Christopher Columbus Aka Varon Don Cristobal Colon ~ What Are His Real Roots ???

Christopher Columbus aka Varon Don Cristobal Colon
~ what are his real roots ???

Origins of
Christopher Columbus


By Kimberly PowellMay 22, 2006



http://genealogy.about.com/b/2006/05/22/origins-of-christopher-columbus.htm



The anniversary of the death of Christopher Columbus.
To commemorate the event a team of forensic scientists, led by Spanish geneticist Jose Antonio Lorente,
have spent the past three years analyzing DNA taken from bone fragments reported to belong to Columbus
in an effort to answer the mysteries surrounding the birth and burial of the famed explorer.
Where was he born? Is he Italian, Jewish, or ?
Does the grave in Seville, Spain, hold the remains of the famed explorer, or does Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic
hold bragging rights to his final resting place?
At least one of those century-old debates appears to finally have an answer - at least sort of. The team of Spanish scientists are now fairly confident that at least some of Christopher Columbus' remains lie buried inside a cathedral in Seville, Spain.

Mitochondrial DNA taken from the Seville tomb of Columbus matches that of DNA taken from the remains known to be from Columbus' brother, Diego, who is also buried there.

"There is absolute matchup between the mitochondrial DNA we have studied from Columbus' brother and Christopher Columbus," said Marcial Castro, a Seville-area historian and high school teacher who is the mastermind behind the project, which began in 2002.

That doesn't mean that Santo Domingo is out of the running, however.

Castro said that although Columbus has now been proven to be buried in Spain, it is also likely that some of his remains could still lie in Santo Domingo.

Columbus traveled almost as much after death as he did in life.

He was first buried in Valladolid, Spain, when he died, and his remains were later moved to a monastery near Seville.

When Columbus' eldest son, Diego, died in 1526, he was buried beside his father.

In 1537, honoring the wishes of Columbus - expressed in his will - to be buried in the Americas, Diego's widow petitioned the Spanish court to move both Columbus and his son across the Atlantic to the cathedral in Santo Domingo where they rested for over two centuries. In 1795, the bones were again moved - to Havana, Cuba - to protect them from the "foreigners" as Spain seceded Hispanolia to France. There they remained for over 100 years, until the Spanish-American War prompted their removal back to the cathedral in Seville, Spain.

In the meantime, workers digging in the Santo Domingo cathedral in 1877 found a lead casket containing bone fragments and a bullet and bearing the inscription

"The Illustrious and Prominent Varon Don Cristobal Colon," the Spanish name for Christopher Columbus.

Thus it isn't too much of a stretch to believe that some of Columbus' bones remained behind in Santo Domingo - either accidentally, or through the work of some sentimental Dominican caretaker who wanted to ensure "that at least part of the explorer would never leave the city that he founded, governed and named for his father."

Castro says the team is now focusing their DNA analysis on another Columbus mystery:

his country of origin.

Traditional theory says he was from Genoa, Italy, but others argue that Columbus was actually from the Catalonia region of northeast Spain.

Other versions of the story have Columbus as a Catalan Jew who fled to Genoa to hide from the Spanish Inquisition, and the illegitimate son of Spain's prince of Viana, born in Majorca.

The scientists have collected hundreds of samples from Spanish men sharing the surname Colón (Columbus) in the effort to find a common link to the great explorer.

Their DNA will be compared to DNA from the identified bones of Hernando — Columbus' son through an extramarital affair — to see if they carry the same Y-chromosome markers, identifying them as a descendant.

(1) Daniel Colón says:
For many years I have said that Colubus was Spanish. Since I share the same surname I would like to have my DNA checked. How can I do this?

July 18, 2007 at 12:01 am
(2) Pedro Amorim says:
According to recently published books, Columbus was a spy working for the King(dom) of Portugal that sourced financing for “the project” in Spain after unsuccessful attempt in England with Henry VII.

Remember that the Kingdom of Portugal was one of the countries where The Knights Templar were protected after fleeing from France

– the order then converted into The Order Of Christ and assets remained untouched – and these had knowledge of the existence of the (now known as the) americas from,

for instance, having fought out the Vikings in Great Britain (and having sailed there previously then historically recorded).

How else can you explain The Order of Christ crosses sewn all over Columbus ship’s sails?!

Infante Dom Henrique (Henry The Navigator), the master planner of portuguese discoveries which lead to the discovery of Brasil and Tordesilles seemingly lunny treaty, was himself Grand Master of The Order Of Christ.

After The Knights Templar persecution and escape from France in 1307, Grand Mastership of the newly created/converted Order Of Christ *in Portugal* (only) was taken over by the King.

October 24, 2009 at 12:21 pm
(3) malkiyahu says:
Christopher Columbus was a direct descendant of the Jew man named Simon of Cyrene through his son Rufus.

http://voiceofwarning.blogspot.com/2009/10/praise-to-man-that-communes-wiht.html

August 1, 2010 at 12:20 pm
(4) Chardon says:
Forget the jewish fantasm.
He had a strong christian Faith with many jews contacts and friends.
I heard He was tolerant with the others Religions.

