Bold, strategic, and steady, Isabella of Castile navigated an unlikely rise to the throne and ushered in a golden age for Spain. Looking Like a Queen“La Virgen de la Mosca,” painted in the ...

This prayer book, called a book of hours, was intended not for a cleric, but for the private devotions of a lay person-in this case, Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain (1451-1504). Isabella's coat ...

Isabella was born into the divided kingdoms of medieval Spain. The fact that we remember her name in ... rather than just another princess. Week 2: Queen of Castile A high-risk secret marriage, ...

Isabella I a.k.a. Isabella of Castile and Aragon that ranks 4th in ... For infidelities who stayed in Spain, they initiated Spanish Inquisition, the Tribunal of Holy Office that operated in ...

Princess Leonor will be Spain’s first queen regnant since Queen Isabella II (who reigned from 1833 to 1868) when she accedes to the throne, and with it, the responsibility of serving as supreme ...

It was built as the final resting place for Spain's Catholic monarchs. The chapel houses the tombs of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile and their daughter Joanna of ...

Image caption, Gibraltar is a major shipping port and base for Britain's Royal Navy 1462 - Spain recovers Gibraltar from the Moors. 1501 - Isabella I, queen of Castile and Aragon, annexes ...

who flees the glitz and glamour of 1950s Hollywood to return to her roots in Spain where she has signed on to star in an epic film as Queen Isabella of Spain.