High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Simon Fernandez (Portuguese: Simao Fernandes; c.1538–c.1590) was a 16th century Portuguese navigator and sometime pirate who piloted the 1585 and 1587 English expeditions to found colonies on Roanoke island, part of modern-day North Carolina but then known as Virginia. Fernandez trained as a navigator in Spain at the famed Casa de Contratacion in Seville, but later took up arms against the Spanish empire, preying upon Spanish shipping along with fellow pirate John Challice. Charged with piracy in 1577, he was saved from the hangman's noose by Sir Francis Walsingham, becoming a Protestant and a subject of the Queen of England. In 1578 Fernandez entered the service of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and later Sir Walter Raleigh, piloting the failed 1587 expedition to Roanoke, known to history as the "Lost Colony". Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом...

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