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Diego Colón Moniz, 1st Duke of Veragua, 1st Marquis of Jamaica and 2nd Admiral of the Indies, also, in, (
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.
Diego was made a
page at the
Spanish court in
1492, when his father embarked on his
first voyage. 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.
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. 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.
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