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Isabella I - Online Essay

Isabella I

("THE CATHOLIC.")
was the Queen of Castile; who was born in the town of Madrigal de las Altas Torres on 22 April, 1453; and died 26 November, 1504, in the castle of La Mota, which still stands at Medina del Campo (Valladolid). She was the daughter of John II, King of Castile, by his second wife,
Isabella of Portugal.

Isabella married an arranged suitor, Ferdinand, in the palace of Juan de Vivero, in 1469.
On the death of Henry IV, Isabellawas proclaimed Queen of Castile. Ferdinand succeeded to the throne of Aragon, and thus the definitive unity of the Spanish nation was accomplished in the two monarchs to whom a Spanish pope, Alexander VI, gave the title of "Catholic" which the ...

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to the Catholic sovereigns, and to Queen Isabella fell the honor of appreciating the genius who had not been understood at Genoa, at Venice, or in Portugal. He was presented to the queen by her confessor, Padre Hernando Talavera, and Cardinal Mendoza (el Cardenal de Espańa); and with the means which the king and queen procured for him he fitted out the three famous caravels which placed America in communication with the Old World. Sailing, 3 August, 1492, from the port of Palos, he discovered on 12 October-the day on which the feast of Our Lady of the Pillar is observed in Spain- the first of the Bahama Islands. Not only did Isabella the Catholic always show herself the sponser of Columbus, but she was also the protector of American aborigines against the illusage of the colonists and adventurers. In 1503, she organized the Secretariate of Indian Affairs, which was the origin of the Supreme Council of the Indies. Isabella was responsible for reformation of the monasteries of ...

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Added: 8/24/2006 02:46:26 PM
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