Dr. Horowitz "it is" history now "so it remains" incorrect. The fleets were
established by Henry the Navigator, as were the explorations, which
continued after his death. So it remains a fact that Columbus learned to
navigate on Henry's fleets, as I had written. Henry's explorers discovered
the Madeira Islands and the Azores, both of which are in the Atlantic,
directly to the west of Portugal. It was these westward discoveries that
fueled Columbus's dreams and ambitions, as I wrote.
Many previous historical sources, and the most recent historical
research, have convincingly shown that Columbus was not born in Genoa. [1] All
of the Genoese documents were forgeries for the sole purpose of usurping
Columbus's vast estate, after his death. I will give just one example of
the innumerable historical inconsistencies. In 1479 Columbus married Filia
Moniz Perestrelo, an elite member of the Order of Santiago and daughter of
the Governor of Porto Santo in Madeira. This marriage required the consent
of the master of the order, who happened to be Joao II, the King of
Portugal. It is inconceivable that a semi-literate, penniless, wool-weaver
from Genoa, would be allowed to marry into such nobility, much less have
access to royal fleets. In fact, Columbus was of nobility himself, having
been born in Madeira, to his father Wladyslaw III. Until 1444, he was the
King of Poland/Lithuania and Hungary.[2] In 1444, at the instigation of a
Papal envoy, he broke his accord with the Ottomans' Sultan Murad II, and
attacked him. He lost the Battle of Varna, and disappeared from history,
or so it seemed. In fact he sought refuge in Portugal and was given land
in the Madeira Islands by King Alfonso V. He lived there under the name of
Henrique Alemao and married Annes de Sa Colonna, with his best man being
the same King. Columbus was born there.
1. Rosa, Manuel, COLON. La Historia Nunca Contada (Columbus - The Untold
Story) Esquilo - Ediciones y Multimedia, Badajoz, Spain, 2009.
2. Varvounis, Miltiades, Was Columbus a Lithuanian Prince? Lithuanian
Heritage, 20: 6-11, 28-31, 2013.
Dr. Horowitz "it is" history now "so it remains" incorrect. The fleets were established by Henry the Navigator, as were the explorations, which continued after his death. So it remains a fact that Columbus learned to navigate on Henry's fleets, as I had written. Henry's explorers discovered the Madeira Islands and the Azores, both of which are in the Atlantic, directly to the west of Portugal. It was these westward discoveries that fueled Columbus's dreams and ambitions, as I wrote.
Many previous historical sources, and the most recent historical research, have convincingly shown that Columbus was not born in Genoa. [1] All of the Genoese documents were forgeries for the sole purpose of usurping Columbus's vast estate, after his death. I will give just one example of the innumerable historical inconsistencies. In 1479 Columbus married Filia Moniz Perestrelo, an elite member of the Order of Santiago and daughter of the Governor of Porto Santo in Madeira. This marriage required the consent of the master of the order, who happened to be Joao II, the King of Portugal. It is inconceivable that a semi-literate, penniless, wool-weaver from Genoa, would be allowed to marry into such nobility, much less have access to royal fleets. In fact, Columbus was of nobility himself, having been born in Madeira, to his father Wladyslaw III. Until 1444, he was the King of Poland/Lithuania and Hungary.[2] In 1444, at the instigation of a Papal envoy, he broke his accord with the Ottomans' Sultan Murad II, and attacked him. He lost the Battle of Varna, and disappeared from history, or so it seemed. In fact he sought refuge in Portugal and was given land in the Madeira Islands by King Alfonso V. He lived there under the name of Henrique Alemao and married Annes de Sa Colonna, with his best man being the same King. Columbus was born there.
1. Rosa, Manuel, COLON. La Historia Nunca Contada (Columbus - The Untold Story) Esquilo - Ediciones y Multimedia, Badajoz, Spain, 2009.
2. Varvounis, Miltiades, Was Columbus a Lithuanian Prince? Lithuanian Heritage, 20: 6-11, 28-31, 2013.