the 1570s However, aside from the threat of the French and Potiguar alliance, what may have been most important was that these expeditions were outfitted and supplied through merchants in Pernambuco. In the early Seventeenth Century, the extended visits (sometimes more residences) of the Governors-general can be understood in terms of the expansion of Portuguese colonization of Brazil. Between 1602 and 1619 four governors-general spent eight years in Pernambuco instead of their capital Bahia, nominally inspecting the captaincy and directing such expeditions to the Northern coast, and, at the same time, involved in the commerce of outfitting and supplying these Northward expeditions. There is little doubt that the youth of the fourth donatário, Duarte de Albuquerque Coelho, absent Pernambuco and who had inherited in 1602 at the age of ten was a factor in the presence of the governors-general and the ability of the governors-general and members of his entourage to profit in Pernambuco. It would be 1620 before the Fourth donatário would be allowed to send his brother, Matias de Albuquerque as his representative to exert direct familial control over his captaincy. There were several disagreements between the Governor-general Dom Luis de Sousa, Conde do Prado and his appointees, and Matias de Albuquerque. That Matias was successful in recovering a substantial part of the privileges due to his brother can be seen in his refusal to allow the departing Governor-general Dom Luis de Sousa to debark when his Lisbon bound ship called at Recife when the governor-general was leaving Brazil. That this affront to a member of the titled nobility resulted in no significant retribution is evidenced by the fact that when the next governor-general, Diogo de Mendonça Furtado, was captured by the Dutch in Bahia, Matias de Albuquerque was appointed as successor and governor-general of Brazil. Dutch Brazil When Portugal came under the Spanish Hapsburgs kings, the Dutch had been in revolt against the Spanish crown for twelve years. The Dutch targeted Brazil first with limited success at Bahia in 1624, and subsequently in Pernambuco and the Northern coast of Brazil starting in 1630. They would finally be expelled in 1654. Invasion The Dutch West India Company had gathered considerable intelligence on the defenses of Pernambuco both by the capture of ships at sea and during their previous occupation of Bahia in 1624. As a result, the fleet commander Hendrick Corneliszoon Loncq and the land forces colonel Jonckheer