From the death of Queen Isabella’s half-brother, King Henry IV of Castile, she had been at war with Portugal. King Henry IV left one daughter as heiress to the throne, but her legitimacy was questioned. She became known in history as Joanna La Beltraneja for her supposed father, Beltrán de la Cueva. Joanna was sworn in [read more]
The sudden death of Queen Isabella I of Castile’s only son, John, Prince of Asturias, and the subsequent stillbirth of his daughter made Isabella’s namesake eldest daughter the new heiress presumptive. The younger Isabella married Afonso, Prince of Portugal, in 1491, but he died in a horse-riding accident a few months later. After returning home to her [read more]
On 15 August 1496, Queen Isabella I of Castile’s mother, Isabella of Portugal, died at Arévalo. The elder Isabella was born sometime in 1428 as the daughter of John, Constable of Portugal, the fourth son of King John I of Portugal, and his half-niece, Isabel of Barcelos. She married King John II of Castile on [read more]
On 5 July 1468, the future Queen Isabella I of Castile mourned the loss of her only full sibling, Alfonso. His death paved the way for her to become the face of the rebellion. Alfonso was born on 17 November 1453, when Isabella was two years old. Due to male-preference primogeniture, he would precede her in [read more]
Queen Isabella’s first child and namesake daughter had been born before she succeeded her half-brother as Queen. However, a second pregnancy was not quite so quick to happen. Her first child was born on 2 October 1470, and for several years, she consulted doctors, prayed at sanctuaries and sought the intervention of saints. She also [read more]
During her youth, several suitors had been considered for the future Queen Isabella I of Castile. In 1466, one of the rebels suggested a marriage with Isabella as the best way to get his family’s loyalty back. In this plan, Isabella was to marry Pedro Girón Acuña Pacheco, who was also 18 years her senior. [read more]
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