Are There Any Columbuses Left?

[@NameExplain]

Who's name should we cover next time?

[@vezrimmm]

Einstein?

[@chrispo7610]

Nobunaga

[@tentando7586]

Do “God” i haven’t heard of anyone with that name since

[@rajenderchhetri2051]

Last know as Gandhi

[@alexilonopoulos3165]

Whatever Alexander the Great’s last name was

[@therealdave06]

-columbuses- *columbi*

[@fingernailclipper2152]

klarigi4219 😂😂

[@sohopedeco]

One bus Two bi

[@thesamuraihobbit]

Dammit, you beat me to it.

[@vatteymam1601]

I though it was going crazy, at 5:54 I swear I heard 1942

[@bastiaan4129]

Probably because he says 1942. The Second World War just got a whole lot more confusing.

[@Nurichiri]

Also the mistake shows up in the captions, so written proof.

[@jonnomonodesu]

Yup, well known second world war fact. The Vikings discovered Japan around the same time leading to their attack on Pearl Harbour in retaliation for the raping and pillaging.

[@PRDreams]

You heard right 😅

[@declaniii6324]

Haha and at 3:19 he said which coincidentally twice. I guess he has to rush videos with the new schedule

[@anothergermanmapper7754]

How about, are there any Franco’s left? (Francisco Franco, fascist Spanish dictator.) Just an idea.

[@maxpuente6291]

Sadly yes. Franco wasn't defeated like Hitler or Mussolini. He peacefully passed away of old age after rulling spain for 40 years. His only daughter had many children but because she was a woman, her children lost the surname. That is except his son Francisco Franco (named after the grandpa) who has four children

[@ivan_eira99]

I’m from argentina and I have a friend with that surname lol

[@maxpuente6291]

@@ivan_eira99 Yea there's many Francos around of course. But not descendants of our very best dictator hah

[@anothergermanmapper7754]

Oh alright. Then we can scratch this idea.

[@ДанЗмей]

@@maxpuente6291 Sadly? The man saved Spain from both communism and war, he is a hero.

[@TheWitlord]

I remember learning about how it took from 1492 until 1942 to finally set sail, in what many call the longest supply requisition in history.

[@lth9282]

0:51 "Wait, it's all Columbus?" *"Always has been."*

[@ImperialZorn686]

Lol

[@ImperialZorn686]

0:36 more like here

[@carlosadiaz]

Columbus' descendants grew up in Spain, so, they used the name Cristóbal Colón. The National Geographic issue celebrating the 500th anniversary of the New World in 1992. There was asb interview with Cristóbal Colón XXX-something who had just had a baby. So, the Colón family is still going strong.

[@weatherdoppleralogy]

I am a descendant of Columbus thorough 3 grandchildren, Luis, Isabel and Cristóbal, female descendants had their child took their maiden surname Colón. I have a document written by 9th great uncle a priest declared being a descendant.

[@Greyspecies9999]

Everybody out here focusing on Columbus, but nobody caring bout my boy, _Amerigo Vespucci_

[@BMoney8600]

Lief Erickson was way cooler

[@bigjavo36]

My mother’s side of my family has the name colon. And we are Hispanic from Puerto Rico there is a lot Colons still around.

[@jackguest145]

5:55 wow it was more recent than I thought

[@sohopedeco]

Yeah, America was already in WW2 when nobody knew it existed. 🤣

[@eddiejc1]

I have to hand it to Chris getting past all those U-boats, but it probably helped that Franco and Hitler were buddies.

[@BMoney8600]

@b phillip I guess my family discovered America. They got here in 1904.

[@storminmormin14]

Iconoclasts: “Christopher Columbus commuted genocide against the natives!” Small Pox: “Am I a joke to you?”

[@breadbread4226]

>A people can only be genocided once by just one cause -someone who clearly has not brushed up on their history of Judaism

[@kousvetkousvet4158]

It's kinda absurd the fact that a hundred people commited genocide, the same with the conquistadors, the smallpox was the real factor.

[@breadbread4226]

@King Victor this guy is worse so that guy is a saint is a rock solid argument.

