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  Isabella of Castile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Isabella of Castile (Spanish : Ysabel Isabel or Isaabela ; sometimes in English: Elizabeth) (22 April 1451 - 26 November 1504) was queen of Castile.
Her paternal grandparents were King Henry III of Castile and Catherine Plantagenet of the House of Lancaster a half sister of King Henry IV of England.
Isabella was the first named woman to on a United States coin an 1893 commemorative quarter celebrating the 400th anniversary of first voyage.
www.freeglossary.com /Isabella_of_Castilia   (761 words)

  
 Caballero de la orden de Calatrava
He felt in his veins the fire of the knights of days gone by, hidden behind the pleats of the monastic clothes, and the nightmare during the sleep was the angish of the old soldier.
The king of castilia Alfonso VII "the Emperor" freed the Town of Calatrava and gave the main mosque to the archbishop of Toledo, in order to devoted it to church, and he entrusted the defense of the town to the Templar knights in 1150.
The donation was confirmed by: The king of Navarra, the mayordomo of the King, The Potestad of Castilia, The Lord of Logroño, the Primate of the Spains, several counts, magnates and prelates, among them, the one of Sigüenza, Cerebruno, who would sit soon in the chair of Toledo.
www.lilliputmodel.com /articulos/rafael_lopez/caballero_calatrava/caballero_calatrava_ing.htm   (1703 words)

  
 Short stay in Saragossa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
After his and his brother Martin I Aragón (1396-1410) childless deaths, developed various heavy spats and claims to the throne, when it was decreed that the infant Ferdinand from Castilia, a nephew of Johann, was selected to be king.
His son Ferdinand II Aragón, followed, he was since 1469 the husband of Isabella, the throne-heiress from Castilia.
After the unification with Castilia in 1516, Aragonia kept its old freedoms and did not loose same until a consequence of siding with Austria during the Spanish war, because of the line of succession.
www.mgb-home.de /english/Saragossa.html   (1138 words)

  
 Salamanca
Today the city is capital of the province, seat of the archbishop of Salamanca, and as it has always been, a college town, filled with bars and eateries, plazas and places, and all sorts of other interesting things.
This sculpted medallion in the center of the lowest register of the facade of the university in the Patio de Escuelas, shows the King and Queen, Ferdinand and Isabella, holding a staff in the center of the frame.
The loggia on the fifth story has three arches with balustrades on all four sides, and there is an elaborate ornamental balustrade with finials on top of the tower.
www.shawnk.com /plazas/Salamanca.htm   (1341 words)

  
 :: M E I S T E R M I C H E L ::
Having most probably already worked as a portrait painter (using the favourite techniques of Jan van Eyck and Hans Memling in the composition of his paintings), he travelled further to the south to visit Italy (as the great master from Brussels, Rogier van der Weyden, had done earlier).
Isabella of Castilia, called „the Catholic“ (who saw Columbus off) assembled academicians and painters from several countries, the royal collection contained of more than 300 paintings.
She had bought the major part of Isabella's Oratorio and joined „The Assumption of the Virgin“ and „The Ascension of Christ“ into a diptychon in a silver frame.
www.meistermichel.ee /eng/meister.html   (1952 words)

  
 Art Culture History Arts and Crafts and events in Almeria Andalucia Granada Seville Cordoba southern Spain
The marriage between Isabel of Castilia and Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469, uniting the two most important among them, was the turning point of the Reconquista.
Isabella's niece, Juana, had bloodily disputed her succession to the throne in a conflict in which the rival claimants were given assistance by outside powers--Isabella by Aragon and Juana by her suitor, the king of Portugal.
By marrying Ferdinand, Isabella had united Spain; however, she had also inevitably involved Castile in Aragon's wars in Italy against France, which had formerly been Castile's ally.
www.info-spain.co.uk /undiscovered/cabo-de-gata/touristisch1.php   (19359 words)

