WI no Henry the Navigator

I have often seen the question posed about no Columbus or failure of Columbus and the consensus seems to be that Portugal was going to run into Brazil regardless. But what about Prince Henry the Navigator, if he never was or never lived past 1415, is the age of discovery, both east and west, significantly delayed?
 
Sadly Prince Henry was only credited because he was the more famous member on the expedition.
Without him someone like Gonçalo Velho Cabral or Gil Eanes would have gained the title, for which they helped Henry to gain.
 
what about Prince Henry the Navigator, if he never was or never lived past 1415, is the age of discovery, both east and west, significantly delayed?
Henry's brother Pedro(Peter) was equally or more enthusiastic with the expeditions. Henry's leadiing role in the Discoveries was more due to a grand plan of his against Islam. It's anyone's guess if had Henry died, the initial southward expeditions would still take place. Perhaps without his proactive vision the expeditions would be delayed but the timing for exploring was ripe.

Sadly Prince Henry was only credited because he was the more famous member on the expedition.
I'm not 100% sure if you meant to imply that he was in the expeditions but do notice that he was but a sponsor. He didn't "navigate" anywhere apart from Morocco...
 
Didn't Henry's prestige plus his patronage and the money that drew in, create from these voyages a corpus of educated seamen who had a modern understanding of geography? I have read that Colombus benefitted from this, directly IIRC, so without it things could have been very different

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Grey Wolf
 
Didn't Henry's prestige plus his patronage and the money that drew in, create from these voyages a corpus of educated seamen who had a modern understanding of geography? I have read that Colombus benefitted from this, directly IIRC, so without it things could have been very different
The study of navigation - which would later become the university of Lisbon - would grow but slower then in OTL.

Henry's brother Pedro(Peter) was equally or more enthusiastic with the expeditions. Henry's leadiing role in the Discoveries was more due to a grand plan of his against Islam. It's anyone's guess if had Henry died, the initial southward expeditions would still take place. Perhaps without his proactive vision the expeditions would be delayed but the timing for exploring was ripe.
So really as long as there is rivalry between Muslims and the Catholics some one will try and stop the spreading of the others religion while at the same time spreading their own.

I'm not 100% sure if you meant to imply that he was in the expeditions but do notice that he was but a sponsor. He didn't "navigate" anywhere apart from Morocco...
Of course, but He is the one credited over these brave men.
Morocco is further than how far most royalist at this time have gone.
 
From the view of economic history, the main reason for the explorations was Henry's fascination with exploration and the lost christian kingdom. The pattern with early exploration is that they would explore due to Henry's funds, then settle down and just make money in the region, there was very little private willingness to fund expeditions and Henry was one of the main reasons systematic exploration sustained. It was by chance that he obtained royal revenues from merchants in the south where exploration served to expand his market. He was by a quirk of personality and royal intrigue that made him so important to exploration.
 
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