Guillaume Le Testu, sometimes referred to as Guillaume Le Têtu (c. 1509-12 – April 29, 1573), was a French privateer, explorer and navigator. He was one...
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continue to locate the headless in Ethiopia. The post-medieval map of Guillaume Le Testu (pictured above) illustrates the headless and the dog-headed cynocephali...
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school of cartographers included Pierre Desceliers, Jean Rotz, Guillaume Le Testu, Guillaume Brouscon and Nicolas Desliens. The Dieppe Maps known to have...
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Albert-Marie-Ferdinand Anthiaume, "Un pilote et cartographe havrais au XVIe siècle: Guillaume Le Testu", Bulletin de Géographie Historique et Descriptive, Paris, Nos 1–2...
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an explorer and cartographer Guillaume Le Testu (1509–1573): a dock in Le Havre still bears his name. On 20 April 1564 Le Havre became the port of departure...
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privateers in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Francis Drake and Guillaume Le Testu, a French privateer, succeeded in capturing the train. "Spanish Silver...
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Albert-Marie-Ferdinand Anthiaume, "Un pilote et cartographe havrais au XVIe siècle: Guillaume Le Testu", Bulletin de Géographie Historique et Descriptive, Paris, Nos 1–2...
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Claude-Guillaume Testu, Marquis of Balincourt (18 March 1680 – 12 May 1770) was a French military officer and a marshal of France. Testu was the son of...
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and famous. Near Cabo de Cativas he encountered a French privateer, Guillaume Le Testu, who was in command of the 80-ton warship Havre, and joined forces...
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1509–1591) Urbano Monti (Italy, 1544–1613) Jacques le Moyne (France, c. 1533–1588) Guillaume Le Testu (France, c. 1509–1573) Jacobus Pentius de Leucho (Italy)...
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Théodore de Mayerne, Swiss-born physician (died 1655) April 29 – Guillaume Le Testu, French privateer, explorer and cartographer (born c. 1509) July 29...
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school of cartographers included Pierre Desceliers, Johne Rotz, Guillaume Le Testu, Guillaume Brouscon and Nicolas Desliens. The Vertical Perspective projection...
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siècle: Guillaume Le Testu", Bulletin de Géographie Historique et Descriptive (Paris), Nos. 1-2, 19111, pp.35-202, n.b. p.176. See also Armand Rainaud, Le Continent...
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Cimarron allies joined up with a Huguenot party under the cartographer Guillaume Le Testu (Tetu), who brought news of the Massacre of St Bartholomew and proffered...
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1559) Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Spanish conquistador (d. 1579) Guillaume Le Testu, French privateer (d. 1573) John Erskine of Dun, Scottish religious...
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(aboard his Spanish prize and the Bear). On 25 March, they chanced upon Guillaume Le Testu (and his 70 men aboard an 80-tonne ship), who agrees to join Drake...
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La Billarderie and another Testu François de Balincourt). He is the uncle of Charles-Louis-Alphonse du Tillet. Guillaume Louis studied humanities in...
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(died 1527), privateer. François le Clerc known as Jambe de Bois (or Wooden Leg) (died 1563), privateer. Guillaume Le Testu, privateer. Catherine, Duchess...
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Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier. London: Nelson. From Internet Archive Francois Le Clerc, at Rob Ossian's Pirate Cove Isle of Tortuga: Jacob Collaart[dead link]...
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7 – Andreas Masius, Flemish Catholic priest (b. 1514) April 29 – Guillaume Le Testu, French privateer (b. 1509) May 13 – Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord...
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7 – Andreas Masius, Flemish Catholic priest (b. 1514) April 29 – Guillaume Le Testu, French privateer (b. 1509) May 13 – Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord...
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in his Histoire de deux voyages, inaccurately, to have accompanied Guillaume Le Testu to America in 1550. Thevet died in Paris on 23 November 1590. Soon...
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1559) Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Spanish conquistador (d. 1579) Guillaume Le Testu, French privateer (d. 1573) John Erskine of Dun, Scottish religious...
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joined a number of his contemporaries in this conception: Guillaume Le Testu, Jean Alfonse, Guillaume Postel, André Thevet. According to him, if France discovered...
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Jave la Grande (redirect from Java Le Grande)
Strait of Magellan] to Java, to the western coast of the said Java". Guillaume Le Testu’s Grande Jave of 1556 is part of the Terre Australle, and bears a Baie...
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world, Locat is situated in Indochina, south of Champa (Ciamba). On Guillaume Le Testu’s 1556 Cosmographie Universel, Locach appears to be named La Joncade...
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work Natural hystoria de las Indias and others. Guillaume Le Testu's Cosmographie Universelle selon les navigateurs, tant anciens que modernes contains...
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Italian philosopher and natural scientist (died 1588) possible date – Guillaume Le Testu, French privateer, explorer and cartographer (k. 1573) Juan de la...
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Scépeaux, governor (d. 1571) Gaspard de Saulx, military leader (d. 1573) Guillaume Le Testu, privateer (d. 1573) Valérand Poullain, Calvinist minister (d. 1557)...
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Lord of Le Mez (died 1191), Marshal of France in 1185 Matthew II of Montmorency, Lord of Montmorency and Marly, Marshal of France in 1191 Guillaume de Bournel...
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