Manuel Rodrigues de Lamego (born circa 1590) was a Portuguese-born merchant and slave trader active in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas.
João Rodrigues de Lamego, one brother, was married to a sister of Juan Nunez Saravia (1585—1639), a fellow Marrano and the official banker to Philip IV of Spain in Madrid.
[3][4] In addition to this, another brother, António Rodrigues de Lamego (died 1653), worked as an agent for Nunez Saravia in Rouen.
[3] Manuel Rodrigues de Lamego himself was engaged in trade with Portuguese India through the Brandão and Silveira family consortiums.
[6] The sitting king of Spain, Philip IV, was favourable to the converso merchants, granting all Portuguese-born the right to trade anywhere in the Spanish Empire since 1627.
[6] This earned him the ire of the less well off Old Christian families in Seville, who struggled to compete and lobbied the Spanish Inquisition in the contest: Manuel's brother António was subject to an auto-da-fé for "Judaising".