Angot, Or Ango, Jean, a French merchant of Dieppe, died in 1551. He made trading voyages to Africa and the East Indies, and secured a large fortune, which he used with liberality. Some of his ships having been captured by the Portuguese, he fitted out a fleet, fully provided with soldiers and arms, which entered the Tagus and blockaded Lisbon. Every vessel coming to that port was intercepted, while both shores on the river were devastated. The king of Portugal sent an ambassador to Francis I., who referred him to the merchant of Dieppe. Angot, however, persevered, and forced Portugal to pay a large indemnity for his losses. Unsuccessful speculations brought ruin upon him, and the king of France, to whom he had lent large sums, having failed to repay him, Angot spent his last years in destitution.