Don Diego Colombo (Columbus)

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Domenico Lucas Colombo

Also Known As: "Cristoforo Colombo", "The father of Christopher Columbus"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Genoa, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Death: 1493 (78-79)
Savona
Immediate Family:

Son of Giovanni Colombo and Giacomo (of Bisagno) Fontanarossa Colombo
Husband of Mécia da Costa and Susanna Fontanarossa
Father of Christopher Columbus; Bartolomeo Columbo de Fontanarrosa; Bianchinetta Bavarello; Giacomo Columbo de Fontanarrosa; Giovanni Antonio Columbo de Fontanarrosa and 1 other
Brother of Antonio de Colombo de Quinto; Battistina de Colombo and Admiral Guillermo de Casenove

Occupation: a wool weaver, Tejedor de paños y comerciante de vinos
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About Don Diego Colombo (Columbus)

Christopher Columbus was likely born in Genoa, Italy in 1451 as

Cristoforo Colombo.

It is believed that Colombo was the

son of Susanna Fontanarossa and her husband Domenico Colombo,

a Genoese wool worker and merchant. Little is known of Columbus’s early life, except from what was found in Columbus’s testament of 1498 and archival documents from Genoa and Savona.

Genoa was an independent and rich city state located in modern-day Italy—and Italy itself didn’t exist as an independent country until 1861.
However, Colombo soon left this area for its neighboring country of Spain.

https://www.spanish.academy/blog/how-cristobal-colon-became-christo...

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Don Diego Colombo (Columbus)'s Timeline

1414
1414
Birth of Don Diego Colombo (Columbus)
Genoa, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
1451
August 24, 1451
Birth of Christopher Columbus
Genoa, Genoa, Liguria, Italy

Genoa, Italy
1455
1455
Birth of Giovanni Pellegrino Columbo de Fontanarrosa
Genoa,
1461
1461
Birth of Bartolomeo Columbo de Fontanarrosa
Genova, Liguria, Italia (Italy)
1464
1464
Birth of Bianchinetta Bavarello
Genoa, Genova, Liguria , Italy
1468
1468
Birth of Giacomo Columbo de Fontanarrosa
Genova, Liguria, Italia (Italy)
1477
1477
Birth of Giovanni Antonio Columbo de Fontanarrosa
Genova, Liguria, Italia (Italy)
1493
1493
Age 79
Death of Don Diego Colombo (Columbus) at Savona
Savona
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