Christopher Columbus was of Spanish Sephardic Jewish origin, not Genoese or Italian.. Its birth is located in the territory of the Mediterranean arc or the Balearic Islands, which belonged to the Hispanic crown of Aragon. These conclusions were obtained after various genetic and scientific tests carried out 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 Granada, Jose Antonio Lorente.
The investigation rejected the rest of the theories about the origin of Christopher Columbus.from 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.
THE DNA tests carried out for years by the team led by Lorente in numerous locations and on possible ancestors of Columbus rejected all existing theories except one: ewas Jewish and his origin is in the Western Mediterranean.
He scientific work has supportedThus, the research defended by Francesc Albardaner, former president of the Center d’Estudios Colombins de Barcelonawho maintained that the admiral was Jewish and that the Genoese theory was false because in this Italian city there was neither a Jewish community nor a synagogue.
Albardaner argues that Columbus belonged to a family of silk weavers from Valencia and that he always hid his origin, because he allegedly caused 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 breathes Judaism in his writings”as told in the documentary Columbus’ DNA. Its true originbroadcast Saturday by RTVE
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Christopher Columbus received help from other Jewish converts such as the Duke of Medinaceli and the notary and moneylender Luis de Santángel, who was in charge of Ferdinand 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 mitochondrial chromosome 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 make it very tenuous. 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 coroner therefore concluded: “But Sicily would also be strange, because otherwise Christopher Columbus would have written with features of the Italian or Sicilian language.it 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.
