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Jean Ango (an Italianized form of Jehan Angot) (1480–1551) was a Norman shipowner who provided ships to
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Jean Ango (an Italianized form of Jehan Angot) (1480–1551) was a Norman shipowner who provided ships to Francis I Francis I or Francis the First may refer to:
* Francesco I Gonzaga (1366–1407)
* Francis I, Duke of Brittany (1414–1450), reigned 1442–1450
* Francis I of France (1494–1547), King of France, reigned 1515–1547
* Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lau ...
, King of France, for exploration of the globe. A native of Dieppe
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Dieppe is a seaport on the English Channel at the mouth of the river Arques. A regular ferry service runs to N ...
, Ango took over his father's import-export business and ventured into the spice trade with Africa
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and India
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. He was one of the first French traders to challenge the monopoly of Spain
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, national_motto = '' Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
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and Portugal
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, in addition to trading with the eastern Mediterranean, the British Isles, and the Low Countries. He also helped to finance the voyages of Giovanni da Verrazzano
Giovanni da Verrazzano ( , , often misspelled Verrazano in English; 1485–1528) was an Italian ( Florentine) explorer of North America, in the service of King Francis I of France.
He is renowned as the first European to explore the Atlanti ...
and Jacques Cartier
Jacques Cartier ( , also , , ; br, Jakez Karter; 31 December 14911 September 1557) was a French- Breton maritime explorer for France. Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of ...
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His father (also named Jean Ango) sent two ships to Newfoundland
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in an early colonization attempt, including Jehan Denis and Thomas Aubert as captain of the ''Pensée''.
Their arrival in 1508 is the second recorded voyage of a French ship to the Grand Banks
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after the expedition of John Cabot
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. After his father's death (probably in the final years of the reign of King Louis XII), the younger Jean Ango stopped any personal participation in trading voyages and settled in Dieppe with his inherited fortune.
He eventually controlled a fleet, partially or alone, of 70 ships, including merchant ships and fishing vessels. Although he funded expeditions for trade and exploration, and used his ships (legally) for wartime raids, "he also sponsored voyages whose only purpose was piracy".
Ango was an intimate friend of King Francis I
Francis I (french: François Ier; frm, Francoys; 12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his first cousin once ...
. In 1521 he was styled Viscount of Dieppe, and in 1533, after the king had visited him in his mansion in Normandy
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, captain of Dieppe. When John III of Portugal
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confiscated one of his ships which carried plunder from captured vessels, Ango received the French king's permission to respond. Acting under a letter of marque issued on 26 July 1530, he harassed the Portuguese fleet in the Atlantic
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, and even threatened to block the port of Lisbon
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He lost popularity under King Henry II. He was imprisoned after 1549 for failing to pay taxes on his profits from privateering. In his book ''La chanson des pilotes'', he was the first to describe in writing the use of tobacco
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Further reading
*Knecht, R.J. ''Renaissance Warrior and Patron: The Reign of Francis I''. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. *Rogozinski, Jan. ''Pirates!: Brigands, Buccaneers, and Privateers in Fact, Fiction, and Legend''. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996.External links
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