Biography Of Isabella Of Spain

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2/9/14

Isabella I of Spain
Isabella of Spain, during her reign, worked to create a unified country, focused on stabilizing the government, the arts, and the religion, by implying her ideas and affecting Spain for many years. Isabella created hospitals, introduced many arts, gathered numerous talented architects, worked to maintain order, looked to further help Spain involving uniting by marriages, and so much more. Ever since before her marriage was she looking for the good of Spain. Even before her marriage, she read to better her knowledge and became very religious, which impacted her decisions later on in both bad and good ways. By implying her suggestions and ideas, she enabled Spain to become a great and wide expanded country, taking on wars and making allies. Through her marriage and military appointment of Aragon-born Ferdinand, fostering of a national catholic culture, and sympathetic treatment of Spain’s militia, Isabella unified Spain and transformed it into a resilient global force.
During the queen’s early life, she had dedicated herself to reading and her religion, as well as her marriage, to improve her ability to further help her kingdom. Isabella was born in 1451 in Madrigal, Spain to Juan II, ruler of Castile from 1406-1454. After Isabella’s father died, Enrique IV took over the kingdom. Enrique IV had plans for her marriage, but Isabella strongly declined the plans, knowing that her and Ferdinand, her second cousin from Aragon, would better benefit Spain.
Isabella believed that marrying her cousin from Aragon would ultimately generate a strengthened kingdom, because it would unite Aragon and Castile. Isabella, knowing that Enrique would not approve of her plan, secretl...

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...ries, unifying Spain, creating hospitals, enforcing the Catholic religion, and more. If not for her intelligent actions for example, creating hospitals, strengthening arts and architecture, enabling U.S. future grounds to be discovered, uniting Spain so that it has still to this day remained strong, where would we be today? By arranging marriages for herself and her children, she pulled Spain into a country with great expansion. By creating hospitals for her soldiers, Isabella strengthened the hope and safety in her army, and therefore Spain withstanded the military from France and from traditional Aragon before Castile and Aragon were hole. If Isabella I of Spain had not done any of her actions, strengthening Spain, paving a path of United States, maintain a strong religion, enforcing the arts, the world would have been dramatically different than what it is today.

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