Christopher columbus wasn’t Italian or Catalan, he was Scottish!
Christopher Columbus was actually a Scotsman called Pedro Scotto and his family originally came from Scotland, too claims a Spanish historian.
In a report by The Telegraph, these allegations made by Alfonso Ensenat de Villalonga have turned upside down the normally accepted narratives regarding the famous explorer’s origins. He is said to be the son of a weaver from Genoa, Italy or that he was even from Catalonia or Galicia in Spain.
“In fact, he was from Genoa, but he was the son of shopkeepers not weavers and he was baptised Pedro not Christopher,” stated Villalonga.
Villalonga also added “His family name was Scotto, and was not Italian, but of Scottish origin”.
The Spanish historian also added “He had light-coloured eyes and freckles. He also had blond hair even though it quickly turned white. That’s how his contemporaries described him. He is nothing like the traditional images (of him), which are totally invented”.
Villalonga points out a chronicle of Catholic kings written by Lucio Marineo Siculo, who referred in his writings to “Pedro Columbus”, not Christopher.
The historian also alleges that the explorer once worked for a pirate called Vincenzo Columbus, and adopted that family name so as not to “expose” his relations.
According to Alfonso Ensenat de Villalonga, his research involved scrutinizing the archives in the region of Genoa, Italy along with those held in the Spanish history academy and national library.
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Comment by Spanish Tutor on 17 March 2009:
Well this is a curious development. I must admit, I’m skeptical about this – however I certainly wasn’t around to verify his ancestry at the time. Regardless of where he came from, I’m glad he did what he did.
Comment by ot plà on 18 April 2009:
Too late.
Some ten years ago, Jordi Bilbeny and many other catalan historians begun very hard and serious investigations to discover not only the true Columbus origins, but a whole royal Castilian conspiracy to delete any trace of catalan culture, history, literature, etc. During the final years of the XV century and mainly the fist half of XVI during Philip II, the castilian empire, strongly helped by the Inquisition and the imperial censure, has invented a glorious History and culture for Castile that never existed and that had been stolen to Catalonia.
The results of those investigations are far better than expected, and they reveal what can already be called the biggest cultural murder in History.
Bilbeny says that he is going now much faster than at the beginning of his works, as he has already renounced to the general acceptance and recognition and, as he says, he is working for the generations to come. He only seeks for “sufficient academical evidences” renouncing to any discussion or controversy.
And of course, he gives not only all sorts of evidences that Cristòfor Colom was a prince of Catalonia, but many other details to understand the points that were at the origin of other theories.
( http://www.histocat.com )