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Simon Fernandes (Portuguese: Simão Fernandes; c. 1538 – c. 1590) was a 16th-century Portuguese-born navigator and sometime pirate who piloted the 1585 and 1587 English expeditions to found colonies on Roanoke island, part of modern-day North Carolina but then known as Virginia. Fernandes trained as a navigator in Spain at the famed Casa de Contratación in Seville, but later took up arms against the Spanish empire, preying upon Spanish shipping along with fellow pirate John Callis. Charged with piracy in 1577, he was saved from the hangman's noose by Sir Francis Walsingham, becoming a Protestant and a subject of the Queen of England. In 1578 Fernandes entered the service of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and later Sir Walter Raleigh, piloting the failed 1587 expedition to Roanoke, known to history as

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  • Simon Fernandes (en)
  • سيمون فيرنانديز (ar)
  • Simão Fernandes (pt)
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  • سيمون فيرنانديز (بالبرتغالية: Simão Fernandes‏) هو مستكشف برتغالي، ولد في 1538 في الأزور في البرتغال، وتوفي في 1590. (ar)
  • Simão Fernandes, também referido como Simon Fernandes (ilha Terceira (Açores), c. 1538 — c. 1590), foi um navegador e pirata português do século XVI. Em 1585 foi piloto das expedições inglesas de Sir Walter Raleigh para fundar colónias na ilha de Roanoke. (pt)
  • Simon Fernandes (Portuguese: Simão Fernandes; c. 1538 – c. 1590) was a 16th-century Portuguese-born navigator and sometime pirate who piloted the 1585 and 1587 English expeditions to found colonies on Roanoke island, part of modern-day North Carolina but then known as Virginia. Fernandes trained as a navigator in Spain at the famed Casa de Contratación in Seville, but later took up arms against the Spanish empire, preying upon Spanish shipping along with fellow pirate John Callis. Charged with piracy in 1577, he was saved from the hangman's noose by Sir Francis Walsingham, becoming a Protestant and a subject of the Queen of England. In 1578 Fernandes entered the service of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and later Sir Walter Raleigh, piloting the failed 1587 expedition to Roanoke, known to history as (en)
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  • Simon Fernandes (en)
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  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir_Francis_Walsingham_by_John_De_Critz_the_Elder.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir_Walter_Raleigh.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roanoke_map_1584.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SirGilbertHumphrey.jpg
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  • unknown, possibly the Azores (en)
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  • Terceira, the Azores (en)
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