For some time they held a humble court at Duenas,Īnd afterwards they resided at Segovia, where, on the death of Henry, she was proclaimed Queen of Castile and Leon (December 13, 1474). Thence forward the fortunes of Ferdinand and Isabella were inseparably blended. Finally however, in face of very great difficulties, she was married to Ferdinand of Aragon at Valladolid Richard, Duke of Gloucester), and the Duke of Guienne, brother of Louis XI, and heir presumptive of New candidates for her hand now appeared in the persons of a brother of Edward IV of England (probably In the civil war, had been declined by her, she was in 1468 formally recognized by her brother as lawful heir, after himself, to the united crowns of After an offer of the crown of Castile, made by the revolutionary leaders The sudden death of the bridegroom while on his way to the nuptials in 1466. Grand master of the order of Calatrava and brother of the Marquis of Villena, to whom she was next affianced, when she was delivered from her fears by Her in marriage to Alphonso of Portugal, but she firmly refused to consent her resistance seemed less likely to be effectual in the case of Pedro Giron, In her thirteenth year her brother promised On the death of her father, who was succeeded by her brother Henry IV (1454), she was withdrawn by her mother to Arevalo, where her early education was conducted in the deepest seclusion in 1462, however, along with her uterine brother Alphonso, she was removed by Henry to the court, where she showed a remarkable example of staidness and sobriety.Īlready more than one suitor had made application for her hand, Ferdinand of Aragon, who ultimately became her husband,īeing among the number for some little time she was engaged to his elder brother Charles, who died in 1461. QUEEN ISABELLA, surnamed la Catolica, "the Catholic," Queen of Castile, was the second child and only daughter of John II of Castile by his second wife Isabella, granddaughter of John I of Portugal (thus being through both parents a descendant of John of Gaunt), and was born at Madrigal on the 22nd of April 1451. Luminarium Encyclopedia: Queen Isabella of Castile and Leon (1451-1504).
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