Isabella "The Catholic" was born on April 22, 1451 with the Spanish name "Isabel La Catolic." She became heiress of Castile when King Henry took her in as his daughter. Without Henry's permission, she married Ferdiand in October 1469 in the palace of Juan de Vivero, at Valladolid. King Henry then rejected Isabella's claim to the throne and gave it to his daughter Joan.

Fedinand and Isabella's marriage ended centuries of rivalry between two principle kingdoms of Christian Spain. The two kingdoms were very different in size and strength. Isabella's kingdom (Castile) had a population of approximately of six to seven million and covered an area three times larger than Ferdinand's kingdom (Aragon). Aragon had only about one million people there although it included all of northwestern Spain. Isabella was known as the one wi

Isabella "The Catholic" was born on April 22, 1451 with the Spanish name "Isabel La Catolic." She became heiress of Castile when King Henry took her in as his daughter. Without Henry's permission, she married Ferdiand in October 1469 in the palace of Juan de Vivero, at Valladolid. King Henry then rejected Isabella's claim to the throne and gave it to his daughter Joan.

Ferdiand lived twelve years longer than Isabella and died peacefully at a chapel in a small town outside Mardrigaligo, Spain. They lay side by side in the royal chapel. Isabella wanted her subjects to think of the two of them as an inseparable authority. The popular saying that they used to say was tanto monta, monta tanto Isabel como Fernado meaning "He counts for as much as she does, she counts for as much as he does."

Fedinand and Isabella's marriage ended centuries of rivalry between two principle kingd

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