Possible grave marker for Diego Belloso

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Information about the creation of the object depicted in the image: 1598

This may be the grave marker for Diego Belloso, a Spanish explorer who came to Cambodia at the end of the sixteenth century. The last five years of the sixteenth century are well documented in European sources, as this was a period of Spanish imperialism in Cambodia. Belloso was a notorious adventurer who, along with compatriot Blas Ruiz, was given bureaucratic titles, territory, and wives by the Khmer king. Belloso and Ruiz terrorized locals and manipulated court officials in Cambodia and the Philippines, in an attempt to strengthen Spanish rule over the Khmer court.

Source for information about the object depicted in the image: Chandler, David. A History of Cambodia. 2nd edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992.

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