Person1451 – 1504
Isabella I of Castile
Queen of Castile who, ruling Spain with Ferdinand II of Aragon, conquered Granada and sponsored Columbus’s voyage
Where they went
3 related events
- 1
Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon married in 1469, and when Ferdinand became king of Aragon in 1479 the two crowns were joined, creating the Kingdom of Spain.
- 2
On 2 January 1492 the Catholic Monarchs of Spain conquered Granada, the last Muslim kingdom of the Iberian Peninsula, ending the Reconquista that had lasted some 800 years.
- 3
Spain and Portugal agreed to divide newly discovered lands along a meridian in the Atlantic — the west to Spain, the east to Portugal.
People who appear alongside
- Ferdinand II of Aragon1452 – 1516
King of Aragon who, married to Isabella I of Castile, united Spain and completed the Reconquista by conquering Granada
- Christopher Columbus1451 – 1506
Genoese navigator who, sponsored by Spain, crossed the Atlantic and reached the Americas in 1492
Themes this person appears in
- Late Medieval Europe and the Renaissance1077 – 1517
From Canossa to the eve of the Reformation — papal power at its height and in decline, towns and parliaments, royal power growing through the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, and the Renaissance and printing
- The Age of Discovery1415 – 1600
From Ceuta to the Manila galleons — two centuries in which European ships crossed the oceans and bound the world together by sea