[@stylesheetra9411]

@King Victor tbh is strange that the black legend still live, mate 500 years are passed move on Right now it's used as propaganda by south America so they can blame someone but themself

[@hatakekitama3953]

@King Victor yeah i agree, even MAYBE he's don't become president of mexico lol because maybe he has some european dna

[@corradocolombo3339]

I live in northern Italy, and in my region (Lombardy) Colombo is the most spread surname. Here there are about 16.000 Colombo families, so more or less 65.000 "Colombuses" :)

[@scrumptiousbee1032]

Yes there are, there's an entire country of Colombians!

[@scrumptiousbee1032]

Oops, I thought it said any Colombians left.

[@cl4655]

Scrumptious bee if you didnt say that, it would sound like a joke lol

[@qwertyuiopgarth]

I think that the Spanish had sufficient interest in exploring and colonizing that there is a significant chance that Spanish would end up as a common language in the Americas even if Columbus had never sailed. The details would be very different, but the broad flow would be similar.

[@CarlosHernandez-lt7yu]

Either that or rhey would have invaded Europe. Spain had a young population and strong warrior culture, so someone was getting invaded regardless.

[@jynxie17]

I always found it funny that Jamaica rarely teaches about Columbus. We only know him as the man who almost wiped out the tainos. But America, a land he didn't step foot or, lords him

[@nicholask7566]

3:19 You said "which coincidentally" twice

[@siddharthmishra48]

Coincidence? I think not.

[@rulerworld1289]

Edititing mistake

[@jeremysmith7176]

I'll have to check a source but I heard that before Columbus left from his first voyage he specifically told his men not to harrass the natives by raping and pillaging. He came back to find the soldiers he left had raped and pillaged the next tribe over and had been killed by them in retaliation. Columbus then told his men not to retaliate.

[@alcarbo8613]

Fun Fact: Columbus cut off the hand of a Spanish Man who raped a 13 year old Native Girl that’s why he was fired as Governor and sent to Spanish Prison

[@alcarbo8613]

David Hayes he didn’t harass anyone stop making shit up and actually read his memoir

[@HudaefCares]

There's a channel Knowing Better that has a video named "In defense of Columbus." Perhaps you might be interested.

[@alcarbo8613]

David Hayes Yea because we know so about what happened on an island in the middle of no where 600 years ago come on the fact of the matter is we know very little about Columbus this means people can twist he’s life story to fit what ever narrative they want

[@kyleward3914]

If you're telling us who's left in a given family, shouldn't this sub-series be "Name Remain" instead of Name Explain?

[@JamesW0214]

Lol! Good one!

[@BernardS4]

Should it not be descendants and not names explained? Speaker need elocution therapy.

[@mastervexpc1881]

Next coming: what remains of Teslas 🤔

[@sunglassshinpan1352]

He never married nor had any children... Nikola that is.

[@chickadeestevenson5440]

pigeons...

[@AvrahamYairStern]

Are there any Washingtons left?

[@alcarbo8613]

It depends if you include his Step Children as Washington’s

[@sunglassshinpan1352]

No, the leftists killed them all.

[@murkyhydra6351]

@@sunglassshinpan1352 what

[@AvrahamYairStern]

@MrDJTraviTrav listen man, I'm not looking for an answer for me, I'm making a video suggestion for Name Explain, it doesn't matter if I already know the answer or not, Name Explain can make another interesting video out of my suggestion.

[@morisco56]

D.C

[@zakattack7585]

Oh wow, that's amazing. I didn't know he had living relatives and I did not know his son wrote a biography on his father. I must have that book in my collections.

[@jeffpagan7735]

They say anyone named Colon in Puerto Rico is descended from Diego.

[@januzairamli4426]

11:22 "So not only do we have a living ancestor who still carries that surname" Ah yes, my favourite Christopher Columbus' ancestor who was born centuries after he died

[@declaniii6324]

Yeah this video has some wrong words, repeating phrases, and some factual errors (which is fair enough, there’s a lot of misinformation about Columbus)

[@johndavidcollins6163]

But his name was Christobal Colon

[@BernardS4]

@@johndavidcollins6163 It was very common to translate personal names. There need to be more consideration for two other Italian navigators of the last decade of the 15th century( 1497 & 1499) and later, Giovanni Caboto and Amerigo Vespucci .

