Yes, Elizabeth was the Virgin Queen. But that’s also how explorers viewed the land.
— a.k.a. Lord Baltimore — for the land granted him in 1632 byQueen Henrietta MariaBut what about Virginia and its name? English explorers who scoped out the land in the 1580s thought the Native people called it Wingandacon. That’s what the Algonquins answered when the English asked, “What do you call this place?”
It was only later — after they’d put “Wingandacon” on official documents — that the English learned the word actually meant “You wear fancy clothes.” It was the Native peoples’ description of the ornately-attired Brits. , who oversaw the operation from back in England, was amused by this misunderstanding. In the end, he called it “Virginia.”“When England made its claims in the Americas, Virginia pretty much extended way beyond the present-day borders,” saidin Richmond.
“It’s only later, as English explorers got land grants to settle different parts of North America, that Virginia’s boundaries shrink,” Sherry said. Inconveniently for future newspaper columnists, there isn’t a surviving document, if one ever existed, explicitly stating why the region was going to be called Virginia, Sherry said. The name’s first appearance is on a seal issued some time in late 1584 or early 1585, authorized byThe Raleigh/Elizabeth relationship was a remarkable one. While it’s unlikely the courtier draped a cloak over a puddle to keep the monarch’s shoes dry, he was a great favorite of the queen.
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