Helsingør church painting of Hans Pothorst[1] and his coat of arms, c. 1493. The banner held by the man to the right says Hans Pothorst, and the one to the left says Dellf maler ("Dellf painter").[2]
Hans Pothorst (c. 1440 – 1490)[3] was a privateer, likely from the German city Hildesheim.[1]
In 1925, researcher Sofus Larsen proposed that Pothhorst may have landed in North America, along with Didrik Pining, in the 1470s, almost twenty years before Columbus' voyages of discovery.[1][4] Scholars now view this as unlikely.[5][6][7][8]
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^"Kalkmalerier: Kirkerummet". Øresundstid (in Danish). Retrieved 2 May 2010.
^"Hans Pothorst". Den Store Danske Encyklopædi (in Danish). Retrieved 20 November 2010.
^"Expedition to Newfoundland 1472". Medieval Histories. 2016-04-07. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
^Seaver, Kirsten A. (1996). The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America, ca. A.D. 1000-1500. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-3161-4. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
^Jensen, Janus Møller (30 April 2007). Denmark and the Crusades, 1400-1650. BRILL. p. 181. ISBN 978-90-474-1984-6. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
^Mills, William James (2003). Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 185. ISBN 978-1-57607-422-0. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
^Diffie, Bailey Wallys (1977). Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580. U of Minnesota Press. p. 449. ISBN 978-0-8166-0782-2. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
HansPothorst (c. 1440 – 1490) was a privateer, likely from the German city Hildesheim. In 1925, researcher Sofus Larsen proposed that Pothhorst may have...
1481–1513). Before his employment by the Danes, Pining and his partner HansPothorst had also been regarded by the Hanseatic League as "pirates who did much...
commanded by two Baltic sailors and pirate hunters, Didrik Pining and HansPothorst and possibly also included the Portuguese João Vaz Corte-Real on one...
Arctic exploration and explorers of the Arctic. 1472: Didrik Pining and HansPothorst mark the first of the cartographic expeditions to Greenland 1496: Grigoriy...
wrote that Eric encouraged a joint expedition by Didrik Pining and HansPothorst to investigate the Northwest Passage. Their voyage after Eric's death...
and privateer operating in the North Sea. Often partnered with HansPothorst. HansPothorst c. 1440–1490 Germany A pirate and privateer operating in the...
Christian I of Denmark purportedly sent an expedition to the region under Pothorst and Pining to Greenland in 1472 or 1473; Henry VII of England sent another...
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