[@vitorsilveira560]

@@johndavidcollins6163 Christovam Colombo, not Cristobal Cólon, the Spaniards always had a problem to spell foreigners names , anstate to say Buch , they say Bu . Anstead to say the letter V They say always B.

[@christhecustomcharacter1409]

Request: Are there any Newtons left?

[@sohopedeco]

He died a virgin, so no.

[@Klatski]

@@sohopedeco siblings/niblings aren't ruled out

[@morisco56]

@@sohopedeco really? Awesome then I am not the only one

[@BMoney8600]

There are plenty of Fig Newton’s left

[@stanleyhercules]

everybody knows the greatest Chris Columbus directed home alone

[@JimbobsTransportVideos]

5:55 wow we should celebrate him risking it all in ww2 to find America

[@SWLinPHX]

Yes, because if you remember at the time he would’ve had to dodge the strategically placed German U-boats.

[@JimbobsTransportVideos]

SWLinPHX lmao

[@BMoney8600]

Haha

[@gregorybrian]

“A living ancestor?” You mean a living DESCENDANT.

[@jan-seli]

5:55: 1942

[@floydhebert3684]

2:24 Imagine being named Colon 😳

[@sunglassshinpan1352]

🇯🇵has a confection called, "Creamy Colon."

[@Dhalp661]

Hoi 4, Panama Canal province

[@PRDreams]

It's Colón, Not Colon

[@HasekuraIsuna]

@@PRDreams Visit any country which doesn't accept accents and you're shit out of luck, though.

[@HasekuraIsuna]

On a related note to that, I ordered some goods of the Linkin Park fan club like back '06 and the é in my name was replaced by ©√

[@sohopedeco]

Colombo is still an extremely common family name in Italy ans everywhere Italians spread. My cousin's wife, who is Brazilian like me, has Colombo as her surname too.

[@liam-man7265]

The city of Colombo is also the national capital of Sri Lanka, an island country that lies directly South of India.

[@vitorsilveira560]

@@liam-man7265 the portuguese put that name to the city wenn it were a Portuguese colony, and the name of the island was Ceilão, Ceilam, now Sri Lanka.

[@liam-man7265]

Vitor Silveira Seems accurate. ✅

[@greamespens1460]

The problem of asking if there are any Columbuses left is if you wait for one they will all come together ;)

[@pedrobluis]

He was actually born in Cuba, Alentejo, Portugal.

[@morisco56]

Cubano caballero

[@harmony.enforcer]

*proceeds to discover America through German U-boat barrage*

[@Randomstuffs261]

5:54 ... this happened in 1942? America declared war on Japan in 1941 before America was even discovered... noice

[@declaniii6324]

That time stamp doesn’t exist...

[@Randomstuffs261]

@@declaniii6324 Fixed it

[@antonguldbrandt2675]

5:55 you Said 1942 instead of 1492

[@BernardS4]

The guy is elocution challenged

[@telperion3]

In Italy we used to give conventional surnames to orphans, tipically different from town to town. Colombo was one of them, like Innocenti (innocents) or Esposito (exposed). So are there any Colombo left in the world? Colombo, like the other "orphan surnames" is one of the most widespread surnames in Italy so actually it's plenty of them!

[@Ivanmaradonaaa]

And Colón is a pretty common surname too

[@sculpture_9498]

Are there any Medici Family left?

[@Sandra.Molchanova]

5:55 It took Columbus 450 years to organize an expedition, despite the fact that it happened "in the same year" 😆

[@Electy]

These videos are so good!

[@MythologywithMike]

Wow I did not expect any of his descendants to live on but amazingly they did!

[@Ivanmaradonaaa]

No

[@arescalcifer]

Great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great Video indeed

[@AvrahamYairStern]

Ahhh yes, 1942, the year Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue...

[@amehak1922]

And survived the u-boat armada.

[@ImperialZorn686]

@@amehak1922 lmao

[@liam-man7265]

And survived the German Nazis.

[@warrenlehmkuhleii8472]

8:49 The answers start here.

[@cubicacre]

5:55 Hold up, Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1942??

[@Archivist1492]

I am a descendant of Christopher Columbus or “Colón” and his female descendants used Colón and their children/descendants uses it today.

