Legal and Legitimate Initially and Bad

Christopher Columbus` first son, Diego Columbus (born between 1474 and 1480; died 1526), and Columbus` wife, Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, followed in his father`s footsteps and became the 2nd Admiral of India, the 2nd Viceroy of India and the 4th Governor of India. [107] Columbus` second son, Fernando Columbus (also known as Hernando; 1488-1539), was his illegitimate son of Beatriz Enríquez de Arana, and although he grew up with a considerable amount of power and privilege, he never really achieved his father`s notoriety due to the circumstances of his birth. Hernando Columbus` biographer, Edward Wilson-Lee,[108] says that Hernando „always wanted to prove himself in spirit as the son of his father. He undertook the extraordinary project of building a universal library that would contain all the books in the world. We saw this as a quid pro quo for his father`s desire to travel around the world. Hernando wanted to build a universal library that would tour the world of knowledge. However, when he realized that such a large collection of books would not be very useful without a way to organize and distill them, he employed an army of readers to read each book and distill it into a short summary, or „epitome.” The result was the Libro de los Epitomes (Book of Epitomes). Shortly after Hernando`s death in 1539 at the age of 50, this volume was lost for almost 500 years – until it was accidentally discovered in 2019 in a special collection at the University of Copenhagen. Many of the early printed publications summarized in the Book of Epitomes are now lost; but thanks to the illegitimate bibliophile Hernando Columbus, who wants to imitate his father and his „legitimate” half-brother in his own way, invaluable information about the knowledge and thought of the early modern period becomes available.

[109] Finally, the Family Law Reform Act of 1987 abolished the separate membership procedure103 with its manifestly unfounded offensiveness. The law no longer discriminates against a child who applies for financial assistance simply because his or her parents are not married: the illegitimate child must be able to apply for all kinds of financial assistance in the same way and to the same extent as the legitimate child. Facilitated divorce has contributed to the decline of the notion of illegitimacy. Previously, the mother and father of many children had not been able to marry because either was already legally bound by civil law or canon law to a previous non-viable marriage that did not allow for divorce. Their only option was often to wait until the ex-spouse died. Fathers of illegitimate children often do not face censorship or comparable legal responsibility, due to social attitudes towards gender, the nature of sexual reproduction, and the difficulty of determining paternity with certainty. It is all well and good to say that a child must be legitimized by the subsequent marriage of the parents, but how to establish the fact of filiation? This would be a particularly difficult question if the mother was married at the time of the child`s birth (p.549): the common law would assume that the husband was the father of her child, whereas what if she married another man and claimed that he was in fact the father of the child? But even if legitimacy were limited to cases where the father and mother were free to marry at the time of the child`s birth, was there not a risk that the child would falsely claim to be the descendant of the man he later married? Similarly, T. E. Lawrence`s biographer, Flora Armitage, writes of being born out of wedlock: „The effect on [T. E.] Lawrence of this discovery was profound; he added to the romantic envy of heroic behavior – Sangreal`s dream – the seed of ambition, the desire for honor and discernment: the redemption of the blood of his stain. [96] Another biographer, John E.

Mack, also writes: „[T]he mother asked him to redeem his fallen condition by his own special achievements, being a person of unusual value who performed great deeds, preferably religious and ideally on a heroic scale. Lawrence did his best to perform heroic deeds. But he was plagued by a deep sense of failure, especially after the events of the war had activated his internal conflicts. After being deceived as a child, he would later feel that he himself was a deceiver—that he had deceived the Arabs. [104] „Mrs. Lawrence`s initial hope that her sons would bring her personal salvation by becoming Christian missionaries was realized only by [Lawrence`s brother] Robert. [105] Mack continues: „Part of his creativity and originality lies in his `irregularity,` in his ability to stay outside conventional ways of thinking, a tendency that.. stems, at least in part, from its illegitimacy. Lawrence`s ingenuity and ability to see unusual or humorous relationships in familiar situations also come up.

of its illegitimacy. He was not limited to established or „legitimate” solutions or practices and, therefore, his mind was open to a wider range of possibilities and possibilities. [At the same time] Lawrence`s illegitimacy had far-reaching social consequences and limited him, which deeply angered him. Sometimes he felt socially isolated when old friends avoided him when they learned about his origins. Lawrence`s pleasure in mocking regular officers and other segments of „normal” society. derivative. At least in part of his inner view of his own irregular situation. His inconsistency on names for himself [he changed his name twice to distance himself from his „Lawrence of Arabia” personality] is directly related. about his vision of and identification with his parents [his father had changed his name after talking to T. E.

Lawrence`s future mother had run away]. [106] An illegitimate child was not necessarily4 socially disadvantaged:5 It has been said6 that countless „children of the fog happily played in the Whig and Tory kindergartens (p.546) where they posed no threat to the property or interests of the heirs.” .