El almirante portugués Lançarote da Franca, redescubridor de las Islas Canarias. Una falsedad del siglo XIX

espanolEn 1925, el historiador portugues Fortunato de Almeida publico, en su Historia de Portugal, tres documentos que testimoniaban las hazanas en las Islas Canarias de un cierto almirante Lansarote da Framqua (Lancarote da Franca), descubridor de dos Islas en el Atlantico, quien muriera anos mas tarde en lucha con los indigenas al intentar conquistarlas. En este articulo se tratara de demonstrar, tambien gracias a nuevos documentos que se publican por primera vez, que la existencia del almirante Lancarote da Franca es un falso historico y que los documentos publicados por Almeida fueron probablemente concebidos a finales del siglo XIX. EnglishIn 1925, in his History of Portugal, the Portuguese historian Fortunato de Almeida published three documents that testified the feats of a certain Admiral Lansarote da Framqua (Lancarote da Franca) in the Canary Islands. According to the documents he was the discoverer of two islands in the Atlantic and he died some years later in a battle against the natives when he was trying to conquer them. In this article we will try to demonstrate, thanks to new documents published for the first time, that the existence of the Admiral Lancarote da Franca is a fake history, and that the documents published by Almeida were probably conceived by the end of the 19th century.