Henry Sinclair

History

Henry I^er Sinclair, count d' Orkney, baron de Rosslyn and lord of the Shetland, lived between 1345 and 1400. He was a noble Scot, also known under the name of prince Zichmni. This name appears in a book, written by certain Nicolo Zeno of Venice, going down from famous the Frères Zeno, was Publié in 1558, under the title " Discovered islands of Frislanda, Manda, etc " This account, allegedly based on letters and a chart written towards the end of XIVesiècle by the ancestors of the author, the Nicolo brothers and Antonio Zeno, with their brother Carlo Zeno. This mail reports explorations towards the Greenland and the North-American coasts, undertaken by the Zeno brothers under the command of the Scottish count Zichmni, alias Henry Sinclair.

As a Count of the Orkneys, Henri Sinclair as all his predecessors Count of the Orkneys were prone kings of Norway for these Scandinavian islands.

In 1389, Henry Sinclair attended the crowning of King Eric de Poméranie in Norway, and pawned its oath of fidelity.

In 1391, it eliminates from the Orkneys his/her cousin Malise Spare and control also the Faroe Islands and the Greenland for the account of Eric de Poméranie future king of the Union of Kalmar.

In 1400, Henri Sinclair dies at the time of a battle against English forces. His/her son Henry II Sinclair succeeds to him.

Henry Sinclair and Zichmni

The naturalist germano-Scottish Johann Reinhold Forster, specialist and impassioned fauna and North-American history, identified mysterious prince Zichmni like which can be the count Henry Sinclair, described in the allegedly written letters the end of XIVesiècle by the Zeno brothers of Venice. This mail tells the description of the voyages accomplished in all the North Atlantic under the command of Zichmni-Sinclair. The identification of Zichmni as being able to be Henry Sinclair is a very discussed assumption.

Certain theories, speculate that Henry Sinclair, alias Zichmni, travelled not only to the Greenland but as far as America, more precisely in current Nova Scotia, where it could entered in liaison with the Indians Micmac. Perhaps it would have atteind the Massachusetts. According to these theories, its forwarding could be at the origin of the construction of the Tour of Newport.

Genealogy

The line of the Sinclair or Clear Saint, would be originating in Normandy, more exactly of Saint-Clearly-on-Epte. A famous grandfather, Guillaume de Saint Clear was companion of William the Conqueror. Because of its exploits, it accepted in heritage, the baronnie of Roslin or Rosslyn in Scotland, on which the descendants of Clear the Saint family built thereafter the vault of Rosslyn.

Henri Sinclair was the son of William Sinclair and of Isabelle de Strathearn one of the girls and heiresses of Malise V of Strathearn Count of the Orkneys it is with is titrated that it became in his turn Count of the Orkneys in 1379 when it accepted the nomination of the king Haakon VI of Norway.

Knight of the Temple

Sinclair are closely related to the Ordre of Templiers. Their name returns regularly in the history of the Templiers. Sinclair would have taken part in the side of Robert Bruce (excommunicated by the pope two years before the royal decision of Philippe Beautiful the to exterminate all Templiers), with the Scottish victory at the time of the Bataille of Bannockburn against the English.

The vault of Rosslyn would be one of the places where the treasure of the templiers would be hidden.

Certain theories advance the assumption that the voyage of Henri Sinclair in America would have allowed, according to a legend of the Amerindians Micmac, to deposit the famous treasure there.

To also see

Conquest of America
Brothers Zeno

External bonds

http://www.transpolair.com/routes_polaires/passage_nord_ouest/christophe_colomb.htm
http://sinclair.quarterman.org/sinclair/who/henry.html
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/ahamilton/sinclair.htm
http://www.biodatabase.de/Zichmni

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