Lancelotto Malocello

Lance Malocello (Latin: Lanzarotus Marocelus; French: Lancelot Maloisel ) (* around 1270 in Varazze, Genoa; † after 1336 ) was a Genoese merchant and sailors. He is considered the discoverer of the Canary Islands. The island of Lanzarote is to have its name from him.

History

1312 will be the first time arrived in Lanzarote Malocello. However, it is not proven that he was the first visitor of the archipelago. Jean de Bethencourt took a century later at Teguise on the Montaña de Guanapay a fort, that came from Malocello.

1336 stood out from Lisbon, a fleet under the leadership of Lance Malocello to sea. You should explore the then end of the European world, which lay on the west African coast at the time, closer. Malocello discovered the Canary Islands, and thus Lanzarote again. Back in Portugal, he discovered and taken possession of the island in the world map of Angelino Dulcert of Mallorca as Insula de Lanzarotus Marocelus was recorded.

Two decades lived Lance Malocello in Lanzarote at the then indigenous people, the Guanches. Events of this period are unknown. The social structures of the Guanches, however, must have remained largely intact. It was only in 1402 subjugated the Norman Jean de Bethencourt the Canarian population.

At the time of stay of Malocello on Lanzarote ruled there Zonzamas king with his wife Fayna. You should have spent a night with the nobles of Vizcaia on the Spanish mainland named Martin Ruiz de Avendaño, who in 1377 reached the island. From this night of tradition emerged after daughter Icó. King Zonzamas and his wife had two sons Tigufaya, the heir to the throne and was deported with his wife and other inhabitants in 1393, and Guanarame, the then heir to the throne was. Probably the illegitimate daughter Icó married Guanarame and got Luis de Guardafia as a son. His daughter was Teguise and gave the city its name today. She married Jean de Béthencourts nephew Maciot de Bethencourt.