latristereina:history week meme → 1st-7th November:day 3: one woman -> Isabella I of CastileHer s
latristereina:history week meme → 1st-7th November:day 3: one woman -> Isabella I of CastileHer stature has never been based solely upon a positive assessment of what she did and why she did it. Within Western history, she has no pedestal to crash down from.Nonetheless, Isabel was a force, personally and politically: she threaded her way through conspiracies, faced down adversaries, triumphed in a civil conflict and then in a religious war. She gained the crown on her own terms, surrounded herself with able administrators, evoked awed respect from her subjects, and forged powerful alliances. She built a state and led her country into international preeminence and toward world empire. She was also fortunate in that she shared a remarkable lifelong love and working partnership with an equally strong king, Fernando of Aragón, whom she had married sight unseen and whose temperament and skills complemented hers. A reigning queen, she was the mother of notable queens, as well as of a unified Spain. That said, there remains the infamous Isabel who instituted the Spanish Inquisition and gave Jews and Muslims the choice of conversion or expulsion from their native land. During the reign of Charles, one chronicler wrote of her as ‘honored throughout the Spains and mirror of women.’ Another, Baldassare Castiglione, papal nuncio to Charles’s court in the 1520s, reported that while Spanish opinion recognized Fernando as magnificent, yet Charles and everyone else would do well to see in Isabel ‘a mirror for princes.’ Peggy K. Liss, „Isabel the Queen: Life and Times”@varaemilaje -- source link
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