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9 articles matching “Isabella of Castile”
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Isabella sought inquisitors to investigate Christians suspected of keeping the faith of their Jewish ancestors. Baptism had brought their families into the Church. It would also give the new tribunal its claim over them.
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She was eighteen, and the husband she chose had promised not to take her away. Her brother was the king. He had other plans for her.
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Hundreds of men came out to meet a fifteen-year-old bride. Catherine was being received as a future queen. Within five months, she would be a widow.
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For 46 years she was imprisoned. She had been put there by her father. When the time came for him to decide, her son left her there.
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She was eighteen when she married her dead sister's husband. Her sister had died after giving birth. Their little boy had died that summer.
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Margaret of Austria was twenty-five and already twice widowed. A king wanted to marry her, and her family was prepared to arrange it. The difficulty was getting her to agree.
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Six months earlier she had been seven miles away while another woman sat in her chair. On the twelfth of June 1530 she said so to Henry's face. He left the room without a word. There were six more years of it still to come.
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In June 1520 Henry VIII built a palace out of wood and canvas, filled a fountain with wine, and invited the King of France to watch him joust. It cost England nearly half the crown's annual revenue. The fountain ran dry. The cloth of gold was packed away and sold.
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She was born on the 16th of December 1485 at the Archbishop's Palace of Alcalá de Henares, the fourth surviving child of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, and the world she was born into was the most formidable political construction of the late fifteenth century.