Kingdom of the Canary Islands

Kingdom of the Canary Islands - the kingdom that existed in the Canary Islands in the first half of the XV century, the vassal of the Castile crown.

In 1402, the French navigator Jean de Betancourt landed on the island of Lanzarote and, with the consent of the local ruler, erected Fort Rubicon there. When Betancourt sailed to Cadiz for reinforcements, a conflict erupted between them left as commanders of Hadifer de La Salle and Bertin: if La Salle was preparing to continue to conquer the islands, then Bertin wanted to return to Europe with a load of slaves, and threw La Salla without a livelihood. The Europeans remaining in Lanzarote managed to hold out until help arrived, and in 1404 Betancourt himself returned.

Betancourt received the recognition of himself King of the Canary Islands from the Spanish king Enrique III (officially the title was given by Pope Innocent VII ) in exchange for taking a vassal oath. After that, the conquest of the Canary Islands began .

Jean de Betancourt left the Canaries forever in 1412, leaving the ruler of the four conquered and colonized islands of his relative Masio de Betancourt at that time. Masio de Betancourt in 1418 sold his possessions and rights to conquer the remaining islands to Enrique Perez de Guzmán. Then the islands changed their owners several more times, until in 1445 they (and the right to conquer the remaining ones) were obtained by Hernan Peras Sr. with his son Guillen Peras and daughter Inesa Peras. After the death of Hernan and Guillen, Ines and her husband Diego García de Herrera became the rulers of the islands, who in 1477 left Homer's island to their son Hernan Peras Jr., and sold the rights to the remaining islands to the Castilian crown. Hernan Peras Jr. died in 1488 during an Aboriginal uprising.

Portugal also claimed the Canary Islands, which recognized the islands as the possession of Castile only in 1479 under the Alcazovas Treaty .