu wajen bunkasa kyaftin dinsa. A cikin lokacin bayan mutuwarsa har zuwa farkon ƙarni na sha bakwai, Pernambuco ya ci gaba da haɓaka a kan hanyar da "donatário" na farko ya kafa tare da samun nasara tare da samun nasara kuma tare da ɗan ƙaramin jagoranci daga magada Duarte Coelho da kuma ɗan tsoma baki a cikin kyaftin din daga gwamnonin janar a Bahia. Dalilai da yawa sun kasance: Na farko, duk da niyyar kambi don rage gatan da aka bai wa donataries a baya da haɓaka gwamnatin masarauta a Bahia, ba a cika niyyar kambi a Pernambuco ba. Sarautar Portugal ta fara fuskantar mutuwar João III a shekara ta 1557. A lokacin, jikansa kuma magaji, Sebastian, yana ɗan shekara uku. A shekara ta 1578, Sebastian ya jagoranci wani mummunan mamayewa na Morocco. An ci shi da yaƙi a
Yaƙin Alcácer Quibir. Kawunsa, Cardinal Enrique ya yi sarauta na shekara biyu kuma ya mutu ba tare da magaji ba. (A shekara ta 1580, Philip II na Spain ya ɗauki kambi a matsayin Philip I na Portugal.)