Bartolomeo Columbus (Bartolomé Colón) was the younger brother of Christopher Columbus. Bartolomeo Columbus accompanied Christopher Columbus on his fourth voyage. Upon this voyage, he founded the city of Santo Domingo de Guzmán between 1496 and 1498. This became Santo Domingo, which is the capital of the Dominican Republic. Christopher Columbus (1451? – 20 May 1506) was an explorer and trader who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached the Americas on October 12, 1492 under the flag of Castile. ... Santo Domingo from space, May 1992 Plaza Colón Santo Domingo de Guzman, population 2,061,200 (2003), is the capital of the Dominican Republic. ...
Settling there, where his brother BartholomewColumbus (1445?–1514?) was working as a cartographer, he was married in 1479 to the daughter of the governor of the island of Porto Santo.
Columbus continued to seek support, however, and in April 1492 his persistence was rewarded: Ferdinand V, king of Castile, and Queen Isabella agreed to sponsor the expedition.
When Columbus returned to Isabella on September 29, he found that serious dissension had developed among the colonists, a number of whom were already en route to Spain to press their grievances.
Columbus himself in a letter to King Ferdinand says that he began to navigate at the age of fourteen, though in the journal of his first voyage (no longer in existence), in 1493, he was said to have been on the sea twenty-three years, which would make him nineteen when he first became a mariner.
Columbus always directed his proposals to the king and as yet the queen had taken no official notice of them, as she too was heart and soul in the enterprise destined to restore Spain wholly to Christian rule.
Columbus, while outwardly on good terms with them, was on his guard and, in consequence of the aversion of his people to a site where only disaster had befallen them, moved some distance farther east and established on the coast the larger settlement of Isabella.
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