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Diego Colón

Diego Colón Moniz, 1st Duke of Veragua, 1st Marquis of Jamaica and 2nd Admiral of the Indies, also, in Portuguese: Diogo Colombo, (1479/1480, Porto Santo, Portugal – February 23, 1526, Montalbán, Spain) was the firstborn son of Christopher Columbus and his wife Filipa Moniz, and eventually became the 4th Viceroy of the Indies. Portuguese ( or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain and northern Portugal. Porto Santo Island ( pron 'poɾtu 'sɐ̃tu is a Portuguese island 50 km northeast of Madeira Island in the North Atlantic Ocean Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Events 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western Book printed from Movable Montalbán is a town and municipality in Spain with a population of 1538 an area of 82 km² and a density of 18 Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Christopher Columbus (1451 &ndash May 20 1506 was an Italian Navigator, colonizer Viceroys of New Spain In addition to viceroys the following list includes the highest Spanish governors of the colony before the appointment of the first viceroy

Diego was made a page at the Spanish court in 1492, when his father embarked on his first voyage. A page or page boy is a traditionally young male servant. The medieval page In medieval times, a page was an attendant to a Knight Christopher Columbus (1451–1506 was a Navigator and an Admiral for the Crown of Castile whose voyages to America greatly expanded He spent most of his adult life trying to regain the titles and privileges that his father had been granted for his explorations and then stripped of in 1500. He was greatly aided in this goal by his marriage to Doña María Alvarez de Toledo y Rojas, niece of the 2nd Duke of Alba, who was King Ferdinand's cousin. The Dukes of Alba ( es: Duque de Alba) are Spanish nobility and Grandees of Spain. Ferdinand II of Aragon the Catholic (Fernando II de Aragón y V de Castilla "el Católico" Ferran II d'Aragó "el Catòlic" Ferrando II d'Aragón

In 1509, he was named Governor of the Indies, the post his father had previously held. He established his home, which still stands, in Santo Domingo in what is now the Dominican Republic. Santo Domingo de Guzmán (known as Santo Domingo population 2084852 (Metro (2003 estimated 2253437 (Metro in 2006 is the Capital and largest city in the The Dominican Republic ( Spanish: República Dominicana;) is a nation located in the Caribbean region and shares the island of Hispaniola with He continued to fight for the remainder of his father's titles, and was made Viceroy of the Indies in May 1511. He remained in charge until 1518. He continued to resent encroachments on his power and to fight for all of his father's privileges thereafter and made trips to Spain in 1515 and 1523 to plead his case without success. After his death, a compromise was reached in 1536 in which his son Luis Colón de Toledo (1519/1520-1572) was named 3rd Admiral of the Indies and renounced all other rights for a perpetual annuity of 10,000 ducats, the island of Jamaica as a fief, an estate of 25 square leagues on the Isthmus of Panama, then called Veragua, and the titles of 2nd Duke of Veragua and 2nd Marquis of Jamaica and 1st Duke of La Vega. The ducat (ˈdʌkət is a Gold coin that was used as a trade currency throughout Europe before World War I. Jamaica (ˈdʒəˈmeɪkə} is an Island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. Under the system of Feudalism, a fiefdom, fief, feud, feoff, or fee, often consisted of inheritable lands or revenue-producing A league is a unit of Length or Area long common in Europe and Latin America, although no longer an official unit in any nation The Isthmus of Panama, also historically known as the Isthmus of Darien, is the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Veragua or Veraguas was the name of five territorial entities in Central America beginning in the sixteenth century during the Spanish colonial period The Dukedom of Veragua (Ducado de Veragua was a Spanish hereditary domain created in 1537 in the reign of King Charles I in a small section of the territory of Veragua

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