Non Authority Professor Samuel Eliot Morison To some writers this marriage appears to be a great mystery How could a foreign chartmaker NOTE suddenly he is a chartmaker and not the same LANERIO DE JANUA wool weaver of Genoa presented in the Raccolta document XXXXI from 1472 Morison going against the documents promoted the wool weaver to a chartmaker of low birth who had been literally on the beach a few years before marry into one of the noble families of the kingdom Already about 25 years old when she caught young Christopher s roving eye her mother was glad enough to have no more convent bills to pay and as son in law to secure an up and coming young man of gentlemanly manners who asked for no dowry Samuel Eliot Morison Admiral of the Ocean Sea Little Brown Boston 1942 THIS previous extract IS A FANTASY INVENTED By MORISON AND A BIG LIE This is a fabrication by Morison written completely without any proof Morison did not find anything related to FIlipa s dowry AND the truth is that Filipa s mother was NOT paying any convent bills because Filipa was so privilegded that she lived at the Monastery of Santos belonging to the elite Military Order of Santiago where she had ALL EXPENSES PAID as a Comendadora just like her cousin ANA de MENDON A King John II s Mistress and her aunt VIOLANTE NOGUEIRA nanny of King John II s aunts and even participated in the management of the All Saints Comendary Morison even invented that his Colombo peasant was an up and coming star a prodigy as if the mother in law Isabel Moniz already knew in 1478 only 2 years after supposedly washing ashore penniless and not able to speak Portuguese or even Italian that the wool weaver was going to be a famous STAR in 1493 FURTHERMORE Filipa s marriage in 1479 HAD to be AUTHORIZED by King John II who was MASTER of the Comendadoras of Santiago Contrary to what Morison and his supporters of the wool weaver tale wrote of this fantasy marriage it was impossible for Filipa Moniz to have married a non noble two bit weaver the likes of that Genoese Colombo who had supposedly washed ashore only two years prior from parts unknown with no money no education no ship nor even a job in that closed high class society of Portugal a noble society so restricted that the Captain of Madeira actually arrested his brother s noble widow for marrying a Nobleman below her station 1 There is NO DOUBT that Filipa s husband had to be her equal in social stature and not any wool weaver The whole tale invented by Morison of a peasant marrying a Noble Portuguese Captain s daughter is a perfect example of how inaccurate have been the history books on the history of Admiral Crist bal Col n The motivations that bring an author to take such wild liberties with the truth are not intended to be dealt with in this book however it is something that should alarm all readers because the established pattern had always been one of accepting the myth of the Genoese weaver and then twisting the known facts to fit into that tale while at the same time discarding important facts that deny a peasant birth for the discoverer Don Fernando Col n who wrote that his father was of noble lineage and not a peasant laborer form anywhere as others were Falsely calling him a craftsman as such the Admiral would not have learned so many letters or sciences especially the four main sciences Astrology Cosmography Geometry and Navigation The admiral was a man of letters and of great experience and did not spend time on things manual or on mechanical arts 2 Today s investigations and scientific research confirms that Don Fernando Col n was right and that his father could never have been the wool weaver Colombo or Pigeon but was instead a K lon or Member of some special noble family 1 D Maria de Noronha foi castigada de forma violenta e cruel pelo cunhado Martim Gon alves da C mara a encarcerou numa pris o da Torre de Bel m como a exp s vergonha de atravessar as ruas de Lisboa entre esbirros sobre uma mula com as m os manietadas Doutor Gaspar Frutuoso Saudades da Terra Edi o do Instituto Cultural de Ponta Delgada 1984 p gina 284 2 Historie del S D Fernando Colombo nelle quali s ha particolare vera relatione della vita de fatti dell Ammiraglio D Christoforo Colombo suo padre et dello scoprimento che egli fece dell Indie Occidentali dette Mondo Nuovo hora possedute dal Sereniss Re catolico nuouamente di lingua spagnuola tradotte nell italiana dal S Alfonso Ulloa Published in 1571 Appresso Francesco de Franceschi Sanese In Venezia 3 Manuel Rosa in Columbus The Untold Story It is amazing that after all the research that has been published in Portugal and Spain in the lat 5 year including the Admiral s original coat of arms that we still insist on propping up the old fairy tale of t