Lordship of the Canary Islands

Lordship of the Canary Islands
Former subdivision of Kingdom of Castile
1402–1502
Map of the Canary Islands
Capital	Teguise
• Type	Lordship
Historical era	Age of Discovery
• Created by Henry III of Castile for Jean de Béthencourt	1402
• Division among the children of Inés Peraza and her death	1502

The Lordship of the Canary Islands was a late medieval Lordship of the Crown of Castile that originally included all the islands of the Atlantic archipelago of the Canary Islands. It was created in 1402 by King Henry III of Castile in favor of the French knight Jean de Béthencourt, who had begun the Conquest of the Canary Islands and had paid homage to the Castilian monarch.