NonAuthority 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  Morison going against the documents promoted the woolweaver 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  years old when she caught young Christophers roving eye her mother was glad enough to have no more convent bills to pay and as soninlaw to secure an upandcoming young man of gentlemanly manners who asked for no dowry  Samuel Eliot Morison Admiral of the Ocean Sea Little Brown Boston  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 FIlipas dowry AND the truth is that Filipas 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 MENDONA King John IIs Mistress and her aunt VIOLANTE NOGUEIRA nanny of King John IIs aunts and even participated in the management of the AllSaints Comendary Morison even invented that his Colombo peasant was an upandcoming star a prodigy as if the motherinlaw Isabel Moniz already knew in  only  years after supposedly washing ashore penniless and not able to speak Portuguese or even Italian that the woolweaver was going to be a famous STAR in  FURTHERMORE Filipas marriage in  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 woolweaver tale wrote of this fantasy marriage it was impossible for Filipa Moniz to have married a nonnoble twobit 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 highclass society of Portugala noble society so restricted that the Captain of Madeira actually arrested his brothers noble widow for marrying a Nobleman below her station There is NO DOUBT that Filipas husband had to be her equal in social stature and not any woolweaver The whole tale invented by Morison of a peasant marrying a Noble Portuguese Captains daughter is a perfect example of how inaccurate have been the history books on the history of Admiral Cristbal Coln 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 Coln 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 Todays investigations and scientific research confirms that Don Fernando Coln was right and that his father could never have been the woolweaver Colombo or Pigeon but was instead a Klon or Member of some special noble family   D Maria de Noronha foi castigada de forma violenta e cruel pelo cunhado Martim Gonalves da Cmara a encarcerou numa priso da Torre de Belm como a exps  vergonha de atravessar as ruas de Lisboa entre esbirros sobre uma mula com as mos manietadas Doutor Gaspar Frutuoso Saudades da Terra Edio do Instituto Cultural de Ponta Delgada  pgina    Historie del SD Fernando Colombo nelle quali sha particolare  vera relatione della vita  de fatti dellAmmiraglio D Christoforo Colombo suo padre et dello scoprimento cheegli fece dellIndie Occidentali dette Mondo Nuovo hora possedute dal Sereniss Re catolico nuouamente di lingua spagnuola tradotte nellitaliana dal S Alfonso Ulloa Published in  Appresso Francesco de Franceschi Sanese In Venezia   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  year including the Admirals original coat of arms that we still insist on propping up the old fairy tale of t