Bartholomew Columbus

Bartolomé Colón (also: Bartolomeo Columbus; * around 1461 in Genoa, † 1515) was cosmography and sailors. He was a younger brother of Christopher Columbus, who named the island of Saint-Barthélemy in 1493 discovered after him.

Bartolomé was born around 1461 in Genoa; from about 1480 he lived with his brother Christopher Columbus in Lisbon, where he worked as a draftsman charts. He accompanied Christopher Columbus on his second voyage, where this arbitrarily made ​​him a provincial governor in La Isabela. Founded in 1498 at the behest of his brother Bartolomeo in the south of the island of Hispaniola, the settlement Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic today. The local settlers, led by Francisco Roldán, but soon revealed themselves dissatisfied with his rule and rebelled against him, so it came to chaotic states. In addition, Indians were employed in the discover of Bartolomé gold mines of the island as slaves. The Spanish government felt itself compelled to make analyze the situation and dismiss pending resolution of the incidents, the brothers Columbus from their posts and to use in its place Francisco de Bobadilla as the new governor. This allowed the three brothers Bartolome, Diego and Christopher Columbus put in chains and sent back to Spain in 1500, where you promised them justice and the retention of their title.

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