The documentary ‘Columbus DNA. Its true origin”, broadcast this Saturday by RTVE, confirms the theory of Spanish Sephardic Jewish origin, and not Genoese or Italianof Christopher Columbus, and located his birth in the territory of the Mediterranean arc or the Balearic Islands which belonged to the Hispanic crown of Aragon.
These conclusions were drawn after various genetic and scientific tests carried outas with the data obtained from the bones of the Seville Cathedral of the discoverer of America and his son Hernando, in an investigation opened 22 years ago by the forensic pathologist and professor of forensic medicine at the University of GranadaJose Antonio Lorente.
The investigation rejected the rest of the theories about the origin of Columbusfrom the classic of its birth in Genoa that most historians support, and from the Royal Academy of History of Spain, to which they attributed its origin in Portugal, Galicia, Castile, Catalonia and even Navarre.
DNA tests practiced for years by the team led by Lorente in many places and on possible ancestors of Columbus rejected all but one existing theorywho is the one who emerged victorious over all: he was Jewish and his origin is in the Western Mediterranean. The scientific work therefore supported the research defended by Francesc Albardaner, former president of the Center d’Etudes Colombins de Barcelona, who maintained that the admiral was Jewish and that the Genoese theory was false because in this Italian city there was no of Jews. community or synagogue.
He hid his Jewish origin
Albardaner maintains that Columbus belonged to a family of silk weavers from Valencia and who always hid her origin because she was Jewishwhich would have caused him problems with the Inquisition after the expulsion of the Jews in 1492. According to the defender of the Valencian theory, “Columbus was a Jew, a Jew by culture, a Jew by religion, a Jew by nation here and above all by heart, because this man exudes Judaism in his writings. And he received help from other Jewish converts like the Duke of Medinaceli and the notary and lender Luis de Santángel, who was in charge of Fernando the Catholic’s finances.
This is why he had access to the Court to present his American project, says Alberdaner. According to coroner José Antonio Lorente, “both in the ‘Y’ chromosome and in the mitochondria of Hernando (son of Columbus)there are traits compatible with Jewish origin.” For this reason, he argues that DNA indicates that Christopher Columbus had a Mediterranean origin in the western Mediterranean and that “if there were no Jews in Genoa in the 15th century, the chances of him being from there are minimal “.
“There was also no significant Jewish presence in the rest of the Italian peninsula.which would leave him very weak. There are no solid theories or clear indications that Christopher Columbus could be French. What would we have left? : the Spanish Mediterranean arc, the Balearic Islands and Sicily”, reasons the researcher. The forensic doctor therefore concludes: “But Sicily would also be strange, because otherwise Christopher Columbus would have written with certain characteristics of the Italian or Sicilian languageit is therefore very likely that its origin is in the Spanish Mediterranean arc or in the Balearic Islands, which at that time belonged to the crown of Aragon.
Other evidence put forward by the investigation includes Columbus’ use of the Spanish language in all surviving letters in which no Italian influence or word is ever appreciated. He even wrote in Spanish in the letters he sent to a bank in Genoa, which doesn’t make much sense. if he had been Italian during the presentation of the documentary this Thursday, one species. “historical thriller”, forensic doctors from the University of Granada, led by Professor José Antonio Lorente, have confirmed that the bones of Christopher Columbus buried in the Cathedral of Seville are those of the discoverer of America.
And that was the key to solving the mystery of the browser’s origin, at least according to the theory supported by the documentary. Christopher Columbus’ DNA is partial, but was confirmed by that of his son Hernando Colón, while tests carried out on the remains of Diego Colón, until now considered the admiral’s brother, They confirmed that it was not a fifth or sixth degree relative..
