Richard Chancellor

Richard Chancellor († November 10, 1556 in the area of ​​Aberdour Bay off the coast of Scotland ) was an English sailor.

Expeditions

About Chancellors life, whose name was also written Chanceler, Chancelour or Cancelerus, little is known. He is said to have been brought up by Henry Sidney, the father of Philip Sidney. For the first time he enters 1550 as a participant in an expedition led by Roger Bodenham on board the barge divers in appearance.

From 1553 Chancellor was traveling as captain of the Edward Bonaventure as part of an expedition under Hugh Willoughby toward the Northeast Passage. The expedition was to open up new Handelrsrouten in the east. In early August 1553, originally three ships were separated in a storm off the Lofoten Islands, and only the Bonaventure reached the planned stopover in Vardo. Although there advised him several Scots to repentance, Chancellor continued the journey after it became clear that Willoughby would not arrive with his ship. He followed the coast of the Kola Peninsula and drove into the White Sea. There he met Fischer, from whom he learned that he was in the land of Muscovy (Russia) would be located. Chancellor went to Arkhangelsk anchor and met, along with some accompanying him dealers, the local governor. After he received a letter from King Edward VI. had given informed the governor Tsar Ivan IV, who then invited her into more than 2,400 km from Moscow. The Tsar gave several banquets in honor of his guests, and finally gave them a letter to Edward IV, in which he declared himself in agreement with the structure of trade relations. In the summer of 1554 Chancellor returned to England. There they had received no sign of life from Willoughby; the following year turned out that Willoughby had died in the winter on the Kola Peninsula at the level of Warsinamündung. Queen Mary I, who was the late Edward IV now succeeded to the throne, was founded on February 26, 1555 Trading Company Muscovy Company.

In the summer of 1555 Chancellor stepped on behalf of the Muscovy Company to another trip to Russia on board the Edward Bonaventure. About Arkhangelsk, the expedition reached in October Moscow, where she details about the new relationship negotiated with the Czar and bring in experience beyond trying as you could reach China from Russia. The following summer, Chancellor made ​​, accompanied by the Russian ambassador Osep Napea on the journey home and stabbed on July 20, 1556 in Arkhangelsk lake. However, the Edward Bonaventure sank in the Aberdour Bay off the coast of Scotland. During the Russian ambassador was saved, Chancellor was killed.

Swell

  • William J. Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC - Clio, Santa Barbara, 2003, pp. 134 ISBN 978-1576074220
  • John Knox Laughton: Chancellor, Richard. From: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol 10, 1885-1900. (online)
  • Briton
  • Seafarer
  • Born in the 15th or 16th century
  • Died in 1556
  • Man
Edward VI of England
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