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Francisco de Bobadilla
Royal investigator and governor of Hispaniola sent by the Catholic Monarchs, who arrested Columbus and his brothers in 1500 and sent them to Spain in chains
Where they went
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On his third voyage Columbus reached Trinidad and the South American mainland at the Paria Peninsula — but unable to master the turmoil on Hispaniola, he was sent back to Spain in chains in 1500.
People who appear alongside
Christopher Columbus1451 – 1506Genoese navigator who, sponsored by Spain, crossed the Atlantic and reached the Americas in 1492
Themes this person appears in
- The Age of Discovery1415 – 1600
From Ceuta to the Manila galleons — two centuries in which European ships crossed the oceans and bound the world together by sea