Biography of rene goulaine de laudonniere s
Biography of rene goulaine de laudonniere s l
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René Goulaine de Laudonnière
Rene Goulaine de Laudonnière (French pronunciation:[ʁəneɡulɛndəlodɔnjɛʁ]; c. –) was a French Huguenot explorer and the founder of the French colony of Fort Caroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida.
Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, a Huguenot, sent Jean Ribault and Laudonnière to explore potential sites in Florida suitable for settlement by the French Protestants.
Biography of rene goulaine de laudonniere s
Biography
Laudonnière was a Huguenot nobleman and merchant mariner from Poitou, France. His birthdate and family origins are currently unknown. One school of historians attaches him to a branch of the Goulaine family seated at Laudonnière, near Nantes.
A competing claim insists that he was a Burdigale (or Bourdigalle) from the port town of Sables d'Olonne. No contemporary records have been published to substantiate either theory.[1]
In , Laudonnière was appointed second in command of the Huguenot expedition to Florida under Jean Ribault.
Leaving in February , the