The life of Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese adventurer who made history by becoming the first European to
navigate from the Atlantic to Asia. He was the son of Rui de Magalhães and Alda de Mesquita, members
of the Portuguese nobility, and was a page to Queen Leonor. In 1505, he enlisted in the fleet of Francisco
de Almeida, first viceroy of Portuguese India, and during a naval engagement at Cannanore (now Kannur)
on the Malabar Coast of India, he was wounded. In 1507, he returned to India and took part in the Battle
of Diu, in which the Portuguese defeated a Muslim fleet and gained supremacy over most of the Indian
Ocean. At a council held at Cochin on October 10, 1510, Magellan advised against taking large ships, but
the new Portuguese governor in India, Afonso de Albuquerque, did so.

In June 1511, a fleet under Albuquerque left for Malacca, which fell after six weeks. Magellan was back in
Lisbon by mid-1513, but joined the forces sent against the Moroccan stronghold of Azamor (Azemmour).
In a skirmish that August he sustained a leg wound that caused him to limp for the rest of his life.
Refusing Magellan's request for a reward, Manuel ordered him back to Morocco.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ferdinand-Magellan/Allegiance-to-Spain

Magellan was killed in the Battle of Mactan in 1521 in the present-day Philippines, after running into
resistance from the indigenous population led by Lapulapu. Juan Sebastián Elcano took the lead of the
expedition and completed the first circumnavigation of Earth in 1522. Magellan was a skilled sailor and
naval officer in service of the Portuguese Crown, but King Manuel refused to support his plan to reach
the Maluku Islands. He left Portugal and proposed the same expedition to King Charles I of Spain, who
accepted it. He married, fathered two children, and organised the expedition.

Magellan was appointed an admiral of the Spanish fleet and given command of the Armada of Molucca,
leading the expedition from Sanlucar de Barrameda southwest across the Atlantic Ocean, to the eastern
coast of South America, and down to Patagonia. Despite storms and mutinies, the expedition reached
Guam and the Philippine islands, where Magellan was killed in the Battle of Mactan. To navigate back to
Spain, two ships split, one attempting to reach New Spain and the other sailing westwards via the Indian
Ocean and up the Atlantic coast of Africa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan#Early_life_and_travels