Almirante kan Dagat Kadagatan Christopher Columbus | |
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Posthumous portrait by Sebastiano del Piombo, 1519[1] | |
1st Governor of the Indies | |
Termino 1492–1499 | |
Appointed by | Isabella I of Castile |
Sinundan ni | Francisco de Bobadilla |
Personal na mga detalye | |
Kamundagan | between 25 August and 31 October 1451 Genoa, Republic of Genoa |
Kagadanan | Valladolid, Castile | 20 Mayo 1506 (aged 54)
Lulubngan | Seville Cathedral, Seville, Spain |
Kasaroan | Beatriz Enríquez de Arana |
Mga aki | |
Trabaho | Maritime explorer |
Lagda |
Si Christopher Columbus iyo an sarong Italyanong eksplorador asin nabigador na gikan sa Republika kan Genoa na nagkompleto kan apat na basado sa Espanya na mga voyages sa palibot kan Kadagatan Atlantiko na inisponsor kan Katolikong Monarka, nagbukas kan dalan para sa paglakop kan Europeo na eksplorasyon asin Europeong kolonisasyon kan Amerika. An saiyang ekspedisyon iyo an midbid na enot kontak kan mga Europeo sa Karibe asin Sentral asin Habagatan na Amerika.
An ngaran na Christopher Columbus iyo an anglisasyon kan Latin na Christophorus Columbus. Nagdakula sa subangan na baybayon kan Liguria, siya nagpasiring sa dagat sa amay na edad asin nagbyahe nin mahiwas, kasing-rayo kan amihanan kan British Isles asin kasing-rayo kan habagatan kan pig-aapod sa ngunyan na Ghana. Pinakasalan niya an sarong Portugesang maharlika na si Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, na nangaki nin aking lalaki na si Diego, asin nakabase sa Lisbon sa laog nin nagkapirang mga taon. Sa huri kinua niya an sarong sambay na Kastila na si Beatriz Enríquez de Arana, na nangaki nin aking lalaki, na si Ferdinand.[2][3][4]
The date of Fernando's birth, November 1488, gives a terminus ante quem early in that year for the start of Columbus's liaison with Beatriz Enríquez. She was of peasant parentage, but, when Columbus met her, was the ward of a well-to-do relative in Cordoba. A meat business gave her income of her own, mentioned in the only other record of Columbus's solicitude for her: a letter to Diego, written in 1502, just before departure on the fourth Atlantic crossing, in which the explorer enjoins his son to 'take Beatriz Enriquez in your care for love of me, as you your own mother'. Varela, Cristóbal Colón, p. 309.
Columbus never married Beatriz. When he returned from the first voyage, he was given the greatest of honors and elevated to the highest position in Spain. Because of his discovery, he became one of the most illustrious persons at the Spanish court and had to submit, like all the great persons of the time, to customary legal restrictions on matters of marriage and extramarital relations. The Alphonsine laws forbade extramarital relations of concubinage for "illustrious people" (king, princes, dukes, counts, marquis) with plebeian women, if they themselves were or their forefathers had been of inferior social condition.