JAMAICA

JAMAICA
JAMAICA
quae nunc Ins. S. Iacobi nuncupatur, ins. est ampla maris Sept. ab Hispaniola 25. leuc. in Occ. a Cuba ins. in Austr. 20. Mer. S. Bernardi insulas et Carthagenam respicit, Occ. Iucaranas terras, seu Fonduram versus fertur, in longit. 50. mill. protenditur. Baudr. 40. leuc. Hisp. longa, 18. lata Ambitus eius 600. milliarium. Eid. 100. leuc. Hisp. Hanc ins. Columbus secundâ navigatione detexit, eiusque insulanos Didacus, Columbi fil. A. C. 1509. rebellantes subegit, et iamaicam Coronae Hispanicae stipendiariam tributariamque reddidit. Duabus civitatibus habitatut, quarum primaria Sevillia sive Hispalis vocatur, in parte Sept. Ins. Ioh. Matal. Metell. Merc Melilla urbs, in eodem tractu, ad Ort. Hispalis, et Oristanium Oristagni, ad Mer. cum aliquot coloniis Anglorum, quibus mai. ex parte nunc Ins. paret, ab A. C. 1654. Baudr. Linschot. Hist. Amer. A Costa, etc. ingenti terrae motu haud pridem horrendum in modum concussa vastataque. Hinc nomen fam. in Hisp. illustris, Marchionum de Iamaica, quae ramus est stirpis Portugallensis. Inter Fam. enim, quae ex naturalibus Lusitaniae Regum filiis ortae, cum tres praecipuae sint, harum secunda, Bragantina, ab Alphonso Duce Bragantiae ac Com. de Barcellos, Ioh. I. Regis notho descendit: Ex cuius liberis Ferdinandus I. post Patrem Dux, ex tribus filiis totidem linearum fuit sator. Et maximus quidem natu Ferdinandus II. Ducalem domum continuavit, ex qua nunc Reges, nec non Marchiones de Flechilla et Xarandilla atque Comites de Oropesa oriundi sunt. Eiusdem rami palmites sunt Comites de Lemos Duces Taurisani cogn. de Castro, atque ex hisce iterum Comites de Gelves Duces de Veragua, in quorum domum successio fam. Columbiae, cum dignitate March. de Iamaica, delapsa est. Georg. eim de Portugal Com. de Gelves, fil. Alvari et Philippae (fil. Roderici de Melo Com. de Olivenza) iunxerat sibi Isabellam Colombo (quae ex Diaco Columbo Duc. de Veragua neptis fuit Christophori, famosi illius Argonautae et Americae repertoris) e quo matrimonio natus Alvarus I. de Portugal Com. de Gelves, ex Leonora de Corduba, genuit Nunium de Portugal Columbum Duce de Veragua: quo, et Aldonicâ Portocarrerâ, natus Alvarus II. maritus fuit Catharinae de Portugal Com. de Gelves (fil. Ferdinandi de Castro Com. de Gelves) et ex ea suscepit Petrum Nunium I. Columbum de Portugal Duc. de Veragua et de la Vega; cui Isballa Ferdinandina de la Cueva (filia Ferdinandi Francisci Duc. Albuquerquii) genuit Petrum Nunium II. Columbum de Portugal March de Iamaica. Vide Phil. Iac. Spener. Theatr. Nobil. Part. III. Eur. p. 72.

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