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Filipa Moniz Perestrelo (c. 1455 – between 1479 and 1484) was a Portuguese noblewoman from Porto Santo Island, in Madeira, Portugal. She married Christopher Columbus in 1479 at Vila Baleira on the island.
- between 1479–1484 (aged 24–29)
- Bartolomeu Perestrelo, Isabel Moniz
Oct 23, 2007 · Find a Grave Memorial ID: 22406824. Source citation. Her birth/death dates are approximate. She married the explorer Christopher Columbus about 1479 in Lisbon, Portugal. They stayed with her widowed mother, Isabel on Porto Santo for at least some of their early marriage.
When Filippa Moniz Perestrello was born in 1455, in Porto, Porto, Portugal, her father, Bartolomeu Perestrelo, was 72 and her mother, Isabel Moniz, was 18. She married Christovão Colombo about 1473, in Porto, Porto, Portugal. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died in 1484, in Lisbon, Portugal, at the age of 29, and was buried in ...
- Female
- Christovão Colombo
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Filipa Moniz Perestrelo (c. 1455 – between 1479 and 1484) was a Portuguese noblewoman from Porto Santo Island, in Madeira, Portugal. She married Christopher Columbus in 1479 at Vila Baleira on the island.
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 ...
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.
Feb 21, 2023 · Death: 1484 (24-33) Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. Place of Burial: Lisbon, Portugal. Immediate Family: Daughter of Bartolomeu Perestrelo, 1º senhor da Ilha de Porto Santo and Isabel Moniz. Wife of Christopher Columbus. Mother of Diego Columbus, 1st Duke of Veragua.