2012-06-09, 09:16
Christopher Columbus: Polish or Lithuanian?
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Polish media published an article on Christopher Columbus claiming the he was a son of the Polish King Wladislaw III of Varna. Such a claim was made by a Portuguese historian Manuel Rosa.
The U.S. University of North Carolina, Duke University published a book where various versions of Columbus’s origins are explored. The book claims that the present day version that Columbus was born in a family of Genoa’s weavers is the most unlikely. In part, it can be claimed that Columbus has some Lithuanian roots because his father Wladislaw III of Varna comes from the Jagiellonian dynasty. How such a version that the father of Christopher Columbus is of Polish-Lithuanian descent is presented?
The legend is presented as follows: after the supposed-death of Wladislaw of Varna in the crusade against Turks, Wladislaw never went back to Poland but went to Portugal and married a Portuguese woman with whom he had a child, namely Christopher Columbus. His royal background helped Christopher Columbus to win over the attention of Portuguese royal family to sponsor his journey to the New World.