Prince Henry the Navigator was a Portuguese explorer/hero from a time when Portugal was a world power. Manuel de Souza claimed himself as a descendent of Henry the Navigator.
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| - Prince Henry the Navigator was a Portuguese explorer/hero from a time when Portugal was a world power. Manuel de Souza claimed himself as a descendent of Henry the Navigator.
- Henry the Navigator (Portuguese pronunciation: [ẽˈʁik(ɨ)]; Portuguese: Henrique o Navegador Porto, 4 March 1394 – 13 November 1460 in Sagres) was an infante (prince) of the Kingdom of Portugal and an important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire, being responsible for the beginning of the European worldwide explorations.
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| - Portuguese infante and patron of the Portuguese exploration
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| - Infante Henrique, Duke of Viseu; Prince Henry the Navigator; Prince Henry the Seafarer; Infante D. Henrique; Infante Henrique of Portugal; Prince Henry of Portugal
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| - Portuguese prince patron of voyages of exploration
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| - Prince Henry the Navigator was a Portuguese explorer/hero from a time when Portugal was a world power. Manuel de Souza claimed himself as a descendent of Henry the Navigator.
- Henry the Navigator (Portuguese pronunciation: [ẽˈʁik(ɨ)]; Portuguese: Henrique o Navegador Porto, 4 March 1394 – 13 November 1460 in Sagres) was an infante (prince) of the Kingdom of Portugal and an important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire, being responsible for the beginning of the European worldwide explorations. Henry the Navigator was the third child of King John I of Portugal, the founder of the Aviz dynasty, and of Philippa of Lancaster, the daughter of John of Gaunt. Henry encouraged his father to conquer Ceuta (1415), the Muslim port on the North African coast across the Straits of Gibraltar from the Iberian peninsula, with profound consequences on Henry's worldview: Henry became aware of the profit possibilities in the Saharan trade routes that terminated there and became fascinated with Africa in general; he was most intrigued by the Christian legend of Prester John and the expansion of Portuguese trade. It is a common conception that Henry gathered at his Vila on the Sagres peninsula a school of navigators and map-makers. He did employ some cartographers to help him chart the coast of Mauritania in the wake of voyages he sent there, but for the rest there was no center of navigational science or any supposed observatory in the modern sense of the word, nor was there an organized navigational center. In “Crónica da Guiné” Henry is described as a person with no luxuries, not avaricious, speaking with soft words and calm gestures, a man of many virtues that never allowed any poor person leave his presence empty handed.
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