Felipa Colón de Toledo, 2nd Duchess of Veragua
Felipa Colón de Toledo y Mosquera, 2nd Duchess of Veragua, 2nd Duchess of la Vega, 2nd Marchioness of Jamaica (c. 1550 – 25 November 1577 in Valladolid, Olmedo, Spain), was the second daughter and heiress of Luis Colón de Toledo, 1st Duke of Veragua and of la Vega, and his first wife María de Mosquera y Pasamonte.[1] She was a great-granddaughter of famous explorer Christopher Columbus.
She married her first cousin Diego Colón de Toledo, 4th Admiral of the Indies; they had no children. Her husband held that office, which she had inherited, in her place.
See also[]
- Dukedom of Veragua
- Veragua
- Pleitos colombinos
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- Columbus family
- Dukes of Veragua
- Spanish duchesses
- People of the Spanish colonial Americas
- 16th-century Spanish people
- 1550s births
- 1577 deaths
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- 16th-century South American people
- Spanish nobility stubs