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unusual facts about 1421: The Year China Discovered America



Adolph III, Count of Waldeck

It was not until 1421 that Adolph's brother-in-law, Count John II of Ziegenhain, managed to mediate a compromise between the two brothers and theirs sons, Otto III and Wolrad.

Anthony of Burgundy

Anthony, bastard of Burgundy (1421–1504); the illegitimate son of Philip III, Duke of Burgundy

Aufseß

Notable members of the family include Jobst Bernhard von und zu Aufsees, the founder of the Aufseesianum in Bamberg, Friedrich III von Aufseß, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg (1421–1431), and Hans von und zu Aufseß, who in 1852 was the principal founder of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (formerly the "Germanischen Museums“) in Nuremberg.

Catherine of Saxony

Catherine of Saxony, Electress of Brandenburg (1421–1476), daughter of Frederick I, Elector of Saxony and wife of Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg

Edward Charlton

Edward Charleton, 5th Baron Cherleton (1370–1421), 5th and last Barton Cherleton of Powys

Guillaume Legrant

The next eight years contain no record of his activities, but he was in Rome by October 1418, at which time he entered the papal chapel as a singer, at that time under Pope Martin V; he stayed there until 1421.

Henry III, Count of Schauenburg-Holstein

Henry III, Count of Schauenburg-Holstein (d. February 1421 in Bordesholm) was Bishop of Osnabrück as Henry I from 1402 to 1410, and also Count of Holstein-Rendsburg from 1404 until his death.

John of Lusignan

Loysia of Lusignan, (probably) married after March 19, 1406 her cousin Eudes of Lusignan (d. Palermo, 1421), Titular Seneschal of Jerusalem, in the service of the King of Aragon, son of James I of Lusignan, King of Cyprus, and wife Helvis or Helisia of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, without issue

Lindow Moss

The first written record of Lindow Moss was in 1421 when the lord of Mobberley and Wilmslow allowed people to dig peat from the mossland for use as fuel.

Louis II, Landgrave of Thuringia

According to a legend, which was recorded by Johannes Rothe in 1421, Louis II was travelling anonymously and one night, he found shelter with a blacksmith in Ruhla.

Margaret of Foix

On 27 June 1474, at Clisson, she married Francis II, Duke of Brittany (1435–1488), son of Richard of Brittany (1395–1438), Count of Étampes (1421–1438), and of Margaret d'Orléans (1406–1466), Countess of Vertus (b. 1423).

Mijnsheerenland

After the St. Elizabeth's flood the former land of Schobbe en Everocken was re-dyked in 1437-1438 by the knight Lodewijk Praet of Moerkerken; therefore, the village is often called Mijnsheerenland van Moerkerken.

Minting Priory

The priory was in the hands of the King in 1337, 1344, and 1346 on account of the wars with France, and in 1421 it was granted to the Carthusian priory of Mount Grace.

New Zealand Muslim Association

Drury, Abdullah, “A Short History: New Zealand’s First Mosque” in The Muslim World League Journal (Dhul-Qa‘adah 1421 - February 2001), Vol.28, No.11, pp.

Piri Reis map

More notoriously these claims were repeated in Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods (which attributed the knowledge of the coast to extraterrestrials) and Gavin Menzies's 1421: The Year China Discovered America (which attributed it to supposed Chinese voyages), both of which were roundly denounced by both scholars and debunkers of fringe works but which attracted huge popular followings.

Ralph Assheton

Ralph de Ashton, or Sir Ralph Assheton (fl. 1421-1486), 15th century nobleman, also known as 'The Black Knight'

Risley Park Lanx

Stukeley conjectured that it belonged to Exuperius, the Bishop of Tholouse in 405 AD, who gave it to the Bouge church in Touraine, and that it only ended up in England after it was plundered as spoils of the Battle of Bouge in 1421.

Ryukyu Kingdom

Hashi received the surname "Shō" (Chinese: "Shang") 尚 from the Ming emperor in 1421, becoming known as Shō Hashi (Chinese: Shang Bazhi) 尚巴志.

Thomas Beaufort, Count of Perche

In 1421, he accompanied the king's younger brother Thomas of Lancaster to the fighting in Anjou.

Waard

Grote Hollandse Waard, farming region between Zuid-Holland and Brabant, that disappeared in the Sint-Elisabethsvloed (1421)

William Coventre

William Coventre III (died c.1445), MP for Devizes 1414, 1415, 1417, May 1421, 1422, 1423, 1426, 1427 and 1433

Zhou Man

In his book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, amateur historian Gavin Menzies argues that Zhou Man built a fortess at Bittangabee Bay Australia and that his fleet approached and mapped the Pacific coast of North America and may have been wiped out by a megatsunami resulting from a comet impact creating Mahuika crater.


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