At 23, a team led by forensic scientist José Antonio Lorent, professor of forensic medicine at the University of Granada (UGR), exhumed the grave Cristóbal Colon in the Cathedral of Seville, which extracted fragments of shades for genetic analysis that would finally clarify the progress of the admirer. An investigation followed by the team behind the document where the findings were announced.
The document, based on the results of Lorente and his team, which were not public, defended the hypothesis that Colón was in fact part of a family of converted Jewish men from Valencia, as the official discourse read to know: that he was the son of a Genoese laner. However, the report published on La 1 in 2024 was heavily criticized because Lorente did not offer the results to the public, those who know nothing today.
Since genetics is (apparently) not yet ready to yield beneficial facts, a return to logic is out of the question. Carlos García-Delgado seems to find that in his book, which explores the roots of the sailor The origin of the large intestine is further from the ADN (La foradada, 2026).
A professional architect states that “like a good scientist” he resides in scientific method to highlight that “official history seems to refuse to be understood”. Algo for what requires a little more than 100 pages: “In science, brevity is essential. I limit myself to highlighting the inconsistencies between the things I am analyzing and the title ‘Genoese thesis'”.
“I want to clarify the difference between a scientist and a believer. Normally the latter is not easy to understand, nor is it done with logical arguments. If he can prove her wrong, he always chooses faith. A true scientist appreciates signs that she is misunderstood. The goal is not He is a full-fledged defender of his thesis, nor should he enter the discussion as far as scientists are concerned.” a believer because he has no choice. I am a scientist and here is my scientific analysis” he said during the presentation of his book.
The analysis develops the main theses to clarify the origin of the large intestine. The first and main point – as García-Delgado says – is this Colón was not the son of a laner and thus of humble caste. “They affirm that those who do not discuss the Genoese theses of the party analyze them by purely logical reasoning and conclude that each of these things means the inconsistency of the Genoese thesis.”
for the architect, The fact that Colón is at home with the hija of a Portuguese nobleman is something particularly appealinghowever, we do not show anything ourselves. “It is strange that someone who acts so humbly at home with a person with such a high crown, but good things of love”, bromea.
However, this is especially true for García-Delgado, “less than a year after his death, Colón lived in the palace of the Duke of Medinaceli. He then spent two years. In 1487 he began to receive a monetary reward from the Catholic kings. This takes us back to 1492, here he is naked, but not in Discovery, until Capitulaciones de Santa Fe. You will return the contract to Granada to initiate the carriage. The Kings are willing to negotiate terms at this time”.
For the author The origin of the large intestine is further from the ADN It’s unheard of for an outsider from a small room to latch on to such important characters so easily. But there is more: “In the document of these Capitulaciones de Santa Fein the first line I tell you ‘no’. In the 15th century, this treatment was reserved for the nobility and church authorities. Since then, the boy laner Genovés, who was not descubierto nada, however, had no merit.” To this he says: “It’s a huge inconsistency, this treatment is only for nobility. And not only that: the names are wonderful, governor-general and virrey. Does a boy lanera without merit get these titles reserved for high nobility? Ustedes várán. It’s an unnatural inconsistency.”
Another discrepancy is that this name was attributed to the same colon. “Was it a request, part of the wool boy?”. The petitions of Colon were joined to such an extreme that the kings denied themselves. “Then Colón entered, angry, and marched with the plea that he must propose his project to the King of France. Later they corrected it and sent him for it.”
A month after signing the contract, before the expedition begins, something unusual happens. Colón’s son Diego is the heir apparent to Prince Juan. “Each noble hubiera was delighted that his hijo hubiera had the honor of being paje’s heir. This, says the writer, disproves the theory about it the admirer was actually of noble birth.
The second pillar on which García-Delgado’s argument rests is precisely the impossibility of allowing someone without a castellan to receive these honors in the Castilla de entonces. You are hereby linking to two documents: Here Cortes de Toledo of 1480, Reyes Católicos, ratifying ya aprobado en las Cortes de Madrigal of 1476 it was forbidden for foreigners, even if naturalized, to have access to public expenses in Castile.
From this one would at first infer not only that Colón was not Genoese, but that he was originally from Castile. However, it is well documented that the watcher, while correctly controlling the castellan, was not a native. “There is a solution to this contradiction Concordia de Segovia. With her they offered the same privileges to Ferdinand in the Kingdom of Castile, who had Isabella. This understanding establishes a special relationship between the two crowns. The only explanation for why a foreigner from Castile outweighs the public expense is that this foreigner was a natural part of the Crown of Aragon”.
In it, the architect states: “The origin of the column must be determined in context Crown of Aragon at this time: the Kingdom of Cerdena, the Kingdom of Sicily, the Kingdom of Valencia, the Kingdom of Mallorca and the Principality of Cataluña”.
In addition, there are other strong reasons for confirming that the sailor was a Genoese: “He has no papers written in Italian, and in that case there are many mistakes where he must also have realized that he was Sicilian or Sardinian”.
So García-Delgado insists: “Let’s abandon the fairy tale. The confirmation that Colón was a Genoese must be replaced by this: we don’t know where Colón came from, but we know that he was not a Genoese, nor a hijo de lanero. We know that his descent was from the Crown of Aragon, so yes, we can confirm that”.
In all regions of the ancient Corona de Aragón, the architect is inclined to Kingdom of Majorca. It is in line with what Gabriel Verd Martorell defines in his book Cristóbal Colón and the unveiling of the mystery: that the admirer was the illegitimate child of the Duke of Viana.
Both authors agree on arguments such as that Colón, on his third voyage to the New World in 1498, arrived on the coast of Venezuela at Margarita Island with his mother’s name and wrote it in Majorquín Margalida, or that the sailor’s name is actually a castellanization of “Colom”, common in the Levant.
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