Filipa Moniz Perestrelo
Filipa Moniz Perestrelo | |
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Born | c. 1455 |
Died | between 1479–1484 (aged 24–29) |
Spouse | |
Children | Bartolomeu Perestrelo Isabel Moniz |
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.
History
Filipa Moniz was the daughter of Isabel Moniz and
Marriage
Discussing the question of how Christopher Columbus, the son of a Genoese wool weaver, could marry the daughter of a Portuguese Knight of Santiago, a member of the household of Prince
Another view is presented by Portuguese professor Joel Silva Ferreira Mata, who researched All-Saints and its residents.
Interment
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.
See also
- People from Madeira
- Ming Dynasty
References
- ^ Freitas, Antonio Maria de (1893). The Wife of Columbus: With Genealogical Tree of the Perestrello and Moniz Families. New York: Stettinger, Lambert & Co.
- ^ A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; - called also a preceptory. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Commandery
- ^ Historie del S. D. Fernando Colombo; nelle quali s'ha particolare, & vera relatione della vita, & de fatti dell'Ammiraglio D. Cristoforo Colombo, suo padre: Et dello scoprimento ch'egli fece dell'Indie Occidentali, dette Mondo Nuovo (The life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus by his son Ferdinand)
- ^ Samuel Eliot Morison, Admiral of the Ocean Sea pp. 37-39
- ^ A Comunidade Feminina da Ordem de Santiago: A comenda de Santos na Idade Média, Prof. Joel Silva Ferreira Mata, Universidad Lusíada, Oporto, 1992.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2011-12-14.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ MATA, Joel Silva Ferreira – A comunidade feminina da Ordem de Santiago: a comenda de Santos em finais do século XV e no século XVI. Um estudo religioso, económico e social. In Militarium Ordinum Analecta. Porto, No. 9, Fundação Engenheiro António de Almeida, 2007.
- ISBN 9780806129341. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
Further reading
- Fernández-Armesto, Felipe (1991). Columbus. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-215898-8.
- Phillips, William D. (1992). The Worlds of Christopher Columbus. Carla Rahn Phillips. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-35097-2.
- Taviani, Paolo Emilio (1992). "Perestrelo y Moniz, Filipa". The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia. Simon & Schuster.