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| Birthday |
30th November, 1537
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| Birthplace |
Terceira, the Azores
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| Died |
1590
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| Place of Death |
unknown, possibly the Azores
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| Nationality |
Portuguese
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| Occupation |
Explorer
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| Year(s) Active |
1570s-c.1590
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Simão Fernandes (c.– c.), known in English as Simon Fernandes or Simon Ferdinando, was a 16th-century Portuguese-born navigator and sometimes pirate who piloted the 1585 and 1587 English expeditions to found colonies on Roanoke island, part of modern-day North Carolina but then known as Virginia. Fernandes trained as a navigator in Spain at the famed Casa de Contratación in Seville, but later took up arms against the Spanish empire, preying upon Spanish shipping along with fellow pirate John Callis. Charged with piracy in 1577, he was saved from the hangman's noose by Sir Francis Walsingham, becoming a Protestant and a subject of the Queen of England. In 1578 Fernandes entered the service of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and later Sir Walter Raleigh, piloting the failed 1587 expedition to Roanoke, known to history as the "Lost Colony".
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