  
 10eng
First he conceived that the case of Ferdinando of Arragon after the death of Queen Isabella, was his own case after the death of his own Queen; and the case of Joan the heir unto Castile, was the case of his own son Prince Henry.
For the nobility of Castilia, that so lately put out the King of Arragon in favour of King Philip, and had discovered themselves so far, could not be but in a secret distrust and distaste of that King.
And as for Maximilian, upon twenty respects he could not have been the man. But this purpose of the King’s seemeth to me (considering the King’s safe courses, never found to be enterprising or adventurous) not greatly probable; except he should have had a desire to breathe warmer, because he had ill lungs.
www.philological.bham.ac.uk /henry/10eng.html   (1984 words)

  
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In that island the admirals ship was wrecked, and Columbus caused a fort to be constructed of her timbers and planks, in which he left Roderigo de Arana with a garrison of thirty-eight men, to learn the language and customs of the country.
On this he and his queen Isabella sent word of the recent discovery to Pope Alexander VI, at which information he and all the Italians were much astonished, as they marvelled that there should be any land besides what had been known to the Romans.
In the middle of this island there is a high rock, having the print of a mans foot, said to have been that of Adam when he ascended to heaven, which the Indians hold in great reverence.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/0/8/0/10803/10803-8.txt   (16560 words)

  
 Key dates in Catalan history
In 1469 Catalonia became part of the new Catholic kingdom of Ferdinand [Ferran] II which integrated Aragon and Isabella Ith from Castilia.
Since Catalonia is divorced from Castilia it is isolated from the new opportunities, particularly dealing with the new world was prohibited in 1522.
The rulers of Castilia require the Catalans to commit to their politics financially and force it, to include soldiers during the thirty-years war's in the fight against France.
www.cbrava.com /cathist.uk.htm   (1800 words)

  
 Timeline Spain thru 1899   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
1451 Apr 22, Isabella I of Castile, Queen of Spain (1479-1504), patron of Christopher Columbus, was born in Madrigal, Spain.
The Catholic heir to the Hapsburg dynasty, Charles V, was elected Holy Roman Emperor, combining the crowns of Spain, Burgundy (with the Netherlands), Austria and Germany.
With the death of Ferdinand on September 29, 1833, and the proclamation of his daughter Isabella as queen--excluding Ferdinand's brother Don Carlos from the succession--the First Carlist War was ignited.
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 Chapter 8
On January 2, 1492 beautiful Granada, the last bulwark of civilization and tolerance in Spain, fell to the army of Isabella of Castilia and Fernando of Aragon.
Isabella la Catholica was the step-sister of the weak King of Castile, Henry IV and was so disliked that she became the object of a civil war when Henry appointed her to his successor instead of his step-brother Alfons.
However she experienced her triumph when Alfons died in 1468 and she became successor to the throne; moreover a year later she also managed to marry Ferdinand of Aragon and to be proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon.
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 Home
Thee name of this Spanish nobleman was Fadrique Enriques Almirante de Castilia, one of the most loved governors of one of the Spanish provinces, with close official association with the king.
The leaders of the Spanish Jewish community including the famous Don Avraham Seneor, who knew of Ferdinand's Jewish ancestry, rejoiced at the fact that this King Ferdinand would be very tolerant in his treatment of his Jewish subjects.
Unfortunately, history and fate decided differently, and as it turned out it was this very same Ferdinand and his Queen Isabella, who ultimately were responsible for the cruel and heartless edict of the expulsion of our Sephardic ancestors from Spain.
www.cryptojews.com /Ferdinand.html   (781 words)

  
 Timeline 1476-1499
He asked to be made a noble with eternal title in the family, and to receive 10% commission on all transactions from his found domain.
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella took the town of Grenada, the last Moslem kingdom in Spain.
1492 Apr 30, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella granted Christopher Columbus specific privileges and prerogatives regarding the discovery and conquest of islands and a continent in the (western) ocean.
timelines.ws /1476_1499.HTML   (6157 words)

