Most certainly a jew, in terror of persecution. The portuguese inquisition not yet established, the portuguese jews of be expelled later (than 1492), they fled Spain first. Bartolomeu Colombo (Colón), his brother and helper in the newly discovered Índies, by the second voyage 1494, burned natives

alive, as the inquisition will do with jews in Portugal and Spain, for centuries, after the year 1500 (more or less). Now, there is and will be fight for his true origins. Spain backed his discoveries and gained america with them (with the exception, by Tordesillas (Treaty 1494) of brazil. Most