[Footnote 186: _I.e._, Josua van der Berge. In 1449, according to Galvano and Barros (1, ii, 1), King Affonso V formally sanctioned the colonisation of the Azores.] Graciosa was colonised by Vasco Gil Sodré, a Portuguese, who had been under Prince Henry's orders to Africa, and at first intended to join in the settlement of Terceira, but afterwards passed over to Graciosa. The captaincy of this island he divided for some time with his brother-in-law, Duarte Barreto. San Jorge received its first inhabitants through a venture of Willem van der Haagen,[187] one of Jacques de Bruges' companions: Van der Haagen brought two shiploads of people and plant from Flanders, but afterwards abandoned the city he had founded there, and transferred himself to the more fertile island of Fayal. The last name brings us to one of the controversial points in the early history of the Azores. [Footnote 187: "Da Silveira" in Portuguese.] According to the received account, Fayal was first settled by a Fleming noble, Jobst Van Heurter,[188] Lord of Moerkerke, father-in-law of Martin Behaim, who commemorated this event in a legend on his globe of 1492. The famous Nuremberger declares that the Azores were colonised in 1466, after they had been _granted by the King of Portugal to his sister, Isabel, Duchess of Burgundy_; that in 1490 Job de Huerter came out to settle with "some thousands of souls," the Duchess "_having granted these islands to him and his descendants_;" that in 1431, _when Prince Pedro was Regent_, Prince Henry sent out two vessels for two years' sail beyond Finisterre, and sailing west 500 leagues, they found these _ten_ uninhabited islands; that they called them Azores from the tame birds they found there; and that the King began to settle the islands with "domestic animals" in 1432. This account is full of inaccuracies, and from the documents,[189] noticed by Father Cordeiro, by Barros, and by the _Archivo dos Açores_, it appears probable that the grant of Fayal to Jobst van Heurter as first Captain Donatory was made after Prince Henry's death, perhaps in 1466, by Henry's successor, D. Ferdinand, at the request of the Duchess of Burgundy, and that this grant was confirmed by the Crown of Portugal; which, however, retained its sovereign rights over all the Azores, and did not part with them to the Duchess or anyone else. [Footnote 188: "Joz de Utra" in Portuguese.]