  
 Macedonian Heritage - Jewish Community of Thessaloniki
And at that point of course there also ceased to exist all the national, political, and financial reasons which had dictated the acceptance of the minorities and led to the absence of any form of racial or religious intolerance.
Ferdinand and Isabella, the “Spanish monarchs of the three faiths”, as they liked to be called during the years of war, suddenly became “Catholic Monarchs”.
Their example was soon followed by their fellow monarch Dom Manuel of Portugal, who on December 5, 1496, ordered the Jews residing in his country to become Christians or leave: many of these people settled in Thessaloniki.
www.macedonian-heritage.gr /Contributions/20010704_Nar.html   (10023 words)

  
 Chocolate History
He landed in Nicaragua on the 30th of July in 1502 and it was now that he became the first European ever introduced to the cocoa bean.
He brought some beans back to Europe as a gift for the Spanish rulers Ferdinand and Isabella ho had sponsored his journeys, but nobody really appreciated the beans and they where viewed as a mere curiosity from the New World without any practical use.
She belonged to one of the most prominent families of Castilia and had good connections to the Spanish court.
www.chocolate-history.com /colombus.php   (415 words)

  
 Our Tour to Bijuesca, august 1998
Valencia was captured by Aragón from the Moors.
he marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragón (later Ferdinand V of Castilia) to Isabella I of Castilia in 1469 united those two regions.
Formal merger of the two kingdoms took place on the accession of Charles I in 1516 (known as Charles V of Habsburg in Holland), but Aragón retained its own administration and representative institutions until the end of the 17th century.
www.geocities.com /bijuesca2000/bijues01.htm   (704 words)

  
 vol02chap01sect03
In May 1514, Pedro Arias de Avila was sent out from St Lucar, as governor of Castilia del Oro, or the Golden Castile, for so the Spaniards named the countries of Darien, Carthagena, and Uraba.
The country of Peru, between the Andes and the western sea or Pacific, is from 15 to 20 leagues in breadth, all of a hot sandy soil, yet fertile, as being well watered, and produces many excellent trees and fruits.
Now, adding these two together, their sum is just 2257 leagues: And, deducting this sum from 6300 leagues, there still remains to be discovered, in the north and south, 4043 leagues.
www.columbia.edu /itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/kerr/vol02chap01sect03.html   (19948 words)

  
 Donald Heald Original Antique Books Prints and Maps
Queen Juana I of Castile (1479-1555) is generally known as "Joanna the Mad".
The third child of Ferdinand and Isabella, Joanna became queen of Spain with the death of her mother in 1504.
In a political match she married Philip I, known as Philip the Handsome, the son of Emperor Maximilian.
www.donaldheald.com /search/detail_01.php?booknr=2098005&ordernr=15313   (530 words)

  
 Unbenanntes Dokument   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
With this heredity, they were going out of Germany to get hold the Low Countries, one of the richest states of Europe.
The politics of the dynastic unions was in favour of them, because Massimiliano had made a grate dual marriage between his sons and the catholic kings’ sons Isabella of Castilia and Ferdinand of Aragon, while with the Vienna treaty he was preparing the domain of the Asburgo on Bohemia and Hungary.
Thanks to some casual facts, the grandson of Massimiliano became the king of a worldwide empire that included Spain, the German empire, America, Low Countries and part of Italy.
schulen.eduhi.at /europrojekthakbi/upload/habsbengl.htm   (732 words)

  
 Voyages and Travels Volume II
[1] Ferdinand was hereditary king of Arragon; but, by marrying Isabella, queen of Castile, had united the several monarchies of Spain, under one government.
Ferdinand had no share whatever in the honour of sending out Columbus, the sole charge being defrayed by his consort, Isabella, hereditary queen of Castile and Leon; and who had even to borrow money for the purpose.
[19] Probably an error for Taprobana; the same by which Ceylon was known to the ancients.--E. In 1506, after the death of Isabella, King Philip and Queen Joan came to take possession of the crown of Castile, and.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/0/8/0/10803/10803-h/10803-h.htm   (15280 words)

  
 1450_1499
Seeking to establish profitable Asian trade routes by sailing west, Columbus seriously underestimated the size of the Earth--never dreaming that two great continents blocked his path to the east.
Columbus, returning to Spain after his first expedition, submitted a report of the wonders he had seen to Ferdinand and Isabella.
The original report was not illustrated, but later editions, were imaginatively illustrated with woodcuts showing cowering Indians and an ocean-going ship with oars.
www.shelbyjackman.com /school/timeline/1476_1499.HTML   (5610 words)