[@MinecraftPony155]

How about Pizarro or Cortes?

[@lskyes]

Does anyone else hear a few repeats in this script? Like when he mentioned Columbia and said 'which coincidentally' twice

[@skysthelimitvideos]

Larissa Skyes not his best editing job

[@SWLinPHX]

FUN FACT: King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain (who as mentioned sponsored Columbus‘s voyages) married off their daughter Catherine from their region of Spain known as Aragon, to Arthur of England whose younger brother became the infamous Henry VIII whom she also married upon Arthur‘s death, becoming the first of Henry’s six wives and the reason the Protestant church was formed in England (since as a Catholic the pope would not grant Henry VIII a divorce from Catherine) so he could marry his second wife Anne Boleyn, who became the mother of Queen Elizabeth I ...and then was beheaded. 😕

[@DragonTamerCos]

5:44 Damn he really left in the middle of world war II, I really wouldn't blame him tho.

[@KingsleyIII]

Skip to 8:49 to get to the "Are There Any Columbuses Left?" part.

[@mishagelenava2962]

When you ask "Are There Any Columbuses Left?" or any other family name, I take this question as the family name in general, not just direct descendants of the guy. In case of Columbus, as you mentioned his original family name was Italian Colombo and I know for sure that there are people in Italy with that family name, most notably retired football player Angelo Colombo.

[@thecommunistpartyofvooperi9613]

5:55 1942??? Also, he didn't think he found Asia, he thought he found islands south east of Japan

[@louisgray3479]

The Corsican town of Calvi, which belonged to Genua, also claims to be the birthplace of Christopher Columbus, or actually "Christofanu Culombu", as he's called in Corsican

[@euclois]

i'm a living descendant of bartolomeu perestrelo, another navigator, whose daughter, filipa perestrelo married christopher columbus. there are full genealogical records, i am not from columbus lineage, our family still holds the perestrelo name, we come from the lineage of filipa's brother.

[@rachelselby5469]

I love it when you find a real live descendent.

[@LongLiveRockAnRoll]

Scott Columbus (RIP) was drummer for the band manowar for many years and he had kids, doubt they'd be related to CC but maybe.

[@sunglassshinpan1352]

He was smart for not wanting to travel thru "the land of peace."

[@zawarudozahandozadusto9626]

Yes most Puerto Rican’s are.

[@robhorgan8502]

The city should stay Columbus just because it's a fun word to say.

[@Jan_Koopman]

I once heard that King William III of the Netherlands was gay and therefore died childless, so I have a suggestion for a next video (of this series): is the current Van Oranje-Nassau family (the Royal family of the Netherlands) *actually* "Van Oranje-Nassau"?

[@mfvieira89]

9:07 The original name of his child was Diogo Colombo, not Diego (Diego is the Spanish version of Diogo from it's original Portuguese). Also it's important for you to refer that Filipa Perestrelo was an aristocrat, as that is one of the main arguments supporting that Colombus might have been Portuguese after all

[@rodrigojardim6752]

mfv89 And Filipa Perestrelo was one do the most powerfull woman in the world. Only a worthy portuguese could marry her.

[@vitorsilveira560]

@@rodrigojardim6752 because she calls also Moniz an important aristocratic family in Portugal.

[@Finn-gw9hh]

Leif Erikson next?

[@jaojao1768]

Nobody really "carries his name" since surnames were not inherited in his time, he was only named Erikson because his father's name was Erik (Eric the Red), and his children would be named (first name) Leifson

[@puneeths8205]

Washington , Lincoln,or Adams

[@likebot.]

The problem is the patronym. I'd love to know what family names are descended from Gengis Khan. Well we most of us are, but I mean directly from son to son and so on.

[@christhecustomcharacter1409]

5:56 Who else heard him said 1942?

[@leftylizard9085]

Ah yes, in 1942 Colombus sailed the ocean blue.

[@PigIA]

Do are there any more Burrs

[@randyyy2609]

What about the American film director Chris Columbus, known from the first and second Harry Potter movies, among others? Is he related to Christopher Columbus the explorer?

[@dessination9763]

Do one about if there are any Lincoln 's left

[@CaspergerTheAwkwardGhost]

The last documented descendent of Abe Lincoln died childless in 1985. However, actor George Clooney is a decent of Abe Lincoln’s mother’s family.

