The Spanish crown conceded vast powers over the Indies to Columbus and his heirs in 1492. When it became known that the New World was valuable, however, the crown had second thoughts and systematically modified its earlier concessions. The ensuing dispute with the Columbus famil...
Enemies in the plaza: urban spectacle and the end of Spanish Frontier culture, 1460–1492doi:10.1080/13507486.2017.1303997CarolinaEuropeanObradors-SuazoEuropeanInformaworldEuropean Review of History Revue Européenne Dhistoire
and Queen Isabella ofSpainto finance his trip across the Atlantic in hopes of finding a better trade route to the Indies. In 1492 when Columbus was about to give up hope of ever having them finance the trip they called for him and agreed to the voyage . The King and Queen seeing the ...
over its rival, Portugal. The marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile in 1469 unified Catholic Spain and began the process of building a nation that could compete for worldwide power. Since the 700s, much of Spain had been under Islamic rule, and King Ferdinand II and ...
now in northwest Spain, to his first-born son, the futureKing Enrique III of Castile. Prince/Princess of Astrurias was the title of the heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Castile, untilKing Carlos I, the son ofJuana I, Queen of Castile and León and Queen of Aragon, united Castil...
Though it took Columbus a little more than a few years to convince a nation to fund his voyage, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand from Spain subsequently granted to endow him in 1492. He would then leave for “Asia” on August 3, 1492. There are many unanswered questions and thoughts on...
Spanish InquisitionSpanish Jews pleading before King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, while grand inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada argues for their expulsion from Spain, in a painting by Solomon A. Hart.(more) The kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, and Portugal spent the next century consolidating their holdin...
Spanish Inquisition- an inquisition initiated in 1478 by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella that guarded the orthodoxy of Catholicism in Spain (especially from the 15th to the 17th centuries); "the Spanish Inquisition was administered by both civil and church authorities which gave it ultimate power"...
In 1492, Spain’s Catholic monarchs, Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, decreed that Spain’s 200,000-strong Jewish population convert to Christianity or be expelled. Spain has attempted in recent years to make amends for what the government termed this “historic ...
Also fascinating is the spectacular Palacio de los Golfines de Abajo, which for a time was the home of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Another area to seek out are the few remnants of the once-vibrant Jewish quarter, which was vacated following the 1492 expu...