  
 Timeline 1300 to 1399
In 2005 Alison Weir authored “Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England.
1327 Sep 21, Edward II of England, a homosexual, was murdered by order of his wife, Queen Isabella and Baron Robert Mortimer.
In the 19th century it was converted into a castle by a Marquis for his wife Isabella.
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 Catalans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
But the two regions - Catalonia and Aragonia - kept their own government and language.
When Ferdinand - king of Aragonia married Isabella of Castilia in 1149, a time of down turn began for Catalonia.
Spanish superseded Catalan language as the language of administration and culture and economy wise there was a decline too: with the discovery of America, the trade took other routes.
www.canigou.dk /engelsk/catalanerne.html   (429 words)

  
 Torquemada, the Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews
In 1826, in the midst of John Quincy Adams' presidency, William H. Prescott, inspired by his Harvard teacher George Ticknor, a leading scholar of Spain and notable conduit of the Göttingen education system of Germany into the U.S., began his deep exploration of Spanish history.
From his pen poured a series of historical masterpieces, starting with his Ferdinand and Isabella in 1837 and concluding with the third volume of his history of Philip II just before his death in 1859.
Prescott wrote in Ferdinand and Isabella, "Venice may be considered as the most formidable of the great powers....
www.larouchepub.com /other/2005/3213torquemada.html   (15257 words)

  
 Barbara Catrina Muz?? Fazedin, nickname Barbla
In gratitude one daughter married the sultan of the moors and another daughter was in the court of King Charlemagne of France.
So our family is directly related to Queen Isabella of (Catalonia) Spain and distant cousins to King Ferdinand (Castilia) of Spain.
Fazedin, nickname Barbla was born on Christmas day 1858.
foclark.tripod.com /gypsy/spanishgypsy.htm   (1133 words)

  
 Spain2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
It had been built for a royal residence, back when Segovia was capital of Castilla.
(Isabella the Catholic, better known to us Americans as Isabella the wife of Ferdinand and therefore co-sponsor of Columbus, was given her crown here, not far from our hotel, the Infanta Isabella.)
Roast suckling pig is on every menu; ham is ubiquitous; even the wonderful sopa de Castilia, garlic soup with bread and a poached egg, tastes of lard.
www.shere.org /Travel/Spain/Spain2005.html   (18607 words)

  
 History of the Borgia Family
Journey of cardinal Borgia to Valencia and Castilia
Torquemada is inquisitor general of the kingdoms of Castilia and Aragon.
Charles VIII succeeds to the throne of France after the death of Louis XI Leonardo da Vinci paints his  Madonna in the Grotto.
www.tennapel.net /borgia/birdeye.htm   (1584 words)

  
 Monteverde Butterflies
Local distribution: Pacific slope above 400 m; Atlantic slope down to lowlands.
Eresia alsina, E. mechanitis, Eueides isabella, Hypothyris euclea
Commonly observed when migrating through Monteverde, but not known to breed on the upper slopes.
www.cs.umb.edu /~whaber/Monte/BF/Cast-eran.html   (64 words)

  
 the_enforcers
In 1474, the Catholic Ferdinand and Isabella ascended to the throne; then in 1481 the Royal Inquisition was established in Spain; and finally, in 1492 the remaining Jews were expelled from the country.
And, as you know, I suppose, there were Gnostic sects (2-3 C.E.) of ophythes and nahasens (both words were derived from the Greek and Aramaic designations of the "serpents") who called the Christ (i.e., Messiah) the Holy Serpent who opened to the spiritualized souls (pnumatics) the mysteries of the Tree of Life.
In Early Kabbalah, The Kohen Brothers, who lived in mid 13th century Castilia in Spain, in particular the "Treatise on the Left Emanation" by Rabbi Isaac ben Jacob Ha-Kohen.
www.samliquidation.com /the_enforcers.htm   (12732 words)

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