Diego Columbus | biography - Spanish explorer

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Columbus"/> <div class="md-mini-right-rail"> <div class="bio-box font-sans hide-on-edit"> <div class="name"> Diego Columbus<small>Spanish explorer</small> </div> <a class="media media-overlay-link hide-on-edit first-media-box" data-ytrk="79" href="/web/20150905093925/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Diego-Columbus/images-videos/Christopher-Columbus-with-his-sons-Diego-and-Ferdinand-and-a/198181" data-type="IMAGE" data-id="198181"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905093925im_/http://media-1.web.britannica.com/eb-media/99/182599-004-9AEE5CDA.jpg"/> </a><dl class="bio-data row"><dt class="bio-list">Also known as</dt><dd class="content"><ul class="bps-user-formatted-ul"><li>Diego Colón</li></ul></dd><dt class="title">born</dt><dd class="content"><p>1479 or 1480</p><p><a data-ytrk="/548" href="/web/20150905093925/https://www.britannica.com/place/Porto-Santo-Island"><span property="about" href="http://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/471270/Porto-Santo-Island">Porto Santo Island</span></a><a data-ytrk="/548" href="/web/20150905093925/https://www.britannica.com/place/Portugal"><span property="about" href="http://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/471439/Portugal">, Portugal</span></a></p></dd><dt class="title">died</dt><dd class="content"><p>February 23, 1526</p><p>Montalbán<a data-ytrk="/548" href="/web/20150905093925/https://www.britannica.com/place/Spain"><span property="about" href="http://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/557573/Spain">, Spain</span></a></p></dd></dl></div> </div> <section id="toc126154main" class="eb-topic-section" data-level="intro"><p><b><span class="srTitle">Diego Columbus</span></b><b>,</b> Spanish <span class="alternate">Diego Colón </span>   (born <span>1479/80</span>, Porto Santo, Madeira Islands—died <span>February 23, 1526</span>, Montalbán, <a data-ytrk="/548" href="/web/20150905093925/https://www.britannica.com/place/Spain"><span property="about" href="http://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/557573/Spain">Spain</span></a>), eldest son of <a data-ytrk="/548" href="/web/20150905093925/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus"><span property="about" href="http://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/127070/Christopher-Columbus">Christopher Columbus</span></a> and viceroy of the Indies for 15 years, who spent most of his life in legal battles to secure the Columbus claims.</p><p>When his father undertook the great voyage of discovery in 1492, Diego was made a page at the Spanish court. After his father’s death in 1506, he began a long struggle to regain his father’s former privileges in the Indies. Diego’s marriage to María Álvarez de Toledo, niece of the duque de Alba, the cousin of King Ferdinand, worked in his favour, and in 1508 he was accredited governor of the Indies. He arrived at <a data-ytrk="/548" href="/web/20150905093925/https://www.britannica.com/place/Santo-Domingo"><span property="about" href="http://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/523322/Santo-Domingo">Santo Domingo</span></a> in July 1509 and succeeded <a data-ytrk="/548" href="/web/20150905093925/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicolas-de-Ovando"><span property="about" href="http://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/435762/Nicolas-de-Ovando">Nicolás de Ovando</span></a> in that post. Not satisfied with that assignment alone, he wanted all his father’s privileges. In May 1511 he received the hereditary title of viceroy of the islands, but no mention was made of the mainland. Throughout his viceroyalty Columbus protested encroachments upon his authority, such as the formation of an <em>audiencia</em> (judicial and governing body) and the <em>residencia</em> (inspection). He made several voyages to Spain to defend his position in 1515 and 1523 but died without any final decision on his rights. In June 1536 a compromise settlement was made. His son <a name="ref4984" id="ref4984"></a>Luis was to receive the title <a data-ytrk="/548" href="/web/20150905093925/https://www.britannica.com/topic/admiral"><span property="about" href="http://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/6122/admiral">admiral</span></a> of the Indies but would renounce all other rights in return for a perpetual annuity of 10,000 ducats, the island of <a data-ytrk="/548" href="/web/20150905093925/https://www.britannica.com/place/Jamaica"><span property="about" href="http://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/299716/Jamaica">Jamaica</span></a> in <a data-ytrk="/548" href="/web/20150905093925/https://www.britannica.com/topic/fief"><span property="about" href="http://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/206138/fief">fief</span></a>, and an estate of 25 square leagues on the <a data-ytrk="/548" href="/web/20150905093925/https://www.britannica.com/place/Isthmus-of-Panama"><span property="about" 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