Diego Columbus
Diego Columbus (Portuguese: Diogo Colombo; Spanish: Diego Colón; Italian: Diego Colombo; 1479/1480 – February 23, 1526) was a navigator and explorer under the Kings of Castile and Aragón. He served as the 2nd Admiral of the Indies, 2nd Viceroy of the Indies and 4th Governor of the Indies as a vassal to the Kings of Castile and Aragón. He was the eldest son of Christopher Columbus and his wife Filipa Moniz Perestrelo.[3]
Not to be confused with Diego (Giacomo in Italian), the youngest brother of Christopher Columbus[1][2].
Diego Columbus
Joanna of Castile (1511–1526), Charles I of Spain (1516–1526)
Joanna of Castile (1506–1526),
Philip I of Castile (1506),
Charles I of Spain (1516–1526)
Ferdinand II of Aragon, as regent to Joanna of Castile (1508)
Ferdinand II of Aragon, as regent to Joanna of Castile (1508)
April 1, 1479
Kingdom of Portugal
February 23, 1526
(aged 45)
La Puebla de Montalbán, Spain
5, including Luis
Navigator
Explorer
He was born in Portugal, either in Porto Santo in 1479/1480, or in Lisbon in 1474. He spent most of his adult life trying to regain the titles and privileges granted to his father for his explorations and then denied in 1500. He was greatly aided in this goal by his marriage to María de Toledo y Rojas, niece of the 2nd Duke of Alba, who was the cousin of King Ferdinand.
Death and legacy[edit]
After his death, a compromise was reached in 1536 in which his son, Luis Colón de Toledo, was named Admiral of the Indies and renounced all other rights for a perpetual annuity of 10,000 ducats, the island of Jamaica as a fief, an estate of 25 square leagues on the Isthmus of Panama, then called Veragua, and the titles of Duke of Veragua and Marquess of Jamaica.
After Columbus's death on February 23, 1526, in Spain, the rents, offices and titles in the New World went into dispute by his descendants.
He initially planned to marry Mencia de Guzman, daughter of the Duke of Medina Sidonia.,[10] but he was forced by King Fernando to marry the king's cousin María de Toledo y Rojas (c. 1490 – May 11, 1549), who secured the transportation and burial of her father-in-law, Christopher Columbus, in Santo Domingo. She was the daughter of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, 1st Lord of Villoria, son of García Álvarez de Toledo, 1st Duke of Alba, and his first wife María de Rojas, and had the following children:[11]