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These competing hypotheses have generally been discounted by mainstream scholars.ġ2. Some modern historians have argued that he was not from Genoa but, instead, from the Aragon region of Spain or from Portugal.Ĩ.

In the same year, Christopher was on a Genoese ship hired in the service of René of Anjou to support his attempt to conquer the Kingdom of Naples. In 1470, the Columbus family moved to Savona, where Domenico took over a tavern.ħ. In one of his writings, he says he went to sea at the age of 10. Columbus never wrote in his native language, which is presumed to have been a Genoese variety of Ligurian (his name would translate in the 16th-century Genoese language as Christoffa, Corombo, Ligurian pronunciation: ).Ħ.

Bartolomeo worked in a cartography workshop in Lisbon for at least part of his adulthood.He also had a sister named Bianchinetta.ĥ. Bartolomeo, Giovanni Pellegrino, and Giacomo were his brothers. His father was Domenico Colombo, a middle-class wool weaver who worked both in Genoa and Savona and who also owned a cheese stand at which young Christopher worked as a helper. He was born before 31 October 1451 in the territory of the Republic of Genoa (now part of modern Italy), though the exact location remains disputed.ģ.