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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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