In April 1521, Ferdinand Magellan accompanied Duarte de Menezes from Lisbon to India as the next governor of Portuguese India, a colonial state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after discovering a sea route to the Indian Subcontinent by the Kingdom of Portugal.
He was accompanied by his brother D. Luis de Menezes, who captained one of the ships. Duarte de Menezes left Lisbon in April, 1521, with an armada of 11 carracks destined for India. In 1521, D. Duarte de Menezes was named by King Manuel I of Portugal as the next governor of Portuguese India, succeeding Diogo Lopes de Sequeira. The State of India (Portuguese: Estado da India), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (Estado Portugues da India, EPI) or simply Portuguese India (India Portuguesa), was a colonial state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of a sea route to the Indian Subcontinent by the Kingdom of Portugal. 
