of Spain. Heeding the urgent solicitations of his consort, King Ferdinand, with the sanction of the Cortes, revoked the Salic law in Spain, making the Infanta Isabella heir apparent to the throne ...

It was also the most powerful nation in Europe at the beginning of the colonial period, in large part due to the foundations laid by its most famous monarchs, Isabella and Ferdinand, in the 1400s. We ...

The ideological battle raged with particular ferocity in England, where King Henry VIII wished to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon, the daughter of Spain's Ferdinand and Isabella, in order to ...

Catherine was born near Madrid in December 1485. She was the daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, whose marriage had united Spain. At three years of age Catherine was betrothed to King ...

He persuaded King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I to sponsor his quest to find a westward route to China, India, and Japan—lands then known as the Indies. The monarchy considered Columbus’s ...