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    Gadifer de La Salle (Sainte-Radegonde, 1340 –1415) was a French knight and crusader of Poitevine origin who, with Jean de Béthencourt, conquered and explored...
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  • La Salle or Lassalle is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Gadifer de la Salle (1340–1415), French soldier of Norman origin Nicolas de...
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    to make a rare and expensive dye. Here too, he again met up with Gadifer de la Salle, whom he had known previously during service under the Duke of Orleans...
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    Islands. Betancuria is named after Jean de Béthencourt, who founded the town in 1404 with Gadifer de La Salle. It was the original capital of the Kingdom...
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  • currently contains the tourist resort and surrounding dunes was where Gadifer de la Salle and his expedition first landed on Fuerteventura in 1402. They had...
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  • Jean de Béthencourt (Canary Islands) Gadifer de la Salle (Canary Islands) Thomas Aubert (Newfoundland) Jacques Cartier (North America) Philippe de Corguilleray...
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    began with the expedition of the French explorers Jean de Béthencourt and Gadifer de la Salle, nobles and vassals of Henry III of Castile, to Lanzarote...
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    in 1402, commanded by French knights and crusaders Jean de Béthencourt and Gadifer de la Salle. They arrived with only 63 sailors out of the original 283...
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    September 1369. Reported by Gadifer de la Salle. Ferdinand I's grant of Nossa Senhora a Franca (Lanzarote) and Gomeira (La Gomera) (June 1370). The hypothesis...
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    in 1402, with the expedition of Jean de Béthencourt and Gadifer de la Salle to the island of Lanzarote. Gadifer invaded Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. The...
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    Castile, unrest broke out because of fighting between Norman officer Gadifer de la Salle and Berthin, in which the natives had been involved. However, Béthencourt...
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    still common enough upon European arrival for both Jean de Bethencourt and Gadifer de La Salle to mention them in their writings, in which they describe...
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    admiral Luis de la Cerda Prince of Fortune, and sent him to conquer the Canaries. In 1402, Jean de Bethencourt and Gadifer de la Salle sailed to conquer...
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    the Canary Islands, the French Norman adventurers Jean de Béthencourt and Gadifer de la Salle set about immediately probing the African coast, looking...
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    Barbary Crusade (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Jean d'Harcourt VII Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham Gadifer de la Salle Jean de Béthencourt Rainer Lanz. "Ritterideal und Kriegsrealität im Spätmittelalter...
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    2008 at the Wayback Machine "Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus Count de Benyowsky: Consisting of His Military Operations in Poland, His Exile into...
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    Normans (category CS1 Latin-language sources (la))
    1405, the expedition led by the Norman noble Jean de Bethencourt and the Poitevine Gadifer de la Salle conquered the Canarian islands of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura...
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  • abyss of Jinámar in 1393. Later the Norman conquerors Jean de Béthencourt and Gadifer de la Salle arrived on the island of Lanzarote. After the conquest of...
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    the Canaries was carried out by the Norman nobles Jean de Béthencourt and Gadifer de la Salle. Their motives were basically economic: Béthencourt possessed...
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    Catholic Church and the Age of Discovery (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the islands began in 1402, with the expedition of Jean de Béthencourt and Gadifer de la Salle, on commission of Henry III of Castile. The expedition included...
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  • Canary Islands in 1402 by the French knights Jean de Bethencourt (1362–1425) and Gadifer de la Salle (1340 –1415). The Canarian, or, Book of the conquest...
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