History

· 1402-1496– We know that during the VX Century, Jean de Bethencourt brought into Spain and later to France the first canary birds during the conquest of the Canary Islands for King Carlos VII of Spain. In the course ofthat same century Henry the Navigator arrives at the Azores and brings the first canary birds to Portugal and possibly to England.

The royal courts were common place for keeping canaries. The monks in Spain seeking revenues, began to breed, sell and export only the male birds, thus creating an almost exclusive commercial control which they dominated for many years.

· 1545-according to the writings of Conrad Von Gesner, considered the father of modern zoology canary birds were already kept in England.

“The birds we call canary here, in England, are called sugar birds and only the wealthy posses them”..

At this same time it was also kept and bred in Flanders. According to historians, by the end of the XV century Spain was conquering America and reconquering Granada from the Moors. The son of Juana and Felipe, Carlos I of Spain and Emperor V of Germany had inherited many European countries including Flanders, Holland, Luxemburg, Burgundy and The Low Countries (Netherlands), for this reason there were commercial and blood line relations between these territories and Spain.