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The Lordship of the Canary Islands was a late medieval Lordship of the Crown of Castile that originally included all the islands of the Atlantic archipelago of the Canary Islands. It was created in 1402 by King Henry III of Castile in favor of the French knight Jean de Béthencourt , who had begun the Conquest of the Canary Islands and had paid ...
The conquest of the Canary Islands by the Crown of Castile took place between 1402 and 1496 in two periods: the Conquista señorial, carried out by Castilian nobility in exchange for a covenant of allegiance to the crown, and the Conquista realenga, carried out by the Spanish crown itself during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs.
The Castilians committed the terrible blunder of walking blindly into the ravine now called Barranco de San Antonio (Farfan was its Guanche name), in Acentejo. Despite their technological superiority — the Spaniards, protected with armour and shields, fought with blunderbusses and cannon — the Guanches, fighting naked, attacked them from ...
The Castilians suspected that Maciot would sell the islands to them, which he did in 1448. Neither the natives nor the Castilians approved, and this led to a revolt which lasted until 1459 when the Portuguese were forced to leave. Portugal formally recognised Castile as the ruler of the Canary Islands in 1479 as part of the Treaty of Alcáçovas.
Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas (1549 – 28 March 1626 [1] or 27 March 1625 [2]) was a chronicler, historian, and writer of the Spanish Golden Age, author of Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del mar Océano que llaman Indias Occidentales ("General History of the Deeds of the Castilians on the Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea Known As the West ...
The Canary Islands (/ k ə ˈ n ɛər i /, Spanish: Canarias, Spanish: [kaˈnaɾjas]), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Morocco.
In 1418, he agreed that Maciot de Béthencourt sold the Lordship of the Canary Islands to the Spanish nobleman Enrique Pérez de Guzmán, 2nd Count of Niebla on his behalf. Maciot de Béthencourt remained administrator of the islands. [9] He died in 1425 and was buried in the church of Grainville-la-Teinturière.
Alonso Fernández de Lugo (Spanish pronunciation: [aˈlonso feɾˈnandeθ ðe ˈluɣo]; died 1525) was a Spanish conquistador, city founder, and administrator.He conquered the islands of La Palma (1492–1493) and Tenerife (1494–1496) for the Castilian Crown; they were the last of the Canary Islands to be conquered by Europeans.