The personal life of Isabella I of Castile

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Authors: Rostislav Botev
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The personal life of Isabella I of Castile
Личният живот на Исабел Кастилска
Category: Early Modern History
Language: Bulgarian

Isabella I of Castile (1451—1504) was the first queen in the history of Spain. Her life is marked by adversities that temper her character and build in her an unerring political acumen. This experience helps her to become that monarch called to consolidate Christian power in the Pyrenees. She achieves this bloodlessly, with diplomacy and the dynastic marriage, and her family quickly establishes itself as a symbol of the united state.

Isabel's reign coincided with the end of the centuries-old Reconquista and the beginning of the Great Geographical Discoveries, which gave an impetus to the development of the state and an opportunity to change the global balance of power in favor of the nascent Spanish colonial empire. The time of Isabel of Castile also brings the dark glory of the most merciless outbursts of the Inquisition and fanatical Catholicism, a projection of the queen's beliefs.

As controversial as Isabel's personality was, she was the ruler who revived Spain and set the long-term direction of its upward development almost to modernity.