Ferdinand and Isabella foreign policy success and failures
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- Created on: 14-05-19 19:13
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- Ferdinand and Isabella Foreign Policy success + failures
- France
- Cerdagne + Rousillon occupied by France since 1462
- Treaty of Barcelona- took Naples from France 1495
- 1503- Battle of Cerignola France recognise Aragon's claim to Sicily, Naples, and ardinia
- BUT- It was expensive
- Italy
- F has claims in Italy as grandfather was King of Naples
- F received Holy League under pretence of protecting Pope
- Failed to take MIlan- Stayed under french control
- Navarre
- F married Germaine de Foix in 1506- thus giving him claim to Navarre which was incorporated into Castile
- Ottomans
- Take Oran, Bougie, Tripoli.
- assisted Knights Hospitallers in a Turkish invasion of Rhodes 1479-80
- BUT- Spain's Southern + Eastern borders remained insecure, trade threatened by corsairs, only a small garrisons set up
- Granada
- United Iberian Peninsula under Cath.
- Cruzada to fund it
- Nobles fought well
- Got them the titles "Catholic Monarchs"
- Upheld Catholic Orthodoxy
- Increased national security
- BUT- Fear of Islam spreading through Spain due to false converts
- Portugal
- Gave up claims to Canary Islands in Treaty of Alcacovas
- Daughter married heir to throne of Portugal
- Prince Alfonso invades Castile before Treaty- however easily defeated
- New World
- Inter caetera- Papal Bull confirming Spain's rights in new lands
- 1512- Laws of Burgos to attempt to protect natives
- 1503- Seville becomes central trading office
- BUT- Laws of Burgos ignored, 90% of pop is wiped out, And Treaty of Tordesillas gave Portugal more land,
- England
- Treaty of Medina del Campo- marriage alliance w/ Katherine and Arthur, then Henry VIII
- BUT- relations decline due to creation of CoE
- France
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