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A new twist: Columbus, the son of a king "Polish Portuguese spy?

Columbus secretly serving in Portugal, not Spain, which with the "discovery" of America sought to move away from the rich markets of Asia, and it was of Genoese origin because his father could be a Polish king in exile in Madeira, says researcher Manuel Rosa Luso-American.

Such claims are difficult to accept for Columbian historians, the less will cause much controversy. For

Rosa, who works for the Duke University Medical Center (North Carolina, United States), accompanies each of his assertions with well documented sources that can shake the foundations of modern history.

"The key to this enigma was always in Portugal, namely in the marriage of Columbus Filipa Moniz, Commander of the Order of Santiago," said Rose in an interview with Efe on the occasion of its publication in Spain book Columbus: The Untold Story (Editorial Aeschylus), foreword by Joaquim Verissimo Serrao, Prince of Asturias Prize for Social Sciences 1995.

In a volume full of dates, genealogies and reproductions of letters and manuscripts, Rosa is the tortuous path to prove that Columbus was a Genoese weaver, but a noble knowledge Scientists unusual for his time and service was always Portuguese, as a spy and as a seaman. "The real Columbus is the Italian Colombo, a commoner who would never have been married Filipa and be logged in the overnight to the Portuguese Court and Juan II's inner circle," said Rosa.

Mission: To drive away the Spaniards from India

Columbus, says, "was a very important person very familiar with all the confidence of the monarchy Lusa, in Spain Don Juan II worked for the secret mission to lure the Spaniards in India and recover later, royal marriages, the new heritage American. "Furthermore, he notes, the conquest of the West Indies take away the inevitable English ambitions over Portugal after the Muslims conquered Granada.

" John II, nicknamed the perfect prince, who reigned between 1481 and 1495 - working on a plan universal, with the scans as a priority for his government and the defeat of Islam as his other big goal, "says the writer. The plan" designed to protect the real India, "he added, had some incredible history, as there are maps tested prior to 1492 arrival of the Portuguese in Canada and parts of South America.

"Columbus knew from Where was the beginning, there was little versed ocean did not know his fate, as presented by the official story, "says Rosa, who also stresses that the admiral was a member of the Order of Christ, the heir to the Templars in Portugal. John II universal plan failed when his son died in 1491 and when the monarch died in 1495.

Machiavellian strategy

His successor, his cousin and brother Manuel, did not continue with this Machiavellian strategy, given its strong ties with Spain of Ferdinand and Isabella unified. However, the great mystery behind this story of Columbus Manuel Rosa based at the origin of man who "discovered" America.

After much asking, Rose concludes that the real personality of Columbus, with brow concealed both the monarchy and the seafarer lusa corresponded to a certain Sigismund Henriques. According to his reasoning, was the son of Ladislaus III, King of Poland and Hungary, defeated by the Turks at the Battle of Varna in 1444, which disappeared.

"Against 500 Years of History"

Rosa believes tested several letters of the time that Ladislao resigned his crown and was exiled to the last country in Europe remained committed to the crusade against Islam, Portugal, and assimilates the mystery surrounding the ancestry of the Polish king to Columbus.

After adopting the identity of a certain German Enrique, Ladislao would have been the father of Columbus and two of his brothers in Magdalena del Mar, in the Luso Madeira archipelago. "The final solution of the riddle goes through genetic comparison between the remains of Columbus and Ladislao, and that solution could change the memory of the modern world. But make no mistake, I'm going against 500 years of history."