Diego Columbus - Marriage and Children

Marriage and Children

He married María de Toledo y Rojas (c. 1490 – May 11, 1549), who secured the transportation and burial of her father–in–law, Christopher Columbus, in Santo Domingo. She was the daughter of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, 1st Lord of Villoria, son of García Álvarez de Toledo, 1st Duke of Alba, and his first wife María de Rojas, and had:"GeneAll.net - Diego Colón, 1. duque de Veragua". http://www.geneall.net/H/per_page.php?id=47536.

• María Colón de Toledo (c. 1510 –), married to Sancho Folch de Cardona, 1st Marquess of Guadalest
• Luis Colón, 1st Duke of Veragua
• Cristóbal Colón de Toledo (c. 1510 – 1571), married firstly to María Leonor Lerma de Zuazo, without issue, married secondly to Ana de Pravia, and had issue, and married thirdly to María Magadalena de Guzmán y Anaya, and had issue:
  • Diego Colón de Toledo, 4th Admiral of the Indies
  • Francisca Colón de Toledo y Pravia (c. 1550 – April, 1616), married to Diego de Ortegón (Valladolid, Medina del Campo, c. 1550 –), and had issue, who later inherited the rents, office and titles and at some point married within the other branch below. Their issue includes Admiral Cristóbal Colón de Carvajal, the current Duke; his sister, historian Anunciada Colón de Carvajal; and twice actress Pilar López de Ayala
  • María Colón de Toledo y Guzmán (c. 1550 –), married to Luis de Avila, and had:
    • Cristóbal de Avila y Colón (1579 –), unmarried and without issue
• Juana Colón de Toledo (died c. 1592), married to her cousin Luis de La Cueva y Toledo, their only daughter was María Colón de la Cueva (c. 1548-c.1600) who claimed the duchy of Veragua. María died in New Spain (México).Christopher Columbus and how He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery. Justin Winsor. Chadwyck-Healey Ltd., 1891. Pag. 526-527
• Isabel Colón de Toledo (c. 1515 –), married as his second wife to Dom Jorge Alberto de Portugal y Melo, 1st Count of Gelves (1470 –), widow without issue of Dona Guiomar de Ataíde, son of Dom Álvaro de Bragança, Lord of Tentúgal, Póvoa, Buarcos and Cadaval and Chancellor-Major of the Realm of Portugal, and wife Dona Filipa de Melo, and had issue, who inherited the rents, office and titles, later lost, and at some point married within the other branch above.