Jean de Béthencourt

Jean de Béthencourt , born with Grainville-la-Teinturière in 1360 and died in Grainville-la-Teinturière in 1425 was a Explorateur and Norman conqueror .

Biography

Chamberlain of Charles VI, Jean de Béthencourt, originating in Grainville-la-Teinturière, a small town of the Country of Caux of which the fullers and the tisserands make great use of the orchil, a vegetable dye originating in the islands the Canaries, decides to move away from the Guerre One hundred Year old which devastates its country. It may be that Pope Benoit XIII with Avignon, whose guard is directed by Robert de Braquemont which is a relative and guard, allotted the possession of these islands to him which did not have a Christian lord. Perhaps wanted he to also put a little space between him and his creditors.

May 1st 1402, free Jean de Béthencourt, with its associate Gadifer of the Room, La Rochelle on two ships occupied by eighty men of crew. When it slackens during several weeks with Cadiz, twenty-six from its men desert. The Norman ones unload with Lanzarote, a little populated island of the archipelago and demolish easily the 300 Guanches which lives the island. They conquer then the islands close to Fuerteventura, then of El Hierro. Béthencourt recognizes as suzerain the king Henri III of Castille which had helped it during the conquest and receives from him the title of “King of the Canary islands”. Their conquest ensures Norman thrives it monopoly on the orchil. In 1406, it leaves the government of the Canaries to its nephew Maciot de Béthencourt and returns in its country to pass the remainder of its days there. In 1415, the unloading of the English with Harfleur, cutting the road of the the Canaries, will be right of the company of Jean de Béthencourt who transfers his conquest to the king from Castille, in 1418.

The chronicle of its forwarding with Gadifer of the Room in the Canaries is contained in the Canarian .

Work

Jean de Béthencourt, the Canarian: History of the first descouverte and conqueste of the Canaries, made dice the year 1402 escrite of time mesme by Jean de Béthencourt, plus Traicté of the navigation and modern and principal voyages of descouverte and conquestes of François (1402-1422) , introduction and notes by Gabriel Gravel, Company of the history of Normandy, Rouen, C. Métérie, 1874.

References

Jean Braunstein, Jean de Béthencourt, Norman with the conquest of the Canaries , Condé-sur-Noireau, Charles Corlet, 2001 ISBN 2854809637
Roger Dévigne, Jean de Béthencourt, king of the Canaries, 1402-1422 , Toulouse, Didier, 1944
Pierre Bontier, Jean the Glassmaker, Gabriel Gravel, the Canarian; deliver conquest and conversion of the Canaries (1402-1422) by Jean de Béthencourt , Rouen, C. Métérie, 1874
Pierre Margry, the conquest and the conquerors of the Canary islands , Paris, E. Leroux, 1896

See too

On Jean de Béthencourt, lord in 1231 of Béthencourt-on-Nap (canton of Nesle, dépt. Summon) and its armorial bearings , to see: Jürgen Klötgen, " A rare and new charter of Jean de Béthencourt (1231) " , Mans, Re-examined Historical and Archaeological of Maine , T. CLVI, 2005, p. 321-330 (ms and seal of old Béthencourt).

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