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Showing posts with label Queen Isabella. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Queen Isabella. Show all posts
12 June 2025

Aragon and Castile

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Although Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile were married, their two kingdoms did not become one. Sure, they worked in concer...
11 June 2025

Ferdinand II of Aragon

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Ferdinand II of Aragon had many more titles. Throughout his 63 years (10 March 1452 - 23 January 1516) he was not only king of Aragon, Major...
08 June 2025

The Spanish Inquisition

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While the Roman Catholic Church established the Inquisition in the 12th century to root out heresy, etc., some countries felt the need to c...
29 September 2014

The Fair Maid of Kent

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To Froissart she was "the most beautiful woman in all the realm of England, and the most loving"; in her own right she was the ...
24 April 2014

Isabella's Reforms

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Queen Isabella of Castile had a reputation for harshness when it came to crime and corruption. A Spanish writer and contemporary, Hernando...
22 April 2014

Isabella of Castile

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Wedding portrait of Isabella and Ferdinand (1469) Everyone knows about Isabella of Castile and how she financed Columbus' excursion ...
01 April 2014

Running to Portugal

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The Inquisition in Portigal [ source ] When the Alhambra Decree gave Jews the choice of converting to Christianity or leaving the kingd...
31 March 2014

The Alhambra Decree

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[ source ] There is an ethnic subdivision of Jews called Sephardic Jews. "Sephardic" comes from the Hebrew  Sepharad , which r...