In this episode we continue narrating the lordly conquest of the islands supported by Castile. It is the year 1402 and Gadifer de la Salle awaits in the recently-conquered Lanzarote the arrival of his partner Jean de Bethencourt with supplies, reinforcements and ships. However, Bethencourt takes 2 years to return, sparkling conflict between the two Norman conquerors.

This episode covers the end of the conquest of Fuerteventura and a new attack to Gran Canaria

In this episode we continue exploring the conquest of the islands, this time going back to the 14th century and the first incursions in Gran Canaria. We then continue narrating Gadifer de la Salle's adventures in Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and the rest of the islands right after the conquest of Lanzarote we covered in the previous episode.

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In this episode we start talking about the conquest of the Canary Islands. We start with a brief description of the time period, both in Europe and Spain, as well as the customs and life of the Guanches before the arrival of Europeans.

We discuss the first contacts and finally the lordly conquest (conquista señorial) of Lanzarote at the hands of the Normands Jean de Bethencourt and Gadifer de la Salle. Their chronicles were written by the Franciscans Jean Le Verrier and Pierre Boutier, authors of "Le Canarien". Le Canarien is the first conquest chronicle of the Canaries and the first lengthy descriptions of the prehispanic Canarians.