Filipa Moniz Perestrelo

Filipa Moniz Perestrelo (c. 1455 – between 1479 and 1484) was a Portuguese noblewoman from Porto Santo Island, in Madeira, Portugal.

[1] Prior to marrying she was one of the twelve elite Comendadoras of the Monastery of All Saints in Lisbon of the Military Order of St. James, which means she had a comendary.

[3] Discussing the question of how Christopher Columbus, the son of a Genoese wool weaver, could marry the daughter of a Portuguese Knight of Santiago, a member of the household of Prince John, Lord of Reguengos de Monsaraz (Master of Santiago,) and of Prince Henry the Navigator's household, Samuel Eliot Morison[4] wrote that this is "no great mystery."

Another view is presented by Portuguese professor Joel Silva Ferreira Mata, who researched All-Saints and its residents.

[7] The Master of Santiago from 1470 to 1492, thus governing at the time of Filipa's marriage, was King John II of Portugal.