Ferdinand and Isabella Securing the Throne

1469 - Marriage of F + I. - Begining of Civil War

1474 - Henry IV succseded by Isabella

1478 - Inquistion set up in Castile

1479 - Treaty of Alcacovas = End of 10 year Civil war in Aragon - John II succseded by Ferdinand

1481 - Inquistion Establish in Aragon

1482 - Granada War Begins

1492 - Granada Falls

1500 - Charles I born

1504 - Isabella dies = succesion of Joanna - Argagon annexs Naples

1506 - Phillip Dies + Joanna goes mad = Ferdiand Becomes regent

1512 - Navarre Annexed by castile

1516 - Ferdiand dies = Charles succeseds as King of Castile + Aragon.

• Originaly inteneded Isaballea was intended for the Portugese King - who was 19 years older
• Instead she chose Ferdinand - supported by nobility - Woodward "Enriquez family resented portugese interference"
• married in October 1469 - complex marriage contract
• Isabella was recognised as heir to Castile
• Isabella had supremacy in decisions
• Ferdiand had to supply 100,000 florins + 4000 troops if Isabella need support

• Woodward - "Ferdiand provided great assistance"
• Mendoza and Toledo backed Isabella
• Duke of Berry a possible marriage to Joana died - support waned
• Pope ratified Ferdinand's and Isabella's marriage
• Towns such as Sergovia (major) delcared Loyalty to Isabella after threat from Vilenia
• 1474 Villiena dies + victories for Isabella = Henry Acknowledges Isabella as heir
• Henry IV made new Vilenia Master of Santiago (major City) 1474
• his death in December 11th 1474 - Isabella crowned in december 13th 1474
• 1474 Alfonso V - supports joanna hoping to marry her
• 1476 - Toledo rebels (major Blow to Isabella)
• Battle of Toro 1476 - Toledo + Alfonso defeated

• Most towns were loyal to Joanna and Henry" in 1469 - only Valladolid and Tordesillias opposed
• Lunenfield "gained support of Towns 1471 - promised not to give cronw lands to grandees"
• Queen visited Extremandura and Andalucia in 1477
• Isabella violently took Cordoba and other towns when they refused to support her
• Once Occupied the Queen sent a Corregidor to safeguard her intrests - 44 had been apointed by 1479

• Hermandads where local malitas who protected local rights and enforced law and order
• already adopted by major towns such as Burgos and Sergovia
• 1476 - created the Santa Hermandad after conformation from the towns which unfied the Hermandad across the major cities
• 1st meeting of Hermandad agreed to give 3,000 troops and a tax grant
• Agreed to continue until end of the Crisis - however she continued it until 1498
• Kamen states the it was "a great policy that kept law and order" - while infantado saw it as "an ambomination" - Woodward saw it as "effective at confronting towns and cities but weak against the larger grandees" - Pulgar that the queen could not have controlled her aritosocracy otherwise"

• 1475 - Alfonso V anounces that he would invade Castile and marry Joanna
• Isabella raised 40,000 troops from the Grandees and placed Ferdinand as commander
• Battle of Toro in March 1476 was inconclusive but halted Alfonso
• She then summoned the Cortes to show her authority as Queen
• Alfonso failed in an Invasion in 1478 and the Papacy revoked its Dispensation to Marry Joana - Alfonso loses all claim to Castile

Treaty of Alcacovas

• Truce between Portugal and Castile
• Isabella ratified as Queen
• Ferdinand Regonised as King
• Joanna becomes a nun
• Portugal rennouces all claims to the Canaries

• King John II fighting a civil war scince 1462 against Catalonia
• Catalonia wanted to replace John and Ferdinand with Rene of Lorraine
• Saw the mariage as an oppitunity for an alliance
• Lorraine died in 1470
• the Revolt ended in 1472 with capture of Barcelona 
• Crown finaces were ruined + the City and kingdom of Barcelona were destroyed
• Also the counties of Cerdagne and Rousillon remianed French
• In 1479 John dies and Ferdinand succeseds him corinated in January and acknowledged by Alcacovas