The King And Queen Of Spain In 1492

Their rule effected the permanent union of spain and the beginning of an overseas empire in the new world led by christopher columbus under isabella s sponsorship.

The king and queen of spain in 1492. After a struggle to claim her right to the throne she reorganized the governmental system brought the crime rate to the lowest it had been in years and unburdened the kingdom of the enormous debt her brother had left behind. Ferdinand ii aragonese. 10 march 1452 23 january 1516 called the catholic spanish. Isabel i 22 april 1451 26 november 1504 was queen of castile from 1474 and queen consort of aragon from 1479 reigning over a dynastically unified spain jointly with her husband ferdinand ii.

With their most important project the country s unification accomplished the king and queen concluded that the jews were expendable. Ferdinand and isabella rejected torquemada s demand that the jews be expelled until january 1492 when the spanish army defeated muslim forces in granada thereby restoring the whole of spain to christian rule. It happens that in 1492 they conquered grenada the last part of spain that was not under their control and putting it into its present geographical form. On january 2 1492 king boabdil surrendered granada to the spanish forces and in 1502 the spanish crown ordered all muslims forcibly converted to christianity.

El católico was king of aragon from 1479 until his death.