Filipa de Perestrelo e Moniz

Filipa de Perestrelo e Moniz (* probably 1452 , † around 1484) was a Portuguese noblewoman. Until her death she was the wife of Christopher Columbus and the mother of the viceroy Diego Columbus .

Life

Filipa's mother, Isabel Moniz, came from impoverished Portuguese high nobility. Her father, Bartolomeu Perestrelo , was the son of a merchant from Italy and until his death (before 1458) governor of the island of Porto Santo of the Madeira group. Filipa met Columbus in 1478 in Madeira, where he had taken a boat trip . His marriage to her in 1479 is considered to be groundbreaking for his later life, as it brought him into contact with a family that was connected to the history of the discovery of Portugal. After the marriage, Columbus spent some time in Porto Santo, where the couple's son, Diego , was born.

literature

Antonio Maria de Freitas: The Wife of Columbus: With Genealogical Tree of the Perestrello and Moniz Families. Stettinger, Lambert & Co., New York 1893 ( digitized version ).
Maria de Freitas Treen: The admiral and his lady. Columbus and Filipa of Portugal. Speller & Sons, New York 1989, ISBN 978-0-8315-0191-4 .
Fred Burrous: Portugal's Mrs. Chris Columbus. Without doubt the most mysterious female in all history: plus America BC (Before Columbus). America BC, Berkeley 2001, ISBN 1-58790-007-6 .

Web links

Literature by and about Filipa de Perestrelo e Moniz in the bibliographic database WorldCat .

References and comments

↑ Rebecca Catz: Christopher Columbus and the Portuguese, 1476-1498. Greenwood Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-313-28867-8 , p. 24
↑ Urs Bitterli : The discovery of America. from Columbus to Alexander von Humboldt. 2nd Edition. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-42122-8 , p. 47
↑ According to Antonio Maria de Freitas (1893, see literature, p. 47), the marriage was concluded in 1475 and Diego was born in 1476. However, this is not confirmed in the more recent specialist literature.

personal data
SURNAME	Perestrelo e Moniz, Filipa de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Moniz Perestrelo, Filipa; Moniz, Filipa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Portuguese nobleman, wife of Christopher Columbus
DATE OF BIRTH	uncertain: 1452
DATE OF DEATH	around 1484

[1] Rebecca Catz: Christopher Columbus and the Portuguese, 1476-1498. Greenwood Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-313-28867-8 , p. 24

[2] Urs Bitterli : The discovery of America. from Columbus to Alexander von Humboldt. 2nd Edition. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-42122-8 , p. 47

[3] According to Antonio Maria de Freitas (1893, see literature, p. 47), the marriage was concluded in 1475 and Diego was born in 1476. However, this is not confirmed in the more recent specialist literature.