Luis Colón, 1st Duke of Veragua

Luis Colón y Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Admiral of the Ocean Sea, 1st Duke of Veragua, 1st Duke of la Vega, 1st Marquess of Jamaica (c. 1519/1520/1522 – 29 January 1572), was the first son of Diego Colón and María Álvarez de Toledo y Rojas, and grandson of Christopher Columbus.^[1]

Admiral of the Ocean Sea Luis Colón de Toledo
3rd Admiral of the Ocean Sea
In office 23 February 1526 – 3 February 1572
Monarchs	Joanna (until 1555) Charles I (until 1556) Philip II (after 1556)
Preceded by	Diego Columbus, 2nd Admiral
Succeeded by	Diego Colón de Toledo y Pravia, 4th Admiral
1st Duke of Veragua
In office June 28, 1536 – 3 February 1572
Monarchs	Joanna (until 1555) Charles I (until 1556) Philip II (after 1556)
Succeeded by	Felipa Colón de Toledo, 2nd Duchess
1st Marquess of Jamaica
In office June 28, 1536 – 3 February 1572
Monarchs	Joanna (until 1555) Charles I (until 1556) Philip II (after 1556)
Succeeded by	Felipa Colón de Toledo, 2nd Marchioness
1st Duke of La Vega
In office 17 March, 1557 – 3 February 1572
Monarch	Philip II
Succeeded by	Felipa Colón de Toledo, 2nd Duchess
Personal details
Born	c. 1521 Santo Domingo, Hispaniola, Viceroyalty of the Indies
Died	February 3, 1572 (aged 52) Oran, Algeria
Spouse(s)	María de Orozco (m. 1542, annul. 1552/1558) María de Mosquera y Pasamonte (m. 1546, annul.1563/1571) Ana de Castro Osorio (m. 1554/1563-)
Domestic partner	Luisa de Carvajal (1564)
Children	4, Maria, Felipa, Cristobal (illeg.), and Isabel
Parent(s)	Diego Columbus Maria de Toledo

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Colón and the second or maternal family name is Álvarez de Toledo.

After his father's death, a compromise was reached in the pleitos colombinos in 1536 in which he was named 3rd Admiral of the Indies and renounced all other rights for a perpetual annuity of 10,000 ducats, the island of Jamaica as a fief, the Dukedom of Veragua estate of 25 square leagues in the province of Veragua on the Isthmus of Panama, and the titles of 1st Duke of Veragua and 1st Marquess of Jamaica and 1st Duke of La Vega.

He married firstly in 1546 to María de Mosquera y Pasamonte, daughter of Juan de Mosquera and his wife Ofrasina de Pasamonte, and had:

• María Colón de Toledo y Mosquera, a nun in Valladolid
• Felipa Colón de Toledo, 2nd Duchess of Veragua

He married secondly in Valladolid, on 19 October 1555, to Ana de Castro Osorio, daughter of Beatriz de Castro Osório, 6th Countess of Lemos and Sárria, and her second husband Alvaro Osorio, without issue.

See also

• Pleitos colombinos