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John Cabot could not have sailed for Spain like Columbus did because of the New Permissions issued in April of 1495. But where did Cabot obtain his maps? And how did he know about the land-sightings in the northern Atlantic? He might have heard about Columbus’ false promises. Maybe he got the idea when he hanging around Ferdinand and Isabella’s court in Barcelona. And we already know that he had come up with his North Atlantic scheme by the time he “passed through” Lisbon.Ī second explanation is that Cabot came up with the scheme all by himself. But who was he representing? There was no such thing as an entrepreneur merchant in those days. We know Cabot was experienced as a merchant.

Some historians suggest Cabot had traveled to London to trade, and that he took his oldest son, Sebastian, with him. With no records to tell us what John Cabot was doing during the eighteen months between November 1494, when he was in Seville, and his meeting with the king of England on January 21, 1496, we can only surmise from circumstantial data how Johan Cabato morphed from being a civil engineer running from his creditors in Seville, to John Cabot planning a voyage to the “new lland.” The Catholic Monarchs had instructed De Puebla to use, as a lever, the marriage of their daughter Catherine of Aragon to Prince Arthur of England, something we know King Henry wanted very much.

WHATROUTE DID CABOT TAKE PATCH

To join the League, Henry would be obliged to patch things up with Philip, the Archduke of Burgundy, which meant solving the problem of Perkin Warbeck the Pretender. Henry VII did not want to join the League because he did not want to contradict a recent treaty he had made with the King of France.

The Duke of Venice had organized the League to push the French back over the Alps. Ferdinand and Isabella had sent De Puebla to convince the King of England to join Milan, Spain, Portugal, and the Papal States in their army called the Holy League. The reason De Puebla attended his court that day was because King Charles VIII of France had just invaded Italy and was threatening to attack Florence, Venice, and Rome. Henry VII had other things on his agenda. Since there is no documentation indicating that Cabot had an audience with King João II, perhaps it was Muenzer from whom Cabot was seeking aid? Jerome Muenzer wrote in his journal that he was in Lisbon at about the same time Cabot would have passed through. We also learn from DePuebla that Cabot stopped by Lisbon on his way to England “looking for people to aid him in discovery.” That statement confirms that Cabot had his plan in mind before he reached England. De Puebla wrote that Cabot claimed he could “succeed in a voyage across the Atlantic that would obtain the wealth of the Orient in a way that Colón had failed.” Where did Cabot learn about Columbus’ failure? From Jerome Muenzer, who had been hobnobbing with the monarchs of Portugal and Spain? Cabot displayed “a chart and other reasonable demonstrations” to prove to King Henry that the North Atlantic route was a viable one. DePuebla described Cabot as “one like Colón, … one from the Indies.” Historian Douglas Hunter(1) has interpreted that to mean Cabot had been to the Indies with Colón. That is when Ferdinand and Isabella’s ambassador to London, Roderigo de Puebla, witnessed him presenting his plan to cross the Ocean Sea to King Henry VII. Johan Caboto the Venetian turned up in London some time before January 21, 1496.