Posted on 03/09/2009 8:02:54 AM PDT by BGHater
The 15th century explorer who opened up the American continents to Europe was actually called Pedro Scotto - not Christopher Columbus - and his family originally hailed from Scotland, a Spanish historian has claimed.
Alfonso Ensenat de Villalonga has disputed conventionally-accepted narratives on the explorer's origins - that he was the son of a weaver in Genoa, Italy, or that he was from Catalonia or Galicia in Spain.
In fact, he was from Genoa, but he was "the son of shopkeepers not weavers and he was baptised Pedro not Christopher," Mr Villalonga told Spain's ABC newspaper on Sunday.
And his family name was Scotto, and was not Italian but of Scottish origin.
"He had light-coloured eyes and freckles. He also had blond hair even though it quickly turned white. That's how his contemporaries described him. Nothing like the traditional images (of him), which are totally invented," the historian said.
Mr Villalonga cited a chronicle of Catholic kings written by Lucio Marineo Siculo, who referred in his writings to "Pedro Columbus", not Christopher.
The historian has also claimed that the navigator once worked for a pirate called Vincenzo Columbus, and adopted that family name in order not to "expose" his relations.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
de Villalonga demonstrates his gross ignorance by associating identity with complexion.
Like no Italians ever had freckles or red hair.
Columbus is a mistery man in many ways, but this is probably the most hallucinatory of theories about the guy’s origin.
“In 1492 Pedro the Scotsman sailed the Ocean Blue”
Nahh. Not catchy at all.
Pedro the Scotsman??
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Chris O’Columbus!
First he was a gay Jew, now he’s Scottish, next he will be a muslim from Kenya.
Coming to a history book near you soon.
Was Christopher Columbus Jewish?shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach AdonaiWhy did Columbus leave Spain on the very day
that all Jews were required to leave Spain ?
My ancestors would be proud, those crazy Scots!
OH NO! All those Knights of Columbus spaghetti dinner! We’ll have to start serving haggis now. This won’t help fund raising.
Test his DNA to see if he had type O blood.
If so, he likely was a Scot.
If when they exhume him , he still has a woody. that also would be a Scottish trait.
In any case , history indicates that he was an excellent swordsman with the native wahinis of the Carribean.Another Scottish marker.
And if he insisted on keeping at least one live sheep aboard his ship.............
Hey McLeod, get off of my Ewe.
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