Henry the Navigator

American  

noun

1. Prince, 1394–1460, prince of Portugal.

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Henry the Navigator British  

noun

1. 1394–1460, prince of Portugal, noted for his patronage of Portuguese voyages of exploration of the W coast of Africa

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Example Sentences

He changed his middle name from Henry to Xolani, which is Zulu for “be peaceful,” after learning the history of Prince Henry the Navigator, a fifteenth-century Portuguese explorer who helped pioneer the African slave trade.

From The New Yorker

They had been kidnapped in raids after Prince Henry the Navigator set up a trading post off the coast of present-day Mauritania.

From Washington Times

Cheesemaking in the Azores dates to the 15th century with the arrival of Flemish settlers, who, through a royal decree by a Portuguese prince, Henry the Navigator, were brought to the Azores for colonization.

From New York Times

Madeira’s rum business fell on hard time partly as a result of the decline in sugar plantations -- cane was introduced in the mid-15th century on orders from Portugal’s Prince Henry the Navigator, but declined to next to nothing after the 17th century when Portugal’s then-colony Brazil began to dominate.

From Reuters

Madeira’s rum business fell on hard time partly as a result of the decline in sugar plantations -- cane was introduced in the mid-15th century on orders from Portugal’s Prince Henry the Navigator, but declined to next to nothing after the 17th century when Portugal’s then-colony Brazil began to dominate.

From Reuters