Knight of America
An inside look at the voyage of the Templar Knight who more than likely discovered America.
Christopher Columbus never claimed to have discovered America. Chances are you may have been taught the contrary belief in school along with millions of other American students. However, the Italian explorer was not the first European to have discovered the new western continent. Long before he was even born, it seems that there was perhaps another regal explorer who discovered America more than 90 years before Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
It’s been recorded that the Norwegian and Scottish nobleman, and Templar Knight, Prince Henry I Sinclair, sailed from Scotland to North America around the 1390s.
Sinclair was born in Scotland in 1345 A.D. He was granted the illustrious title, Earl of Orkney (islands north of Scotland). The Templar knight held these islands as a fief from the king of Norway. His mother descended from two kings of Norway. Sinclair was also Lord of Rosslyn, six miles south of Edinburgh, Scotland.
More than 300 colonists joined Prince Henry Sinclair on his journey west to Nova Scotia (New Scotland). He sailed in ten massive sailing vessels along with the colonists, his Italian navigator, Sir Antonio Zeno, and Antonio’s brother, Nicolo Zeno, from the Orkney Islands to…
