Lordship’s Conquest at the Canary Islands

Lordship’s Conquest at the Canary Islands The lordship’s conquest happened on El Hierro, Fuerteventura, La Gomera and Lanzarote. First. Who and what was a Lordship's Conquest? The one that led the conquest was a lordship that, with the permission of the royalty and the pope, gone  to the island and decided that this land was of his own. Thats what it make it a lordship conquest. A lot of missionaries went too, and them tried to convert the aborigines to christians. Most of the aborigens ended being slaves and they were bought by the rich people, the royalty and ect  to be their servants. Who was the principal lordship? It was a French privateer-businessman Jean De Bethencourt, who in 1402 and for an eminently  economic interest (was a fabric merchant in Normandy, France, and was looking for the Orchilla  and Cochineal (moss and insect from which natural dyes are extracted)). The conquest of the Canary Islands beg...