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Iberian Royal Families / Re: Dukes & Duchesses of Alba
« on: August 13, 2006, 06:41:21 AM »
Cristobal Colon is one of the reasons why I mixed up la Duquesa Roja e la Duquesa de Alba: THEY BOTH ARE INTERESTED IN CRISTOBAL COLON... (one of the others reasons is that I was so tired, so thanks again to Arturo and to Luke...)
la Duquesa de Alba because Colon is her ancestor, and also because she has so many documents about him (it is said that worldwide historians were asking for a gift of these documents to Spanish Archives) La Duquesa Roja because she wrote a book on Colon, as she has a theory (Years ago I saw a documentary on the subject: she also has documents from Medinaceli Archiv): she wrote that Colon DID NOT DISCOVERED american Continents... that these lands were yet well known of arabian captains and sailors... Also she is prayed to give her documents to an University or an Archiv to favourish storicals works.
Frankly, I like the red Duchess, but I think that her theory seems very feable, for many reasons. I agree that somebody before Colon had intuition of the existence of some lands or that Vikings boats could have sailed until North Islands near Canada.... But I have doubts when she says that arabian sailors did many many travels - before Colon - from Africa to America. If one knows some meditterranean cities and ports and has studied what was ( and still is) the life in the mediterranean... where not a secret remains hidden, where a spanish captain knows what occurs in Egypt or Venice immediately... it is impossible. Maritime Mediterranean life (the backgroung of Colon) was like a village - with also its own common language, la lingua franca...
The genealogic work of Arturo is really interresting;
- also its gives us a possibility to consider how many gifts the life gives us when we are conceived - but specially interresting are the names of the ancestors of Arturo , the ones focused and, I guess, the others ones.
I am curious about the sons of Cristobal Colon: Diego, the Duke your ancestor WHO IS SAID to have had so many difficulties with the spanish crown for the inheritance and Hernando who wrote a book of geography. I Know that Colon's family has had problems until the end of eighteen's century for the Colon's inheritance related to the contracts he signed with the spanish crown. THE RETURN OF CRISTOBAL COLON FROM ANTILLAS IN CHAINS and that 300 YEARS' CASE are'nt the signs of a scandalous ROYAL'S INGRATITUDE ??.
la Duquesa de Alba because Colon is her ancestor, and also because she has so many documents about him (it is said that worldwide historians were asking for a gift of these documents to Spanish Archives) La Duquesa Roja because she wrote a book on Colon, as she has a theory (Years ago I saw a documentary on the subject: she also has documents from Medinaceli Archiv): she wrote that Colon DID NOT DISCOVERED american Continents... that these lands were yet well known of arabian captains and sailors... Also she is prayed to give her documents to an University or an Archiv to favourish storicals works.
Frankly, I like the red Duchess, but I think that her theory seems very feable, for many reasons. I agree that somebody before Colon had intuition of the existence of some lands or that Vikings boats could have sailed until North Islands near Canada.... But I have doubts when she says that arabian sailors did many many travels - before Colon - from Africa to America. If one knows some meditterranean cities and ports and has studied what was ( and still is) the life in the mediterranean... where not a secret remains hidden, where a spanish captain knows what occurs in Egypt or Venice immediately... it is impossible. Maritime Mediterranean life (the backgroung of Colon) was like a village - with also its own common language, la lingua franca...
The genealogic work of Arturo is really interresting;
- also its gives us a possibility to consider how many gifts the life gives us when we are conceived - but specially interresting are the names of the ancestors of Arturo , the ones focused and, I guess, the others ones. I am curious about the sons of Cristobal Colon: Diego, the Duke your ancestor WHO IS SAID to have had so many difficulties with the spanish crown for the inheritance and Hernando who wrote a book of geography. I Know that Colon's family has had problems until the end of eighteen's century for the Colon's inheritance related to the contracts he signed with the spanish crown. THE RETURN OF CRISTOBAL COLON FROM ANTILLAS IN CHAINS and that 300 YEARS' CASE are'nt the signs of a scandalous ROYAL'S INGRATITUDE ??.
So we can say that she converted to Fascist Faith... 
