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(Madrigal de las Altas Torres, Spain, 1451 - Medina del Campo, id., 1504) Queen of Castile and Leon (1474-1504) and the Crown of Aragon (1479-1504). Daughter of John II of Castile and Isabel of Portugal, Isabella was three years old when his brother Henry IV hugged the English Crown (1454).
In 1468, the monarch, a man of weak and indecisive character, admitted to the Princess Elizabeth as heir to the throne in the Pact of Los Toros de Guisando, thus deprived of their inheritance rights to their own daughter, Princess Juana, called the Beltraneja, who slander supposed daughter of Henry Beltran de la Cueva, Duke of Alburquerque In order to consolidate his political position, the directors of Queen Isabella agreed to her marriage to Prince Ferdinand, eldest son of John II of Aragon, liaison secretly held in Valladolid, on October 19, 1469. The following year, upset by this marriage, Henry IV decided to disinherit Elizabeth and rehabilitation in his capacity as heir Joan, who was betrothed to Alfonso V of Portugal.
The consequence was that the king's death in 1474, a sector Isabel nobility proclaimed sovereign of Castile, while another faction of the nobility recognized Juana (1475), which marked the beginning of a bloody civil war.
Despite the help of the Portuguese king to Beltraneja, the inheritance conflict opted for Isabel in 1476, following the crushing defeat inflicted on it by the supporters of Prince Ferdinand of Aragon at the Battle of Toro.
The fighting, however, occurred in the border castellanoportuguesa until 1479, when the treaty marked the final Alcaçobas recognize Elizabeth as Queen of Castile by Portugal, as well delimit the area of \u200b\u200bEnglish expansion in the Atlantic coast of Africa. That same year, on the other hand, the death of Juan II gave access to the throne of Ferdinand II of the Confederation of Catalonia and Aragon, and the resulting dynastic union of Castile and the Crown of Aragon .
In religious matters, finally, Isabella conducted a thorough reform church with the help of Cardinal Cisneros, established the court of Inquisition to ensure Catholic orthodoxy (1478) and culminated in the unification process with the expulsion of religious Jews (1492) and Moorish (1502). On his death on November 26, 1504, the Castilian throne passed to his daughter Juana, called la Loca, mother of the future King Charles I of Spain.
To consolidate and prestige of the monarchy, the queen introduced the Holy Brotherhood, an institution responsible for guaranteeing the stability of public order and the administration of justice (1476), abolished the privileges granted to the nobility by Henry IV (1480) and became the Council Real's main governing body of the kingdom, to the detriment of the Courts. 
In the Royal Chapel of the Cathedral of Granada are the tombs of the Catholic Monarchs , and his daughter Queen Joanna and her husband Philip I "The Handsome." The funerary monuments are empty as the coffins containing the bodies of the Kings are just below in the crypt.
After the death of the Queen on November 26, 1504, immediately proceeded to move his body from Medina del Campo (Valladolid) to Granada, to be placed temporarily as planned in his will, in the Convento de San Francisco de la Alhambra.
When the 23 January 1516 King Ferdinand died in Madrigalejo (Cáceres), was not yet completed the Chapel Royal and their remains were also taken to the Franciscan convent.
Tombs of the Kings Catholic and Joanna and her husband Felipe I:
The transfer of the bodies of the monarchs to the crypt of the Chapel Royal was held with great solemnity on 10 November 1521 at the request of Charles I.
The transfer of the bodies of the monarchs to the crypt of the Chapel Royal was held with great solemnity on 10 November 1521 at the request of Charles I.
. Coffins containing the bodies of Isabel "La Católica" and her husband Ferdinand II of Aragon (two plants). De Juana I (right of picture) and her husband Philip I "The Beautiful" (to the left of the image n). And the Little Prince Miguel of Portugal, grandson of the RRCC (right foreground).
The original will of the queen is kept in the Real Monasterio de Santa Maria de Guadalupe
. A copy was sent to the monastery of Santa Isabel de la Alhambra
. And second, the Cathedral of Toledo , although since 1575 went to Simancas
.In it, he left word that his successors should strive to win for Christianity in North Africa following the reconquest of the peninsula, but the discovery of America
made the efforts of the Castilian kingdoms moved away from that goal. Testament of Isabel the Catholic His efforts as an advocate for the equality of its American subjects with those of Old World have earned him the title Pioneer of Human Rights by major historians (despite having declared in Castilla forced conversion of Jews, on pain expulsion decree Granada, and later, pushed by her husband and the papacy, to break
Capitulation of Granada, Boabdil
Upon his death was followed by the daughter, Jane, but not for long, since he was declared incapable of reigning by "madness" and passing the kingdom, first it's husband (Philip I the Fair
) and soon the son of this marriage, and grandson of Ferdinand and Isabella, Charles I.
The couple had 6 children:
Isabel (1 October 1470 - 1498), Princess of Asturias
(1497 - 1498), married the Infante Alfonso of Portugal
, but after his death married the cousin of the deceased, Manuel , who would be king of Portugal with the name of Manuel I, the Fortunate. He died at the birth of his son Miguel de Paz
.
- Juan (30 June 1478 - 1497), Prince of Asturias (1478 - 1497). In 1497, he married Margaret of Austria (daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I of Habsburg ), died of tuberculosis soon after. He had a posthumous son was stillborn. Margarita left Spain and was responsible for a time his nephew Carlos , future Charles V. Juana I de Castilla (6 November 1479
- - 1555), Princess of Asturias (1500 - 1504), Queen of Castile (1504 - 1555) with the name of Joanna . In 1496, he contracted marriage to Philip the Fair of Hapsburg (also son of Emperor Maximilian I). With it came a new dynasty in Spain, the Habsburgs, who formed the House of Austria. In 1500, he was the second time mother of his first son, the future Charles I , who also happen and would Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire as Charles V. In 1503, she gave birth to Fernando, who succeeded Charles in the Holy Roman Empire as
- Fernando I, and restored the imperial Austrian branch of the House of Habsburg. Mentally affected by the death of her husband, was detained by his father Fernando in Tordesillas, where died. Mary (29 June 1482 - 1517), married in 1500 with her sister's widower Manuel I of Portugal, the Fortunate. She was the mother of ten children, among them: Juan III , Henry I of Portugal and Empress Elizabeth, wife of Charles V. Catalina (12 December 1485 -
- 1536), married Prince Arthur of Wales Henry VIII. Therefore became Queen of England was the mother of Queen Mary I of England , Mary Tudor. in 1502, who died a few months after the wedding. In 1509 he married the brother of her late husband, who would Pedro de Embasaguas (1488 - 1490), the "Prince", died shortly after birth.
- A book
- Manuel Fernández Álvarez " Isabel la Católica" (2006), Espasa-Calpe.Madrid . ISBN: 9788467021134
Sources:
http://dinastias.forogeneral.es/forum/capilla-real-granada-t668.html
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_I_de_Castilla
http://www.ivoox.com/mujeres-historia-isabel-catolica-audios-mp3_rf_87190_1 . html
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