Sinclair and Columbus 

Henry Sinclair’s daughter Elizabeth married into another of Scotland’s wealthiest families, the Drummonds. He made Elizabeth and John heir to his kingdom when he went to America. When he returned, John Drummond takes his bride and heads for the newly discovered island of Madeira. The Knights of Christ, resurrected from the Iberian Templars had employed Genoese seafarers to colonize the Atlantic islands. The Perestrello clan, whose title is capitano, meaning governor, will become linked to the Drummond-Sinclair family by marriage.

In Lisbon, a young Christopher Columbus meets Felipa Perestrello at Sunday Mass. Columbus marries this daughter of a Templar knight and soon moves to Madera. There his mother-in-law gives him a very special wedding present: The maps and charts of the Templar explorations in the Atlantic. Drummond-Sinclair relatives marry into the Perestrello clan as well bringing knowledge of the Atlantic route to America to the newly married explorer.

There is little doubt that Columbus expected to meet rajahs of India and mandarins of China armed only with trinkets and mirrors as his trade goods.