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Richard Chancellor. Chancellor's reception in Moscow, as depicted in the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible. Born. c. 1521. Bristol. Died. 10 November 1556. Richard Chancellor ( c. 1521 – 10 November 1556) was an English explorer and navigator; the first to penetrate to the White Sea and establish relations with the Tsardom of Russia .
Jul 20, 1998 · Richard Chancellor was a British seaman whose visit to Moscow in 1553–54 laid the foundations for English trade with Russia. In 1553 Chancellor was appointed pilot general of Sir Hugh Willoughby’s expedition in search of a northeast passage from England to China.
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May 9, 2018 · Richard Chancellor. Richard Chancellor (died 1556) was the first Englishman to penetrate the White Sea and to establish relations with Russia. Richard Chancellor, evidently a native of Bristol, acquired geographical and maritime proficiency from the explorer Sebastian Cabot and the geographer John Dee. Cabot had always been interested in making ...
Richard Chancellor is a Tudor explorer famous for his interactions with Russia. His origins and childhood are mostly unknown, and as such, there is a lot of speculation. We believe he was born in 1521 and lived near Bristol. It is claimed that he was raised by Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland. In the 1550s, Chancellor sailed with Roger Bodenham as an apprentice pilot in the voyage of ...
RICHARD CHANCELLOR. Richard Chancellor (d. 1556), English navigator and first fully trained English pilot, whose science and skill on the first voyage in search of the Northeast Passage in 1555 led to the opening up of trade between England and Russia. Of his family nothing is known except that in 1553 he had "two little sons," as the account ...
Nov 10, 2022 · Today in 1556 Richard Chancellor died. He was a navigator and explorer who is remembered for piloting the boats that were sent to find a northeast passage. Yes, northeast, not northwest. The idea was that the Spanish and Portuguese largely had a lock on the trade routes to the west, so it worth it to try heading east, over Russia, and to try to ...
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Oct 21, 2019 · Richard Chancellor acted as captain of the Bonaventure and as pilot general of the fleet which was commanded by Sir Hugh Willoughby as captain general. Footnote 26 Chancellor was born in Bristol and thus grew up in a seafaring environment. He belonged to a small group of Englishmen that combined practical maritime with mathematical and ...
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