Henry the Navigator
Also known as: Prince Henry the Navigator
1394 – 1460
Portuguese

Sponsor of exploration. He sent ships to explore the African coast.

Contemporaries
1449–1492Lorenzo de' Medici
1432–1519Leonardo da Vinci
1378–1446Vittorino da Feltre
1437–1492Elizabeth Woodville
1428–1471Richard Warwick
1431–1463François Villon
1420–1498Tomás de Torquemada
1452–1498Girolamo Savonarola
1452–1485Richard III
1404–1440Gilles Retz
1380–1459Giovanni Poggio
1378–1417Sir John Oldcastle
1401–1464Nicholas of Cusa
1450–1515Aldus Manutius
1370–1451John Lydgate
1332–1400William Langland
1373–1440Margery Kempe
1342–1413Julian of Norwich
1340–1399John of Gaunt
1412–1431St. Joan of Arc
1370–1440Laurens Janszoon
fl. c. 1394–c. 1437James I
1387–1422Henry V
1325–1408John Gower
1363–1429Jean de Gerson
1333–1404Jean Froissart
1433–1499Marsilio Ficino
1442–1483Edward IV
1451–1506Christopher Columbus
1425–1500John Cabot
1441–1494Matteo Boiardo
1380–1444St. Bernardino of Siena
1320–1395John Barbour
1431–1503Alexander VI
1404–1472Leon Alberti