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Ferdinand II, King of Aragon
Standard Name: Ferdinand II,, King of Aragon
Used Form: Ferdinand of Spain
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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 <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Castile for Isabella</span> by Jean Plaidy”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3039, 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
.
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.
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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