[@tuberculosisterrence567]

I would enjoy being from Flavor Town OH

[@BMoney8600]

I wish I could be as cool as you being from Flavor Town

[@petseoga]

Talking about Columbus’ name is complicated since it’s most likely a latinisation of his surname, which could be from diferent countries. Although most people believe he was from Italy, there is no definite proof he was from there. In Catalonia there are many people with the surname Colom which is a direct translation.

[@declaniii6324]

3:19 you used two takes of the which coincidentally line. You should be able to cut one from the KZbin editor

[@TheECSH]

i wonder what language(s) people used back in the days to communicate (not Latin right? because that was the language of the educated/elites), like in the case of Columbus when he moved around to these different nations.

[@deadlive3212]

Spanish and Italian people can understand each other.

[@SantomPh]

Spanish and Portuguese would have to be learned by anyone working in that period in Spain, as well as French. Sailors also learned Italian given the power of Genoa and Venice at the time. In general people in Iberia spoke Spanish, Portuguese, plus regional languages like Catalan, Basque etc Colombus would pick up Spanish rather easily, given its closeness to Italian and his own upbringing in a port town

[@Ivanmaradonaaa]

The romance languages were closer to each other than what they're today

[@davidemaspero2542]

Italian was no more than a literary language in the 15th Century, and nobody really used it in everyday life until much later (as a long process following Italian unification in the second part of 19th Century, apart it being very close to the language spoken in Tuscany and in Rome). So, if Columbus was born in Genoa, he was a citizen of the Republic of Genoa and speaking the local language. Genoa’s economy was based on commerce and freight transport, so it must have been very common for local merchants and sailors to interact with people from and in the Iberian peninsula, as well as all the Mediterranean region. In what is presently classified as the Genoan or Ligurian dialect there are many influences of Portuguese, Catalan and Spanish. By the way, the fact that the wealth of Genoa and Venice was based on controlling the commercial routes with the Far East through their dependences in the Eastern Mediterranean basin, could be one reason for their reluctance in financing the opening of alternatives routes.

[@anahideloya5526]

On behalf of the things my grandfather did...I'm sorry...😶

[@gregorybrian]

I live in Washington DC. The District of Columbia. When we become a state, the name is going to have to be changed because a) it won’t be a district but a state, b) there’s already a state called “Washington,” and c) “Columbia” is the feminine form of “Columbus.” (Columbus’ reputation takes his name out of contention.) One name being floated about is “Douglass,” named after Frederick Douglass, as African Americans make up the largest demographic of the city.

[@Sandra.Molchanova]

What I like about these videos is that suddenly everything has eyes 👀

[@clintsrandomchannel5301]

I don't even know my great ×16 grandfather

[@areamusicale]

LOL "Cristoforo Colon" ... that name is so appropriate :D

[@goodshow5528]

Portugal and Genoan king must been pissed when colombus found America

[@Ivanmaradonaaa]

Genova was a republic

[@jrdosreis6484]

Ferdinand De las Cases and Nicolas De Avando started the spainish slave trade, and when the Iberian Union was set up, the Portuguese and Spanish slave trade merged, and in addition from African Kingdoms selling their prisoners to the Europeans, started the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and the oppression of blacks in the Americas

[@luciaryan6063]

theres a spelling error in the title, the plural of columbus is columbi

[@Pangloss6413]

are there any Roosevelts left?

[@jaojao1768]

Yes

[@SWLinPHX]

I will always remember the famous statue of Columbus at the end of Las Ramblas in Barcelona pointing to the New World.

