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  1. Portuguese wife of Christopher Columbus. Name variations: Filippa Columbus or Columbo; Filippa Colón; Felipa Perestrello e Moniz. Died in 1483; daughter of a Portuguese officer (governor of an island near Madeira); married Christopher Columbus (1451–1506, the explorer), also seen as Cristóbal Colón (Spanish) and Cristoforo Columbo (Italian ...

  2. Oct 12, 2020 · He was married to the Portuguese noblewoman Filipa Moniz Perestrelo and had a son, Diego, by 1480 CE and, by 1485 CE, was piloting ships to areas along the coast of West Africa in the service of Portugal's trade interests.

  3. In 1479, with the permission of Afonso V, King of Portugal, Columbus married Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, a Portuguese lady, the daughter of Isabel Moniz (whose uncle was archbishop of Lisbon) and of Bartolomeu Perestrelo, a Portuguese knight, who was governor of the island of Porto Santo, near Madeira, and a sea captain who had worked for Henry ...

  4. When Filippa Moniz e Perestrello was born in 1455, in Porto, Porto, Portugal, her father, Bartolomeu Perestrelo, was 72 and her mother, Isabel Moniz, was 18. She married Cristóbal Colón Colón, Primer Almirante de la Mar Océano about 1473, in Porto, Porto, Portugal.

  5. Jan 1, 2024 · Christopher Columbus's wife, Felipa Moniz Perestrello, died in approximately 1484. If she had lived, this would be the diary she might have kept while traveling with her husband to the New World. The novel portrays Felipa as a jealous, passionate, and adventurous woman.

  6. Sep 17, 2021 · Sometime between 1477 and 1480 he had married Filipa Moniz Perestrelo. This was a huge social leap forward for Columbus, the son of a Genoese weaver. Filipa descended, on her mother’s side, from a family of upwardly mobile landholders with a good record of service to the Portuguese Crown.

  7. Filipa Moniz Perestrelo (c. 1455 – between 1479 and 1484) was a Portuguese noblewoman from Porto Santo Island, in Madeira, Portugal. She was the wife of Christopher Columbus, married in 1479 in Vila Baleira on the island. History. Filipa Moniz was the daughter of Isabel Moniz and Bartolomeu Perestrelo.

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