Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Prince Henry the Navigator across 3 places, from 1418 to 1460.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Prince Henry of Portugal, Duke of Viseu (4 March 1394 – 13 December 1460), better known in English as Prince Henry the Navigator, was a Portuguese prince, a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and 15th-century European maritime exploration.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Prince Henry the Navigator is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Prince Henry the Navigator was documented, and when
1418year
Portugalattested“In 1418, Zarco and Teixeira were blown off-course by a storm while making the volta do mar westward swing to return to Portugal.”source: Wikipedia: Prince Henry the Navigator
6 August 1458exact date
Moroccoattested“Calixtus died in 6 August 1458 and Afonso decided to attack Tangier in Morocco instead, but was persuaded by the governor of Ceuta Sancho de Noronha to seize Ksar es-Seghir instead.”source: Wikipedia: Prince Henry the Navigator
November 1460month
Monastery of Batalhaattested“Henry died on the 13th of November 1460, being initially buried in the Church of Saint Mary of Lagos before being subsequently moved to the Monastery of Batalha, where his tomb remains, inscribed by his motto "Talant de bien faire".”source: Wikipedia: Prince Henry the Navigator
Open Quo Fuit to see these 3 presences on the
globe, filter them by date, and follow the journey year by year.
Places Prince Henry the Navigator is documented in
Other places tied to Prince Henry the Navigator in the record
In each of these, a source puts Prince Henry the Navigator and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
that Prince Henry the Navigator was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason:
a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1415 to 1418period
Ceutamentioned“Both expeditions to Ceuta in 1415 and 1418 allowed Henry to gather intelligence on the lands to the south, obtained mainly from Muslim prisoners.”source: Wikipedia: Prince Henry the Navigator
25 May 1420exact date
Tomarmentioned“On May 25, 1420, Henry gained appointment as the administrator of the Order of Christ, the Portuguese successor to the Knights Templar, which had its headquarters at Tomar in central Portugal.”source: Wikipedia: Prince Henry the Navigator
Englandmentioned“He then travelled to England, where he was elected Knight of the Garter on the 22nd of April 1427, and returned to Portugal the following year.”source: Wikipedia: Prince Henry the Navigator
April 1427month
Portugalmentioned“He then travelled to England, where he was elected Knight of the Garter on the 22nd of April 1427, and returned to Portugal the following year.”source: Wikipedia: Prince Henry the Navigator
1437year
Tangiermentioned“Henry was the main organizer of the disastrous expedition to Tangier in 1437 against Salah Ben Salah, which ended in Henry's younger brother Ferdinand being given as hostage to guarantee Portuguese promises in the peace agreement.”source: Wikipedia: Prince Henry the Navigator
Senegal Rivermentioned“Dinis Dias soon came across the Senegal River and rounded the peninsula of Cap-Vert in 1444.”source: Wikipedia: Prince Henry the Navigator
1444 to 1446period
Lagos, Portugalmentioned“From 1444 to 1446, as many as forty vessels sailed from Lagos on Henry's behalf, and the first private mercantile expeditions began.”source: Wikipedia: Prince Henry the Navigator
22 March 1455exact date
Madeira Islandmentioned“In his first voyage, which started on 22 March 1455, he visited the Madeira Islands and the Canary Islands.”source: Wikipedia: Prince Henry the Navigator
1456year
Cape Verdementioned“On the second voyage, in 1456, Cadamosto became the first European to reach the Cape Verde Islands.”source: Wikipedia: Prince Henry the Navigator
How to read this page
Every line above is a dated fact taken from a source, with the sentence it came from and a link
back to it. Nothing is inferred, and a gap in the record is not evidence that someone was elsewhere.
A tag says how the fact is carried by its source: documented a structured,
explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
mentioned a sentence that ties the person to the place without stating presence.
Sentences quoted from Wikipedia are available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Public domain books come from
Project Gutenberg. Quo Fuit claims no rights over these sources.
See Prince Henry the Navigator on a 3D globe, filter the record by date, and cross this life with another to find
where the two overlap.
