When did Christopher Columbus marry Felipa Perestrello?
Christopher Columbus was married around the age of 27. His wife,
Felipa Perestrello e Moniz, died about two years later. He also had
a son (Fernando) by his mistress, Beatriz Enriquez de Arana.
He married his first wife Felipa in Portugal in 1478 or 1479 and
about a year later, they had a son (Diego). Felipa may have died
about a year later when the family lived in the Madeira Islands off
Africa. Around 1485, he began a long relationship with Beatriz,
although they never married, and Fernando was born in 1488.