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What position did Diego Columbus take from 1511 to 1515?
Diego Columbus Diego Columbus ( ; ; ; 1479/1480 – February 23 , 1526 ) was a navigator and explorer under the Kings of Castile and Aragón . He served as the 2nd Admiral of the Indies , 2nd Viceroy of the Indies and 4th Governor of the Indies as a vassal to the Kings of Castile and Aragón . He was the elder son of Christopher Columbus and his wife Filipa Moniz Perestrelo . He was born in Portugal , either in Porto Santo in 1479/1480 , or in Lisbon in 1474 . He spent most of his adult life trying to regain the titles and privileges granted to his father for his explorations and then denied him in 1500 . He was greatly aided in this goal by his marriage to María de Toledo y Rojas , niece of the 2nd Duke of Alba , who was the cousin of King Ferdinand . Life . Diego was made a page at the Spanish court in 1492 , the year his father embarked on his first voyage . Diego had a younger half-brother , Fernando , by Beatriz Enríquez de Arana . Ferdinand and Diego had been pages to Prince Don Juan , then became pages to Queen Isabella in 1497 . In August 1508 , he was named Governor of the Indies , the post his father had held , arriving to Santo Domingo in July 1509 . He established his home ( Alcázar de Colón ) , which still stands there , in Santo Domingo in what is now the Dominican Republic . According to Floyd , Diego ...was accompanied by a splendid entourage : his wife , Doña Maria , the first gran dama of the New World , the Duke of Albas niece , with her own suite of doncellas ; and his immediate relatives - Fernando his half-brother , his two uncles , Diego and Bartolomé , and his cousins , Andrea and Giovanni . Also on the expedition were his criados and his fathers old retainers : Marcos de Aguilar , his forthright alcalde mayor , Diego Mendez , his business manager , and Gerónimo de Agüero , his former tutor . Other loyal Colombistas met him at Santo Domingo - his uncle by marriage , Francisco de Garay , whom he named alguacil mayor , and Bartolomés criados , Miguel Díaz , Diego Velázquez , and Juan Cerón . His coming represented the permanent establishment of the most titled and notable family in the islands , at least for many years . In 1511 , a royal council declared Hispaniola , Puerto Rico , Jamaica and Cuba were under Diegos power by right of his fathers discovery . However , Uraba and Veragua were deemed excluded , since the council regarded them as being discovered by Rodrigo de Bastidas . The council further confirmed Diegos titles of Viceroy and admiral were hereditary , though honorific . Furthermore , Diego had the right to one-tenth of the net royal income . However , factions soon formed between those loyal to Diego and Ferdinands royal officials . Matters deteriorated to the point that Ferdinand recalled Diego in 1514 . Diego then spent the next five years in Spain futilely pressing his claims . Finally , in 1520 , Diegos powers were restored by Charles . Diego returned to Santo Domingo on 12 Nov . 1520 in the midst of a native revolt in the area of the Franciscan missions on the Cumana River . This was also the area of the Spanish salt and pearl trade , besides slave hunting . Diego sent Gonzalo de Ocampo on a punitive expedition with 200 men and 6 ships . Then in 1521 , Diego invested in Bartolomé de las Casas enterprise to settle the Cumana area . That failure , blamed on Diego , meant the loss of the kings confidence . That loss , plus Diegos defiance of royal power on Cuba , forced Charles to reprimand Diego in 1523 and recall him back to Spain . After his death , a compromise was reached in 1536 in which his son , Luis Colón de Toledo , was named 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 Duke of Veragua and Marquess of Jamaica . The first major slave revolt in the Americas occurred in Santo Domingo during 1522 , when enslaved Muslims of the Wolof nation led an uprising in the sugar plantation of admiral Don Diego Colon . Many of these insurgents managed to escape to the mountains where they formed independent maroon communities among the Tainos . After Columbuss death on February 23 , 1526 , in Spain , the rents , offices and titles in the New World went into dispute by his descendants . Marriage and children . He initially planned to marry Mencia de Guzman , daughter of the Duke of Medina Sidonia. , but he was forced by King Fernando to marry the kings cousin María de Toledo y Rojas ( c . 1490 – May 11 , 1549 ) , who secured the transportation and burial of her father-in-law , Christopher Columbus , in Santo Domingo . She was the daughter of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo , 1st Lord of Villoria , son of García Álvarez de Toledo , 1st Duke of Alba , and his first wife María de Rojas , and had the following children : - María Colón de Toledo ( c . 1510 – ) , married to Sancho Folch de Cardona , 1st Marquess of Guadalest - Luis Colón , 1st Duke of Veragua - Cristóbal Colón de Toledo ( c . 1510 – 1571 ) , married firstly to María Leonor Lerma de Zuazo , without issue ; married secondly to Ana de Pravia , and had one son ( Diego Colon y Pravia [ c . 1551 - Jan 27 , 1578 ] ) and one daughter ( Francisca Colon y Pravia , [ c . 1552 - April 1616 ] ; and married thirdly to María Magadalena de Guzmán y Anaya , and had : - Diego Colón de Toledo , father of Diego the 4th Admiral of the Indies . - Francisca Colón de Toledo y Pravia ( c . 1550 – April , 1616 ) , married Diego de Ortegón ( c . 1550 – ) , and had four children : Guiomar de Ortegon y Colon [ d . 1621 ] ; Jacoba de Oretgon y Colon [ d . 1618 ] ; Ana de Ortegon y Colon ; and Josefa de Ortegon y Colon - María Colón de Toledo y Guzmán ( c . 1550 – ) , married to Luis de Avila , and had : - Cristóbal de Avila y Colón ( 1579 – ) , unmarried and without issue - Luis de Avila y Colón ( 1582-1633 ) , married Maria de Rojas-Guzman Grajeda , without issue ; married secondly to Francisca de Sandoval and had one son Cristobal - Juan Colón Dávila ( -1622 ) , married Leonor Luyando y Manuel and had three sons . - Bernardino Dávila y Colón ( -1633 ) - Maria de Avila y Colón ( 1592- ) , married Alonso de Guzman Grajeda and had one daughter ( Mayor de Grajeda y Avila [ c.1611- ] ) - Magdalena Dávila Colón ( 1592-1621 ) - María Dávila Colón ( 1596- ) - Juana Colón de Toledo ( died c . 1592 ) , married her cousin Luis de La Cueva y Toledo ; their only child was María Colón de la Cueva ( c . 1548-c.1600 ) who claimed the duchy of Veragua and died in New Spain ( México ) . - Isabel Colón de Toledo ( c . 1515 – ) , married Dom Jorge Alberto de Portugal y Melo ( 1470 – ) , 1st Count of Gelves ( who married secondly ; his 1st marriage to Dona Guiomar de Ataíde remained childless ) , son of Dom Álvaro de Bragança , Lord of Tentúgal , Póvoa , Buarcos and Cadaval and Chancellor-Major of the Realm of Portugal . Their grandson , D . Nuno Álvares Pereira Colón y Portugal , Duke of Veragua and Admiral of the Indies became regent of the Kingdom of Portugal from 1621 until his death .