John Pooch

See also: Pooch

John Pooch ( Giovanni Caboto , Jean Pooch ) (1450 - 1498), was an exploring navigator and Venetian with the service of the England.

The birthplace of Pooch is dubious, certain think that it is originating in Genoa (Italy) whereas others give birth to it with Gaète close to Naples. It still leaves food for Venice child and obtains nationality there. He marries Venetian which gives him three wire (Ludovico, Sebastiano and Sancio).

In the search of a road towards the Asia, Henri VII of England sticks the services of Jean Cabot by letter patent of the March 5th 1496. Having persuaded this king who it was possible to go to the the Eastern Indies by the North-West of the America, it is charged to undertake a forwarding to this end. Its first attempt is a failure: Pooch does not go beyond the Iceland because of arguments with its crew.

The May 2nd 1497, the explorer leaves Bristol on board the Matthew , a ship of 50 barrels laying out of a crew of 18 people of which her son Sebastien Pooch. It touches ground the June 24th and explores the coast during some time before setting out again for the England. The precise place of its first accosting is discussed, but the Canadian and British governments consider that it arrived at Bonavista. In this case, it is probable that he was the first European to put the feet on the continent of North America, but the absence of cartography or newspaper of voyage raises questions as for the veracity of the facts, and Gaspar Corte-Real would be then the first to discover the “new ground”.

In the Planisphère of Cantino of 1502 (cartographic part on which figure for the first time, with a clear annotation, the most significant part of Eastern contours of the New World) emerge represented under Portuguese flags, the Greenland and Newfoundland. The Chart of Pedro Reinel, part going back to 1504, clearly attests domination of Portuguese knowledge in reference to New Ground by its abundant toponymy.

The following year, in May 1498, Cabot sets out again of Bristol for a new forwarding and disappears at sea. Since this date, plus nothing does not appear concerning Cabot and the posterior references almost very originate in his/her Sebastien son.

Pooch is commemorated with Bristol by the “Tour Pooch”, a tower of 30 meters in height out of red sandstone built in 1897 (the 400e birthday of its unloading) on “Hill Torch” close to the center of the city like by a counterpart of the Matthew built in the city and by a statue of the explorer in the district of the port.

Sources

Concerning its discoveries:

Da Silva, Manual Luciano Christopher Columbus was Portuguese. - Second Share - Dightonrock the furnace theories" , 2006
Da Silva, Manual Luciano The meaning off dightonrock , 1966
Delabarre, Edmund Burke Dighton Rock'n'roll: With study off the written Rock'n'roll off New England , 1928

External bonds

Los Cabotos, Cesáreo Fernández-Duro, Edición digital starting from Boletín of Real Academia of Historia, tomo 22, pp. 257-282, Madrid 1893
Boletín of Real Academia of Historia, Publicaciones periódicas, Tomo 22, Año 1893

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