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    Jean de Béthencourt, Baron of Saint-Martin-le-Gaillard, was born in Grainville-la-Teinturière, province of Normandy, the son of Jean III Béthencourt and...
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  • family of Norman origin. The head of the family in the 14th century, Jean de Béthencourt, organized an expedition to conquer the Canary Islands, resulting...
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    later that same year Béthencourt himself returned. De la Salle and Béthencourt founded the city of Betancuria in 1404. Béthencourt had become king of the...
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    from Ajuy is where the Norman Jean de Béthencourt landed in 1402 to conquer the island for the Spanish crown. Puerto de la Peña is a small settlement...
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    century or so.[citation needed] Jean de Béthencourt was, after his death, succeeded by his nephew Maciot de Béthencourt, who turned out to be a tyrant...
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    Lobos Island (redirect from Islote de Lobos)
    of purple dye. In 1405 Lobos Island served as resupply base for Jean de Béthencourt´s conquest of Fuerteventura. Until 1968 the only inhabitants of the...
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    El Hierro (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    subjected to Spanish rule by Jean de Béthencourt (d.1425) – more by the process of negotiation than by military action. Béthencourt had as his ally and negotiator...
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  • Béthencourt is a commune in department Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. Béthencourt may also refer to: Béthencourt-sur-Mer, a French commune in department...
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    Conquista Betancuriana o Normanda (the Bethencourt or Norman Conquest) was carried out by Jean de Bethencourt and Gadifer de la Salle between 1402 and 1405 and...
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    Canary 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...
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    Flag of Lanzarote Banner of Kingdom of the Canary Islands under Jean de Béthencourt Canarian flag proposed by Azarug "Ateneo Flag", the first Canarian...
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    islands 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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    one of the five children of Amador Betancourt, a descendant of Jean de Béthencourt, the French knight and explorer who conquered the Canary Islands...
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    spelled out in captaincy contracts or royal grants, e.g. in 1402, Jean de Béthencourt was allowed to keep the royal fifth as a condition for the conquest...
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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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    the colonisation of the Canary Islands, sending French explorer Jean de Béthencourt to do so. In 1396, he deflected a Portuguese invasion with an attack...
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    Lanzarote, part of the Canary Islands. That island had been conquered by Jean de Béthencourt about 40 years earlier and was still in the process of introducing...
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    the invasion, while Bethencourt returned to Spain to seek the recognition and support of the Castilian king. In 1405, de Béthencourt completed his conquest...
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    states of Asia Minor and the Holy Land. The 14th-century explorer Jean de Béthencourt established a kingdom in the Canary Islands in 1404. He received...
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    the Canary Islands began in 1402, with the expedition of Jean de Béthencourt and Gadifer de la Salle to the island of Lanzarote. Gadifer invaded Lanzarote...
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  • the North Sea devastates parts of Flanders, Zeeland and Holland. Jean de Béthencourt becomes the first ruler of the Kingdom of the Canary Islands. Stephan...
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    including the chronicles of the Norman conquest of the island under Jean de Béthencourt almost a century later, which state that the fortress constructed...
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  • from which they would coordinate their conquest of Fuerteventura. Jean de Béthencourt, who led the expedition to the islands, took a group of his men across...
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    Roccella tinctoria (category Taxa named by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle)
    roccella tinctoria on the Canary Islands offered a profit motive for Jean de Béthencourt during his conquest of the islands. Orcinol, a natural phenolic organic...
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    people Canario or Canarii living near the Atlas mountain range. Jean de Béthencourt named the island Gran Canaria as the people on the island were valorous...
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    Lanzarote (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    islands. French explorer Jean de Béthencourt arrived in 1402, heading a private expedition under Castilian auspices. Bethencourt first visited the south...
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  • Leonor de Béthencourt, daughter of King Maciot de Béthencourt (nephew and heir to the aforementioned Jean IV Béthencourt) and Princess Maria de Teguise...
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    divisions. The Spanish conquest was carried out in late 1405 by Jean de Béthencourt, who promised to respect the freedom of the Bimbache, and there was...
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  • Henry III of Castile sends French explorer Jean de Béthencourt to colonize the Canary Islands. Béthencourt receives the title King of the Canary Islands...
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    Barbary Crusade (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    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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