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Queen Isabella the First

QUEEN ISABELLA I

1451 - 1504

Nowadays, most people know that Isabella I (Queen of Castile) is the first queen to take charge of Columbus' voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. In fact, she was an energetic and capable queen who made decisive and quick decisions that had a profound impact on Spain as well as on Latin America for several centuries, thus affecting millions of people. Living now indirectly. Isabella was married to the King of Aragon, Ferdinand, and most of her works were carried out jointly with her husband, but she was considered more important than him. Isabella was born in 1451 in the city of Madrigal in the Kingdom of Castile, which is now part of Spain, and when she was a young girl, she received a premium. strict religious education and became a fervent Catholic. And her brother to her mother, the King of Castile, Henry IV, had ruled from 1454 until his death in 1474, and Spain at that time was divided into four kingdoms: first the Kingdom of Castile and it was the largest kingdom, then the Argonauts in the far north, then the Kingdom of Granada and it was ruled by the Arabs in the south and the Kingdom of Navarre in North .

Isabella was the heiress to the throne of Castile, the richest heiress in Europe. Several princes in Europe asked for her hand. Her brother to her mother, King Henry IV of Castile, wanted to marry her to the Portuguese king, but she did not agree. And she married Ferdinand Anne for the Muslims there to practice their religious rituals, but he named his daughter (Joanna) heir instead of (Isabella), who rebelled against his opinion, but when Henry died, Isaella claimed the throne of Castile, and when supporters of (Joanna) opposed her claim, a civil war broke out, and in 1479 Isabella's armies won In that year, the King of Aragon died, and Isabella's husband, Ferdinand, became king of the Aragon. Thus, Isabella and Ferdinand ruled most of Spain.

At the beginning of her rule, Isabella and Fred Nanand issued an order to establish the Inquisition Courts. These courts had the authority of the judge, the jury, the public prosecutor, and the police. The accused had no opportunity to defend themselves and refute the allegations against them, and they did not know the names of those who accuse them. The accused were subjected to severe torture until they confessed. to say. It is estimated that the number of people who were sentenced by these courts to be impaled was about twenty people in the first twenty years of its existence.

The intent of these courts was to eliminate the Muslims present in Spain and the Jews, and then eliminate the opposition of the feudal lords to the rule of kings.

When Granada surrendered, the treaty was between its king and Isabella Ferdinand, son of the King of Aragon, and this angered King Henry against her, and the Spanish government revoked this treaty. All those in Spain were forced to convert to Christianity or evacuate from Spain. Isabella died in 1504 after giving birth to one son and four Muslim daughters.