While the future Queen Isabella I of Castile was the first-born daughter of the marriage between King John II of Castile and Isabella of Portugal, she had three short-lived half-sisters from her father’s first marriage to Maria of Aragon. She also had one full brother, the future King Henry IV of Castile, and one half-brother, [read more]
On 19 September 1468, King Henry IV of Castile recognised his half-sister, the future Queen Isabella I of Castile, as the rightful heir to the throne of Castile over his daughter, Joanna. The Treaty of the Bulls of Guisando was agreed upon on top of the hill near the Bulls of Guisando. Isabella now officially [read more]
Read part one here. After being installed as governor on 5 July 1531, Mary moved her court to Brussels and sold her aunt’s palace to the city of Mechelen. Perhaps one of her biggest challenges was her personal sympathy for Protestantism, but she had to remain opposed to it publicly. Charles could be cruel to [read more]
Mary of Austria was born on 15 September 1505 at the Coudenberg Palace in Brussels as the daughter of Queen Joanna and King Philip I of Castile. She was their third daughter and fifth child and the first to be born after Joanna’s accession as Queen regnant of Castile. Her siblings were Eleanor (later Queen [read more]
From 14 September 1504, Queen Isabella I of Castile officially withdrew from government affairs, and she no longer signed state papers. She had been greatly affected by the tragedies that had befallen her family in the past few years. The deaths of John and the stillbirth of his daughter, the death of her elder daughter [read more]
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]
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