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Filipa's fate is unknown and it is uncertain whether she was dead before Columbus left Portugal, nor is her cause of death known. Current scholarship places her death sometime between 1478 and 1484. [8]
- between 1479–1484 (aged 24–29)
- Bartolomeu Perestrelo, Isabel Moniz
When Filipa Moniz Perestrelo was born in 1455, in Porto, Porto, Portugal, her father, Bartolomeo Perestrello, was 72 and her mother, Isabel Moniz Pereira, was 30. She married Cristóbal Colón Colón, Primer Almirante de la Mar Océano about 1473, in Porto, Porto, Portugal.
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Oct 23, 2007 · Birth. 1455. Porto Santo, Porto Santo Municipality, Madeira, Portugal. Death. 1484 (aged 28–29) Rome, Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, Lazio, Italy. Burial. Convento do Carmo. Lisbon, Lisboa Municipality, Lisboa, Portugal Add to Map.
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.
- Fernando Cervantes
When Filippa Moniz e Perestrello was born on 2 March 1455, in Porto Santo, Madeira, Portugal, her father, Capitan Bartolomeu Perestrelo, was 72 and her mother, Isabel Moniz Pereira Suegra de Cristóbal Colón, was 23.
- Female
- Cristóbal Colón
When Perestrelo died, the library went to his widow, Isabel Moniz Perestrelo, who later opened the treasure trove to her daughter and son-in-law. In 1480, Filipa bore a son she and her husband named Diogo. The marriage to Filipa gave Columbus Portuguese citizenship and access to the commercial shipping routes to Africa.
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.
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