Portuguese Citizen by his wedding, living in Spain, born in Italy as

Pedro Scotto with a “Scot” background (his appearance).
The spy thesis seems a fantasm too.
His bones/dna : caucasian (not jew) and not italian with the form of his bones…

August 13, 2010 at 9:19 am
(5) Ivonne Colon says:
I have never been able to tell people where the surname Colon originates from. Can someone from the scientific world please post evidence of your findings. We all originate from one race or another physical wise; although we all originate from the same source.

February 22, 2011 at 11:29 pm
(6) EduardoFreireCanosa says:
The very fact that nobody knows his place of birth indicates that he wished to hide it to protect his relatives.

The only people in Spain at the time who had to do so were

the Spanish Jews and the Spanish Muslims. Therefore Columbus had to be either one.

When a person makes a historic discovery the first people he wishes to relate his success to are the dearest members of his family.

Therefore he would land in a port closest to the residence of his family.

He did not return to Cadiz, he landed in the Galician port of Baiona.

This means that Columbus’ family hailed from or lived in the vicinity of that port.

A perusal of his letters to the Catholic Kings shows right away that he was versed in the Old Testament whose prophets he cited continually.

Therefore he was a Spanish Jew.

In a remarkable letter he proposed to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella a project to recapture Jerusalem which, he guaranteed, would meet with unreserved success according to the prophecies of the Bible.

Only a crypto-Jew could have come up with such a scheme.

The Catholic kings foolishly rejected the plan.

The Catholic Kings treated Columbus shamefully.

This is done only to someone who is completely vulnerable, defenceless, a crypto-Jew.

A proud Genovese mariner would never have consented such treatment and the Catholic kings would never have tarnished their reputation in Europe

by daring to treat an Italian that way.

Remember John Cabot or Giovanni Caboto.

So Christopher Columbus was a Spanish Jew from southern Galicia or northern Portugal.

November 22, 2011 at 10:16 pm
(7) Christopher Woods says:
I’d like to have my DNA tested to check because my mother’s madin name is Colon.

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ONE www.geni.com version

i found an ancestor of:

Matteo Pallastrelli
Birth: estimated before 1341
Immediate Family:
Husband of Benigna Scotti

Columbus is here: http://www.geni.com/people/Almte-D-...00000000432836404?through=6000000000432965148

Almte. D. Cristóbal Colón, gobernador general de las Indias
Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was a navigator, colonizer, and explorer from the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. With his four voyages of exploration and several attempts at establishing a settlement on the island of Hispaniola, all funded by Isabella I of Castile, he initiated the process of Spanish colonization which foreshadowed general European colonization of the "New World".

Although not the first to reach the Americas from Europe—he was preceded by at least one other group, the Norse, led by Leif Ericson, who built a temporary settlement 500 years earlier at L'Anse aux Meadows Columbus initiated widespread contact between Europeans and indigenous Americans.

The term "pre-Columbian" is usually used to refer to the peoples and cultures of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus and his European successors.

The name Christopher Columbus is the Anglicisation of the Latin Christophorus Columbus. The original name in 15th century Genoese language was Christoffa Corombo (pronounced IPA: [kriˈʃtɔffa kuˈrumbu) although the Italian language version of the name is Cristoforo Colombo.

Columbus's initial 1492 voyage came at a critical time of emerging modern western imperialism and economic competition between developing kingdoms seeking wealth from the establishment of trade routes and colonies. In this sociopolitical climate, Columbus's far-fetched scheme won the attention of Isabella I of Castile. Severely underestimating the circumference of the Earth, he estimated that a westward route from Iberia to the Indies would be shorter than the overland trade route through Arabia. If true, this would allow Spain entry into the lucrative spice trade — heretofore commanded by the Arabs and Italians. Following his plotted course, he instead landed within the Bahamas Archipelago at a locale he named San Salvador. Mistaking the lands he encountered for Asia, he referred to the inhabitants as "indios" (Spanish for "Indians.

The anniversary of Columbus's 1492 landing in the Americas is usually observed as Columbus Day on 12 October in Spain and throughout the Americas, except Canada. In the United States it is observed annually on the second Monday in October.

Christopher Columbus was featured on a U.S. postage stamp issued in 1893.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_on_stamps_of_the_United_States

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristóvão_Colombo

says; THIS IS THE MASTER PROFILE

(THERE ARE A NUMBER OF LINEAGES-thus the confusion)

Place of Burial: Cathedral of Seville, España
Birth: circa August 24, 1451
Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy
Death: May 20, 1506 (54)
Valladolid, Crown of Castile, in present-day Spain



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Filippo Pallastrelli
her father


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Gabriele Pallastrelli
his father


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Gherardo Pallastrelli
his father


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Matteo Pallastrelli
his father

& a mother named SCOTTI





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