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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.
Portuguese wife of Christopher Columbus. Name variations: Filippa Columbus or Columbo; Filippa Colón; Felipa Perestrello e Moniz. Died in 1483; daughter of a Portuguese officer (governor of an island near Madeira); married Christopher Columbus (1451–1506, the explorer), also seen as Cristóbal Colón (Spanish) and Cristoforo Columbo (Italian);
Oct 23, 2007 · Filipa was the wife of Christopher Columbus and the daughter of a Portuguese nobleman. She died in Rome and was buried in Lisbon, where she has a memorial in the Convento do Carmo.
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.
He married Portuguese noblewoman Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, who bore a son, Diego, and was based in Lisbon for several years. He later took a Castilian mistress, Beatriz Enríquez de Arana, who bore a son, Ferdinand.
Filipa Perestrelo was a noblewoman from Madeira, Portugal, who married Christopher Columbus in 1479. She was a member of the Military Order of Saint James and died in 1485.
He was the eldest son of Christopher Columbus and his wife Filipa Moniz Perestrelo. [3] He was born in Portugal , either in Porto Santo in 1479/1480, or in Lisbon in 1474.
