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Queen Isabella Queen Isabella was born in 1451, in Madrigal de Las atlas, Spain. She was the Queen of Castile and Aragon, and she was the daughter of John II, which was King of Castile, by his second wife, Isabella of Portugal. Being only a little more than three years of age when her father died in 1445 she was brought up carefully and overly protected by her mother until her thirteenth year. On July 5, 1468 they sought to obtain the crown from the infant Isabella, rejecting the kings daughter, Joan who was also known as “la Beltra Neigh” on the supposition that Don Beltran was her real father (women’s history). Isabella Queen of Castile was also called “the Catholic” and she sponsored voyages for Christopher Columbus. In 1469 Isabella married Ferdinand of Aragon, also known as “the Catholic” On the death of her brother, Henry IV, Isabella and Ferdinand took the throne of Castile and Leon. “Isabella’s succession was contested by Alfonso V of Portugal, who supported the claim of Henry’s daughter Juana la Beltraneja (new advent).” Alfonso attacked Castile and Leon but was defeated by the Castilian army in 1476. Three years later Ferdinand succeeded to the throne of Aragon. This union of the two main Spanish kingdoms “laid the foundation of Spain’s future greatness (new advent).” Isabella and Ferdinand has five children together including Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII of England, and Joanna “the Mad”, who was the mother of Charles V, king of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor (New advent). Isabella and her husband Ferdinand are remembered for initiating the Inquisition in 1478, for completing the recon quest of Spain from the Moors and for their expulsion of Spanish Jews, in 1492. That is the same year that Isabella sponsored Christopher Columbus to go explore the New World.
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