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| Keywords: catherine of aragon catherineofaragon european royalty europeanroyalty portrait people Ferdinand was born in Sos del Rey Católico, the son of John II of Aragon (whose family was a cadet branch of the House of Trastámara) by his second wife, the Castilian noblewoman Juana Enríquez. He married Infanta Isabella, the half-sister and heiress of Henry IV of Castile, on 19 October 1469 in Valladolid and became jure uxoris King of Castile when Isabella succeeded her brother as Queen of Castile in 1474. Isabel also belonged to the royal House of Trastámara. Married under the joint motto, tanto monta, monta tanto, the two young monarchs were initially obliged to fight a civil war against Joan, princess of Castile (also known as Juana la Beltraneja), the purported daughter of Henry IV, and were swiftly successful. When Ferdinand succeeded his father as King of Aragon in 1479, the Crown of Castile and the various territories of the Crown of Aragon were united in a personal union creating for the first time since the 8th century a single political unit referred to as España (Spain), the root of which is the ancient name Hispania, although the various states were not formerly administered as a single unit until the 18th century, but rather, as separate political units under the same Crown. The first decades of Ferdinand and Isabella's joint rule were taken up with the conquest of the Kingdom of Granada, the last Muslim enclave in the Iberian peninsula, which was completed by 1492. In that same year, the Alhambra Decree was issued, expelling the Jews from both Castile and Aragon, and Christopher Columbus was sent by the couple on his expedition to the new world. By the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494, the extra-European world was split between the crowns of Portugal and Castile by a north-south line through the Atlantic Ocean. Ferdinand II of Aragon, forced muslims to convert to Christianity or they were expelled from the Kingdom of Spain, back in Morroco, and The only remaining muslims were the architects. Who were the people behind the design of Alhambra palace in Cordoba, the muslims who remained discreet were, kidnapped by Spanish Inquistors, and asked to eat a piece of pork. This was also practised by the Spanish Inquistors on the Jewish population of Spain. The Muslims or Jews who failed to eat pork were expelled from the Kingdom of Spain or tortured till they converted to Christianity. The main architect behind the Spanish Inquistion was King Ferdinand II of Aragon, over 10,000 arabic manuscripts were burnt in Granada alone,in a sense of being ashamed of the muslim history of spain. Another action of King Ferdinand II of Aragon was to convert the great mosque of Cordoba built in the 8th century A.D into a church, by carving out the dome of the mosque. Ferdinand was born in Sos del Rey Católico, the son of John II of Aragon (whose family was a cadet branch of the House of Trastámara) by his second wife, the Castilian noblewoman Juana Enríquez. He married Infanta Isabella, the half-sister and heiress of Henry IV of Castile, on 19 October 1469 in Valladolid and became jure uxoris King of Castile when Isabella succeeded her brother as Queen of Castile in 1474. Isabel also belonged to the royal House of Trastámara. Married under the joint motto, tanto monta, monta tanto, the two young monarchs were initially obliged to fight a civil war against Joan, princess of Castile (also known as Juana la Beltraneja), the purported daughter of Henry IV, and were swiftly successful. When Ferdinand succeeded his father as King of Aragon in 1479, the Crown of Castile and the various territories of the Crown of Aragon were united in a personal union creating for the first time since the 8th century a single political unit referred to as España (Spain), the root of which is the ancient name Hispania, although the various states were not formerly administered as a single unit until the 18th century, but rather, as separate political units under the same Crown. The first decades of Ferdinand and Isabella's joint rule were taken up with the conquest of the Kingdom of Granada, the last Muslim enclave in the Iberian peninsula, which was completed by 1492. In that same year, the Alhambra Decree was issued, expelling the Jews from both Castile and Aragon, and Christopher Columbus was sent by the couple on his expedition to the new world. By the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494, the extra-European world was split between the crowns of Portugal and Castile by a north-south line through the Atlantic Ocean. Ferdinand II of Aragon, forced muslims to convert to Christianity or they were expelled from the Kingdom of Spain, back in Morroco, and The only remaining muslims were the architects. Who were the people behind the design of Alhambra palace in Cordoba, the muslims who remained discreet were, kidnapped by Spanish Inquistors, and asked to eat a piece of pork. This was also practised by the Spanish Inquistors on the Jewish population of Spain. The Muslims or Jews who failed to eat pork were expelled from the Kingdom of Spain or tortured till they converted to Christianity. The main architect behind the Spanish Inquistion was King Ferdinand II of Aragon, over 10,000 arabic manuscripts were burnt in Granada alone,in a sense of being ashamed of the muslim history of spain. Another action of King Ferdinand II of Aragon was to convert the great mosque of Cordoba built in the 8th century A.D into a church, by carving out the dome of the mosque. Ferdinand was born in Sos del Rey Católico, the son of John II of Aragon (whose family was a cadet branch of the House of Trastámara) by his second wife, the Castilian noblewoman Juana Enríquez. He married Infanta Isabella, the half-sister and heiress of Henry IV of Castile, on 19 October 1469 in Valladolid and became jure uxoris King of Castile when Isabella succeeded her brother as Queen of Castile in 1474. Isabel also belonged to the royal House of Trastámara. Married under the joint motto, tanto monta, monta tanto, the two young monarchs were initially obliged to fight a civil war against Joan, princess of Castile (also known as Juana la Beltraneja), the purported daughter of Henry IV, and were swiftly successful. When Ferdinand succeeded his father as King of Aragon in 1479, the Crown of Castile and the various territories of the Crown of Aragon were united in a personal union creating for the first time since the 8th century a single political unit referred to as España (Spain), the root of which is the ancient name Hispania, although the various states were not formerly administered as a single unit until the 18th century, but rather, as separate political units under the same Crown. The first decades of Ferdinand and Isabella's joint rule were taken up with the conquest of the Kingdom of Granada, the last Muslim enclave in the Iberian peninsula, which was completed by 1492. In that same year, the Alhambra Decree was issued, expelling the Jews from both Castile and Aragon, and Christopher Columbus was sent by the couple on his expedition to the new world. By the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494, the extra-European world was split between the crowns of Portugal and Castile by a north-south line through the Atlantic Ocean. Ferdinand II of Aragon, forced muslims to convert to Christianity or they were expelled from the Kingdom of Spain, back in Morroco, and The only remaining muslims were the architects. Who were the people behind the design of Alhambra palace in Cordoba, the muslims who remained discreet were, kidnapped by Spanish Inquistors, and asked to eat a piece of pork. This was also practised by the Spanish Inquistors on the Jewish population of Spain. The Muslims or Jews who failed to eat pork were expelled from the Kingdom of Spain or tortured till they converted to Christianity. The main architect behind the Spanish Inquistion was King Ferdinand II of Aragon, over 10,000 arabic manuscripts were burnt in Granada alone,in a sense of being ashamed of the muslim history of spain. Another action of King Ferdinand II of Aragon was to convert the great mosque of Cordoba built in the 8th century A.D into a church, by carving out the dome of the mosque. portrait catherineofaragon europeanroyalty | ||||