[@bibble4097]

3:19 which coincidentally-WHICH COINCIDENTALLY

[@chrisdawn7752]

I know I might trigger people with this comment, although that is really not my intention. I have read a few people commenting on this video saying that Columbus was probably actually Portuguese, which is actually not far off seeing as Columbus married a portuguese noblewomen, spoke and wrote very well in a portuguese dialect and had many connections in Portugal. But there has actually been substantial evidence showing that Columbus was actually from Galicia, in the northwest of Spain. This evidence states that he was from the noble family de Sotomayor, one of those most renowned families in Galicia at the time. Pedro Alvarez de Sotomayor, also known as the great "Pedro Madruga" who mysteriously disappeared from records in 1486 and was presumed dead. He also had vast naval skills, had many connections with the upper echelons of spanish nobility and was very well known in Galicia for his charisma and brute leadership. Many Galician historians believe that he changed his identity after 1486 in order to be able to obtain funding from Isabella & Ferdinand for his voyages, which would otherwise not have been supported by the Catholic church due to him having major conflicts with them throughout his life, even kidnapping a bishop at one point in his life. Yeah, he was a badass. Galician historians have studied Columbus' memoirs and showed that much of the dialect he wrote in was a spanish-portuguese mix, typical of someone from Galicia in that era. Also, many of the locations he first discovered in Cuba, Dominican (Hispaniola at the time) he named after locations along the Rias Bajas, which is a river system branching off the west coast of Pontevedra, Galicia. Also, under A VERY STRANGE COINCIDENCE, both Columbus' son and Madruga's son both sailed together on the first voyages to the new world; and both Columbus and Madruga were once married to a Portuguese noblewoman, by the name of Filipa. By the way, I'm not trying to bash any italians here lol, I am actually half italian so that is the last thing I would want to do. Of course I am not saying this is true, but in my opinion, it offers a much more plausible theory than the Italian one. But if any one is interested, I would suggest looking into it! Here is an interesting documentary in Spanish about it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGnHYaafoNFgm9k

[@rexchiliae]

Colombo is a pretty common italian surname and the castilianized form Colón is also alive

[@Culturally_Hispanic]

7:18 Cristobal Colon never stepped foot on Puerto Rico. His son Diego did in 1509.

[@mlovecraftr]

Omg, the descendant basically said "Spain didn't send their best... Except my abuelito who was awesome"

[@sleepyjones9625]

What a life Columbus is a hero

[@juliandean5204]

Not really but sort of, his name was not columbus but instead Columbo in Italian and his Spanish name is Colon, he even has a descendant named after him on his son Diego's side

[@thepatriarchy819]

5:55 1942 Christopher sailed the ocean blue?

[@liam-man7265]

I was certainly always told that the year was 1492... There must be quite a lot of people who consider the 20th century as an ancient time.

[@ruckymutton5153]

@@liam-man7265 yes

[@b-don7930]

I live in a former Italian diaspora in argentina, here the name Colombo is amazingly common... never met a Colón tho... outside of the football team

[@cassandracolon2586]

My last name is colon! I’m from the US and my father is Mexican 🤔

[@eshyr]

Which coincidentally, which coincidentally

[@SkyTheHusky]

This is the 18th Duke of Veragua's Wikipedia page: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crist%C3%B3bal_Col%C3%B3n_de_Carvajal,_18th_Duke_of_Veragua

[@smokingstrong]

i believe columbus was portuguese bc his wife was a portugese noble woman and the only way to marry one is to get consent...and an italian who just had his ship sank and didnt have much of a background wouldnt stand a chance....hes thought to be the illegitimate son of a portugese lord who had "died" at battle the at sea off the coast of portugal...same place as columbus

[@transtremm]

Don't forget the Capital of the United States is named after him also, "Washington: the District of Columbia."

[@RafaelSantos-pi8py]

Lots of wrong with this but i didn't expected an englishman would know much about spanish history.

[@Lorem_64]

like what?

[@theshadow9360]

Most of them are do to black legend and an England mainly propagated it

[@RafaelSantos-pi8py]

@@Lorem_64 Colon was from sardinia, a former genovese colony but at the time a possesion of the crown of aragon, making him a spanish subject, not italian. The reason he was imprisioned in hispaniola was because he was a terrible leader and punished people with mutilation, ear, noses, hands. And he did it to natives and spaniards alike. So the spanish rebelled against him and send him back to spain in chains. Also one of the motives he wanted to sail to the west was to get on the spice trade and make money to fund a crusade . Remember, this was only a few years after constantinople fell to the turks. Great navigator, very poor people skills, major asshole.

[@aidandavies6164]

i dont think he set off in 1942

[@liam-man7265]

He didn’t. Name Explain meant to say the year “1492”.

[@donaldcarlson7297]

Do are there any leaf Erikson’s left