Rubicon, was busy with the arrival of Bethencourt by thick vegetation, which made him and his men had to make their way with machetes. After the failed attempt to conquer Fuerteventura , again Bethencourth Castile is awarded the lordship of Lanzarote. When you return to the native resistance was suppressed in blood and fire by Gadifer de la Salle . After successive failures in the conquest of other islands and given the low commercial interest aroused then Lanzarote, Jean de Bethencourt gives the lordship of the island to its relative Maciot de Bethencourt. The Catholic Monarchs banned that would capture the inhabitants of the Canaries as slaves.
The suzerainty
Lanzarote becomes a feudal manor passed from hand to hand from the descendants of Andalusian nobles Bethencourt as Count Niebla, Hernán Peraza and Peter Beard .
In these early years the island will be an important source repoblador contingent Berber , which will merge with the Aboriginal people and European settlers.
During the following centuries the island maintain a feudal power structure, until abolition in 1812 by the courts of Cadiz from the union of land ownership and judiciary representing the estates. While the performance of the judiciary, the manors were a Germanic law institution, possibly before the Middle Ages, no longer inherited after the decision of the courts of Cadiz, the ownership of the land, before linked to public office as a element of its functionality, was no longer linked to the public of the manors, disappearing, and become personal property of the heir of the manor. From an economic standpoint, the deputies could do better gift to the former holders of the manors. Given the proximity to the African coast, Lanzarote is target of attacks by Barbary pirates and European. In 1586 the Barbary corsair Amurat making the island with five hundred men and capture the family of Mr.. In 1618 Soliman invades and
