Ferdinand II King of Aragon

Standard Name: Ferdinand II,, King of Aragon

Used Form: Ferdinand of Spain

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Textual Production	Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre	Cordoba was capital of Moorish or Islamic Spain from the eighth to the thirteenth century. Gonzalo de Córdoba was a military leader in the conquest of Granada in the late fifteenth century, when in early...
Textual Production	Ruth Fainlight	All Citizens are Soldiers had been produced in London two years before this at Joan Littlewood 's Theatre Royal, Stratford East , in East London. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. under Sillitoe Lope de Vega lived and wrote in...
Textual Production	Jean Plaidy	Castile for Isabella was the first novel in JP 's historical trilogy on Isabella, Queen of Castile , and Ferdinand, King of Aragon , the fifteenth-century monarchs who united Spain's two realms. Duggan, Alfred Leo. “Review of Castile for Isabella by Jean Plaidy”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3039, 27 May 1960, p. 340. 340

Timeline

1478

The medieval institution of the Inquisition was revived as the Spanish Inquisition at the request of the Spanish royal couple Isabel of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon .

Indices of Banned Books. http://www.rarebooks.nd.edu/exhibits/inquisition/text/banned.html.

Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.

2 January 1492

At the battle of Granada in Spain (actually the climax of a three-week siege) Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain defeated the Moors. They expelled the Jews the same year.

Windschuttle, Keith. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering our Past. Encounter Books, 2000.

23 June 1516

The death of Ferdinand of Spain brought together the huge territories of Aragon, Castile, Burgundy, and the Low Countries, under the rule of Charles of Ghent, who soon became Holy Roman Emperor as Charles V

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