Felipa Colón de Toledo y Mosquera, 2nd Duchess of Veragua, 2nd Duchess of la Vega, 2nd Marchioness of Jamaica (c. 1550 – 25 November 1577), was the second daughter and heiress of
Luis Colón de Toledo, 1st Duke of Veragua
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish language, Spanish form of the originally Germanic language, Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese language, Portuguese and ...
and of la Vega, and his first wife María de Mosquera y Pasamonte.
[http://www.geneall.net/H/per_page.php?id=52942] She was a great-granddaughter of famous explorer
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus
* lij, Cristoffa C(or)ombo
* es, link=no, Cristóbal Colón
* pt, Cristóvão Colombo
* ca, Cristòfor (or )
* la, Christophorus Columbus. (; born between 25 August and 31 October 1451, died 20 May 1506) was a ...
.
She married her first cousin
Diego Colón de Toledo, 4th Admiral of the Indies
Diego Colón de Toledo y Pravia, 4th Admiral of the Indies (died 28 January 1578) was a paternal grandson of Diego Colón and his wife María de Toledo y Rojas, making him a great-grandson of Christopher Columbus.
He married his first cousin Fel ...
; they had no children. Her husband held that office, which she had inherited, in her place.
See also
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Dukedom of Veragua
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Veragua {{unreferenced, date=January 2015
Veragua or Veraguas was the name of five Spanish colonial territorial entities in Central America, beginning in the 16th century during the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
The term was based on a Central Amer ...
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Pleitos colombinos
The ''Pleitos colombinos'' ("Colombian lawsuits") were a long series of lawsuits that the heirs of Christopher Columbus brought against the Crown of Castile and León in defense of the privileges obtained by Columbus for his discoveries in the N ...
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1577 deaths
Colony of Santiago
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