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Ferdinand Columbus (Spanish: Fernando or Hernando Colón; Portuguese: Fernando Colombo; Italian: Fernando Colombo; 15 August 1488 – 12 July 1539) was a Spanish bibliographer and cosmographer, the second son of Christopher Columbus. His mother was Beatriz Enriquez de Arana, whom his father never married.
- 12 July 1539 (aged 50), Seville, Castile
On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Spain to find an all-water route to Asia. On October 12, more than two months later, Columbus landed on an island in the Bahamas that he called San Salvador; the natives called it Guanahani. Christopher Columbus’s letter to Ferdinand and Isabella, 1493.
Jul 7, 2018 · Ferdinand Columbus, Bibliophile The second son of Christopher Columbus amassed one of the greatest collections of books and prints of the Renaissance. Lisa Barber | Published in History Today Volume 68 Issue 7 July 2018
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Ferdinand Columbus ( Spanish: Fernando or Hernando Colón; Portuguese: Fernando Colombo; Italian: Fernando Colombo; 15 August 1488 – 12 July 1539) was a Spanish bibliographer and cosmographer, the second son of Christopher Columbus. His mother was Beatriz Enriquez de Arana, whom his father never married.
Columbus’s Legacy. The grants of privileges and property bestowed on Christopher Columbus by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella became the subject of ongoing litigation between his descendants and the Spanish crown that lasted for centuries. The dispute was finally settled in 1796 in favor of Columbus’s descendants.
Ferdinand Columbus. Spanish bibliographer and cosmographer. Learn about this topic in these articles: association with Christopher Columbus. In Christopher Columbus: Written sources. …attributed to Columbus’s younger son, Ferdinand, who traveled with the admiral.
In his summary of the on-board journal, Columbus's son Ferdinand Columbus (corroborated by Bartolomé de las Casas) reports that his father wrote two letters to the Catholic monarchs in the middle of a storm around the Azores on February 14, and sealed them in watertight casks, one thrown overboard, another tied to the stern, so that if the ...